Show BENCH AND EAR The Attorneys Who Were Famous Here Long Ago hose ol the Present Arc the Peers or Any in Other Cities Some of the 31ost Prominent An eminent lawyer cannot be a dishonest dis-honest man Tell me a man is dishonest and I will answer that he is no lawyer He cannot be because he is careless and reckless of justice the law is not in his heart is not the standard and rule of his conduct This was the tribute paid to the legal I fraternity by Daniel Webster at Charleston Charles-ton many years ago and it would seem that no other branch of learning is calculated cal-culated to inspire such a high standard for as Cicero in the Eleventh Philippic said Law is nothing but a correct principle drawn from the Gods commanding com-manding what is honest and forbidding the contrary The law is truly a great science with reason for its soul and justice for its end and it is only natural perhaps that it should draw to it the mightiest minds From the ranks of the legal profession have come most of our statesmen those who shaped the destinies of the nation and those who guided it in its course America takes a just pride in its great lawyers for they have shed more luster upon the republic than any other class In communities too there is a local pride in the bar and nowhere is this more true than in Salt Lake It is deserved de-served too for no other city of its size in America can boast of such a bar Its reputation has spread throughout all this intermountain region and the services of its members are in frequent demand outside of this territory while it is seldom sel-dom that litigants send for attorneys from abroad to represent them in the courts of Utah In such cases however the visitor is sure to meet foemen worthy of his best efforts The opening of the mines and the completion com-pletion of the transcontinental railway in 1870 gave litigation a great impetus and made the field an attractive one for lawyers law-yers In looking over an old directory published in 1869 it appears that there were not more than a score of attorneys here at that time but in the small list are the names of some who are still prominent prom-inent at the bar The bar was comprised in that year of Charles H Hempstead W I Appleby William Clayton R N Baskin Seth M Blair Stephen De Wolfe H W Isaacson E P Johnson J V Long Patrick Lynch Thomas Marshall J M Carter Hosea Stout 0 F Strickland R H Robertson Zera Snow P L Wil hams and A Miner It was shortly after this period that mining litigation commenced com-menced and the vast interests at stake brought many attorneys here who have since won eminence and it is estimated that today Salt Lake has from one hundred hun-dred and fifty to two hundred lawyers with a bar so strong numerically and having among its numbers many whose fame extends far beyond tho territory it is singular that a strong association does not exist and yet as the necessity of it becomes more apparent the association which is now little more than name will develop into a powerful organization f At the head of the judiciary is Judge Zane who is universally respected for his uprightness and learning in the law The honest fame which has come to him since he became the chief justice of Utah will grow with the years and his name b < come brighter Among the leading attorneys may be mentioned Judge Sutherland whose works are always standard lion J L Rawlins the delegate dele-gate elect to Concrress Hon F S Richards Rich-ards Parley L Williams Judge Hark ness Arthur Brown W H Dickson C S Varian Thomas Marshall Colonel Merritt E B Critchlow John A Marshall Mar-shall O W Powers E W Tatlock Judge Bennett Judge Royle Waldemar Van Cott Yo C Hall 11 W Young J H Moyle Le Grand Young William M Bradley Judge Loofbourow Frank Pierce Judge Judd John M Zane R H Cabell Judge Howat S H Lewis F B Stephens A T Schroeder Charles Baldwin Charles Dey John A Street Judge McDowall D C Lyle C 0 Whitternore Grant H Smith H E Boothe C W Boyn Walter Murphy Judge Hoge A G Norrell D N Straup Barlow Ferguson E F Coad J A Williams Judge Breeze Walker Gunter C B Glenn C B Jack William Will-iam McKay J H Harris Judge Sawyer E W Taylor Lloyd Porter C W Morse J H Hurd Judge Anderson E E Ritche W I Stuart H S Laney Judge Burr A D Elliot C W Hall Frank Hoffman John M Cannon Ogden lilies W A Kinney Judge Colborn S W Darko J M Bowman Oscar RZipf With statehood dawning upon titan new responsibilities new duties will have to be met by the members of the bar in the capacity of constitution framers and legislators and in assisting in laying the foundation of what is destined to become be-come a great commonwealth That they will be fully equal to this or any other task which they may be called upon to perform no one can doubt I I y w l I t th r r I r I l llg P I I I i tt 4 D CsT tk ii J1D |