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THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPAN1
KINO A CRONIN. Editors.
DloOd—human blood—makes a stall
that Is hard to wash out of any party’)
administration.
Bom men can only obtain notoriety
by making asses of themselves, and
O'Neill has Its full quota of that stripe.
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If the men who buy and read the Bea
con Light like the kind of stuff its edi
tor is giving them, other people have nc
right to kick.
Even Mr. Cleveland will admit now
that it has not been lack of manage
ment so much as lack of votes which
has blocked his ideas in congress.
According to a report of the senate
committee on education and labor, tbe
aggregate loss in this country on account
of strikes, during the last sis years, has
been M8,B0«,8S9.
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AM article from the Fremont Tribune,
In this issue, upon the eubjeot of juries,
la worthy of consideration. The more
we tee of the Jury system the less we
wonder at crltqe.
Father Tina’s old hen I* said to be
vV setting on the egg that is to hatch a new
national political party, on or about
March 4,1895. Why not hurry the hatch
ing by using an incubator?
Dbsba Brcckknridob has been ap
pointed an inoome tax collector, but
' that doesn’t worry his silver-tongued
pop, whose income will be much below
the taxable stage after the fourth of
March. _ _
'< I» McHugh tails to catch the O’Neill
postoffice plum when it drops from the
„ honest grasp of Jimmy Riggs, he will
' kick himself all over the state of Ne
braska for having swallowed the nau
seating rump pill last fall.—Graphlo.
It la now almost universally conceded
that the law under which Holt will hold
a special election next Friday, is uncon
stitutional. If this is true, pity ’tis ’tie
so. The expense of an election will
«4> have been made and no returns realised.
Wa understand that a number of our
eitlaens have received the income tax
blank from the department. Tna Fbon
tibr has received none up to date and
is living in hopes it may escape. How
ever; if we are discovered we will pay
up.'
y It la fortunate for the editors of
, America that the Chinese custom of be*
heading editors who criticise the gov
ernment does not prevail with us. There
are not enough American editors who
have not criticised the present admlnls
• tratlon to form a corporal’s guard.
Doo Mathews, In his Free Press, con
tinues to chide this paper for saying
that Nebraska can take care of her own
poor. Tan Frontier is not sorry for
' having made the statement. Nebraska
IS capable of looking after her destitute
, and It she falls to do so, more’s the pity.
We notice quite an improvement In
the Sun since Tom Golden has com?
? menced writing editorial leaders. While
it don’t look overly becoming for* an at*
_ torney to try a case through a newspa
per, we would suggest to Charlie that he
’ give Mr. Golden a permanent situation
on the staff.
To-Mobbow is the bond election. We
believe In the light of the information
at hand, that the bonds will be defeated.
Tub Fboktibr will not be sorry. We
favored the bonds because we believed
It would benefit the farmers, but they,
themselves, will be the ones to defeat
them, and we are confident that we can
stand it if they can.
, It li reported that Congressman Wil
son is to be (Wen soother chance to ac
cept s college presidency- The gentle
man is out of plaee in active politics, be
cause his theories do not Jibe with cold,
hard, everyday practical life; and he
should bear in mind that a college pres
idency in hand is worth more than a Ju
dicial position in the mind of the exec
: * utlve.
It is disgusting in the extreme to see
our pop county officials slobbering over
the men under arrest for the murder of
Barrett Scott. Of course these men
have not been convicted and are entit
led to respect until they are, but a pru
dent man would not stand on the street
corner and plead their case to the pub
lic. On the other hand he would hold
himself aloof and once in a while re
mark that the crime should be punished,
no matter who the guilty parties might
be. It is this eternal sympathy for these
’ suspects that has brought the populist
party of Holt into bad repute.
Tex State Journal of the 93nd inst.
in its history of the proceedings of the
senate of the preceding day said that
"Teftt created a little excitement by
moving that when the senate adjourn it
adjourn to meet Monday at 10 a. m. It
met the usual opposition, and Tefft had
to explain that no farmer ought to op
pose an adjournment in honor of the
birthday of the foremost farmer and
father of his country. Jeffries was evi
dently touched by this appeal, as he was
the only populist who voted for the mo
tlon and it carried by • vote Of 17 to 18.”
While it waa indeed lamentable to eee
eucb dearth of patriotism in a respecta
ble minority of the senate of the state of
Nebraska, it waa hardly less sad to see
the same sentiment prevailing at the
populist court-house of Holt county
No flag adorned the cupola that day.
The populists are strangers to patriot
ism and have hearts so dead that to
themselves they have never said, "this is
my own, my native land.”
Representative Robertson, of
Holt, has introduced a bill in the house
which provides:
Section 1. Each county in the state
of Nebraska shall be entitled to that
number of students in the state univer
sity that will bear the same ratio to the
total number that can be accommodated
by the university, that the total assessed
valuation of the county bears to the
total assessed valuation of the state of
Nebraska.
Section 8. Any county that shall
send more students to the state univer
sity than it is entitled to as above pro
vided shall pay to the state an amount
equal to one-half the average cost to the
state per student, for each and every
student so sent in excess of the number
the county is entitled to according to the
provisions of this act; said sum to be
paid as hereinafter provided.
After an Impartial study of the pro
visions of this bill The Frontier is not
prepared to say, that as a matter of right,
there is anything radically wrong with
the measure. Counties are certainly
entitled to representation in proportion
to the amount of tax they pay for that
purpose.
Tub Fremont Tribune says: It Is ru
mored that the next disturbance to be
witnessed on the gory plains of Kansas
will be a woman’s rebellion. Some vig
ilant newspaper reporters have discov
ered a plot on the part of the suffragists
of that state to rebel against the tyranny
of man, throw off the yoke of oppres
sion and subserviency and set up a gov
ernment of their own. A fragment of
their emancipation proclamation about
to be issued has been published and it
sounds very much like the declaration
of Independence which our forefathers
(not foremothers, be it remembered)
printed in the papers one hundred and
twenty years ago, where King George
would notice It and govern himself ac
cordingly, It would be a good loke on
the down-trodden males of Kansas if
some morning they should awake and
find themselves in bed with the babies
while the women were doing military
duty outside the house and were in pos
session of the city halls, court houses,
and capltol of the state. The men of
Kansas refused at the last election to
grant the women equal rights of fran
chise and the suffragists are goaded to
their present rebellious attitude because
the legislature now sitting at Topeka
will not re-submlt the question. It
would be just like the women of Kan
sas, haughty and strong-minded, to buy
a dollar’s worth of Arbuckle’s coffee and
dump it into the Kaw river, while they
Inaugurate a hair-pulling revolution, on
the ground of taxation without repre
sentation.
THE JURT SYSTEM.
A bill hag been introduced in the leg
islature providing that fewer than
twelve men of a Jury may render a ver
dict.
This bill ought to be paeged.
This Is a country in which a majority
rules. We boast of it as being a coun
try whose policies and institutions are
formed and governed by the major frac
tion of the vox populi. For five hun
dred years we have adhered to the ab
surd proposition that twelve men who
would settle anything else submitted to
to them by a majority vote, when they
come together as a jury to determine
points of law or questions of fact be
tween men, must all agree to one prop
osition before the question at issue is
determined.
England and the United States are the
only nations in the world which still em
ploy the unanimous jury system. The
world has gone beyond this autique cus
tom. Even some of the states of the
Union have enacted laws permitting the
return of a verdict by fewer than the
whole number of jurors. Every state
ought to do the same. This would tend
largely to the abolition of the profes
sional jury fixers. It would be much
more difficult to get three or four men
on a jury for the purpose of "hanging
it.” It is not difficult to get one man
among the twelve to do that.
It might not be well to make so radi
cal a departure from the custom of cen
turies as to permit a bare majority of a
jury to return a valid verdict, but it
would tie in the line of progress to per
mit two-thirds to do so in civil and crim
inal suits and three-fourths in capital
offenses.
The state constitution provides that
only twelve jurors can return a verdict,
but it authorizes the legislature to pro
vide for the rendering of a verdict by
fewer than twelve jurors in courts lower
than the district court.
The theory of our jurisprudence is
that in criminal cases a man is presumed
by the law to be innocent until he is
proven guilty. If eleven men say he is
guilty and one dissents, the one decides
his innocence. If nine men decide him
guilty the presumption of guilt should
then be strong enough to convict. On
the other hand under the present system
if one juror insist upon a verdict of
guilty and the eleven others declare for
his innocence the prisoner may be put
in jeopardy again (or hit liberty and
poaeibly for hie life. ,
A majority of the members of con
gress, a majority of the members of onr
legislatures and of our city councils may
enact laws for the government of the
people; a majority of the judges of a
state court and of the supreme court of
the United States may decide whether
the verdict returned by a jury is accord
ing to the law and the facts, but every
one of the twelve men on the jury must
agree to begin with. Why should not
the same rule apply to juries?
Is there any good reason besides its
being coveted with the must of centuries
why the unanimous jury custom should
in this day of enlightenment and gov
ernment of majorities, why then let it
prevail, but there appears to be some
very strong reasons why it should be
abandoned in favor of a more rational
method, and the present legislature
might profitably begin the good work.—
Fremont Tribune.
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