Show URGENT NEED OF I JUDICIAL REFORM Denver Dener News England and Wales Wale Juc county judges amid nd thirtyfour judges of supreme judges itt in all Colorado has sixty com county judges l one district judge arni nd seven Judges e of time tho supreme eIght Judges In III till 1111 England and Wales have one judge for about population Colorado has one judge fol tim rather less than 1000 YH England sets gets i it legal business to 10 with less d delay la an dissatisfaction than do does s Colorado All Ii h Jesse Macy In lImo last McClures helps t to ex this Only help Lu J he l sure but bUl an any help Is worth wortha n a welcome elcome In a case caso this Mr lac seems to Lo con consider the tho superior fly ity or of BrItish judicial work to 0 aim tour four prIncipal things These are aro time the out of technicalItIes the greater given to time the BrItish as opposed Ic 10 the limitations I upon Jilt own time the higher con amounting to reverence with which British judges are regard regarded eel ed and the prompt promptness with which British jurIes return verdicts As to the tho wooding weeding out or of technical 1 Mr r Macy makes como come caustic an and presents some sommie rather rathel re remarkable evidence Cases Calles involving less are han led ur by the thc county courts almott without the aid of The parties to the suit snit meet before the judge theIr thell ready sworn stand in two I rows to lie be called if nee needed etl and the mutter is threshed out then and there Usually the witnesses ate arc not called The judge tuk takes the statements of time the parties asks what questions seem to tobe tobe be and gives his aya Mr r The judge comes to tobe tobe be an expert In nt at the essen hal Ual facts He settles suIts Involving a deal of detail at time the rate or of orone one In five minutes As a partial explanation of the tho regard for COl Mr Macy Ine ox ex plains that while we In America have the outworn Judicial procedure of oC J At t time the of our aba slon from time mother country countr England herself Ita has wholly changed her pro In that time Site She has hns glen gIven Immensely greater grealer powers to the tho judge titan than we permit hIm to exercIse oils powers which take the thc place or of the tho rules for every petty thing It Il Is fair Calr t to sa say that the system has admirably In England It Itis Itis is certain that wo in this c country should make a great many changes which would cut out time the mass or of tech that now strangle justice But It Is uncertain whether the im 5 powers of the tho British ju judge ge could be conferred upon OUr judges and It ItIs Itis Is certain that tile the reverence for the bench plays so large a part partIn In making the of justice go round In England can novel never be ported here Neither Is It likely that our juries will ever be as tractable as are time the British juries which In a goodly proportIon of cases are merely registrars of time LIlt courts will we Ve must not 1050 sIght of time tho tact fact that In AmerIca rights and are sharply whIch In Eug land ate taken as matters of course no more to be altered than the path to the sup SUfi The caste easte system too tends to make men content In iii that thal station to which God has Imas called them find aud to that makes for and submission to authority We In Amer lea would rather have havo a eY eV cry day duy titan to order at the prIce of caste and the News holds to time tho American n view We tC merely wish to lo point out that al although although though England Englan has patti paid what we con consIder sIder an high prIce for fOl forthe the thc orderly management nt of her soel sod et ely she ha got what whal she paid for forAnd forAnd And we seo no reason renson why as good results can not b had In thIs country n n though thc they he be reached b by oIlier othel routes anti for In coin of Il a differ omit ant We Vc can cop England In getting rill rid or of t technicalities We ro can cannot cannot not copy COP her submissive le jurIes hut for Cor A little moro more money we cnn can got get more Intelligent juries who will yield to time the law ia and to theIr oaths the re rev they would dotty dony to any an man however placed We Vo can revise systems of pleading and procedure lle so as to put a on speed instead or of on I sloth loth A few reforms In this hino would do more to solve solo the lomA now b before foro the land Janel than can be bedona bedone done dona by I passing ton thousand laws WhIch will have hao to lie be hY by court ns as at present Pros Pres Taft Is JudIcial reform is tho moal Important and time the most niost sorely saroh needed of nil all reforms sonic some dl da our political parties mL may taLe talo up imp the tho big things instead of the tho lesser ones |