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Show I PRESIDENT DISCUSSES IE LAW, MINISTRY AND II NEWSPAPERS , Taft Says tk Opportunities For Young Men Are as Great Today as Ever-Refers to Possibility of a PanicvDisgracefnl Conditions in the Law Adt. O.. June 3 President Taft, In an address to the graduating elas ,.f the Ohio Northern unhorslty here to-day. to-day. gave advice to the young men and women and dls.iiss-d at length the opportunities ami limits of the various professions and business pur-lulls. pur-lulls. The law, the ministry, medicine, teaching. Journalism, farming and modern Industrial conditions all came In for a Khare of treatment in Mr. Taft's remarks. In discussing journalism, the President, Presi-dent, inok occasion to denounce "muckraking." and expressed. he belief be-lief that Ih.-it unjust phase of newspaper news-paper activity would fnnn be a thing of the past. Tie praised Theodore Roosevelt's message against muck-rakers muck-rakers In this connection. Socialism was denounced by the President, but was referred to as one of the problems thai will have to be considered during the next generation. genera-tion. President Tatt did n-l wrar the cap an 1 gown which caused so much ex-cliement ex-cliement by Its disappearance ut Uyrn Mawr yesterday. There was a new flurry today, howeer Mr. Taft s spring overcoat Is lost. Ilenad lo wear a heavy winter one when he alighted from his private car under (Continued on Page Six.) PRESIDENT TAFT DISCUSSES THE LAW (Continued from Page One.) threatening skies and a chilly atmosphere. atmos-phere. President's Speech. In his address to the graduates, the President said in part; "I am golrif,' to Invite your attention this morning- to tnat which confronts you in your start in life, the political and economic problems that, should on take part in oolltics as von ought to do, yon will have to occupy vour minds with. "In the first place let us take the business situation up. It Is, of course, Imposhibb; to expect that the famous growth of trade nhall continue In the proportion in which we have seen it expand during the last ten years, and It l reasonable to suppose that at some- time within th next decade thero will lie ome reaction or some financial stringency or perhaps a financial fin-ancial panic. Nevertheless, the progress pro-gress that has been made In real and substantial. There may be a halt, there may be a scaling down of values, val-ues, but these have only a momentary momen-tary effect, "It Is thought, and said, that the opportunity for indhldual success in business doe not seem now so great as it was formorly and that, therefore, there-fore, the opportunity for young men to win success in business seems less than it was thirty or forty year3 agj. Promotion Not by Favor. "It has been my duty to select and promote manv men In official life and I know whereof I speak, when I t;;iy that successful business, whether government gov-ernment or prlvete, whether sm?Hl or large, depends chiefly on the selection selec-tion of men by whom this hnslness Is to be done and that the promotion which successful men scsure Is not tli at which comes by favor, but by the lORic of the circumstances and for the benefit of the employer. There is, therefore, today as much room for fit men a6 there ever was In business. The kinrl of success that, comes from intelligent fidelity and industry to which a man devotes himself and the work which he does, speaks far louder In the demand for his promotion than all the good will of his employer or the influence that kind friends may seek to brlnp in his behalf. Experienced Men Scarce. "What Is the condition of the professions, pro-fessions, should you conclude to en ter one of theni? The enormous demand de-mand for the work of the members of certain scientific professions, like engineering, en-gineering, civil, mechanical and electrical elec-trical and manufacturing and chemistry, chem-istry, I need not dwell upon. In the last decade It has been hard to secure men with sufficient experience in the professions to Justify employing them In positions which are open. "In the profession of the law thero seems ao abundnuce of material. If one can Judge by the large masses which institutions like this and other great schools are turning out upon tbe public. pub-lic. Those who pursue the profession of the law will find In it a tendency of modern days to make a profession n business. Lawyers and Justice. "No one can have a profounder admiration ad-miration for the legal profession than I have. We lawyers jnay properly feel an intense professional pride In the fact that of the ret men who have founded this county, who defied the power of Kugland and spread the seeds of revolution and independence and preserved the Institutions of civil liberty in this country, nearly all were educated lawyers. Yet one must recognize rec-ognize that the administration of Jus-lice Jus-lice In this country has suffered grievously griev-ously from the Intensity with which lawyers have served their clients a:id the lightness of the obligation which they have felt to the court and to the public as officers of the court ami the law to do no injustice. The lack of scruple as to means which counsel ton frequently exhibit In defense or preservation of their clients interests inter-ests is often the real occasion for pop- , ular resentment I "The ooniuet of the. defense of I criminals In this country and the extremes ex-tremes to which Counsel deem themselves them-selves justifed In going, save their clients from the just judgment of law, have much to do with the disgraceful dis-graceful condition in which we find Us administ ration. The awakened moral conscience of the country could find no bettor object f-r Us influence than in making lawyers under Mand that their obligation to their clients 1? only to' sec that their clients' Ictal rights are protected and that they need not. and ought not, to lose their own Identity as officers of the law in the cause of their client and recklessly reck-lessly resort lo every expedient to win Ihe case T believe that there is lio escape from the evils ui which I have referred, except by indue In;; the bur to cleanse itself of those who, in the Intei est of their clients, forget their obligation as Americans to the court and their duties as citizens 'The rewards of the profession of medicine Is In muny Instances great, but the ruh into the medical profession profes-sion la not explained by the probable ! emoluments. It comes from Ihe fas-'clnatlon fas-'clnatlon of possible discover;- of that which will aid humanity and secure the Investigator world wide fame. "I regret to say that during the I last generation the (-strongest young men do not seem lo have been attracted at-tracted by the ministry. The Inadequacy Inade-quacy of the compensation and the ebaug fro lulhe commandiug inllu- euro that the ministers brut in the esirly part of this century, has has this cflect" |