The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1910-06-18

executive ueplfUnlenU tO keep tlle
wheels of state in motion; but we
must rest upon the judicial branch
in full faith and confidence that our
properties, liberty and lives will be
protected; and with the jury only
and alone can we put such faith and
confidence, without which there is
neither sense of security or hope of
happiness.
BY reason of its duties; 10y reason
of its exercising within its sphere
of action of supreme power; by rea-
son of its absolute necessity; by rea-
son of it's being the highest expo
nent of self-government; by reason
of its duty aud power to dispense
equal justice; by reason of its being
the greatest and surest safeguard of
our liberties, and by reason of the
| fact that at each term the jury is
called upon to consider and dispose
of the most important matters in
life, it is that the position of jury
man ranks very high in the estima-
ton of all correctly thinking and
well disposed persons.
Yet, there has grown up 50 many
abuses, and, abuses of such char
acter that many men dislike to
serve their country in the capacity
of jurymen and do not appreciate
the power and honor of the position.
There is an article in the January
number of Scribner's Magazine by
Joseph II. Coates, entitled: Some
difficulties of Jurymen," which
gives many reasons why the position
is unappreciatcd. We quote from
the article as follows:
But the iuryman from his first
entrance in response to the court S
peremptory summons finds little in
his treatment to impress him with
an idea of special dignity in his
positions even if he has no overt
cause of complaint. He is herded
with his fellows, ordered about by
the tipstaves or baiiiffs of court, ad-
dressed in peremptory tones; some
times, if in his unfamiliarity he is
going the wrong way, he is grabbed
by one of these gentry of the badge
and hustled rs if he was the prison
er in the dock. He sits in the court
room with and ever present sense,
if he be sensitive, that he must be
careful not to get into trouble; the
feeHng of liberty is gone, he is en-
veloped in an atmosphere of res
traint. Really he is placed more
on an equality with the prisoner al
the bar than with the Judge on the
bench, yet he is as essentially a par
of the court as that august poten
tate and may have at any time {
greater responsibility imposed OF
him.
In some court rooms, when dis
engaged from the actual trial OF any
case and awaiting summons to th'
Jury box, the juror is often forced t.
sit among criminals, witnesses, loaf
ers, and ill-smelling persons attract
ed to the court by business or curl
osity; though in some court room
separate seats are provided for tn
temporary disengaged iurymen."
| don't think jurors of this coun
ty have all these things above-men
| toned to complain of, but they hav
: enough else, and there is with us
: work to be done in Hawaii whicl
2 will eliminate many factors tina
: enter into the making of trial b.
jury generally distastelul to the jury
: men, unsatisfactory to ligitants ant
: distrusted by others.
Especially is this true in regar
: to the trial of criminal cases. lie
] every elector of Hawaii read the al
:, ,;ola IN tba Anril number of Nj