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Show THE .COURTS AND JUDGES. We hear much on the necessity of keeping our courts a thing apart fronUhe people and of placing our judges on pedestals so high as to force the jurists to condescendingly look down on the common people. That this is contrary to the demands of modern progress is set forth in the following from the Indianapolis Star: If the administration of justice in the law courts were fundamentally funda-mentally sound, the discussion of the American Bar Association in session now in Milwaukee, would be hopeful though not inspiring to great enthusiasm. There arc a good many lawyers and jurists who wish to make the present unsound system tolerable. Even their proposed reforms do not get very fnr with the great body of lawyers and judges who do not attend bar association meetings. The point is made because it is believed that a really radical reformation and transformation of the procedure of justice in America Amer-ica while the lawyers are simply talking about formal charges that would not amount to very much after they came. The people are demanding the bread of justice. They are demanding de-manding that justice which is the essence of government shall be freely administered at public cost; that justice shall be free to rich and poor alike, so that injustice may not be purchased by the rich and powerful and shall not be given to the poor and uninfluential. That is one demand. The people are demanding, secondly, that tho courts shall be controlled by the people; that the courts must not bo the ultimate government with power to fix (as now they ha,ve it) the political, industrial and economic development of the countrv One looks in vain to the body of thejawyers and courts for a clear appreciation of theso fundamental needs and fundamental demands. de-mands. Against the demand for the bread of justice the bar association associa-tion turns the stone face of condemnation of those who would have the courts and the people one and inseparable. c" Nor is this criticism this statement of fact made in a caviling spirit. Perhaps it is inevitable that the legal profession, trained in the belief that the administration of justice is its own prerogative, should resent the people's insistence that it shall be made truly one of the three great functions of government. |