The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-04
President Makes Extended Ad-
dress to Graduates of Ohio
Normal University.
DENIES THAT TALENT
Is LIMITED AT PRESENT
Warns Students, However, That
Financial Stringeney Is to
Be Expected.

ADA, O., June 3.-President Taft, in
an address to the graduating class OF
the Ohio normal university here today,
gave advice to the young men and
women, and discussed ut length the OPP
portunities and limits Of the various
professions and business pursuits.
The law, ministry, medicine, teaching,
journalism, farming and modern indus
trial conditions all came in for share
Of treatment in Mr.. Taft remarks.
In discussing journalism the presi-
dent took occasion to denounce tmuck-
raking' and expressed the belief that
that unjust phase Of newspaper activity
soon would be thing of the past. He
praised Theodore Roosevelt's crusade
against muckrakers in this connection,
Socialism was denounced by the presI-
dent, but was referred TO as one OF
the problems that Will have to be con.
sldered during the next ceneratiOn-
President Taft did not wear the cap
ment by its disappearance at BTyn
Mawr yesterday. There was a New
furry today, however. Mr.. Taft IS spring
overcoat is lost He had to wear a
heavy winter one when he alighted from
his private car under threatening skies
anu Il Chilly Atmosphere
In his address to the graduates the
president said in part:
81 am going TO invite Your attention
this morning to that which confronts
vou in your start III life and the politi-
cal and economic problems that, should
you take part in politics as you ought
to do, will probably occupy your atten-
tion and call for your activity in their
solution.
Expects a Panic.
t'In the Grst place let us take the
business situation. 1t is, of course, i'm
possible to expect that the wonderful
growth of trade shall continue in the
proportion in which we have seen it
expand during the last ten years and
tit is reasonable to suppose that at some
time within the next decade there will
be some reaction or some financial
stringeucy or perhaps financial panic.
Nevertheless. the progress that has been
made is real and substantial. There
may be halt; there may be n scaling
down of values, but those we have had
from time 10 time have been followed
by a recovery which Indicated only q
momentarv lapse.
"It is thought and said that the op
portunity for individual success in busi-
ness does not seem now so great as it
was formerly and that therefore, the
opportunity for young men to win sue
cess III business seems less Than IL was
thirty or forty years ago.
"It has been my duty TO select and
promote many men In official life and !
know whereof ] speak when I say that
successful business, whether govern
mental or private, whether small or
large, depends chiefly on the selection
of men by whom this business is to he
done and that the promotion which sue
cessful 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 ms
much room for fit men as there ever
was In business. The kind of success
that comes from intelligent fidelity and
industry in the cause TO which man
devotes himself and 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
Call for Skilled Men.
"What is the condition of the pro-
fessions should you conclude to enter
one of them2 The enormous demand for
the work of the members of certain sci
entifc professions, like engineering,
civil, mechanical and electrical, aud
manufacturing chemistry, / need not
dwell upon. In the last decade IL has
been hard to secure men with sufficient
experience in tho professions to Justify
employing them in positions which are
open. In the profession of the law
there seems All abundance OF material
If 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 pro
fession of the law will find i'll it Il
profession a business or to make it ratb-
er consultative and advisory than one
of advocacy and forensic effort;
No one can have profoundcr nd
miration for the legal profession than
| have. We lawyers may. properly feel
that Of tho great men who have
founded this country. who defed the
power of England and spread the seeds
OF resolution and independence, and
preserved the institutions of civil lib
crty in this country, nearly all were
niZc that the administration of Justice
in this country has suffered grievousy
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 rs
officers Of the court and the law to do
no injustice. The lack of scruplo as To
means which counsel too frequently OK
hibit in defense or preservation OF their
clients interests is often the real occa'
sion for popular resentment.
Needs for Reform,
'EThc conduct of the dcfense of
criminals in this country, and the, cX-
trcmcs which counsel deem them
selves Justified in using to save their
clients from the lust Judgment of the
law, have much To do with the dls-
gracefu! condition in which we find ITS
The awakened moral
conscience of the country could find no
better object for IFS influence than, IN
milking lawyers understand that their