Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-06-02
THE ARGTTS IN IIrrc ..rIoN

/ " 49, "''4 "1OLey expended IN lawsuits. ne
expenses OF litigation are compared with the expen
ses of war and the Telegraph maintains that the
former exceed the latter and not only SO, bat that
they exceed the sum total of all our taxes for all
purposes Whatsoever The cost of litigation is ia
ken as conclusive evidence that ii is a great evil
on the whole, and must be abolished" Again
I The fault is all charged uTon The laws; and the
remedy proposed Is 10 abolish all laws for the col
lection OF debts This is in effect to abolish the
legal right ofpropsrty altogether" Ard So, the
Argus concludes, the Telegraph would avoid all
disputes about the right of property BY not haginr
any property.7
The Argus is keen. He tells US how the farmer
outwitted the squirrel Having noticed that the
thieyish brues always stole from the outside row
he decided "no! to hare any outside ,otr." The
structures Of the Argus upon what we advanced, on
! the subject of law reform and litigation, bring to
mind another auecdote which is as follows
man who had house which he was wishing 10 sell
took from il brick and cnrrcd il about the country
! for the purpose OF letting people see what kind Of
house it was. a little reelection yyill satisfy any
one that a house might have brick work about it,
and still be great small finished or not finished
commodlous or useless. with windows and doors
Doors and root, or without them; might be in a
choice location, CT in one which was thoroughly
abominable At b,St only very detective idea Of
a house would be obtained by seeing single brick
which had belonged. TO it, But house would be
Judged OF quite as correctly we apprehend, from
the examination OF the one brick specimen as our
articles on litigation would from the account given
of them in the Argus
In three or four articles under the head or The
Evils OF Litigation" we do not recollcct hat we
proposed the abolition Of the collection laws as the
remedy, or as part OF the remedy, or that we pro
posed it OF referred 10 il al al in that connQction-
In other articles &C some Of the numerous topics
belonging to the general subject Of Law Reform, it
is true we have proposed and recommended the alb
clifton Of the collection laws. Bat this is another
subject We may be sued or dues on notes ard
contracts and book accounts but we do not often
ifigate them. In such cases the matters of dehr
and the obligation 10 are rarely called in ques-
tor. We li:isate. mainly where the claim Of one
party is not admitted by the other party. Suits 10
enor.e tbe coect;on Of lebts which arc ,o. ,;s,
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A8a'" il IS not true mat we represented inc
time and money expended IN litigation, as the
principal argument III our articles on the SUBJECT
o. us e'l'S. we hao huch 10 say ABOUT 'he fnc
and money wasted n litigation but our pr"cPaI
arguments were that men commence and carry or
law suits, IN great proportion OF cases, not for ha-
wing justice awarded, but '"J"Sttce Not TO Obtain
what IS nghtnlIy theirs. but Tor the acquisition OF
what should not be theirs. Our doctrine Is that
law, alter all ITS delays and costs, "ttc awards JUS
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