Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-05-05

know that the filling up of the legal
profession has tendency TO increase lit
| igaion. Those who live on the business
which litigation affords, cannot be expected
10 discourage it. If you promise young
man as much for one days work as good
| lawyer, as he can earn in ten days on a
farm, you offer him an almost irresistible
temptation to 60 into lawyers Office. II
he can find employment only one day in
ten, as an attorney, he will receive as much
at the end of the year, as he would by till
ing the earth at hard work every day in the
year. 1t isjust SO in relation to public Of
icors TO which high fees or salaries are at
tachod. Thousands ofyoung mon forsake
the farm and the mo chanic shop, and onter
into the profession Of the law, as being one
ofthe mos, certain channels Of political
prefermont to Offices Of honor and profit. -
In proportion as the fees and salaries Of the
officers efthe Judiciary are raised, in the
same proportion vii! the tide ef applicants
and aspirants tend in that direction-such
arc the inevitable tendencies. Suppose
the law should single out any particular
branch Of mechanical industry, and fix a
| high premium upon its production, and al
though the production might be limited to a
given quantity annually, yet who does not
see that there would be rush towards that
particular branch ofindustry, by thousands,
who would hope to become successful com.
pettors for the profits and s.spois. AS we
have said before, whatever tends to destroy
equalization between the professional and
industrial classes-iO fix the value of one
kind of pursuit high, and another low, is
destructive TO the true interest of soci-
ETY..
In the state OF New York, the Regents
Of the University state in their official re-
port, that there are clerea thousand students
in the Academies alone of the state, who
are pursuing the classics-Greek and Int
in. A large proportion Of these are destin-
ed for the professions, and doubtless many
of them are looking toward to the profess
SION of law, and next by some stroke of
policy and good fortune, TO draw grand
prize in this great political lottery, become
Judges or senators-have plenty Of honors,
and enjoy fat salaries.
That men fgood talents and high legal
attainmcn:s, cannot be found 10 serve as
judges unless the salaries are high, is an
old story which we have often heard re
peated, but hich we have never found dem
ons,rated in the history Of The past. What
if some Of the judges in the state Of New
York as the Advocate says, have lowered
the dignity Of the office Of Judge by retir-
ing from it, and accepting clerkshhips in
the Supreme Courl?-it only proves that
some judges act just like some other people
that is, they pursue whatever employ
ment they can make the most money at.-
We see il stated on reiable authority that
the average income of the clerks of the Su-
prcme Court is $4,97o per annum: the du-
ties Of the office can be performed by al
most any one who can write q legiblc hand;
it has none Of the responsibilities Of the Of
flee Of Judge; besides, the office may be
bal nd l,a hoi h.,
act much other profitable business as a
lawyer. 1t is said that The CLERK of the Su
preme Court at Albany, besides dischar-
ging tho duties Of his Office and receiving
lis emouments. during the las, year repor-
ted the dec sions of the Supreme Court.
from which he realized from two to three
thousand dollars in cash. Will our neigh
Dor Of the Advocate wonder why money
loving Judge, will quit the bench for a.
clerkships We have no doub, il the sal
aries of Judges in New York, were raised
to So, 900 per annum, and clerkships should
be worth $1,000 there would be Judges
whose Unsuitable thirst FIR money, would
induce ,hom to prefer the clcrkship.
We have We. TO learn that Justice cheap.
ly administered is Of an inferior kind: we
have seen no facts instanced which prove
such TO be the case. The salaries of the
judges and all tho expenses Of the Courts
are far less in Vermont than in New York
and we believe i, is now admitted by m any
of the most eminent jurists n New York
tina; the Vermont Judiciary is far better
colcula'cd to insure speedy and impartial
justice than that Of their own state. We
defy any man TO show that the laws are bet
ter ADMINISTRATIVE peoples rights better
secured and litigation loss burdensome 10
the people, in those states which pay the
highest salaries TO their judges, and have
The mos! expensive judiciaries, than in
those states where courts are cheaper
We have lately obtained some valuable sta
tlstical facts in relation 10 Court expenses
in different states, which we shall in due
lime give to the pablo. We are IN favor
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