Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-03
TAFT CONDEMNS
MUCK RAkER5 AND
LAUOS ROOSEVELT
President Talks to Graduates of
Ohio Northern University. :.
on the Profession.

ADA, O., June 3.-President Taft, in
an address to the graduating class of
the Ohio Northern University here to-
day, gave a world of advice to the
young men and women and discussed
at some length the opportunities and
limits of the various professions and
business pursuits.
The law. the ministry medicine
teaching, journalism, farming and
modern industrial conditions all came
in for a share of treatment in Mr..
Tafts remarks.
In discussing journalism the Presi-
dent took occasion to denounce muck
raking," and expressed the belief that
that unjust phase of newspaper ac-
tivity soon would be a thing of the
past He praised Theodore Roosevelt s
crusade against "muck-rakers' in this
connection.
Socialism was denounced by the
President, but was referred to as one
of the problems that will have to be
considered during the next generation.
President Taft did not wear the cap
and gown which caused so much eX-
citement by its disappearance at Bryn
Wawr yesterday. There was new
furry today, however. Mr.. Taft's spring
overcoat is lost. He had to wear a
heavy winter one when he alighted
from his private car under threaten
ing skies and chilly atmosphere. In
his address to the graduates the Presi-
dent said in part:
1T is thought and said that the op-
portunity for individual success in
as it was formerly. and that therefore
the opportunity for young men to win
success in business seems less than it
was thirty or forty years ago.
mo one can have a profounder ad-
miration for the legal profession than
have We lawyers may properly feel
an intense professional pride in the
fact that of the great men who found
ed this country, who defleld the power
of England and spread the seeds of
revolution and independence and pre-
served the institutions of civil liberty
in this country nearly all were edu-
Gated as lawyers. Yet one must recog-
nize that the administration of justice
in this country has suffered grievously
from the intensity with which lawyers
have served their clients and the light
ness of the obligation which they have
felt to the court and to the public as
officers of the court and law, to do no
injustice. The lack of scruple as to
means which counsel too frequently
exhibit in defense or prosecution of
their clients interests Is often the real
occasion for popular resentment.
Condemns Some Lawyers.
The conduct of the defense of crimi-
nails in this country, and the extremes
to which counsel deem themselves JUS
titled in saving their clients from the
just judgment of the law, have much
to do with the disgraceful condition in
which we find its administration. The
awakened moral conscience of the coun-
try can find no better object for it's in
auence than in making lawyers undSr-
stand that their obligation to their
clients is only to see that their clients
legal rights are protected and they they
need not and ought not to lose their
own identity as officers of the law in
the cause of their clients and recklessly
resort to every expedient to win the
case. | believe that there is no escape
from the evil tndencis to which 1 have
referred, except by inducing the bar to
cleanse itself of those who in the in
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