The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01
PUBLISHED THE FIRST AND FIFTEENTH
 OF EACH MONTH.
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE WORKERS OF ALASKA AND ADVOCATING POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ACTION
THE LAWYER AT HIS BEST.

Not unJustly has the legal profession flllen into the bad graces of the people. To great extent the profession has be- come trade, and the trade degenerated to the ignoblest. That this should be so was to be expected. It is one of the symptoms of the Time---when an old social system is passing, and new is a. borning---when elements once needful, are left behind, if not cast off This is the fate of the lawyer.
 Today lawyer and ''shyster" are almost invertible terms. It was not all ways thus. Time was when the lawyer, jurist, was paladin of Progress, the vocal paladin, who expressed the aspira- tions of revolution i'll which he was to be central figure. That was the time of the Bourgeois revolution. The Pyms and the Eliots in England; the Robes
 
 recently the Castelars i'll Spain and the Mazzinis i'll Italy; and before them the Jefersons, the Madisons, the Henrys, the Douglases, the Lincolns were all lawyers---jurists whose profession was born of; thrived with; illumined, and who Ill turn, were themselves illumined by the Star of Progress. Today it is sub stantially otherwise, With the Bourgeois at the end of his mission, the lawyer has, as q general thing, degenerated to an degenerate even lower yet, to a social scavenger.
 It is at such social season refreshing to find lawyer who seizes the oppor- tunity offered today for the profession to vindicate its past glories, and even justify it's existence This was done by George 
 of his own motion, the case of Cipriano Castro, ex-president of Venzuela, i'll whom the feudo-capita1ist administration of President Taft has been endeavoring to violate that great conquest of the Bourgeois Revolution for civilization the right of emigration, migration, and re-migration
 Readers of The People are familiar with the case of Castro. When president of Nenezut It., he renlorselessly pilloried the Dollar Diplomacy of Washington. The move hurt many politsca1 purse. Castros arrival in the United States was siezed by the Dollar Diplomats at the White House to get even with him, incl dentally also to keep him from disgrac- ing them some more, with some more revelations, and thus hurting their pirat- ical business ventures i'll Venzuela. The Administration endeayored to prevent Castro from landing. To this end it, al first, twisted the quarantine laws awry; and, finding that did not stead, it sought to close the country's gates in the face of Castro upon international law prin ciples.' At this stage of affairs George Gordon Battle stepped i'll.
 A fauorite manoeuvre with iron-hande( feudal rule was simply to clap i'll priso1 whatever individual menaced its comforts The writ of habeas corpus i'll Englsnd the fall of the Bastile ill Trance, were manifestations of awakening civic virtne Any person can now, if he have infor nation of the wrongful detention of human being, sue out a writ of habea corpus. It is compulsory upon any judg' to sign the same and order the prisone to be brought before court, there t klvc the legality of his detention estab lisllcl Such q writ was sued for il