Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-14
TRIAL BY JURY.

TRIAL BY JURY.
 Many intelligent and patriotic citi- zens who have served on juries will sympathize with the suffering broth CT at Macon, Ga, who arose in the box and asked the following ques- ton:
 What want to know, your honor. is if have to sit here and listen to the attorney examine the witness about something that has nothing in the world to do with this case? My time is worth something to me, and if the law can force me to sit here and be bored this way. want to know it?'
 The judge who was trying the case did not rebuke the rebellious jury man. Instead, he remarked mildly, Since I have to suffer in the manner you are complaining of every day the court is in session. you ought to be able to live through one day of it."
 The juryman might have retorted , that the judge was being well paid for his time and trouble, that it was indeed the judges business, while 1t was "merely"-if the word merely may be pardoned-the juryman's du- ty. The judge might have delivered a lecture on the subject of citizenship, and pointed out to the juror that when he was serving the community by listening to tedious examination he was also serving himself. But his honor apparently preferred the argu, mentum ad hominem. although in stating it he gracefully ignored the element of compensation, says the Los Angeles Herald
 The jury system has been criticised severely of late years, but no jury, man heretofore has protested against if on the ground that the time he de, voted to the service of the state was a waste of his own personal time Some narrower patriots" might gibe the Georgian for lack of civic enthus'
  iasm. But his protest sounds so like an anguIshed cry of human nature rebelling against grievous condition that it will find many responsive ech' oes- The law says distinctly that cruel and unusual punishment must not be visited upon even convicted offender Why, then, subject self-sac riHcing. inoffensive jurymen to the torture of listening to interminable forensic oratory, of Sitting still and silent, placid of countenance though hitter at heart, while cailow hedg ling at the bar gains experience al their expense? Of listening to exam ,nation and cross-examination and re examination until the swooning brain almost refuses to entertain the ideas conveyed in endless torents of words Nay. more; when juryman is try ing A case of unusual importance, he may have to submit to restraint Hii liberty is ruthIessIy abridged He If not allowed to go home to his family He is conducted to a hotel or he i' locked up in the jury room for tn' night. to fight his way to unanimitA os oniniou with eleven fellow sufferer o- to agree with them to disagree and face the judges frown. For wal there ever yet judge who did no in his heart believe that a disagree ment was in the nature of reflection mon the manner in which the cas- Q. issue had been tried, as well as lout to the perpicacity and sagac''' of his judicial charge?
 what we want to know, your hon ors. is whether decent law-aoidin citizens, fathers of families an members of churches, are to be trea' ed in this way unto the end of time or whether there is chance on 'n grounds of humanity to the unhapp citizens who are compelled to serv as jurors. of a reform of the 'nr method, which. upon other grounds is being attacked in a conservatiV nanner by reputable citizens ciSi