Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1874 — Legal Pugnacity. [ARTICLE]

Legal Pugnacity.

A lawyer named Devoy undertook to cowhide a professional brother in Bt. Louis, one day last week, and succeeded in administering four or five well-directed blows before he was pulled away by some by-standers. The whipped lawyer thought of prosecuting, but the Republican says: “It is not very probable that he will, as lawyers seldom take any law in theirs, any more than doctors take their own pills.” Thqre is a huge moral in the idea in the quoted sentence. Lawyers seldom have lawsuits, except occasionally to keep a creditor a year or two out of his money, or to foreclose a mortgage, or get a piece of ground away from some poor devil on a tax title for less than a thousandth part ot its value. One of the greatest benefits which the Granges, Farmers’ Clubs, Sovereigns of Industry and other organizations of a recent formation will confer on the public will be to do away with lawsuits by friendly arbitration. —Industrial Age.