The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-07-30

room well filed with members of the
Goldfeld Bar association and also many
other friends of deceased. memorial
services were conducted Ncnday
in honor of the memory of the late
Senator George d. Pyne. During the
exercises resolutions lamenting the
death of the former Goldfeld attorney
were read by w. d. Hatton, vice presi-
dent of the association, and adopted.
These will be inscribed on the records
of the court and a copy presented to
the members of the bereavd family.
While several short addresses were
made by members of tn bar relative to
the taking away of one of its most
prominent members, the formal eulogy
was delivered by Senator Morehouse. 1t
was one of the most impressive mem
orial speeches ever made in Goldfeld
and was listened to with rapt attention.
1t follows in full:
We have met to honor him, whose
career stands before us ike a ray of
sunshine piercing a cloud. He needs
no eulogy; the man who needs one does
not deserve it; the man who deserves
it does not need it. In every walk of
life, we who are here knew him. We
knew him as citizen, public officer, law
yer. friend. We knew him to love him
and we loved him. In his profession
he had no hypocrisy; he tried his cases
on their merits; he did not pretend a
virtue to betray. He recognized hon
esty and merit in his fellows. He had
no jealousy or envy. He did not plan
to injure members of his profession
when they succeeded; he ~rejoiced in
their success; he knew that success in
himself meant merit, study and effort,
and that upon his own merit he had to
stand or fall. Honor with him was a
conviction. He was true to his clients,
true to his friends and true to himself.
In court, the honesty of his cause was
only guide. He belonged to that
of lawyers where right and jas
tice and truth was his cause, and not
influence, ehicanery, schemes and cor
the means used to reach victory.
influenced him, but Truth. In the
arena of debate he was clear, earnest,
honorable and manly. He was known
only in truth; he was noble, because
his only purpose in life was built on
the foundation of right and justice.
In public life he had the welfare of
the people, the betterment of mankind,
and embodiment of those principles and
those ends which meant good to his
He never swerved from the
path of duty and rectitude; his only
foe was dishonesty or hypocrisy. He
was in mental vision calm and peace
full, but the horizon of his thoughts
was as broad as humanity, as grand as
truth, and as hopeful as life
He had no enemies, but secret
foes, whose malice lay hidden in their
own failure and was inspired by his
success. He toiled when others slept, /,
that toll might win it's way, but
that his conscience might be satisfied
thai he had done his duty. He was a
l,wyer. not a professor of the law. He
that law was a science; he knew
that the man who loves his profession
and makes that the love of his life, will
in the end win victory, and therefore
he made his profession his first love,
and not the fee which accompanies the
cause. He knew that the man who
makes his fee the first thoagat In his
profession never can be and never will
be a LAWYER. He knew that the fee
mar of the profession was only a pre-
tense in the profession, and that such
men become in the end a crime TO
themselves, a curse to the administra-
ton of the law, and failures. He knew
the law was a jealous mistress, and,
like music, poetry and art, would not
permit flirting with other occupations,
and therefore he conceived his profess
sion in its nobility and greatness, ana
had not his untimely death cut MN
off. his life would have been so woven
into the threads of Nevada's history
that its pages would have been a ght
tering eulogy to his fame.
Nevertheless he is a part of the ms
.orv of this state; not a silent page,
hrt a sparkling, living page of reality
and purpose. The primary election iaw'
+. law that reaches back and grasps
anew the spirit of individual liberty
las the breath of man gives life TO the
h,m.n heing and overturns the p1r