Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-03
PRIEST. TAFT ON
LAWYERS DUTIES
Administration OF Justice Has
Suffered From Too Intense
Devotion to interests.
BARS DUTY IN THE PREMISES
should Cleanse Itself of Those Who
Forget Their obligations a.
Americans 10 the Court.

Ada, O.. June S--President TAFT in
an address to the graduating class OF
tho ohio Northern university here
today gave advice to the young men
and women and discussed at length
the opportunities and limits % the va
rious professions and business puruits.
The law, the ministry, medicine,
teaching. Journalism. farming and
modern Industrial conditions all came
in for 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 newspa per activ-
itv soon would be q thing Of the past
He praised Theodore RooseNelts
crusade against muokrakers In this
connection Socialism was denounced
by the president. but was referred TO
as one Of the problems that viii have
to be considered during the next gen
Grafton.
President TAFT did not wear the cap
and gown which caused so much eN-
element by its DISAPPEARANCE at Byrn
Mawr yesterday. There was new
furry TODAY. however Mr. Tafts
spring overcoat Is lost He had to wear
heavy winter one when he alighted
from his private car under threatening
skies and a chilly atmosphere.
In his address to the graduates the
president said in part:
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
81 am going to invite your attention
this morning to that which confronts
you In your start in life and the
political and economic problems that,
should you take part i'm politics as
you ought to do will probably oc-
cupy your attention and call for YOUR
activity i'm their solution.
In the first place let US take the bus
mess situation. 1t is, OF course. inn
possible TO expect that the famous
growth Of trade shall continue IN the
proportion IN which we have seen IL
expand during the last 10 years and II
is reasonable 20 suppose that at some
time within the next decade there VIII
he some reaction or some financial
strinsency or perhaps "a financial panic.
Nevertheless the progress that has
been made is real and substantial
There may be halt there may be
scaling down of values. but these have
been from time 20 time followed by
recovery which indicated only a mo-
mentary lapse.
1T IS thought and said that the OBJ
portunity for individual success I'm bus
mess seems less than II was 30 or 40
years ago.
TT has been my duty to select and
promote many men In official life and
know whereof I speak when I say
that successful business. whether gov
ernmental or private. whether small or
large. depends chiefly on the selection
Of men by whom this business IL to be
done and that the promotion which
successful mon secure Il not that which
comes hy favor but by the logic Of tho
circumstances and FOR tho benefit Of
the employer. There is therefore to-
day as much room for ~ men as there
Of success that comes from intelligent
fidelity and industry IN the cause to
which n man devotes himself and the
work which he does speaks far louder
in the demand for his promotion than
all the good viii of his employer or the
influence that hind friends may seek
90 bring in his behalf
LEGAL PROFESSION
What is the condition OF the pro-
LESSONS should you conclude to enter
one OF them. The enormous demand
for the work OF the members Of GER
tain scientific professions, like cngin-
eering civil, mechanical and electrical
and manufacturing chemistry. | need
not dwell upon In the last decade IL
has been hard 10 secure men with suf-
ficient experience in tho professions to |
Justify employing them in positions |
which are open. In the profession of |
the law there seems an abundance Of |
II one can Judge by the large |
masses which institutions like this and |
other great law schools are turning out !
upon the public Those who pursue
the profession of the law VIII fiud I'm Il |
a tendency OF modern days 10 make "A
profession business or to make Il |
rather consultative and advisory than
one Of advocacy and forensic effort
''No one con have prOfcunder adj
for the legal profession than
] have. We lawyers may properly feel
an intense professional pride in the
fact that OF the great men who have
founded this country, who dofed the
power of England and spread the seeds
OF revolution and independence ana
the institutions of civil liber-
ty in this country, nearly all were edu-
Gated lawyers. Yet one must recognize
that the administration OF justice in
this country has suffered gTievously
from the intensity with which lawyers
have served their clients and the light
ness of the obligation which they have
felt 10 the court and TO the public as
officers Of the court and the Law 60 do |
no Injustice. Tho lack OF scruple as |
TO means which counsel too frequently |