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Show JUDGES AND JURORS. I l'Uc las and corrupt administration of the laws by the courts, throughout j the t'nited States, ha.i increased toi alarming proportions within the last ' twenty years. lu searching for the ! cause of this, with a view of applying a remedy, public opiuion places the burden of the evil upon our jury system. sys-tem. That this system is susceptible of improvement we do not deny. It Is possible that j-raod juries mizht be advantageously dispensed with, acd that t unanimity of opiuion, in ail eases, fhould cot be held nece-ary to a verdict ver-dict from trial juror. Those la.-t arc usually, and usual! y wrou fully, held responsible tor the imbecility and corruptibility cor-ruptibility of the bench and bar. Corruption Cor-ruption com uurieed with tr.ejudjys.aud wb5 the iucvitaKe re.--ia of the vicious systcx. bcirua .uvit the cKvsc of Jackson's Jack-son's aJuaiui-tia'i-'D. -f sbordn.aiirig-'ueuei-ii koowli j :e a:;.1, p verity (- vo-i;tical vo-i;tical cr-iuio-n or p.i.riv t :: v. In the eider: tiie the .indicia! were h.-'Ud about wuh a p'il;ie rc-;-- tl.a r.? eorrui-aouisi dare to ulul-;. New. our judges to cbtuij p!.-: aud pre St. scruple cot lo dccvud U eI;--leTel of pctbouse politicians scheming to carry a primary cic'ttoa, with an ap-prtviaiivo ap-prtviaiivo understand:;;; of li.e fact that tberc is no statu. e law io puuUh the packicg of a political convention. They ire nominated to eii-j-e csprtasiy to decide caes ibit are to coae be fore them, in a certain wiy, tb'is niaking a fair ud hocot in;er;-r:utioo of the law yield to the iu.vicg pre; -dice and opinions of the mob; and even where tl:y are v.iii a't-.ve th nAv-ity of couninj frtpular favor, by ap.'lm-nicnt ap.'lm-nicnt to ofli':e and a lil'e tenure, and ar: liom-st Ti.uli to pound In a-) it j- and R-jt an a politic. d pti'y w.mid havu it, paiiy nrid.i u;.-m to 1 make them yield or to n.-uin.li.- tlwir iudcpt:ridr:tj.-t; and b-.-ncty. Wc have an ill tut ration of this i:i tii': cour -c ut (.-on'resH with rcf-iLiiec to tin; -tij i' ui--ijourt. A fiujority ut' tL-; court W' tc 'jppif-cl to f-ntcnaiu the opinion that the hrcfal tender act wu.i uncoiiitituii m al, and to prevnt a dc:Ui';ii to tiii-effect tiii-effect , conres menm-cd the uunib.-r of llm judK.:i and the pri. -f an ap-p.jintniei.l ap-p.jintniei.l to a new jude-l.ip wi- an opinion sii.-iaining the validi'y il' tin.-Il-l'iI (under act, and the court n .w -tand-t wi'h a rnajiirity of ufi: in faV'.r ofth.it a. t. The biird.-n of b!am l'.,r ih.: . -.ape (,1 eriiuinalj, and lor outr.ig-om de-cisioiH de-cisioiH in civil suits is commonly placed upou the shoulders of trial juroi -, but in uni'l ca-es thw judges are. to blame. In criminal cases thu courn award the prisoner i new trial upon tcijlinicalitii-.i so linely drawn that only a judicial microscope lemed with a partiality towards to-wards the accured.oould discover thctn. or deny it upon a similar pretense, but from oppi't.-ite motives. Trials are po-tponed until witness arc .-pi lit ed away or die, and the instructions in-structions of I he court to the jury aie often mandatory aign-meuls aign-meuls in favor or avai'n-t u prisoner, pris-oner, or the plaint ill" or defendant in a civil suit. Jurors are made court au. toniaton-, picked by .the judges (and in this connection, to pick is to pack) and directed by judicial instruction-' how they must decide. As we have I said, the jury system may bs improved, but as a preliminary thereto tho judic. j iary system oui-ht to be reformed. |