St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-31

that the agencies of justice them
selves will be wearied, and the GRIM
inal escape by the mere pertinacity
of his attorney.
1t is, against the legal practice
which has made this possible and
now encourages it that Justice Brew
er sets his face. He declares for
greater expedition in the determine
ton of cases. AS the old legal form
ulas were multiplied and spread
out indefinitely in an age when the
clerk was paid for the work of re-
cording according to it's volume, SO
the methods of seeking for contin-
uances, rehearings, new trials and
all the other eXpedients that con-
suit delay have been made manifold
with the assistance of the legal profess
sion There are more fees and there
is more promise of publicity and of
eventual success in a long case than
in a, short one. Therefore, the proc
esses of law are becoming almost
interminable, and the public SCOTS
and doubts while justice waits. This,
Justice Brewer declares, can be rem
edied. Shorten the time of proc
esses, he advises; curtail the right of,
continuance; limit the right of re-
view; except under the strictest lin
itation, let there be but one appeal
for any case. When matter has
been brought into one court, deny
jurisdiction in every other until the
issue has been decided. Require the
party who appeals to show that an
error has been committed affecting
determinately the result in the first
procedure. 1.-THE end Of litigation"
said the speaker, should be almost
always in the trial court" We be-
lieve that this is sound doctrine, and
in accord with the demands of just
ice. 1t is as far as possible re-
moved from the actual condition of
things, where a trial court sees the
end of litigation, as a rule, only
in petty and inconsiderable cases.
Finally, the judge declared that
there should be no appeal at all in
criminal cases. He believes that the
rights of the innocent are better
guarded by a jury than by any other
body. That this will become alb
solutely necessary in a short time,
with the increasing habit of carry
20 the last court Of resort that can
hear it,. has already become evident
to. thoughtful people. The admins
tration of law and the execution of
justice are being impaired by the
very causes on which Judge Brewer
lays his finger. Tardy justice, he
says, is too often gross injustice.
Not only is that true, but when
justice advances with a leaden step,
tooS6ften she never approaches near
enough to accuser and accused to
hold the scales between them. An
end must be put by some species of
reform to the increasing complexity
of legal proceedings, and the length
ening of the laws delays. It is best
for all that that reform should origi-
nate, within the profession, and be
CARRIED out in it's name. Justice
Brewer is performing a public serv-
ice in speaking the first word.
The New York Tribune knows
enough to go indoors. when it rains.
This has been doubted, but ar ed
itorfal on 1.-The political outlook
makes it certain. 1t admits that
those Democrats who f1ogged their
party last year in disgust at the rec
reancy of the senate are getting over
their heat. Then, too, ''the folly of
some who will accept reviving bust
ness as vindicating the tariff which
Democrats were kicked into pass
ing" must also "be reckoned with"
in any examination of the outlook.
In other words, the yellow dog"
cannot be elected this year; the Dem
ocrats who did not get what they
wanted in the tariff are saying that
the result justifies the step taken and
warrants another and a longer one.
And the Tribune begins to realize
the folly of it's kind in charging the
depression of '93 on the Democrats
and the fear of tariff changes
because it was inevitable that, when
the changes were made and business
did revive, the Identical logic that
laid the bad times on the Democrats
would credit them with the good
times. The folly" is one of Repub-
lican making, and those who do the
accepting referred to only show their
capacity for logical reasoning.
The intellectual activity of the
East, from Boston to Philadelphia,
is fermenting over this:
A woman took basket of eggs to the
city for sale. Upon being asked how
many she had, she replied: eff 1 take
the eggs out OF the basket two at a
time, l have one egg left If take
one egg left. If I take them out four
at time, I have one egg left If I
take them out six at a time, l have
one left, but if l take them out seven
at tine I. have none left in The bias,
ket." How many eggs had she in the
basket?
Ten days in oblivion was quite
sufficient for Mr.. Bowling. His name
appears at the foot of an address,