New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-02-13
SALARIES OF DISTRICT JUDGES.

20 impress upon the minds of the representatives of
the people in the Legislature the urgent necessity
that exists for radical increase in the amount of
compensation allowed our District Judges. As yet,
we regret to be obliged to chronicle other matters of
infinitely less importance have attracted the attention
OF our lawmakers and when the Legislature assem-
bles next Monday, nearly onehalf of the session will
have expired without any movement towards accom-
plishing the ends SO earnestly desired.
The members of the Legislature should not prove
derelict in the premises. If they do, they will show
themselves unworthy the confidence Of intelligent and
liberal constituencies. We are well aware of the
prejudice that exists against increasing the expenses
of the State In general respects that feeling is well
founded, and when honestly and faithfully put in
practice, is deserving respectful consideration But
we reprobate parsimony at the spigot and extrava
gance at the bung-hoe, which appears to be the be-
setting SIM Weakness Or tendency OF our republi-
can form Of government, both in national and State
applications.
This is a fact-a lamentable fact. Congress will
refuse for years to increase the pay of the hastarved
veterans who have made the country glorious by
deeds Of yaor on many tented field when the effect
of such increase would tell upon the national trea
sury just about as subtraction Of bucket of water
would tell upon the srrging tide of the Mississippi
and then vote away annual millions upon annual mil
lions for less deserving Objects And State legislators
acting in the same unaccountabe spirtfor it is
accountable, without we impute to them " Bun
eombe motives altogether-will refuse to enlarge
the meagre wages of the most important servants of
the commonwealth few hundred or few thousand
dollars and then vote away hundreds of thousands of
dollars projects Of questionable utility. We are
opposed to such penurious economy in the one in
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government It concerns the life. liberty honor and
property Of every nhabtant male or female. adult or
minor to a certain and often to a yery material ey
tent. The persons invested with such grave and all
peryafnp authority should he men of nrokjtv exne.
rience undoubted character and upouestoned intel
lect. None Others are fit for Judges. Now. how are
we to command the services of such men. and it is
wise economy to obtain their services at any price
By paving them salaries adequate to the immense
labor to be performed, and the enormous RESPONSE
bilty to be incurred In no other mode nor manner
can this object be effected 1t is idle to ask eminent
members of the bar-such as we should alone have
4 for judges-to abandon a lucrative practice which
| they can conduct with comparative ease and accept
seats upon the bench where the labor is tenfod, the
pay graduated to the starvation point the term of
Office only four years. and With the prospect of being
at the expiration of that time, turned out of Office
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business before the courts which is indispensable te
success in this age of lively competition in all the
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