The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-01-10
De BOLT QUOTES
TAFT IN CHARGE
TO GRAND JURY
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and is administration in the trial and |
punishment of criminals, is a constant |
menace to individual and public safety. !
Further, with regard to the trial and
punishment of criminals, let us pause |
for a moment and consider the senti- |
ments as expressed by that accom-
plished lawyer, profound jurist and
able statesman President Taft, name
ly: That jurors must be strongly inn
bued with the right Of the public to
have crime punished; and, since this is
true, and that the jury-the final ar
bitter of the guilt or innocence of the
accused-is made up of the average
representative citizenship of the COM
munity, it is certainly of the greatest
possible Importance that-the juror and
citizen should keep constantly before
him this right in the people to punish
crime Not passive admission, but
an active and thorough appreciation
of the right and the necessity of the
people, as a state or Territory, to pun
! ish crime Such are the sentiments
upon this vital question of the fore
most citizen of our common country.
The necessity of Furnishing the guilty
should never operate to the prejudice
of the innocent; but under the doc
trine of presumption of innocence and
reasonable doubt, designed to meet the
necessities of a rude semi-barbarous
and inhuman age, the danger now, in
this humane and enlightened day. is,
not that the innocent may suffer, but
that the guilty may escape.
In a country like ours, blessed with
free institutions, the safety of the
community depends upon the vigilant
and firm, as well as upon the certain
and impartial execution of the law;
and each and every person, be he citi-
zen or alien, must be made to under
stand and constantly to feel, that the
supremacy of the law will be steadily
and impartially enforced cy the consti-
tuted authorities and tribunals; and
that liberty, consistent with this en-
lightened age and civilization, can
not exist under feeble, relaxed or in
dolent administration of it's power,
where crime goes unpublished and the
law is condemned, or where the feel
ing is made or permitted to exist that
there is a law for tn erich and an
4 other for the poor. With penal laws
so mild and forbearing as ours, there
can be no just cause for sympathy
with any person who voluntarily, I'M
der any pretext, incurs their penalties;
and any failure or neglect on the part
Of the jurors to make proper, neces-
sary and thorough inquiry and findings
regarding alleged or supposed viola-
lions of the law, or of judges faithfully,
fearlessly and itnpartially to declare
and administer the law as it may be
found to exist, would tend to destroy
that feeling of safety and security with
! which the law clothes the citizen; and
it would also tend to multiply and en-
courage the commission of offensesi
and would deprive society and the in
dividual citizens of the protection to
which they are legally and justly en-
titled.
1t requires but slight Or transient de-
privation of this protection which the
law throws around u.s. and but a mo-
ment's reflection, to bring us, indi.
.vidually, to a full realization of the
ltw's indispensable power and value
to civilization. -..
When personal assaults or injuries
have been committed; when life. has
been maliciously and wantonly taken
when liberty has been unjustly ant
wrongfully seized, appropriated or de
spoiled; then the voice Of an outraged
people is instantly heard to cry out
instinctively as it were, for the pro
Election Of the law and to invoke it
Z power and supremacy.
The following order should at al
times be observed by you in the pro
secution of your work, namely: In
quire-
First. Into the case of every persol
iponricOed ond tria111a in thiS pirpui
on an indictable criminal charge, an
not indicted.
Second. Into the case of every per
son held under bail in this circuit t
answer an indictable criminal charg'
and not indicted.