Weekly journal-miner., 1915-03-24
LAwLEss PRESS AND LAwLEss LAWYERS

Legal authorities regarding presentday evils in administration of the law In address The Criminal Law Sense delivered before the Chicago Bar As by Arthur Train e able assistant district attorney of New York speaker blamed it all the newspapers
 The greatest obstacle the administration of criminal justice he said unlimited permitted reporting The chief object of the press not the merits of either side To be judicial at least in newspaper work, be stupid The newspaper must take violently-make a row-'start something
 The newspapers amhiae rules of evidence publish parte unounded and print for the bene fit of the jury all the testimony that not admissible at the trial They readers animoy either against the prisoner his victim And he concudes
 It due the yellow press that the impression exists that criminal trials O less of a farce"
 But John D. Dos Passos of the most dis ngushed lawyers in New York City, after many years experi with criminal law and procedure and without meaning to make defense of the declares frankly that criminal trials really farce. a- -t-- .-
 Our present legal system" he says in an article the New York World s operates chiefly defeat the very purposes for which society supports namey render justice suors quickly surely and inexpensvely.
 Our civil and criminal procedure has been growing from year year. It for drastic reform In the United generally the processes lengthy uncertain negotiable and expensive and it fol- lows the hand that goes unpunhed and the other hand that the punishment of crime when does loses the of its preventive effect through the almost nermnabe delay which transpres between the commission of the ofense and the nhictiOn of the penalty.
 Tn the administration of criminal justice there is law for
  indicators going about their daily affairs midst after their guilt has been clearly made visible the public eye by the verdict of and of the has become that today it hardly exctes comment.
 And who is responsible for this evil of affairs? The newspapers?
 For lawyer, continues Mr. Dos Passos it hufnilang to be forced to admit that the evils of legal system be traced the lawyers themselves The substantive law goes in the drafted by lawyers the technical pro- of the law devised by lawyers the administration of the law entirely the hands of lawyers opportunities for delay sophisca differentiation and profit which ke law and codes of procedure afford better known lawyers than any other class of citizens and the lawyers who reap monetary gain there their system per pctuates'
 And Samuel Untcymer, of the lawyers in the United States condeing the unaness and neciency legal procedure points that all these ncongrues laws have been permitted accumulate through naction absence of pQgresvenes and public spirit the part the bar"
 Can it be, after all that it is the lawyers themselves rather than the newspapers, that blame for frequent riage of justice?
 As matter of fact the newspaper profession, "yelow" and al is perfectly willing let the public decide the or the does promote justice among dressing the legal profession papers, it's likely that if criminal decided according to the newspaper method of presenting all the anabe facts and coming concusion-hich also the method of the French being decided according intricate and archaic game technical court there is today