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There is a general feeling among the people of the United States that they are not securing justice under our present system for the administration of justice, and that the time for another great law reform is near at hand. It is not an unusual thing to hear such charges as the following: That the average length of a law suit, civil or criminal, is about three years; that most courts are from one year to five years behind their dockets, though this country has twenty times as many judges as England has; that, as a result of the failure of our criminal procedure, our country, in proportion to its population, has eight times as many homicides as Italy, nine times as many as Canada, thirteen times as many as Great Britain, and twenty times as many as Germany; that in both state and federal courts nearly fifty per cent of the cases appealed have been reversed; that over fifty per cent of the questions appealed have turned upon questions of pleading and practice (while in Europe new trials are unknown; and in England, since 1890, new trials have been granted in less than four per cent of the cases, and there has been no second trial for thirty years in a common law case and none for fifty years in an equity case); that in criminal cases especially failures to convict are largely due to perjury, suppression of testimony, dispersion of witnesses, manufacturing of evidence and bribery of jurors; that the real cases of litigants are often not presented for trial, because of mistakes in pleadings; that the expense of trials is so great that only the rich can afford them and the state could make money in damage cases by paying the amount of the judgments instead of trying the cases; that witnesses are partizan; that clients with good cases are often defeated, without their fault; that the situation has become

How Shall the People of the United States of America Reform Their Legal Procedure so as to Make It an Instrument of Justice?