Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-07-11
LET JUSTICE PREVAIL.

The Nye County Bar association, at an execu
tive session, held Saturday evening, July g.
1911, passed a resolution of thanks and com
mendation to its outgoing officers, Hon. Hugh
II. Brown and H. II. Atkinson, and after at
tending to various matters of private concern,
the following committees were appointed:
rrustees-P. M. Bowler Hugh IT. Brown and
IT. H. Atkinson
70 secure picture Of Governor Nye from the
son and Key Pittman
W. b. Pittman, Hugh II. Brown, c. IT, Me
Intosh p. NJ. Bowler and Key Pittman were
selected committee to correspond with the
several county bar associations and with attor-
neys for the purpose of having meeting of
representatives from the several local associations
and representatives from the several counties in
the state. meet at Reno, New. for the purpose
Of organizing State Bar association and main
tanning permanent organization thereof with
a salaried secretary, having in view the benefit
OF the legal professions the promotion and main
tenance OF good government and the impartial
speedy and just enforcement of the law through
the judicial branch of the state government,
without fear favor, and with justice to all
The Bonanza calls the attention of the legal
profession on the bench and at the bar to the
tremendous interests that have been placed in
their hands. There be no government of
law that does pot depend on lawyers for its
administration Every officer in the judicial
branch, from the justice of the peace to the
justices of the supreme court should be trained
lawyer of integrity and good moral character
Every legislative body from the city council
to the senate Of the United States is composed
of or depends upon the members of the pro
fesson for guidance and counsel In the indus
trial world lawyers are seated on the thrones
of power at the heads of great corporations and
where, if they do not occupy the chief places
they are controlling factors. No great business
enterprise is conducted without their advice
They sit in the centers of every combina-
ton to promote or restrain trade. No proc.
lamation of war treaty of peace; no great
project either by land or sea is undertaken
without some lawyer gives it control and di-
rection. All property passes through their
hands every few. years. Men, and chill
dren depend upon them for the protection
which our government and its laws afford
So great is the trust reposed in the pro
fesson and so much does the public depend upon
its fidelity that happy, indeed, is the people
wherein the lawyers are worthy, and most un-
fortunate is the state where they have become
corrupt and debased. When we look about us
and the wrongs that hold sway how shall
the legal profession defend itself from the
charge that it has been remiss in the perform
ance of its duty to the public? No commercial
trust has ever been created except by the aid
of lawyers. No municipal or other government
has ever become the prey of thieves and graft
ers or failed to perform it's high functions ex
cept through the agencies of the legal pro-
fession. If the laws are unjust or unjustly adj
mnistered the legal profession is largely respon
sible If tainted and corrupt pleas are urged
upon the court false claims or defenses
brought to trial members of the bar are at
fault. If the agents of nefarious combinations
or ignorant or immoral men are put upon the
bench. how will the lawyers acquit themselves
OF blameY The community that has trusted