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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 14 The UTAH Independent June 7, 1973 FROM GULLIVERS TRAVELS SENATOR by Jonathon Swift 1735 under the name "precedents," they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing There' is a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves, For example, if my neighbor hath a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. must then hire another to defend my right, it being againstall rules of law that any man should be allowed to speak for himself. Now in this case I who am the right owner lie under two great disadvantages. First, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, isquite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which as an office unnatural, he always attempts The second with is disadvantage that my lawyer These, accordingly, In pleading they studiously avoid entering into the merits of the cause, but are loud, violent, and tedious in dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to the purpose. For instance, in the case already mentioned, they never desire to knowwhat claim or title my adversary hath to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black, her horns long or short, whether the field I graze her in be round or square, I whether she was mil ked at home or abroad, what diseases she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an issue. It is likewise to be observed, that this society hath a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that not other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong; so that it will take thirty years to decide whether the field left me by my ancestors for six generations belongs to me, or to a stranger three hundred miles off. In the trial of persons accused for crimes against the state the method is much more shortand commendable: the judge first sends to sound the disposition of those in power, after which he can easily hang or save the criminal, strictly preserving all ill-wi- ll. must with proceed great or else he will be reprimanded by the judges, and abhorred by his brethren, as one that would lessen the practice of the law. And therefore I have but two methods to preserve my cow. The first is to gain over my adversary's lawyer with a double fee, who will then betray his client by insinuating that he hath justice on his side. The second way is for my lawyer to make my cause appear as unjust as he can, by allowing the cow to belong to my adversary: and this, if it be caution, done, will certainly bespeak the favour of the bench. Now, your Honour is to know that these judges are persona appointed to decide all controversies of property, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth and equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perjury, and oppression, that I have known several of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, ratherthan injure the faculty, by doing anything unbecoming their nature or skillfully , . of due forms of law. Here my master interposed, saying it was pity that creatures endowed with such prodigious abilities of mind as these lawyers, by the description gave of them, must certainly be, I were not rather encouraged to be instructors of others in wisdom and knowledge. In answer to which assured his Honour that in all points out of their own trade, they were the most ignorant and stupid generations among us, the most I in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert despicable their office. It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again; and therefore the general reason of mankind they take special care to record in every other subject of all the decisions formerly made discourse, as in that of their own against common justice and the profession. general reason of mankind. WITH HOBNOBBING ENEMY THE or With Friends like these Who Needs Enemies? Moscow, April 2-3- Seven U.S. senators meet for more than Leonid three come away Brezhnex today and with the impression that the Soviet Communist Party boss wants peaceful relations and trade with the United States and iswillingtodropthetaxon Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel. hours with sgs to Clean to Store we have both built up armaments since World War II, and now have the possibility of destroying each other several times over," says Senator J. "He Glenn Beall Jr. asked why shouldn't we now convince our peoples, despite differences of ideology that probably always will remain, to work together. That's pretty impressive stuff when you hear it from the horse's mouth." .) Senator Vance Hartke as "an describes Brezhnev excellent politician" who is "making a determined effort to improve relations between the Soviet Union and the United States." 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