Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-04-12
CAPTAIN WISE
HAS ARGUMENT
Secretary of Trade Board
Gives Numerous Reasons for
Branch Court Here.
MANY ORIGINAL IDEAS
Says Courts Should be Ac-
cessibIs Without Taking Pill
grimags Into Far Country.

captain Ivan IL, Wise, secretary
of the Perth Amboy Board of Trade,
when asked by an EVENING NEWS
man what he thought of the pro-
posed plan to locate a branch coun-
ty court house at this place gave a
number of reasons why it should be
done. Many of his arguments for
the establishment of the institution
here have not been mentioned in pre-
vious interviews on the subject.
After telling the NEWS man he was
in harmony with the project he said:
MANY of the people of Perth Am
boy hail from the continental ma
tions, having system Of jurispru-
dence built upon the Pandexts of
Justinian and the Code Napoleon,
known as the Civil Law. Ours is the
Common Law System Of England.
The Civil Law procedure Is less tech
nical than ours, trial is had before
a Judge and litigation is prompter
and more economical. But the sa-
cred rights Of the individual are not
so well guarded. For crime, the
Civil Law seeks to punish someone,
and will convict if there is reason
able certainty of the guilt of the &C
SuoCd' out bJStSlu plONiuSo iCIl-
edy for every wrong, furnishes trial
by jury and will not convict unless
the accused is adjudged guilty be-
yond a reasonable doubt 1t is more
technical and not so expeditions or
economical as the Civil Law, but the
rights of the individual are more
sacredly protected by the Courts of
the Common Law System.
1T Is very necessary that our
newly acquired citizens should learn
that it is not our wealth, our re-
sources, our standing army nor our
splendid navy that makes for the
greatness and liberty of this nation
but, that is our laws that are the
palladium of all our liberties, and
the mother OF all our glories. To
this end, our courts should be acces-
sible and within our city, SO that a
litigant or an aggrieved party should
not feel that Going to Court" was
like taking q pilgrimage or a journey
into a far country.
"As to the desirability of estab-
fishing q branch Court House In
Perth Amboy. for the service and ac-
commodation Of citizens, residing in
this part Of the county of Mid
dlesex, many gentlemen have as
signed as reason therefor, the time
saved to business men and the con-
venience to the public generally.
ut occurs to me that the reason
can be sought further, in that 1t is a
fundamental necessity of the life of
this community. Perth Amboy is
more or less of melting pot of the
the Scandinavian, the Latin, the
Hun, the Magyar, the Celt, the He
brew, the Greek and the Levantine.
These are all Americans in the max
ing. To be useful citizens they
should have a familiar and intelli-
gent working knowledge of our insti-
tutions, the agencies of government,
their functions and the mechanics of
public administration. This purpose
is not readily accomplished when the
machinery Of justice is remote, iso-
lated and can only be sought with
il convenience and loss of time. This
is apt to arouse a sullen Indifference
or a positive dislike to our system
Of Jurisprudence on the part of our
population of foreign antecedents.
1--WE boast that this a country
of law, litigation forms large part
of the daily transaction of business.
IF it was the boastful hope of
Henri Quatre that every Frenchman
may have a fowl in the pot it was
the passionate love of Justice that i'm.
PEELED Cardinal Richileu, with dying
breath, to take farewell of his coun-
trymen by declaring that he had
brought justice to every mans door.
I'VE have educational, recrea-
tional and utilitarian accessories to
modern city such as paved streets,
dependable pure water supply. rail,
water and trolley connections, good
lighting facilities, efficient police,
fire and school systems, low tax rate,
small public debt, churches, public
library, custom house, Y. M. C. A.,
hospital, postal savings bank, and
postoffice and it is just a necessary
that there be temple of justice,
within Perth Amboy, the ancient
capital Of New Jersey as is a post
office.