Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22
DR. KALL0CH.
His Lecture Last Night on Interesting
 Topics at Union Hall

Between two and three thousand peo-
 ule went to Union Hall last night to
 listen to Dr. .KaIloch's lecture on the sub
 feet of the Shooting Craze" The gen
 tleman, although he has not addressed aa audiencs for year, spoke with his
 oId-time vigor, and his pointed remarks
 elicited frequent and hearty applause.
 His legal residence and voting poll, not
 yithstanding numerous rumOrs, he sad
 was still in this city. The place he ex-
 pected to see @ great deal better 10 live
 in. and it even now is better than ten
 years ego-some bad people having gone
 out and some good people come into It.
 There are many dangers Co be aVerted'
 wrongs to be righted and reforms 10 De
 eceomDlished. and for those reasons ne
 WIS there to address the public. ID rel erence to the recent killing of McLaugh- lin by Cox, be said the former belongeo
 to A class for which there exists great urovocstlOn, one that Will cause such casas fo increase rather than diminish, and vhIeh calls for somebody to charae- tariza as if deservea "In short, ar rai-n our iudges, courts and lawyers, yifb tbsir technicalities, delays, pro- crastiuatiOns. vexaticns and insults as tba grand irspiratiOn of the most colos- sal and calamitOus class of crimes with winch our community is ahiIcted. In exclamation Mir. kallOch sad he dld nOt refer to the lower classes of crimes com mitted by the saloon sloggers, hoodlums and @ssassins, but those committed Dy good men-strong men-men who had made a success and had secured stand ing in hfe; men who would shrlnk aS naturally from the commission or crime as any of us, and yet commit II wlth apparent deliberate purpose and ID uteer disregard of all the terrible consequent | ces. These are the crimes that rack sO- oiety to it's foundation; that i'll the community with cOnsternatlon and clothe once happy families ID saek-cloth, and threaten to loosen the very tOunda- | tion of civil order. "Ihe whole Jury
 system, grand and petit, has, m meas ure, Outliyed its usefulness, and that | their defects are threatening to the pub | lie peaee are facts known to everybody but antedIluvian judges, conservative | lawyers and pOst-phOcene preachers. | or IuAH Ealt EQuNAH AE lN 0A4AAAANf AN'A @- | the present system the deputies carry on a little business of their own in the ! selection of jurors, many of whom are not on the assessment roll, and their names cannot be found in the dIc'IOu- aries. They are men with chronic faces and costly noses, who may be frequently | seen in sly corners hobnObbing with ! "urivate detectives" By the manner m which they are chosen they necessarily l are an ignorant class. X man qualified | Co give a fair trial Is disqualified by Tea son of his having read the papers. man who does not read the papers ls not qualified Co try a dog But the lat l ter is the ono the courts seem to desire ! The speaker thought the judlcIal system should recognize such a sentiment as | personal honor, and should take it into l consideration in aiiixing the penalties Cf l crime. Our system,' he said, "practl- cglly makes no distinction between the man Of high self-respect, gOaded to ven geance by prolonged and Unbearable in- ! justice. and the sneak-thief, the strang | Ter or assassin. The chIvalrous gen ! tleman who in hls righteous wrath knocks a dirty defamer down | is arrested by the same process, sub ! iected to the same humiliRtIOns and made to pay the same penalty as the vicious hOodlum who assaults a peace able and unoffending citizen. Rights of | person and property are the only ones which our system of jurisprudence pro | fess6s to recognize. If man steals youS purse the law will protect you, but If he steals your good name you have no recourse. The speaker deplOred the fac. of the law being technicalIty instead of county. As 1t IS 1t protects the de- fsmer, the Shyl0ck and criminals, while it puuishes the man who attempts Co protect his own honor or ayenge his own wrongs. Business men, such as | bankers, merchants, etc, so far has the equity of law merged into technIcaity that they frequently prefer to be wrong cd rather than take chances in a court. The non enforcement of the law also IS one Of tue great breeders of crime l The subservlng of courts tU capital, to political influence and to fear was a sad state Ot affairs. The insOlence and brutallties of lawyers to witnesses in cOurtroOms was no better. and a lawyer who iudulged in this brOw-beating and
 insulting method was a mean, cOwardly scOundrel, and m ths city are many
 such. Unjust, arbitrary, partisan and
 vlndlctive punlshments destroy respect
 for courts and contribute to the increase
 of crime
 To sum up, the speaker said the glar-
 ing crime of our courts is the sacrifice
 of tine essential equities of the law to
 the bubbles and technIcalities of the
 lawyers.-S. r. Call