Modern Municipal Conditions and the Lawyers' Responsibility1908 - Lawyers - 21 pages |
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Modern Municipal Conditions and the Lawyers' Responsibility A. Leo Weil,Pennsylvania Bar Association No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 10 - ... better of the community at large, and thus to retain or obtain for the benefit of their respective corporations very valuable public privileges, which ought not to be granted at all except upon the payment of their full value, with their exercise always subject to full public control. When municipal franchises and privileges are to be granted, it is not the municipal authorities that make the terms, but the private companies. The laws and ordinances that have to do with the granting of these...
Page 18 - ... it is incredible the quantity of good that may be done in a country by a single man, who will make a business of it, and not suffer himself to be diverted from that purpose by different avocations, studies, or amusements.
Page 11 - But I am bound to add that some judicious American observers hold that the last thirty years have witnessed a certain decadence in the Bar of the greater cities. They say that the growth of enormously rich and powerful corporations, willing to pay vast sums for questionable services, has seduced the virtue of some counsel whose eminence makes their example important...
Page 17 - Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends and designs it, or not. He may be a blot, radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing, spreading benedictions over the length and breadth of the world; but a blank he cannot be.
Page 10 - ... shall have been passed upon by a board consisting of the Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Attorney-General, after notice," which reads as follows: "Section 1.
Page 4 - The franchises of the metropolis, in excess of the physical value of the property, exceed the amount of the city's net debt. They amount to more than one hundred dollars for every man, woman and child within the city, and their quotation in the market represents wealth in excess of the total appraisal for purposes of taxation of any city in America outside of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago. For these grants, the city receives no return. They were obtained to some extent through the ignorance...
Page 10 - ... in the world. The consequences are plain to see throughout the whole country. The ablest lawyers in all our cities are retained by these corporations. They are given fat fees, directorships, stocks and bonds, and all sorts of pecuniary emoluments, besides political and social consideration. In return, they are expected to use their sharp wits, their technical knowledge of corporation law, and their training in the practical art of politics, to get the better of the community at large, and thus...
Page 2 - East, the proportion of urban population is much higher And this movement to the city is bound to continue. The statistics of all countries demonstrate this fact. While the total population in America increased twenty and seven-tenths per cent, during the decade from 1890 to 1900, the urban population of the country increased thirty-seven per cent.