Daily Republican., 1885-03-17
THE LIME.KILN CLUB.

"Heah am letter from de Boz Of
Trade Co lumbus, o." said the Presi
dent n the me citing opened, "axin' u,
what pertickler lesson am conveyed BY
de Cincinnati riots. Two lessons kin be
extracted from dat offair, an dey am st
plain dat no one need make mistake
DE criminal lawyers of dis ken try have
brought de art OF clearing criminals &c
SIGH per feckshun dat de murderer who
pleads gu ilty am quite sartin to be se,
at liberty by q jury. Whar' one law.
yer am engaged in prOsecutin' crime
$50 am at work day and night to make
1t safe oallin'. 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,
sotistry, false argumens-an ything tC
beat de plain Jacks In de case. 1t is de
criminal lawyers who makes de money.
Each horrible murder brings him a
fresh client-each offense against do
laws o: morals of Christian oommuni.
ty am cash in his pocket. He welcomes
dc seduoer, ravisher. burglar an muir
derer wild open hand. De citizen who
continues an upright man makes de
criminal lawyer his foe.
Am dar remedy? Sartainly. De
law which am good huff for plaintiff
AM good huff for defendant. DE mint
a criminal lawyer speaks OF his red
handed client as martyr de- jedge
should stop him 30 quick dat he'd see
stars. DE mint he begins to shed crOco-
die tears to melt q jury he should get
q warnin' to raise his ha'r. Let de
case rest upon the honest Jacks. Let
de prosecutor prove all he oan, an oe
defendant make his showin,' and den
let de lawyers argy de law an dc jury
decide de case accordin' to de law.
De second lesson proves de unfit
ness OF de Average jury 10 reach AT
honest legal decision. De man Of in
telligence has NO place on jury. He
am crowded of bekase no may have al
opinyun. Out Of fifty juries Of twelve
men each at least two meu OF each jury
kin be bought. Out offorty nine jurie'
IN cherry fifty from two To five can b'
| swayed by sohstry 70 forgit bloody
Jacks an plainints of law. De charg,
influence. Guilt so plain dat de crimi
We must have juries, but We mus
have y different set of men. We mus
have men who can't be bribed TO turn
murderers loose. We must have mel
who have no sympathy with burglar
| an thieves. We must have men wht
| kin distinguish between fearful appeal
an convictin' folks. Right hsah, IL
our criminal courts of Detroit, Non an
placed GU juries who have kept out O
State Prison by squeak. Beside 'en
sit men who kin neither read nor write
| Furder along de bench am men wh'
| would sell deir soul fur fifty dollars II
cash. We draw SIGH juries, and del
| complain bekass dey refuse to convic
| deir souls.
A communication from Gale Head
drayman, political delegate and sprea,
eagle orator, of Griffin, Ga, containe'
an offer 10 come here and lecture befor
the club ON the A" Influence OF the Col
ored man IN Politics." for the sum O
| $4S Mr.. Head stated that his reason
for not making application to join III
Lime lin Club were that he had
crook sd leg and was a backslider from
fourteen different kinds of religion, ant
understood that no such person woul'
be accepted.
| reckon We doan' want de leck
tur' at de price named" replied tn
President. =" If de gem'lan wants I
invent lecktur' on de subject of: I'D
Influence Of de Colored Man on Har
Work, an will bring de. price down
abont $40, de Seckretary am authorize
IN close wild him an light an extr
lamp on de night of his arrival"