Year: 1866

Some Of the Judges Of the Court OF Common


Pleas seem determined to prevent the Board
of Health abating the nuisances In this city, or
enforcing the laws enacted to protect the
health Of our citizens. Judge Cardozo has Is
sued sweeping injunction prohibiting the
Board in any manner interfering with or re-
gulating the fat boiling or bone boiling estab-
lishments, slaughter houses, or driving cattle
through the streets The complaints against
all Of these have been strong and numerous
during the last two or three years. One Of
the reasons for the unpopularity Of Mayor
Gunther was the fact that be sided with those
interested in conducting these establishments.
The law which passed last winter was enacted
in response to public sentiment on that sub
ject But now that the officials are endeavor-
ing to enforce the law, and thus protect the
health Of our citizens, we find certain judges
throwing obstacles in their way, and thus
bidding for the votes Of those who are engaged
in carrying on the business which tho law
pronounces injurious to the health of our
citizens.


No stronger argument can be offered against
the system Of electing judges. II furnishes
sufficient reasons for its immediate abolition
and . return to tho system Of appointing
judges for life or during good behavior.
When we find the ermine disgraced by paltry
attempt like this to bid for votes, and the pub
lie interest made subservicnt to selfish ainu
and ambition, we may well consider the dan
gers Of the system. Here wc have ono Judge
trying to stop all efforts 70 stay the rayages Of
the cholera in this city, alresdy upon us, and
another judge in the same.eourt endeavoring to
extend his jurisdiction in the same matter to
Brooklyn, where the deaths from thisSlsease
have already become numerous. Such action
in this emergency should load the officials
guilty Of It with infamy. ALI Of our citizens
who have friends swept of by this pestilence
should bear In mind that Judge Cardozo has
made every effort In his power 10 sssist the
spread Of the disease; and when he comes up


for reelection, they should remind him, by de.
posting their ballots against him, that he ID
responsible for the deaths In their families, and
let him rely upon his special friends who have
charge Of the slaughter houses, bone boiling
and fat establishments for reelection. II he
prefers that class and that business 10 the
health of the city, then he should bs forced to
look to them for his reelection and votes Of the


ballot box. In this way Cardozo and bis like
can be brought TO respect the judicial ermine
which they are supposed to wear, II in no other
way In the meantime his ardent love for
nuisances and opposition TO the Board of Health


bids fair to infict the city with the spread OF


the cholera, and to assist II In carrying oil
Thousands in its march. This may be bis Inter


probation Of the duties Of judge, but 1t Is not


what the people expect from judicial or any


other officer. The tendency of the elective sys-


tenn Of the judiciary Is clearly contrary to public
interests, and we trust that the next State con-


ycntion will abolish Il, and thus relieve US OF


another nuisance, which. In Judge Cardozo's


case, Is just as detrimental 10 the health Of our


citizens ~ the slaughter houses and bono boil


ing establishments are known 10 be. II viii be
| impossible for the Board Of Health to prevent


the spread Of this scourge, or its raging ms an
epidemic, II they are to be iaterfsrsd with BY


the judiciary in this why.