The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-16
Not Too Early.

convicted criminals have some rights
which policemen are bound to respect, and
now 1t is beginning to appear that folks
suspected of crime also have some rights
which policemen are bound to respect.
1t has just been decided In New York
that a man suspected of crime isn't
Obliged to be "mugged" before he is con-
vlcted, and 1t is now announced that a
New Jersey court has instructed the police,
In Difference to the protests of counsel
FOR the accused, to desist from the Sweat
ing process to which Theodore S. Whit
more has been subjected ever since it be-
came probable that the murdered woman
discovered in a swamp was his wife, and
possible, IL not likely, that he was the
murderer.
IL half the stories about sweating
the third degree" etc., which are told
are true this New Jersey interference with
the performance is not too early, and
If there were more such Interference it
would be timely. The United States isn't
Russla.-New Haven Journal-Courier
An Inspiring Record.
Governor Stokes's message to the New
Jersey Legislature is largely one of HAL,
and FAREWELL" The Constitution OF the
State forbids the immediate reelection Of
a Governor, and also forbids that officer
to make appointments or nominations to
office in the last week of his term, the
intent being that the new Governor shall
have a free hand and not be fettered
by eleventh-hour acts of his predecessor.
Governor Stokes observes the spirit as
well as the letter of this provision, and
refrains from making recommendations or
indicating the future policy Of the State
government, save in some minor details
Of completing the works which have been
prosecuted during his own incumbency.
His message is, however, by no means a
c~olorless or ~perfunctory composition. 1t Is
full Of valuable and instructive recapitu-
lations of what has been achieved for good
government in these last three years, and
does not fail, either, to point ont the de-
fects in the laws which have been en-
acted and the errors which have now and
then been made. On the whole, Ii is an
inspiring record, markino q clear and con-
siderable advancement of popular interests
in a State which has in years past suf-
fered much from misgovernment. and IN
which the difficulties of good government
are greater than in most of its fellows In
this Union. AS an account of the steward
ship Of both the Governor and the Re-
publican party, 1t is to- be regarded with a
high degree Of satisfactlon.-New York
Tribune.
A SenseIess Sheer.
There are a good many matters of legal
ethics which are open to discussion. II
will be generally conceded, for instance,
at least outside the profession, that the
bar has gained nothing in respect or popu-
lar favor by the inclination of SO many
Of its leading members to lend their study
and attachments to advising clients how
to "get around the law" Laws are made
to be obeyed, not circumvented
But there is one phrase used very OTTER
against lawyers that fought to ~irritatt
every fair-minded hearer, whatever be hi
inclinations In any particular case. Tina
Objectionable phrase Is 1.-THE paid attorney
Some people seem to think that to brand
a lawyer as paid disposes of him. Yo,
never hear the same term applied to {
doctor. The paid doctor" is mighty vel
come when he is needed, and the doctor
who isn't paid is the fellow who has beer
cheated or charitable. 1t isn't business t.
work for nothing.
The clergyman is paid; be must be un
less he is to live by charity or starve
which is often pretty near the same thing
The doctor must be paid, and the lawye
must be paid. That's the way they maxi
their livings. To discredit anyone of then
because he Is paid is to dlscredit our whole
system of individual self-support.-Hart
ford Courant.