The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-03

1ICI0uL experience IN the PROFESSIONS 10
justify employing them in positions
which are open. In the profession of
the law there seems an abundance OF
material if one can judge by the large
masses which institutions like this
and other great law schools are turn
ing out upon the public. Those who
pursue the profession of the law will
find in it a tendency of modern days
to make the profession a business or
to make it rather consultative and adj
visory than one of advocacy and for
ensic effort.
The Legal Profession.
mo one can have a profounder ad-
miration for the legal profession than
1 have. We lawyers may properly feel
an intense professional pride in the
fact that of the great men who have
founded this country, who def1ed the
power of England and spread the
seeds of revolution and independence
and preserved the institutions of civil
liberty in this country, nearly all were
educated lawyers. Yet one must rec
ognize that the administration of JUS
tice in this country has suffered griev-
ously 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 lack of
scruple as to means which counsel
too frequently exhibit in defense or
preservation of their clients in this is
often the real occasion for popular
resentment.
seThe conduct of the defense of crimi-
nails in this country and the extremes
to which counsel deem themselves JUS
titled in going to save their clients from
the just Judgment of the law have much
to do with the disgraceful condition in
which we find it's administration. The
awakened moral conscience OF the coun-
try could find no better object for its
influence than in making lawyers un-
derstand that their obligation to their
clients is only to see that their clients
legal rights are protected and that they
| need not and ought not to lose their
own identity as officers of the law IN
the cause of their clients and reckless
ly resort to every expedient to win the
cause. 1 believe that there is no eS-
cape from the evil tendencies to which
1 have referred, except by inducing the
bar to cleanse itself of those who in
the interest of their clients forget their
obligation as Americans to the court
and their duties as citizens.
The Medical Profession.
''The progress that is being made in
medicine is marvellous and a considera-
| tion of recent advances justif1es the
view that we are on the eve of dis
ccveries which will rob most of the
diseases to which flesh is heir of their
terror and destructive nature. The pc
Cunldry rewards OF the pTOleSSlOn VI
medicine is in many instances great;
| but the rush into the medical profession
| is not explained by the probable emo
| luments. 1t comes from the fascination
| of possible discovery of that Which will
| aid humanity and secure the 1nVest1ga-
| tor world wide fame.
| "I regret to say that during the last
generation the strongest young men
! do not seem to have been attracted
| to the ministry. The inadequacy OF
I G..Nr > ~
commanding influence that the minis
/ ters had in the early part OF this cen
! turv to that which they now occupy
/ has influenced men who in early days
| would have taken to the ministry
| Nevertheless the influence of the
| church in our community is still deer
seated and religion forms the insplra-
| ton of the great body of our people
IA minister 10 command the constant
attention Of a great congregation must
row be man Of power. The mere OF
| fee does not carry with it, either the
| sacredness or the influence that was
| once attached to it. I look, however
for reaction in this matter. I believe
| that in the near future, men of great
er native force will enter the ministry
| We are I'll familiar with the enormous
| influence for good that minister of the
| gospel Yields over his congregation ano
| in the community in which he lives ano
we may well expect that after the WILD
| rush for wealth Inau mas CnaracleIlZe1
| PREVIOUS generations shall cease the op-
portunitieS for great usefulness offered
| by the practice of the profession of the
| clergymen will furnish a temptation to
| the strongest of the youngest college
| men to assume the cloth.
The Profession of Teaching.
'"The call of the life, the philosophical
| contentment, the earnest endeavor of a
| teachers life commend it to many and
there is no more honorable profession.
MANY of them do not receive more than
the wages of the skilled mechanic
| many not so much, but the fascination
| Of teaching the young idea how to
| shoot. the pleasure of contributing to
| the formation of character at the most
formative period of young life have al
ways presented attractions sufficient tc
fill the ranks of professors and teachers
with the best.