News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
THE LlME-KILN CLUB.
THE LESSON TOLD US BY THE LATE
RIOTS.
Brother Gardner Takes up the Jury Ques-
tion and Discourses Upon ii Mt some
Length.
IFrom the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.]
"Heah am a letter from de Bod of
Trade, of Columbus, o." said the
President as the meeting opened, "axin
us what pertickler lesson am conveyed
by de Cincinnati riots. Two lessons kin
be extracted from dat affair, an dey am
so plain dat no one need make mistake.
De criminal lawyers of dis kentry have
brought de art of clearin' criminals to
sich perfeckshun dat de murderer who
pleads guilty am quite sartin to be set at
liberty by jury. Whar' one lawyer
am engaged in proseeutin' crime $50 am
at work day and night ito make it safe
callin'. De law am supposed to give a
guilty man all proper show, but de
lawyers doan' plead de law in his
case. Dey resort to trickery, pathos,
soistry, false argyment-anythin' to
beat de plain facks in de case. 1t is de
criminal lawyer who makes de money.
Each horrible murder brings him fresh
client-each offense against de laws or
morals of Christian community am
cash in his pocket. He welcomes de Sc
ducer, ravisher. burglar an murderer
wild open hand. De citizen who contin-
ers an upright man makes de criminal
lawyer his foe.
Gam dar' remedy? Sartinly. De
law which am good 'nutf fur plaintiff am
good huff fur defendant. Let jedges
hold to de law an de facks. De mint
criminal lawyer speaks of his red
handed client as martyr, de jedge
should stop him so quick dat he'd see
stars. De mint he begins to shed
crocodile tears to melt jury, he should
git warnin' to raise his ha'r. Let de
case rest upon de honest facks. Let de
honest facks decide it. Let de prose-
cutor prove all he can, an de defendant
make his showin', and den let de law
yers argy de law an de jury decide de
case accordin' to de law.
"De second lesson proves de unftness
of de average jury to reach an honest
legal decision. De man of intelligence
has no place on a jury. He am crowded
off bekase he may have an opinyun. Out
of fifty iuries of twelve men each at least
two men on each jury kin be bought.
Out of forty-nine juries in ebery fifty
from two to five kin be swayed by sofstry
to forgit bloody facks an plain pints of
law. De charge of a jedge to jury no
longer has any influence, Guilt so plain
dat de criminal abandons all hope does
not convict. We must have juries, but
we must have diffarent set of men. We
must have men who can't be bribed to
turn murderers loose. We must have
men who have no sympathy with burg
lars an thieves. We must have men who
kin distinguish between fearful appeals
an convictin, facks. Right heah, IN our
courts of Detroit, men am placed
on juries who have kept out of State
Prison by squeak. Beside 'em sit men
who kin neither read nor write. Furdel
along de bench am men who would sell
deir soul fur fifty dollars in cash. We
draw SIGH iuries, and den we complain
bekase dey refuse to convict DER friendsl
81 tell you, gem'len, an you mark it
down an remember it, dat if we doan'
have change in dis matter now under
discushun de Cincinnati riot won't be a
compasun to what will occur. Law an
order has got to prevail in dis kentry at
whateber cost, an if de lawyer stands in
de way when de purceshun gifts ready to
move, or if de corrupt juror happens
along about dat time, Judge Lynch will
prove hisself a bigger man dan any chief
justice de United States eber bowed
down to p