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MODERX VIEWS OF SEC
RETARY TAFT.
Following will !>e found some of
the modern American views car
ried away by the United States
secretary of war on his recent de
parture for the Philip] ices. Not
many years ago such sentiments
coming from a cabinet officer might
have caused surprise. Even now
they may awaken in some a feeling
of regret—a sensation of loss, as if
some cherished principle had slipt
away and left no comj cnsati >n.
The words are temperate enough,
but somehow they seem to convey
an intimation that the men who
are to control the destinies of Amer
ica and her dependencies will not
look to the people for inspiration
and for guidance.
In saying that crime “ w ill con
tinue to increase unless the trim
inal laws are enforced itli more
certainty, more uniformity, more
severity than they now are,” the
secretary of war may f»c correct;
but it doe* not appear less probable
that a people held in check through
tear would eventually require to l>c
restrained bv dread, and fmally
routed by terror The methods of
a Spain inevitably lead to the
necessity for a Weyler.
Sevretaiy of W ar Tail addressed
the students Yale law school on
the oc casion of the commencement
excictxcs July I. He contrasted
the two great *\sttrosof law. the
k<-man or civil law, and the Anglo
Saxon, or common law, as applied
to ibe administration ot colonial
! possessions. “Americans are apt
to he narrow in their prejudices in
favor of the common law, and prone
to think that there is very little tc;
learn from the civil law which can
be usefully adopted by a govern
ment in which the liberty of the
individual is held so sacred,” the
secretary said. “The first impulse
of the American lawyer,” he con
tinued, “is to apply the writ of
habeas corpus, trial by jury and
other means of preserving the rights
of the individual as a panacea to
the government and criminal pro
cedure of our new possessions, but
careful investigation leads to a much
mote conservative attitude in re
spect to the changes needed in the
existing Spanish procedure.”
The secretary declared that trial
by jury had proven a failure in
I’orto Rico, and experience had
shown that it could not wisely be
adopted in the Philippines. He
declared further that “in our own
jurisprudence” it is bv no means
clear that trial by jury in civil
cases is an uumixed good. The
abolition of the jury in civil cases,
with proper aj peal, would not, he
thought, deprive any litigant of an
impartial hearing.
“The ii stitution of trial by jury,”
said Mr. Taft,” has come to be re
garded as a fetish to such an extent
that state legislatures have exalted
the power of the jury and dimin
ished the power of the court in the
hearing of criminal cases. The
function of judge is limited to that
of the moderator in a religious as
sembly. The counsel for the de
fense, relying on the diminished
power of the court, creates by dra
matic art and harping on the im
portance of unimportant details, a
false atmosphere in the court room
which the judge is powerless to
dispel, and under the hypnotic in
fluence of w hit h the counsel is able
to lead the jurors to vote as jurors
tor a verdict, which, after all the
excitement of the trial has passed
a wav, the) are unable to support as
men.”
After citing statistics to prove
that murder and all < Reuses of the
felons class have greatly increased,
the s|>e.ik«r said "there can he no
tlouht th >t they will continue to
increase unless the criminal laws
are enforced with n»*>re ««it.inity,
m re nntrormitv more seventy than
they ■*»« now.
N. V. HENDRICKS
ESTABLISHED 1904
Alaska Commission Buying Agency
SEATTLE, WASH.
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“Certainly the result of the Amer
ican criminal procedure as distin
guished from the English criminal
procedure does not encourage us to
think that it would he wise to in
troduce into the Philippine islands
a system of jury trial which now
prevails in most of the states, espe
cially under the restrictions of the
power of the court which we find as
we go west in this country. The
cure for this growing cancer in the
body politic may be found in statu
tory amendments.
“Our country is disgusted by the
number of lvnchings that occur
both in the north and the south.
Nothing but a radical improvement
in our administration of criminal
law will prevent the growth in the
'number of lvnchings in the United
States.”
SUPPRESS THE DISORDER.
Complaint is made that drunken
Indian women are again disturbing
the peace and quiet of the town by
the hideous shrieks and demoniac
noises which are characteristic of
these old offenders.
I,et the people aggrieved go be
fore the commissioner and make
complaint. Let them go provided
with the necessary evidence, which
it is easy to get. and these chronic
disturbers and mischief makers will
l>e suppressed
Deputy Marshal Charles Dreibel
bis, shortly Ix-torc his departure,
rendered the camp comparatively
quiet by forcing the women to the
outer edge of town. Now that we
n > longer have a deputy marshal
the people should see to it that
every one of them who returns is
sent to jail on the very first appear
ance of disorder.
By their newspapers ie shall
know them A most striking indi
cation of the bright outlook on
Seward pcnhuMiU has arrived in the
form of the Nome Gold Digger
set up bv a Mergenthalcr machine
and printed on a two-revolution
press The Digger will wsne daily.
GKOKGK A. SALISBURY,
Attorney and Counsellor,
Rampart, Alaska
J.. UNDLKY GREEN,
Lawyer.
Office at the Courthouse.
OFFICE OF
Commissioner and Recorder
Rooms i and 2. Courthouse
THE MIRROR
Wines,
Liquors,
Cigars.
JERRY FORD,
M. R. DOWNING.
NEW GOODS
GROCERIES of all kinds
FRESH EGGS, per Steamer Susie
FRESH POTATOES, only $S perorate
ONIONS, Australian winter keeping
CIGARS, and full line of chewing and
smoking tobacco
Elegant brass-trimmed enameled IlED
STEADS
Double-wove Wire Springs, can’t sag
Mattresses, Feather Pillows
TENTS, all sizes.
Everything new and first class
Creek orders solicited.
\ . \I ^ ivWS, Front St.
Unutillont Kclitor
on SchooIrmirniH
Douglas was visited one day last
week by a whole shipload of school
mat ms. Such a galaxy of beauty it
has seldom been our pleasure to
w itness. < >ne long, gaunt, hungry
loolcing damsel of some 45 sum
mers, whose leathery cheeks had
forgotten the blushes that would no
longer blush, looked one look at a
bunch of Douglas girls ami broke
out with the remark: "My sake*,
what ugly j»eople they have here!"
She then took a turn up Front
street, and Mtke ItelUhoover’s reg
ulator Mopped dead »till iHurgta*
Island New*.
(' Airh^vktt tliatrtct, Arctic ttctvd
it**! with ** the «tnt«r cl*4iu»f»