Show CON conditions D AND THE CAUSE tho the prevailing disregard of the provisions of the criminal law is claimed by many eminent jurists as aa becoming a serious serinus inus monaco to our civil institutions all over tho th laud land and is supposed to bo be caused in a great measure by the wanton neglect on tho the part of officers cura upon whom the duty ot of ot forcing enforcing the provision of 0 the criminal code is ia imposed but apparently appa all the responsibility mr for thia condition does not rest reef here for there also lie bo a growing dispo sitt i on on the abo part of citizens ta 6 be too lenient toward the law breaker these conditions have so strongly appealed to the membria dembei i of 0 tho the new york bar that tb y have proceeded to organize and select a committee to draft laws ws and ud resolutions for the purpose 0 being presented to legislative bodies for enactment with a view aview of 0 eliminating from the legal practice the writ norand appeals upon technical grounds and requiring all matters both civil and criminal removed froma from a lower to a higher tribunal bunal to be heard upon tho the facts and thus relieve tho the criminal practice ca e ally of so BO much sentimentalism many persons com complain plein of conditions in our own vicinity asserting that murder d er burg lario and larcenies larce nies enave been committed ol of late into and tho the accused have not boon been punished but greeven are even hold and maintained in greater social esteem by some of their friends 1 we notice also that in many branches I 1 civil government the there re iwlani is manifested a careless dis disregard Tigard especial lyn the afie expenditure of public moneys one of 0 the i most i tun that is required bui r ed of civil C boards I 1 I 1 we are are told dur dounty county corn 2 not looy since doci decided ded to improve 1 a portion goiti oh of atthe the county coli oty highway hight item in the t e western wea t orn p part att if A ah tha a aoun county y by an expenditure I 1 of mo money appropriated a W by the state legislature that there was w no survey or a r est estimate to of the probable cost of the needed improvement prove pro mout prior to td advertising for bids and nd report says that the contractors who were awarded the job j ob completed it in a few days realizing fifty dollars a day to the man and team that the work was received re ived by the county sheriff county attorney and one member ot 0 I 1 the county board assisted asai eted by a bottle of beer and the state came out sadly behind in the transaction the county commissioners reduced the assessment made by the county assessor upon the tha beaver river power co fifty thousand thou nand dollars thus fixing 1 it at forty thou thousand spud dollars I 1 now mr editor everything must have an end ond and some bome thin thina a have two ends endri and with wi thour your approbation and for the reader readers rea dero consolation I 1 will end this communication with a familiar quotation from the poet blancaa Blan cua come disconsolate pepsin whose brAa braastad stai A thousand schemes now revolve come with your bios and graft oppressed and form a now new resolve W we cannot trust the men of to relieve the poor from the trusts nor taffy tatt taft to remold the tariff but with our votes right hero here in zion well wipe away the political dust and hurray for billy bryana |