Show trial by jury an attorney next to a school teacher lacks in good bard business oense they are both very useful members of society we very well get along without them 1 hey build castles in the air in their leisure moments that afford the clodhoppers clod hoppers much in dissecting they always have some new schemes wise or otherwise to spring upon the public the lawyers are just now engaged in presenting some of their newfangled new idea through ahe medium of their bar association some of these ideas are worthy of the con of statesmen while others tend more to show up tha egotism of the profession take the president of the bar association for example judge jabez G sutherland a man learned in the law and who has written standard works on legal subjects he geta up and tells the bar association that the jury system ought to be abolished because juries do not represent an average of the intelligence moral character knowledge of current subjects and the good sense of the people Then he goes on to tell his brethren that if a juror is in health hearing if he has a common understanding of the english language and mind enough 0 o keep out of the asylum for idiots and the insane lie will be held qualified to sit on ill ca ea that come before the conr in that astle tace learned judge continues to berate the jurors until he grows eloquent and exclaimed judges are only permitted to look on while thae inferior men called jurors exercise the function and are authorized zed to eav what suitors shall do and receive as ibeal justice judges and lawyers trained to the law are but spectacular in the solemn temple of themis these bolts dolts and ig nor amuses hold the judicial scales II 11 is a little ead that learned leeral luminaries should thus be brought down to associate with their fellow beings but bad as it is trial by jury is one of the sacred rights of the masses it has been practiced by all races of northern europe from the earliest dawn of history in the forests of of the globe may ba seen today atones that juries of the earliest ages used in deciding disputes among their brethren and equals the nobility increased in power and felt as the lawyers do today that the masses were bolts dolts and ignoramuses ignoramus es the rights of trial by jury were curtailed but the voice of the people is supreme and jury trials have been granted in all civilized countries tho idea now advanced by attorneys in urah that under the state government the people should be deprived of jury trial is simply preposterous the masses will never submit to it we common people have an idea that we can determine the truth of facts presented in suits just as well as attorneys attorn eya we will leave the intricacies trica cies of the law to them but no man or set of man has a monopoly of the ability to determine what is truth gentlemen of the legal profession yon will have to abandon your lofty sentiments and content yourselves yet awuila with juries |