Judge — December 19, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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— me THE JUDGE. 441 | of human law on becomict’s hideous Urae=)|-vaniacand ‘olhier-alaveas esty upon justice if left without the inter- | tions have been position of Pablic Opinion, enlightened and | deti directed by Your Jury in the spirit of hu- equality and 7 nsness, how you how law can be prostitu to tyrannical ends, counsel will « vast number of cases where the consolida- venty, in arried thro: we of statutes and even of conatitu- tional prohibitions, Sneh disregard of the uw for the purposes of monepolizing trans- ple to citizens which this court has sid your a - There ben euch Las breaking They will | step in where cc ms to yurts to restrain It is for Your Jury to yorations are me inst rich contestan | ) the poor are virtu- | ful than governments, — For — reme¢ jally without recourse of Jaw in all) such | beyond your ordinary findings, Your Jury It is the provinee of Your Jury to | may consider the expediency of vacating the || uch cases out of court into your su- | charters of the wed corporations at preme jurisdiction, and by such penalties as | relegating their s to the people whe your Public Opinion can enforce, teach the wealthy and powerful, as well as judy of the law, that it is not s: Fel RAND ie any man in the name and us ree oe GRY presion wit lad before sou incon: | tion with labor strikes, where laborers fc talking together in the str mt Jury of Public where two onl Opinion rested under technical ¢ other sumn Your power is ample, if ps to op. | onsly and e¢ to check even r the | the legalized anducity of railroad. corpora- ¥ appli These are but a few of many tines that Your Jury's inquest will probably follow to -many times enforce your supreme jurisdiction in order — |} that even-handed justice may rule in this || land both through and in spite of sta turbing the pe d summarily fined in administrations and courts, ©. This court wishes to call Your Jurv’s ate 8tMs that to the accused were a calamity, ——— tention to the necessity for a finding on the Similar cases, in great numbers, will be Cust relation of your authority to statute law, d to you where railroad and other corpo- both as to ifs enactment and execution, rations Have been able to use the arm of the |" eae ee ‘Tho power of the Grand Jury of the Whole! tyrannically against their employes, CreMns ui going by ¢ : People is 30 ‘unt over statutes that ‘These things need to be stopped by Your j that it is not “the public be d they cannot enforced without your Jury, to prevent a less peaceful remedy as | after all, approval. ‘The ends of justice may suffer the pme of accumulated wrongs. . = defeat by bad laws, by good laws perverted ‘The police CoxerrssmeN are not provided with or by misearrt hh interests nullify or head fo ls inat cot into rotaries at Governinent expense, and very ministration ia « the summary, erparteand ut thods | of letters and speeches peeuliar to. Washing- part of Y nd OP our police and police should ton. had, howeree'cn ree be enquire if the city penal institutions don Ladies and Gentlemen of the G Ss Akk Not only like chiekens in oming home to roost, but they are like rari turns out se do not. si re few of them em) law withont yoursanetion, tucit or expressed hold large numbers of amnocent men and) ‘Tie trestEers or THE East River Bridge net iw always tal Sas Women, robbed of liberty and forever | might learn ng about the grip fron | is, branded with a conviet's shaine, cal Harrigan, ‘The proposition to-consult || eed of ‘your’ eternal. vigilance iMustration of another class of alate billionaire, whes ance of law by powerful ripseemed the best Your Jury should review the une. Tis grip || wsolidations of parallel and {did not hoki any better than that on the || uls in New York, Penusyl- administration of law to secure the ends of justice. If the steady pressure of your power be removed or slickened at any €Tl Fe time, abuses in tl rm of law COT begin at once to invade the courts - wansel of the Press will cite Your Jury to recent cases that show the necessity for your constant supervision of the administr tion of law, and furnish you the key to your finding in the premises, | The case of Annie Phillips, an unmarried girl of sixteen years, tried for infanticide in Brooklyn, will be before you, sireum- ces of her seduction at the age of four- porations, ves | in the world, was. ino} Bridge ears. ase teen, by her employer; her indictment, trial and aequ by al, against law and evidence, and the further fact | though well known, not even arr will suggest to the need of sometimes nullifyin cure justic ors of straining severity to reach the real offender. In this Your Jury should find against the offi- aw who were superfluously severe in of the poor girl, und culpatly lenient vy Had not the cting in the spirit of your enlight- ened tribanal, set aside the statute, the | frightful injustice of a life sentence would have fallen on the victim while her seduc goes free. With a less humane and | public prosecutor and a less intelligent and | aw-nullifying jury, this identical injustice | has been perpetrated over and over again, For such results of jurisprudence Your Jury are to blame. CROWDED OUT. ; It must be constantly impressed and re- Fat Panty— Store feels pretty comfortable now, don't it?” stamped upon your minds, that the system Tun Penson (shivering)—** Does it?” | comicbooks.com