Evening journal., 1913-09-27

designed to suppress the liquor traf-
Rc is a quality of service from the
standpoint Of the legal mind of bet
ter grade than some other ways OF
representing the liquor traffic. But
compliment you gentlemen and
am pleased TO do H. when ! say that
/ covet for you and such as you
type Of clientele that can include
none such as these employing you in
this case; and ! covet for you and
for society a better result Of your
success as attorneys than would fol-
low your Successes in this case. Your
success i'm this case would surely
make drunkenness more easy and
more current in Kent and Sussex, and
would tend. az ! said in my former
letter, to nullify the expressed will
by majority vote of those two con-
stitutional units OF local self-goyern-
ment,
One Lawyer Refuses Cases.
You arc Christian men. members,
reiterate. of a great church with a
great history on the questions re-
lated TO this monumental evil; and
christian society has good reason to
expect you 10 eliminate such practice
from your schedule of professional
business. know Christian lawyers
in this city and elsewhere in the
State and in the Conference territory
beyond the State boundaries whom
no consideration financial or other
wise, could lure to su practice. |
have a friend who was once my par
ishioner who not only has persis-
family rejected such proposed client
age. but who led in the Legislature
OF this State to put a bill through
designed 10 outlaw the traffic in in
toxicants in his county; and then
stumped tho county TO carry il
dry" and with others assisting sue
ceeded in the effort This gentle
man, IL ought TO b. noted in this
connection has steadily gained in
popularity. prestige and position in
his professional career ~ means Of
such leadership He served his
county for 10 years as prosecuting
attorney and Is now six years on a
15-year term of elective circuit
iudgeship Of the court including his
native town and county
~LaWyers Short on Ethics.-
Permit me TO say in conclusion
that IL has seemed TO me that tho
legal fraternity as a group OF citi-
zens-of course. there are notable
eXceptions-h has not kent pace with
the progress made, apart from them,
among our fellow ,itizens i'm the ma
tion in the great moral uprising and
demand that Law shall he fundamen-
tally and fully ethical. and that its
administration shall make for right
eousness among them.
You gentlemen Of the legal fra
ternity in the practice Of your pro-
fession too often. az n seems TO me.
are long on lezalism and short on
ethics in the Interpretation and sd-
ministration Of law. Men i'm the
nation and in the states are beginning
10 be retired from public life who
exhibit This weakness in professional
and public service. There is 'ust
now a national figure who Is a not.
| able example of this
The crimes and bad morals and
countless other evils that follow At.
ter the liquor traffic al every point
Of contact ought 10 make all good
citizens of every walk of life. law
I yer or what not. its uncompromisinl
and pursuing enemy. giving II NJ
quarter until Il is destroyed and III
CORY trail fast disappearing from civ
ilized society. II is for the hasteninl
Of the oncoming of these conditions
and results that I summon you gen
tlemen. and all such as you. to TAX,
your proper place and part, not onll
personally but professionally Al
we'll.
Very respectfully yours.
s. NJ. Morgan.