The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-30
oULTIvATIoN OF CIVIC VIRTUES

on the occasion of the assembling of
the American Bar association was an
excellent one and. showed a master
mind In closing he took special pains
to point out some of the characteristics !
and evils of labor organizations. While,
said he, the wage yearners are men of
like passions as other men, no better
and no worse, yet they display a
strange and enthusiastic loyalty to
their class; so that if one section falls
into trouble, those who are at the mo-
ment less unfortunate contribute relief
from their poverty with generosity
The sympathetic strike continued
ne, is the expression of this passion
/ In the next place. the wage earners
submit to discipline as rigid and Sc
we're as an army in battle. Each abdi-
Gates his free viii, his Judgment, his
/ personal wishes and interests. He is
no longer an individual, but an atom of
q mass-the smallest part of a machine
driven by a power greater than steam,
and directed by the hand of the en-
! gfneer at his pleasure. What this great
body Of the citizenship, possessed of
political power. transported by the en-
| thusiasm of self-sacrifce, directed by a
relentless discipline, will be when it
! becomes thoroughly saturated with
these doctrines, it is not hard to divine.
In that day, if it ever comes, the fed
erations of labor, their battalions. en-
thusiastic, compact, disciplined. organ
lied, and moving with one impulse at
the word of command when launched
upon institutions under which they
suppose themselves trodden down, will
sweep from the face of the earth, not
corporations. syndicates, trusts and ag-
gregated capital only. but the whole
order of industrial society as now or
gaAized.'
There is very much truth in all that,
far more than is generally recognized.
1t is state of affairs that needs a
remedy, and Mr.. Woolworth pointed it
out, a remedy on which we rely very
much in this country-education But
this education is not the ordinary edu-
fcat1on of the common schools; it is
something above and beyond that. He
commends the education there OBJ
tanned, but says it does not go far
enough. In his educational plan there
must be conveyed to the mind so vivid
notion of every right that to realize
1t is the one object of desire and to
infringe it rouses the whole man in
arms, This education, he says, would
inform, enliven and invigorate the con-
science, so that man is as sensitive
to a wrong as to a personal indignity
Rather Utopian that, it must be con-
fessed, still worthy of an endeavor for
its attainment. Having proposed the
remedy, how would he bring it about?
Here is part of the method he would
pursue, and it has much merit in it:
One of the ways of educating citizens
IN their rights and duties is by i'm
proving and defining the jury SYSTEM
and making the service interesting to
jurors, IN the popular as well as the
superior courts. The large number of
Jurors should be those reached or liable
to be reached by the new heresies; and
the office should be dignif1ed by the
character of the men called to serve
IN it and by the circumstances of the
employment. The first qualification of
the juror should be that he earns de-
cent living for himself and family, rig
orously excluding all who, from what
ever cause, do not do so; a ruthless
rule sometimes, just as are the chances
of life always. The term of service
should be for several weeks, and twice
the average wages be paid for it, and
the place of employment be kept open.
Judges and justices of the peace should
be men of gravity, sufficient learning,
common esteem and strong personality,
who viii direct the jury to the very
right of the matter. When, after such
a service, the juror returns to his
usual employment he will carry with
him the best fruits of the best educa-
ten, training and discipline, namely, a
capacity to discern and a disposition
to render justice and also consequence
among his fellows, increased vigor, and
force multiplied, manliness and self
respect elevated, so that he Will be felt
throughout his class as one wise and
safe and true TO guide the common SEN
timent and opinion. Heretofore the
: jury system has been administered, eS-
pecially in the courts of the justices OF
the peace, and 1 fear in the superior
3 courts, in so lax, slack, accidental. in
decisive and too often diSSolute way
= that it has become a method for the
) miscarriage of justice. Regulated, in
Vigorated and popularized in some such
way as is proposed, it will become not
only a safer method of justice, but will
Lead men to comprehend and esteem
e justice for themselves and all others,
Jury service certainly has tendency
to make men better citizens. for ii
familiarizes them with the laws OF
their country, the method of their ad-
ministration, and likewise teaches them
the rules of evidence and how to dis
Germ essentials from essentials, to
discriminate between that which seems
to be material and that which is ma
terial Some of the qualifications that
Mr.. Woolworth would impose on jury
! men are wholly impracticable. After
ALL what he advocates is a cultivation
of the civic virtues. and it is a subject
D that cannot be advocated too often or
= too strongly The higher the peoples
5 regard for the civic virtues the better
and stronger will be the government.
TIE Discomfort IN INDIA.