Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-04-11
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TUNTPTION
Common SeISe without FrillS.
Oh! What's the Uses
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HE Agitator jumped on me
4 with both brogans last
week, and among other things,
lntlmated that a man did not
have to have ali my physical i'm
PROJECTIONS to be an editor. True,
but viewing the careers of James
Gordon Bennett, Horace Greeley,
George D. Prentice, Henry Wat
terson, Henry W. Grady, Arthur
Brisbane and Spencer Cooper, it
is apparent that brains are nee
essary requisite to an editor.
Simultaneous with the receipt
of the Agitator containing that
editorial(?) received two letters
from prominent citizens Of it's
town., showing the esteem(O
they have for that paper, and
feel that they are all the reply
required.
The first simply admonished
me to remember the old adage:
IF you wrestle with a dog you
will get Aeas," but think that
that comparison is rather hard
on,the dog, as some dogs have
some character. From the other
letter | take this excerpt: 'II
had written this and sealed it up
when | picked up the Agitator
(Which | do not take) and read
its effort to answer and ridicule
your short say on the Parcel Post
matter, and that justifes me in
saying that any man that can
mot get up better reply to your
'screed, as he calls it, and who
can't get any more readable
news in a newspaper than he
does ought To-" But what's
the use? Is that not sufficient?
So for good and all | pass it up.
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III IS a mooted question as to
y whether conscience is mate
in man Or the result Of training.
am inclined to the idea that it
is largely the creature of cultiva-
ton and hefedity. While it is
true that there are many acts
that since the beginning of time
have been regarded as wrong by |
all races, even while each had no
knowledge of the others, many
acts that are condemned by some |
are practiced by others without
thought Of wrong. Even among
church denominations, some acts
that are sanctioned by part are
severely condemned by others, |
emphasizing the fact that we be-
lieve as we are taught.
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There is possibly a greater va
riety of consciences among the
lawyers cone of whom | am
which," as Artemus Ward put it)
than any other profession or av-
ocation. In that profession we
find the greatest range Of intel
lect to be found anywhere, from
the masterful mind of Choate to
the cranial hiatus of the pettifog-
ing licensed jackass of the peace.
But conscientious scruples are
not gagged by the rank in the
profession. Usually the magis-
trate-court practitioner is a nui-
sance on account of of his abso-
lutte lack of acquaintance with
the elementary principles Of law
rather than from turptitude,
while many prominent corpora
ton lawyer draws his salary on
account of his skill in coaching
witnesses to make the tale favor
able to his clients, busing a
jury or influencing a Judge. But
aside from these gross practices,
there are many in the profession
who have trained their con-
science to approve of devious
methods to win, justifying under
the belief chat duty to client de-
mands that he succeed regard
less Of the merit of his cause.
Let me say, however that there
is scarcely a day in the lives of
the busy lawyer that he does not
have to refuse to do some act
that his conscience does not APP
prove, when requested by some
psoniinent citizen.
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