Comments on: Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/ Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Sat, 02 May 2026 21:44:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5390 CherryPie Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:18:42 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5390 Ahh! I suppose that was just wishful thinking on my part? Ahh! I suppose that was just wishful thinking on my part?

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5389 CherryPie Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:18:17 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5389 Another rousing speech, we could probably do with some publicity from him these days! Another rousing speech, we could probably do with some publicity from him these days!

]]> By: Andrew Scott http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5387 Andrew Scott Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:50:34 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5387 "Gentlemen"? What are they? “Gentlemen”?

What are they?

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5383 CherryPie Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:29:38 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5383 And there was me thinking that gentlemen were supposed to protect fair ladies not rearrange their smiles!!! And there was me thinking that gentlemen were supposed to protect fair ladies not rearrange their smiles!!!

]]> By: JD http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5381 JD Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:05:06 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5381 Darrow was a lawyer and, as a courtroom lawyer, he would be prone to theatrical hyperbole. That doesn't mean he was disinterested as lawyers must be to prevent emotional involvement. The quote is from his book The Railroad Trainman, Nov. 1909. But he certainly believed in the idea of Unions. This is how he addressed a jury in 1907 during the trial of Charles Moyer, William Hayward and George Pettibone in 1907 - "I don't mean to tell this jury that labor organizations do no wrong. I know them too well for that. They do wrong often, and sometimes brutally; they are sometimes cruel; they are often unjust; they are frequently corrupt. But I am here to say that in a great cause these labor organizations, despised and weak and outlawed as they generally are, have stood for the poor, they have stood for the weak, they have stood for every human law that was ever placed upon the statute books. ~~~ I know their cause is just." I think we can safely say that he was one of the 'good guys' Darrow was a lawyer and, as a courtroom lawyer, he would be prone to theatrical hyperbole. That doesn’t mean he was disinterested as lawyers must be to prevent emotional involvement. The quote is from his book The Railroad Trainman, Nov. 1909.
But he certainly believed in the idea of Unions. This is how he addressed a jury in 1907 during the trial of Charles Moyer, William Hayward and George Pettibone in 1907 -

“I don’t mean to tell this jury that labor organizations do no wrong. I know them too well for that. They do wrong often, and sometimes brutally; they are sometimes cruel; they are often unjust; they are frequently corrupt. But I am here to say that in a great cause these labor organizations, despised and weak and outlawed as they generally are, have stood for the poor, they have stood for the weak, they have stood for every human law that was ever placed upon the statute books. ~~~ I know their cause is just.”

I think we can safely say that he was one of the ‘good guys’

]]> By: Andrew Scott http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5374 Andrew Scott Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:25:47 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5374 Agreed Sean. Hand me my lance, I see a huge sideways colon and bracket in sickening yellow shade that needs some serious tilting at. A bigger enemy than even the windmills. Forward Rocinante! Full speed! Attack! Agreed Sean. Hand me my lance, I see a huge sideways colon and bracket in sickening yellow shade that needs some serious tilting at. A bigger enemy than even the windmills. Forward Rocinante! Full speed! Attack!

]]> By: Sean Jeating http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5357 Sean Jeating Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:14:25 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5357 Oh yes, DonQuiscott. Let me be your Seanso Pansa! Oh yes, DonQuiscott. Let me be your Seanso Pansa!

]]> By: Andrew Scott http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5353 Andrew Scott Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:55:25 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5353 "...fingers wallowing in vice" sounds interesting Sean, or painful, or possibly both. Am I joking? Am I serious? Am I reflecting on interesting experience? No emoticons shall help you decide. May delicious ambiguity return. “…fingers wallowing in vice” sounds interesting Sean, or painful, or possibly both. Am I joking? Am I serious? Am I reflecting on interesting experience? No emoticons shall help you decide. May delicious ambiguity return.

]]> By: Sean Jeating http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5351 Sean Jeating Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:27:59 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5351 Ha, Andrew,that's a word, and not a damn dreadful one. [Hurra, just by will I managed to prevent my fingers from wallowing in vice.] Ha, Andrew,that’s a word, and not a damn dreadful one. [Hurra, just by will I managed to prevent my fingers from wallowing in vice.]

]]> By: CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/14/cheries-place-thought-for-the-week-46/comment-page-1/#comment-5350 CherryPie Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:54:29 +0000 http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=2620#comment-5350 Oh dear am I being controversial with my overuse of the smilies :-O ;-) Just couldn't resist! Oh dear am I being controversial with my overuse of the smilies :-O ;-)

Just couldn’t resist!

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