Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-01-06
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE CIRCUIT JUDGEsHIp.

LIE NlhSOll JUOuESHlP.
To THE EDITOR: have read over
the speech of our Judge = it is very
long and the type is as fine as fine
pigeon shot. / do not think the
ideas are so fine as that 1t is a Job
to get through. always thought of
the cat that the Judge has let out of
the wallet. Do the lawyers know any
more about the law than the Changers
or the mechanics :? They say they
are not only the fit ones to pick out
judges, but the judges must always
come from the lawyers. So the but
ter fly comes from the caterpiller, and
tie tadpole from the frog, and SO one
thing blossoms out from another.
If Mills and Barber, or the rest of
them, can read over what the upper
court has decided on pint, any one
else that can understand reading can
do the same, if the upper court stoops
to the level of expressing their ideas.
But where there is new pint, can
the lawyer tell how the upper
court will decide that better than
other persons? 1t don't seem to me
they could. They can bet and guess
as people Go on an election, but it
would require very learned lawyer
to guess that the higher judges would
decide al administrator could not re-
sign, considering what would be the
outcome of such law. If the way to
try judges is, as to whether a lower
judge can guess how the higher judges
will decide a new pint, l think Mr..
Mills has proved that other persons
would make as sound, if not sounder
judges than the lawyers.
This is taking a new turn at the
windlass which "our Judge" did not
'look out for, though he is sharp on
consequences. Suppose the people
for this once let him and the lawyers
down to the bottom Of the hole, and
elect somebody for judge who has
good round horse sense, and knowl-
edge of business. Such man, even if
a Granger, would always make sens
ible and reasonable verdict, and then
/ should be willing to risk the law.
Judge McGonigal is no lawyer. He
has good sense and judgement, and
| the upper courts would agree with
him perhaps as often as they would
with the lawyers in general. A judge
should be man of age and expert
ence, one that the people are ac-
quainted with. The people believe
would prefer either Mills or Barber
to the young fry, except McGonigal.
But what really makes me sick and
| Disguised is that we have to pay a
Circuit Judge $4,000 and Supreme
Judge $4,000 to inform US whether a
colt four years old can be harnessed
with its material ancestor. If she is
not too old, as some brood mares are,
and the colt is all right. they can be
worked, and are often worked togeth.
err; but if farmer is able, he always
makes his span of animals nearer of
an age, and / suppose this was Mr.
Coles idea. He thinks that colt and
its mother would make a very poor
team, and as such, constable ought
to be allowed to seize and sell it to
pay the poor mans debts. But he
ought to remember, and he would
find out if he had to travel among the
farmers, that some of the horses they
use, have to be colts and some of them
mules, and they work them promiscu-
ously together and even General
Grant could not always tell whether
horse was colt or a horse. The
farmers would have more confidence
in the opinions Of Judge Cothren or
Judge Mills as to when a colt gets to
be horse, and whether a particular
horse or colt was fit to work in a team,
than in the ideas of the highest judges
who have never dealt in horses.
1t may be of Importance to some
poor men for the lawyers to tell us,
especially those who are candidates
for the judgeship, whether the statute
exempting to the poor man stem sheep
and the wool from the same" would
keep constable away from very
young sucking lambs that had no
wool on them at all And if higher
courts have not decided on this point
can the lawyers tell us how the higher
court will decide this point when call
ed on {? Who wants to take bets ?
We have to pay three men $4,000
each to tell us whether a wooless
lamb is a sheep. GA great cry and
little wool" For the next Judge let
us have a GRANGER.