The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-03
PRESIDENT TAFT
DISCUSSES THE LAW
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Presidents Speech
In his address 10 the graduates. the
| President said in part:
Il am going 10 invite your attention
this morning to that which confronts
| you in YOUR start i'm life, the political
and economic problems that, should
YOU take part in politics as YOU ought
| 10 do. You VIII have 10 occupy your
minds with
In the first place let us take the
business situation up. IT Is, of course.
impossible to expect that the famous
growth of trade shall continue in tho
| proportion in which we have seen it
expand during the last ten years, and
II Ia reasonable to suppose that ar
somc time within the next decade
there will he some reaction or some
financial strinGency or perhaps a An
aDcial panic. Nevertheless. the pro-
gress that has been made Is real and
substantial. There may be halt.
there may be scaling down of val
ues. but these have only a monen-
tary effect
1T is thought, and said, that the
opportunity for individual success in
business does not seem now so great
as it was formerly and that, there
fore. the opportunity for young men
TO WIN success in business seems less
than it was thirty or forty years ago
Promotion Not by Favor.
1T has been my duty to select and
promote many men in official life and
] know whereof | speak. when I say
that successful business. whether gov
ernment or private. whether small or
large. depends chiefly on the selec-
ton OF men by whom this business is
to he done and that the promotion
which successful men secure Is not
that which comes by favor, but by the
logic of the circumstances and for the
benefit of the employer. There is,
therefore. today as much room for fit
men as there ever was In business.
The kind of success that comes from
intelligent fidelity and industry To
which man davotes himself AID the
work which he does. speaks far louder
| In the demand for his promotion than
all the good Will Of his employer or
| the influence that kind friends may
seek to bring in his behalf
Experienced Men Scarce.
What is the condition OF the pro-
| feSslons, should you conclude 10 en-.
ter one Of thcm? The enormous de-
mand for the work Of the members of
certain scientific professions. Ike en-
gineerlng. civil, mechanical and cleo
tricai md manufacturing and chem
istry, 7 need not dwell upon. In the
last decade IT has been hard to secure
| otNN Sn
| professions 10 Justify employing them
In positions which are open.
In the profession OF the law there
seems an abundance Of material. If one
can judge by the large masses which
institutions like this and other great
schools are turning out upon the pub
lie. Those who pursue the profession
of the law VIII find In it a tendency
of modern days 10 make a profession
n business
Lawyers and Justice.
No one can have a profounder adj
miration FOR the legal profession than
| have We lawyers may properly
! feel an intense professional pride I'm
| the fact that of the great men who
have founded this county. who deflcd
the power OF England and spread the
seeds of revolution and independence
and preserved the institutions OF civil
liberty In this country nearly all were
educated lawyers. Yet one must rec.
! ognize that the administration of JUS
tice in this country has suffered griev-
ously from the intensity with which
lawyers have served their clients and
the lighmess OF the obligation which
they have felt to the court and TO
the public as officers OF the court and
the law 10 do no injustice, The lack
| of Scruple as to means which counsel
| too frequently exhibit In defense or
| preservation Of their clients inter
cstS Is often the real occasion for pop
| ular resentment
The conduct Of the defense of
criminals In this country and the cX-
tromes to which counsel deem them
selves justified In going. save their
clients from the Just judgment of
law, have much to do with the dis
graceful condition in which VIC find
| lis administrations The awakened
moral conscience Of the country could
! find no better object for it's influence
than in making lawyers under stand
that their obligation to their clients
| Is only to see that their clients legal
| rights are protected and that they
need not. and ought not. to lose their
| own identity as officers of the law in
| the cause Of their clients and reck-
| lessly resort to every cNpedient TO
win the case I believe that there is
no escape from the evils To which |
have referred. except By inducing the
! hnr TO cleanse itself Of those who, in
the interest Of their clients. forget
| their obligation as Americans to tho
court and their duties as citizens.
The rewards of the profession OF
medicine is In many Instances great,
but the rush into the medical profess
sion Ia not explained by the probable
emoluments II comes from the fas-
cinatlon of possible discover of that
which will aid humanity and secure
the investigator worldwide fame.
y regret to say thet during the
| last generation the strongest young
men do not seem 10 have been at
tractcd by the ministry. The made
uuacy Of the compensation and the
change fro mthe commanding inll'l