The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-15
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get some OF Ihe JuIgeSDlpS created
by it, for that, while the salary of
$500 is not adequate to procure the
services of the best lawyers, because
they can make more at their profess
sion, yet is more than these lower
classes can make at the bar.
Why is it that many of these same
lawyers are trying to make the mass
es believe that it is the people who
want these amendments, and not the
lawyers, when the converse is nearer
the truth?
Because if they let the people know
the truth Of the matter, and lie not,
then their inspiration will be lost,
and Othello's occupation gone.
Why is it that the salaries of nine
Judges at $2,250, will require less
taxes to pay them than that of four
teen Judges, at $1,000?
Because nine times $2,250 make
$20,250, while fourteen times $500
make $25, 200.
Why is that the mileage of four
teen Judges will require more taxes
to pay it than it would require to pay
mileage to nine of these Judges?
Because the fourteen, at $500 to
each, would cost $1,000, while the
nine would cost only $4,000.
Why is County Court, composed
of three men called Commissioner ,
who never read law, and who have to
pass upon or adjudge both law and
fact, any more competent SO to do,
than three men called Justices, or
two Justices and a President, as
now? q.
Because the former will be more
like our old Board of Supervisors, and
easier approached and affiliated with
corrupt rings, than can be the JUS
tices as Court, no two Justices of
whom can sit at any two successive
terms of our present County Court,
and, therefore, could not, if they
would, carry through or deliver a
job on the County Treasury.
Why is it that fourteen County
Courts in this county, two in each
district, with leave to sit constantly,
with jurisdiction increased to $500,
and have juries, would not be more
obnoxious and costly to the people
than one County Court, limited to
four terms year?
Because every days experience, as
well as common sense, says the rem
edy must be worse than the disease.
Why is it that two of these JUS
tees with a President, when sitting
as a County Court, aided by the law
yers, and protected by the Sheriff,
are not as competent to try and de-
termine questions of law or fact, that
may arise in a cause, as any one of
such Justices would be sitting in his
office or on log in the country, with
out the aid Of the bar, or protection
Of the Sheriff?
Let common sense answer this for
itself.
Why is it that the Jury system be-
fore single Justices will be more OPP
pressive on the farmer and mechanic
than it would be in the County
Court?
Because, in the latter case, they
can only be summoned four times a
year, and then are drawn by ballot
from the whole number of voters OF
the county, and cannot well be drawn
more than once a year; while before
the Justices they will be liable to be
summoned any and every day, and
without an hours notice dragged
from the field and detained, they
cannot know how long.
Why is it that the amendments, il
adopted, will clog the wheels of the
Circuit Courts as to trials of the
more important causes brought there
in, and amount to virtual denial Of
Justice therein?
Because that the jurisdiction Of
the single Justice being increased
three-fold it is fair to assume that
the number of appeals from Justices
judgments will be increased at least
upon the Same ratio, and inasmuch
as appeals may have precedence Of
hearing over other causes, and next
to criminal proceedings, these will
take up the whole time of the Circuit
Courts.
Why is it that the poor man, be ht
creditor or debtor, may be injured
by the amendment more than the
rich?
Because the rich man will be able