Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-21 | Page 16 | Fighting the Big Lawyers

FIGHTING THE BIG LAWYERS In reading the accounts of ot the tha big cases in Massachusetts one is la vividly reminded of at the recent hearing before the interstate commerce commission in Salt Lake The railroad side of ot that difference of at opinion was represented by many of ot the tha biggest lawyers in the United States Dont think for tor a minute the cheap men were sent here to conduct that case for tho the railroads The Tha best they had bad came cama to Salt Lake and they did all that law lawyers lawyers lawyers and very capable men could do Believe that of ot them Give them credit for tor that And if It they lose losa their case it will be because no man nor set of ot men could have won it It will be ba because the right and Justice of ot the case was I against them There In hi Boston the states attorney with an assistant whom he had ap appointed appointed appointed pointed met the tha twenty lawyers and combated them Every Everyman Everyman Everyman man at the steel trust table was far better paid that both the tha states at attorney attorney attorney torney and his helper Here In Salt Lake the tha strong array of ot railroad counsel was opposed by a lawyer who be ba in Salt Lake LakeIt if It he were drawing the Income from his practice that either of ot those men op opposed opposed opposed posed to him is drawing Mr Babcock of ot the Traffic Bureau Bareau helped as an at attorney attorney attorney torney in that hearing and helped ef et I But the preponderance of ot numbers was against the peoples representatives tives and In favor of ot the corporation side in both cases And numbers in a case of ot that sort means strength The average citizen looking at the trials realizes the fact tact that much dis display display display play of ot force torce was never called until needed and that the tha fact of ot the peo peoples peoples peoples ples counsel being outnumbered so mightily is pretty good warrant for tor the belief bellet that the equilibrium had to be established and that where the cause was weak the counsel had bad to be strong