People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — America's Corse of Judges [ARTICLE]

America's Corse of Judges

England, with a population of 30,000,000, has only 32 judges, or one judge for every 910,625 of population, while New York, with a population of 7,000,000, has 140 judges, or one judge for every 50,000 of population, and Illinois, with a population of 4,000,000, has 178 judges, or one for every 22,472 of population. All the states are similarly burdened with the judge curse. Fully 75 per cent of them are mere jack-leg lawyers who manage to make fortunes of various dimensions by an investment of brains that excites universal decision.—Khr