Show LAWS baws AND LAWYERS USELESS litigation A very eminent legal practitioner is V aid mid ald to have once defined a lawyer to be A well ivell educated gent gentleman gentlini leni lehi ii who wilo wins your property for you and keeps it himself 11 we have no disposition dispo to question tho declaration in the face of such an authority and the experience of ages which supports it as a rule law is a necessity definite rules must be laid down and enactments made by the le legislative representatives of a people or community for the protection of the rights of every member of that community or confusion would reign where order should exist and brute strength or sinuous cunning would exercise control the application af pf of law c calls alls I 1 for men inen who devote themselves to its study and gives consistence and or organization aniz atlon to the legal legai 0 the study of lawis law is as is lefiti legitimate mate as any other if men would apply themselves to it with the sole design of simply sab sub serving the ends of justice and confine themselves to that but when they strive to create litigation and take advantage of every little quibble that may oner a point on which to raise an objection to the tile free course of ju justlee justice stige then tile the primary object of law is defeated and those who pursue such a course become a positive evil to a community many times matters are brought to a legal issue involving great expense and loss of time on both sides more than enough to cover the entire subject in dispute which could have been equitably arranged by reference to disinterested and honest parties willing villing to take a little trouble for the preservation of I 1 arr amity ity among friends and with no nio motive to incite litigation through a desire to gain money thereby tile the constitution of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints provides for all such cases amongst its members and places every facility within their reach for having misunderstandings corrected and matters fairly understood and adjusted between parties pailles who may feel themselves aggrieved wo we wish tilis this people to con eon constantly scantly keep this fact of which they are arc well cognizant z before their eyes and avoid useless and expensive litigation which strips them of I 1 their means iner Indr increases eases rancor and bitter f feelings ce lings and separates those who otherwise might be bo friends and brothers baking them foes and opponents to each other two men who whon eare iare rc it may may be e I 1 oil on the ilie best possible terms idith each other perhaps engaged hi ll 11 busi busl business ness nesy as partners find something comes up which they tiley view dili dill differently brently and on which they disagree A question of right night is involved an and d neither man will submit to the other cae cac each h determined toraye what lie he considers his right they go to a couple of legal gentlemen who are by the very nature df their profession perfectly willing 0 to nie ale mawe make the breach brench a little wider and tile the matter comes before the courts it is argued and debated witnesses are examined law books ransacked for musty precedents and acts bearing c on the case epithets are bandied to and fro between appo opposing aln gln counsel which hit only the tile unfortunate nata litigants and every hour means menns and time are being w wasted asted vengeful and in bitter feelings arc growing and increasing in intensity and when the matter is finally adjudicated they find that the right for which they had been so strenuously contending in m has slipped from them both and is snugly deposited tn i n the pockets of their advocates the laws are not made for the good but for tile tiie lawless and disobedient and when inen men differ they tiley should try to have a correct understanding of tile the nature of that diali difference arence and have it s settled and good feelings restored without having recourse to legal issue when men willingly 0 transgress the law we like to see therm thorn get the tile full benefit of it nor have we any desire to see them escape punishment through chicanery can ery or supposed legal flaws wede we delight in seeing justice administered to all but hold to the opinion that many I 1 cases might be easily settled by the parties concerned without calling upon the tile services of gentlemen of the law or bringing them before the ordinary courts |