Judge — December 16, 1911 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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E D =! Hearst's’ Coat of Many Colors. EARST’S declaration that he is ing to be a Democrat ‘‘again’’ is apt to induce people to search their memories to recall the time when he was a Democrat before. He ‘was in- clined to free silver and Bryan in 1896. In 1900 Democratic anti-imperialism made him weary, and in 1904’he had been a candidate for the presidential nomination himself and, therefore, could not bring himself to support Parker. In 1908 Mr. Hearst had his own candidate in the person of Hisgen. Politically Mr. Hearst has been a Democrat, a Municipal Ownership man, an Inde- pendence Leaguer, a Fusionist, and now he is again a Democrat. For a young man he has had a wide and varied polit- ical experience. He has fre- quently been a candidate for election, but has been elected but once, and then he was cho- sen acongressman. The fact that he has gone back into the Democratic party is by no means a guarantee that he will remain there. A Legal Proposition. OBODY denies that it takes too long nowadays togetajury. There is plenty of fault to find with the jury system, anyhow; but if we are going to try cases that way, we ought at least to be able to secure our ‘twelve good men and true’’ at once. Goodness knows, there are delays enough after the trial commences! Jupce has observed care- fully for some time the method of select- ing jurymen throughout our awakened nation, and he wishes to suggest a line of questioning that should make the usual proceedings much shorter, to the satisfaction of counsel for both sides. First question: Do you read any news- paper? Second question: Have you formed any opinions on anything? Third question: Do you know the prisoner? Fourth question: Do you know any- body who knows the prisoner? Do you know anybody who knows anybody who, TORS WIEN 2 Vins Qa Ww. T RI etc.? This may be continued ad in- finitum. Fifth question: Do you ever think? Sixth question: Would you like to go home? A candidate who can answer ‘‘No”’ to every one of these questions is presum-_ ably fit to be a juryman, Free Leather—Dear Shoes. __ HAMP CLARK has been saying out West that the free admission of raw materials would cheapen the cost of life’s necessaries. The country has had free leather for three years, and still the prices of shoes have gone up. OVERNOR WILSON and the Presi- dency. Wilson's risky, that’s all. 20, G2 ERNE MASE NESE SY A L § When Doctors Disagree. T2 secretary of the Connecticut State board of health says people should sleep with the windows of their rooms open. Views change, but the human system does not. In former years physicians held that night air from the outside was a physical deterrent— that it was bad for health and that we should not be exposed to it any more than was absolutely necessary. Now night air has an official certificate of merit from high authority. Possibly it has improved since doctors taught it ought to be avoided. Caustic Comment. N DURATION the McNamara trial at Los Angeles did not exceed the Camorra trial in Italy, Japan's Forward Movement. T HAS been announced that the Em- peror of Japan will shortly issue an edict declaring Christianity to be the official religion of the country. The world does move. Only sixty years ago Japan was a shut-in nation of pagans. In recent years it has demonstrated pro- ficiency in the game of war as played by the Western nations. Now it is going to adopt the teachings of the Prince of Peace, It is hoped its conduct will match its professions. Champing Again. HAMP CLARK has been talking again about Canadian annexation. Seldom have we known a man so fitly christened by his parents. It is a pity, however, that he is not champing a curbed bit, instead of the rag. for the latter was the longest. in recent records. Lawyers in the McNamara case, before the beginning of the trial, estimated that the process of securing a jury would take months, and the proceedings have shown that they were not out of the way. In Eng- land they do these things bet- ter. There the trial might occupy a fortnight or so. Here lawyers are permitted to take up time with grand- stand play which has no bear- ing on the guilt or innocence of accused persons. One of the standing grievances of the people of this country is the law’s delays, * In ten years Americans have expended more than a billion dollars for automo- biles. This is more than the country has spent for Dreadnoughts for its navy. Ten years ago there were only thirty- five hundred automobiles in the country; now there are more than four hundred thousand. Naval vessels now under construction for the world’s navies will cost half a billion dollars, which is about half the value of the automobiles owned by Americans. It might be added that the motor cars have caused more deaths in ten years than all the navies of the world. comicbooks.com