This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...judicial organization."1 Every citizen should recognize the necessity for the absolute independence of the courts, to the proper discharge of their solemn duties. The question may someday arise, whether the failure of any considerable number of citizens to recognize such an indispensable prerequisite, to the proper discharge of their duties, by the courts shall ever be permitted to impair the utility of this most important department of government. It be safely trusted to those endowed by is certain that the tenure to the bench the people with this peculiar power. The should never be made to depend upon courts, in the past, have always protected the rights of the people and the great mass of thinking people of our country are not in sympathy with any attack by politicians upon these important institutions, of their creation, calculated to bring the courts into disrepute. Those best informed about the exalted duties and the impartial performance of those duties, by the courts, know but too well, the injustice frequently shown by the press and politicians to those selected to dispense justice for the people's benefit. Demagogues are apt to cater to the popular tendency to "condemn the judge, when the criminal is acquitted," and this, perhaps will always be the case. Speaking of the reason for this treatment toward the courts, one of our ablest lawyers, addressing one of our purest and ablest judges, at a banquet of lawyers, some years since, had this to say: "The legislative and executive powers, yielding the patronage and wealth of the community, attract the gaze of the multitude with a transcendant force. These are surrounded by a throng of followers, who shout continually, in their ears, the notes of praise and...