Show HOLDING FOR A TRIFLE Courts make their own rules and the rules as well as the courts must be respected Society would go to pieces were it otherwise There must be a sheet anchor to every community and THE HERALD risks but little in saying that that dependence depend-ence is the courts of law But the powers of such bodies while they are not likely to be enlarged may at times be inflated and it is on such occasions that the female with the bandaged eyesotherwise known as justiceis more likely to suffer than gain A notable instance in point is the exclusion of the American counsel who went over to London to defend ODonnell the sayer of Carey the informer The rules and laws governing gov-erning English courtsare very formal for-mal and very severe no one can he admitted to practice in them without with-out having previously undergone a thorough course of apprenticeship but if our transatlantic matron were half as generous as she is severe no such question would debar men of high standing in America from practicing specially in her courts it need not be recorded as a settled set-tled state of things by any means but might be looked upon simply asa as-a suspension of rules in order that a neighboring and friendly power might have a hearing We do such things in the United States no pecan pe-can be admitted to the bar in any part of this country without taking an oath to support the Constitution Constitu-tion and an English lawyer who comes here to appear in a case specially while he cannot take that kind of oath is admitted specially and so it ought to be everywhere This is a greater more progressive and more enlightened nation than any other and what it does fort for-t ers in the way of courtesy others ought to be willing to do for it or its representatives The counsel to whom the British 3ourts propose to deny admission General Roger A Pryorhas few equals and no superiors in England Eng-land or anywhere else It they persist per-sist in such action as is foreshadowed foreshad-owed they and not he will be reduced re-duced in the eyes of the world I |