Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-04


sultative and advisory function than
one of advocacy and forensic effect.
NO one can have a profOunder ad-
mration for the legal profession than
have. Yet one must recognize that the
administration of justice in this coun-
try has suffered grievOusly from the
intensity with which lawyers have
served their clients and the lightneSS
of the obligation which they have felt
To the court and to the public as
officers of the court and the law to DO
no injustice.
THE conduct of the defence of Grim
inals 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
10 do with the disgraceful conduct IN
which we find it's administration. The
awakened moral conscience of the
country can lind no better object Tor
its Influence than in making lawyers
understand that their obligation TO
their client is only to see that their eli
ent's lo cal rights are protected ana
thta they need not and ought not to
lose their own identity as officers of
recklessly resort to every expedient to
win the case.
"The progress that is being made in
medicine is marvellous and considera-
ton of recent advances iustifies the view
that we are on the eve of discoveries
which will rob most of the diseases to
which flesh is heir of their horror and
destructive nature
81 regret to say that during the last
generation a too small proportion of the
strongest Young men seem to have been
attracted to the ministry. The made
ouacv of the compensation, the change
from the commanding influence that the
ministers had in the early part of this
century to that which they now occupy,
has influenced many men who in early
days would have taken to the ministry,
to pursue other callings. Nevertheless
the influence of the church in our COM
munity is still deep seated and religion
forms the inspiration of the great body
of our people. A minister, to command
the constant attention of a great congre-
cation. must now be a man of power me
mere office does not carry with it either
the sacredness or the influence that was
oIltt dlldtlltu W II. iooh, ho"SNNi' 49,
a reaction in this matter | believe that
in the near future more men OF greater
native force will enter the ministry we
are all familiar with the enormous IN
fluence for good that a powerful minister
of the gospel exercises over his congre-
CATION and in the community in which he
lives, and we may well expect that after
the wild rush for wealth that has char
acteriZed previous generations shall nave
ceased. the opportunities for great use
fulness offered by the practice OF the
profession of the clergyman Will furnlsh
a temptation to more of the strongest
of the young college men to assume their
cloth.
The calm life, the philosophical con-
tentment, the earnest endeavor OF q
teachers life commend 1t to many ana
there is no more honorable profession.
The power of inspiring confidence IN the
| youth of evoking from them the best
| that is in their nature. of training their
Impractical minds in a power that seems
hardly to come with practice but to be
I born in one; and If you have it. become
teacher and exert 1t.
| "Of the profession of journalism
| there is much to say. The Increase in
| the Intelligence and discrimination OF
| the people has in one way, largely
modified the power of the press. The
! editorial writer's have by no means
such influence upon popular view as
they had in days gone by. The repu-
tation of a paper for accuracy and
/ veracitv is generally we'll known as
| nf nf he
community. There are some newspa :
rers that seek to effect their purposes
and control opinion by an attempted
misrepresentation or suppression of the
facts in respect to matters attracting
public attention. But in the end, they
do not prevail.
while the editor occupies the posi-
ton of an instructor of public taste,
and ought to exercise the function as
such with more constancy and courage
than he usually does, the limitations
that there are upon him by reason of
the public demand, these OF us who
would criticise the press, hardly ap-
preciate. Certainly journalism is a
profession in which men of discriminate
ing intelligence, of high courage, of ac-
curate judgment, of love of truth and
real patriotism, can find a sphere of
usefulness uneXcelled in any other and
such men are needed; for if the stand
ards set by some of the most success
full of the newspapers in lack of truth
in coarseness and unfairness of criti-
cism shall not improve in the next gen.
Grafton it will vindicate the pessimists
of today.
Il refer to class of newspapers
and magazines that are properly criti-