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Show LET EVERY LAWYER PLACE HIS HEART ALONGSIDE HIS HEAD JUSTICE BREWER. NEW YORK, April 22. United States Supreme Court Justice David J. Brewer pleaded for a higher standard of ehtlcs In the legal profession in an address before the Ethical Culture society in Carnegie hall yesterday. Justice Brewer, In be- ? inning his remarks, said that no pro-ession pro-ession was so often and so wrongfully attacked as was the legal profession, and then he added: "Is it strange that there should be so much criticism of the bar? We must remember re-member that the widsom of the lawmaker lawmak-er can never keep pace with the ingenuity ingenu-ity of trained minds seeking to evade legal le-gal I limitations. The old saying that holes may be found in every law means simply that an ingenious lawyer can often of-ten And either in the statute Itself- or in the mode of enforcement some way to escape from its penalties. "It is this which provokes the frequent remarks that the law so seldom reaches the rich, for the rich can pay for the brainiest, and the brainiest can most certainly and quickly discover the means of evasion. As against this, I appeal for a higher standard of ethics. I appeal to every lawyer to put his heart alongside his head, to mix his conscience with his brains. Let him have the courage to say to his client: 'It may be legal, but it Is dishonest, and I will have nothing to do with it.' Is this asking too much of the profession?" |