Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-08-13

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to posterlty. That humbIy express
ing as they did in the first line of the
constitution, their gratitude to thei,
good God, Who, with His Almightyl
power, oyer-rules all the States and
peoples, Tor our present freedom, theyI,
worked earnestly and faithfully to sell
cure the blessings of that freedom eandtl
promote our com.nGn Welflre.''
AS have said this may not seem
like very modest talk from one of.
those members; tut that is my opin-
ion nevertheless. L I..ve heard one
speech made in which it was asserted /
that the lawyers are generally in favor
OF license. We have a large number /
OF them in our part of the country that /
are opposed to it. 1t is said they are
in favor of license and in favor of this i
constitution because it will increase
their business, and that is what these
lawyers worked for there. / will tell |
you do not think there were many
lawyers in the Convention that were
afraid of running. out of business, and !
l do not think anybody that says that
believes it.
Itwould be good thing if you would
all behave yourselves so that there
would be no need of lawyers; but as
long as there have been lawyers, there
are a good many decent ones among
them just as among other people. If
you see proper to send lawyers there
you ought not to go back on them SIM
/ ply because they are lawyers. Look
into their work; if it is good approve,
if not reject it.
THE JUDICIARY ARTICLE.
Now, l propose to talk awhile about
| this terrible Judiciary Article, although
it will probably be dry subject; but l
happen to know good many people
in Bellaire here who will have real
iZing sense, if their attention is called to
| it, of the absolute necessity of change
in that system.
have now fourteen clients in Bel
laire and | see some of them in this au-
dience, who have been tied up several
Years in court, because of the fact that
there are two defects in the present
Constitution and laws. Onn O! them is
that foreign corporation has right
to come over here in OaiO and get all
the benefit of the laws OF OHIO, and do
business here and be protected in our
courts; and yet If il owes anybody or
any one is injured by it and brings suit
against it, it has right to move its
cases two hundred and fifty miles from
here to Cincinnati, into the U. S. Court
and there tie him up for almost an Or
f dinary lifetime. @
Z In these cases to which | refer, we
are making an effort TO prevent their
removal to Cincinnati, and in our Com
mon Pleas Court and in the District
Court the decisions were favorable to
US, but the corporation went up to the
Supreme Court and there they have gOt
us tied up, and owing to the defects in
our present Constitution it takes several
years to reach n case there. And there
they have got US, between Scylla and
CharybdiS. Both these evils are cured
: by the new Constitution.
There is no serious dispute on the
: part of any person that has knoWl-
edge of these cases that there is honest.
ly due to these people of Bellafre t.
whom | refer-sOme of them widows
and some rphans-between S25, ,00t
} and $4,000. When they will ever gel
their money unless we get the relief
I we seek to accomplish by the new Con.
stitution, | do not know and cannot
possibly anticipate.
The Supreme Court, as it now stands
and asit Was organized in 1852, withou
: any antici patton of these great,wonder:
= going to happen in the growth of bust
: ness and population, is wholly made
: quate for the work. 1t was stated by 6
= member of the Convention, and nC
:. doubt truly, VINO was himself at one
time member of the Supreme Court
= that the jildses worked there fourteen
$ hours day, and, although he was serry
to confess it, seven days in the week
= and yet they are sevelal years behin(
e their business.
y y know good many ofyou have no
- had lawsuits but you don't know hov
{ long before you may have one. l re
: gard the courts as the great bulwark O
= = our liberties. What is the use of gov
u ernment or Constitution or laws, unles
: : you have pure and adequate and ei
3 fective Judiciary to enforce them
:, q Cold wafer is a mighty good thing--th
= best beverage ever manufactured Ol
: the face of this earth beyond all ques
tion. 1t prevents great deal of Grim
r. and induces great many people to &C
= fairly and honestly, and yet 1t does nc
= keep everybody nom stealing horse
I and make everybody, pay his homes
p debts. We have got to have courts fo
i the purpose of enforcing the laws; an'
iS it is perfectly Idle Tor men to talk abou
If If cur having courts unless we have efl
- cient courts.
| do not understand that it is CON
piained OF here that we have TOD man
= judges, but 1t IS complained that W
% have got few more than the preser
ID Constitution authorizes. Now, gentle
e. men, determine for yourselves upo
Oi that question. =
g, A word about this 5000 salary Dl