Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-10
THE Mosr HArEEuL PnRAsE


 In recent address before the American Bar Asso- oation Charles A. Boston chairman of the associations oga education department asked What is the most hateful phrase in the popular mouth in relation to the profession Of law2" And he answered his own question with the two worlds legal technicaIty"
 Every observing ayman knows that this is true Most awyers know it. The difference consists chiefly in the that the plain citizen ezplodes with righteous wrath as case after comes under his notice of plain human justice defeated by saysh and stupid nsstence on ab olue conformity to mechanical procedure.
 great criminal suit nyaidated because the names the indicng grand jury happened to be drawn from he box by deputy instead of the head of the de 7arment An embedding public official is set free be- sause the" omitted in the formal document in iictng him. an omission that did not even cloud the meaning a single sentence civil suit involving mi. ions ordered retried because improper remarf made in the presence of the iurya remark that gave 10 juror any information mental slant he did not as eaGy possess unless he the that cour wocedure assumes juror to be- And it goes the pro by which justice is administered being resolved nore ard more into elaborate and costly in which The function of the lawyers and of the court itself to obey the rules with uninteligent regularity, re- ardess oi whether the process results in essential jus ice or the defeat justice to the citizen whose property liberty or life is at stake
 It is the public recognition of this fact with the allied act that lawyers appear to thrive on litigation compli- md nantained largely by insisence technical- ics that has broueht about profound change in the ublc attitude toward the legal profession. There was time when to be a lawyer was to be honored and de- erred to The bar ranked with the ministry and medt na The ministry has unfortunately lost much of its ,restige as the churchs influence has declined med- ne has risen to the first rank of he learned profea ions account of the zoalous and intelligent public crvce rendered by physicians and their maintenance of m ethical standard which keeps them for the most part lboye guspscion the layers however as class have rome into dsrepue because they have refused to move aeast of the times to respond the quckenng of tha tcw social spirit to turn the practice of the law into tmplc honest quest for justice instead Of highly profit sbo game to be played by professional experts.
 Tho remedy for this situation, says Mr. Boston ne. with the lawyers themselves He would begin reformin- be profession by inspiring the law student with senss public duty and a love of elementary justice. "so long as legal techncaHues exist" he says "thC student of the law should them, but he should alsC e trained to regard them as absurdities wastefu un ecessary unjust contrary the habits of the peo oe The very existence of such anticipated principles ecognized enforced by technicans but abandoned her by statute by judicial practice in advanced com runities trickery disappointment and defeat md requires the practitioners be always aier or such nou-essentias
 "Wby therefore. not determine to point out to h udent the horrors the law. to be eradicaed ~hel le comes uo his sphere of influence in the communit,
 to be scomed though he is still under their in iuence?
 q do not know that it is visionary to hope that th ime is not far distant when all existing law will b measured and criticised by its efficiency to accomplish ssentia justice rather than by its losiear oonsstene with historical forms and concepts
 Let 1t once be universally known that lawyers ar ducated to scom uickery and to labor toward tn achievement of moral as well legal right and che ril win the genuine popular respect-respect not fo brewdness but for ruess-whch will more than repa l my effort to that end"