Show EXCEEDED HIS DUTY Captain Black the leading counsel for executed Anarchists is learning by if Bad experience that it isunprofitable not dangerous to manifest sympathy for the cause of anarchy It is the duty of the attorney to do all he Ctn within the legitimate sphere of his profession to save his client He can go thus far in his efforts ranunpopulArand bad client without endangering his own reputation But Captain Black zealously zeal-ously espoused the cause of the Anarchists An-archists find made the fight for their lives quite as persona as it was professional He did more than his fee required him to do and was so active and earnest in the contest as to convey the impression that he was an Anarchist at heart The result has been disastrous to the attorney attor-ney His business fell off as his enthusiasm en-thusiasm for the bombthrowers increased in-creased and the execution of the Anarchists left him without clients Not only this but his reputation has been seriously injured No good citizen wants to encourage and foster the Anarchistic sentiment by the employment of an Anarchist It is believed that Captain Black begins to see the mistake he made when he did more for his clients than his profession demanded at his hands for now that the business is over and he is without employment he begins to send out explanations that he is not anAnarchist and that he did only what he assumed to be his duty in the premises He may be able to convince the public but it will take time and he will have to be more cautious in his utterances than he has been lately A most gratifying thing about this affair af-fair of Blacks is that it shows the public pub-lic is inno sense insympathywith Anarchy An-archy and in no mood to trifle with the infamous doctrines If men will have to do with Anarchy they must go elsewhere else-where than in an American community for encouragement or even tolerance |