The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-01
FAITH IN Law

II was natural that the dominant sounded by the law
S VINO spoke at the meeting Of the Tennessee Bar association
rising tide OF socialism and Boshevism evils that have accom-
pushed enough destruction universal condemnation
but which spite the waste left in the path where they
come INTO the ascendency embraced by those afflicted with
unrest or tee that they the victims of oppression
There is no escaping the fact that living in time in
whch few are favored and many Disseminated against
VIGOROUSLY true that some paid wages in
OF the value OF the labor they perform that other men are
growing rich by selling for prices far in of their
value.
On the whole there has lack of close correspondence
Of change wages with the change in the of living
many cases wages have Jagged and in others they have
taken the rise in the cost of living
Public sentiment is focusing itself upon the principle that the
cost OF living must be accepted essential part Of the Ame
can wage system Beginnings have been made
N business and industrial enterprises but the subject should
be taken hold OF in systematic way and national scale
The lawyers make the laws they interpret the laws and
enforce the laws The responsibility therefore for satisfying
people must rest IN large part upon the lawyers.
mob in Omaha hanged the mayor mob in Alabama
ynched two negroes mob in Oklahoma gave city Off
cials their choice between resgnng and being killed We
haven't heard from them but supposed that they chose the
quicker and more painless death The crimes that inspired the
attack the OF Omaha and the yncng the negroes
in Alabama the kind that usually regarded beyond
the power Of the law to adequately punish
Exceptional and of violence are not the most
dangerous demonstrations against the law These may be
attributed to passion and nfamed public sentiment The
oense usually committed by the ignorant and unthnng
But there has arisen custom of making demonstrations
against decisions of the courts Lawyers not nquenty in
the forefront when the courts ploed The lawyer is
officer of the court He has done much to surround with
dignity and maintain respect for it by insisting that its honor
remain untanshed.
If the lawyers lose respect for the courts then they lose
respect for themselves and the people lose respect for both It
would be dismal prospect If courts could be buled into
decisions by mobs the streets or in the courtrooms
What the lawyers need to do is to take courage in the
strength the law, and uphold the law is written and the
they constituted They should to that the
rights of individual imposed upon disregarded
The lawyer who regards the law something to be evaded
and the something to be hoodwinked is menace to the
profession The profession would be better off had house
cleaning in while,
But after all when speak of "a lawyer" mean men
who have influenced thought and action and national policy,
from those who the constitution down those who
the league Of natonsthe great minds Of the repubc refer
the profession which alone provide the great us the
profession which the people look in large for counsel
in the direction of the affairs OF the nation.
The law is wonderful and envable profession No
greater calamity could bea the country than for to lose its
hold upon the faith OF the people The lawyers prevent this
if they will make the law adequate for every offense