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Show duty; but certainly the law of Tennessee Ten-nessee has dono Its best, not only to prove that It Is an aas. but to make ure that the really, competent men shall be barred from trying: an Issue, not only of life and death, but of civilization civil-ization ItBclf. Perhaps wo needed such a ghastly exhibition In order to Induce lawyers and Judges to set about the long delayed reform of our Jury laws. THE JURY SYSTEM. The breakdown of tho Jury system In political or 6emipolItlcal case is illustrated il-lustrated in California by the trials of Ruef and Calhoun and in Tennessee by the trial of the murderers of Senator Sen-ator Carmack, says the Call. The parallel par-allel between the roads traveled in these cases is close and lnstructlvd, as may be gathered from the following follow-ing account of tho Tennessee proceedings proceed-ings given by the New York Evening Post: After more than throo weeks of elimination of the Intelligent a Jury was found on Saturday which contains four absolute Illiterates and two others oth-ers who can baroly read, whllo all twelve swear that they have not read a newspaper since tho shooting, somo adding, with a fine superiority llko that of Mr. Balfour, that they had not read a paper for ten years. So much for the ridiculous laws In America, ostensibly os-tensibly aiming to secure Impartiality In a Jury, but roally obtaining stupidity. stupid-ity. Better openly fill the box from the idiot asylums and tho ranks of tho defective. We sincerely hope that the Nashville Jury will be capable of following fol-lowing the evidence and doing Its |