Show TOO CEn We Yo can hardly Idly l agree with wih that lawer law law- yet er who set se up as aR a defense defene of or his police court COUt client clent the tl statement that thai he 10 knew members o of the legal lega plo plo- o- o fe who hal had hadnot not been sober for years years eAIs The spree seems too protracted S Setting aside aile the Irrelevancy ancy of oC the contention It II ma may mar fairly be said that thal the he lawyers lawyer's statement was vas more In fn inthe the he nature of oC the be best t he ha hind had than he tIme facts a as he knew them There was vas a time when law lawyers els were very commonly drinking men In the old days IY when plea s were vere regarded as of minor Importance an and when the papers paper in a n Ct case e mr might ht be ill 1 drawn 01 or half drawn a and ld never systematically call cal cally kept kern law lawyers cn depended on arguments arguments arguments ments rather rathel than on the preparation of oC a case case The They yielded to the habit of oC tile time the age and went to the court courtroom courtroom courtroom room under the Influence of liquor r. r T They eJ were called caled great law lawyers ers ac according c c. cording to their degree desree of oratorical ability The greatest of them was the most eloquent eloquent An And the most eloquent elo do- quent quent- had prepared for Cor hl his flow fow of language by frequent a assimilating of liquids In In that day ar Itle re was given I en to personal habits The lawyer lawer was ex- ex to be a gr great at drinker and he held did ld not often oren di i expectation He lie was nuts S a great soule roy wih a loud ou an and compelling voice the swing of a Spanish grandee and the dominant wa way of oC a feudal baron He lie studied little law He directed his attention at- at tenton to 10 the effects erect of spoken t mei ment Invective e. roun rounded ed periods sonorous f sentences striking similes crushing parallels delivered dell cred with wih the roar an and fervor fenor of a storm these storm these were the weapons of time the old time I lawyer lawer How often oren he ceased hl his speaking In a state stalo of collapse e no ono but hut buthis buthis his intimates knew How low often he I lost nobody cared so cued so long as the audience were thrle thrilled h by hl his elo quence Impressed by his rhetoric nut But time the lawyer cl a of of the present da day dayis is II quite another creature Careful In his preparation of or cases exact pr pre pr- precise cise cle he must be clear heade And that was as an and is and always awas awa's wilt will wi be he Impossible with wih the time drinking man In Inthe Inthe the tue general genela departure from time the habit of the time drinking age no class has more mom markedly led the reform than oman has th the lawyer And that one who h has not been sober ohel In thirty years car On finds thuds thuds- s In the hc language of Saxe his his must most Important ca case e Is that which holds his books in place |