Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 434, 18 ʻApelila 1892 — "OVERWORKED." [ARTICLE]

"OVERWORKED."

Ka Lko weleomee the P. C. Advertiser to the field of battle for radical reform in the system of our judiciary. But while we agree wiih many or all of the conclosions thos far auueunced by our contemporary on this aame subjeot, we desire to distinctly disavow premifles vi«: that owr Supreme Coort is overworked. The fauit heretof<H« has rather been that the members of the ceort were so ridiouloosly onder-worked as to leave them far too mueh time for the indalgenoe of a vidoos and mischievoos propensity to gossip, with the entailment of »11 the ondesirable conseqoen6ee to be apprebended ftrom a too free indolgenoe of soch propensity, — not the kast among whieh has been an interferenee in the poiitical affairs of the countr\v— usually covert, but frequently dpparent—of a charactēr to bring odium at oi)ce upon the j udicial systeni and its representatives. It woul44»e unfair to some of the nienilH»rs of the Bench, past and preseiit, a io allege a general niedd!ing in politics and 6ther outside concerns,"on the part of thejudgcs. But the puhlie will need the men» tion of no names, —more's the pity —to identify the ofifenders in this particular. It is beyond doubt to-dāy-that our Supreme Court does not poesess the oonfidence of either the Bar or of tne People, and the gossipy disposiUon and meddle some propensity of eertain of its members, — pa«t aad present — is largely to blatne for Buch want of co«fidence. We are in jusUce foroed to admit that these faolts fere less intense in the Court to day than ihey were on Januarv 1. 1890, but this is owing to changes in the penonnel of the court, rather than to any reforiu or i improvement in the offendiug mem- | befg. Ka Lkq will put sue thi>:sub-_ jēct,—and all.such oflenders—-froiii ; tinie to time.