A "Microscopic” View.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 361, 8 October 1889, Page 2

A "Microscopic” View.

[to the editor.]

Sir,—lt Ig a remarkable thing how circumstances alter cases, especially in regard to the —— [Evening P.P,] That journal has been most persistent in its underhand attacks upon Mr Brassey, and has become especially active at a time when that gentleman ia making arrangements to commence business in another town. I don’t wish to defend that gentleman, for I hold the opinion, whether rightly or wrongly, that you can say a great deal about the legal profession without fear of penetrating beneath a very tough skin. They get used to being abused whether they deserve it or not, and it is, I believe, no uncommon thing for a lawyer to be ungratefully reproached by a client in whose interop he has worried himself much more than he would be justified by actual remuneration. But that not what I wish to point outi It is the difference in the methods of the paper to which - x have alluded. A recent case of bankruptcy which ia too well-known to require to be named has been almost ignored, and on comparing the reports with those which have appeared in the Standard it is plain that the other paper’s reports have been published in a most skimpy fashion, giving, really no idea of how matters stand. Why is this ? Why this attempt to shield a case cf the kind ? Is it because the same person was successful on a previous occasion ? xyhen a man sues a debtor because that ' p e '**®a him, the creditor is held up io ridiou’e b*"* ga ®9 Bre ftUowed t 0 8° scot free. Private 1? Kot. more to do with the [E.r. desire to advooata the public goof.—l am,

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