When legislation is advised by any considerable number of the leaders of any political party, which history has shown in other countries to have been productive of the most deplorable consequences, then it is time to leave the issues of the present long enough to study the lessons of the past. In conning the “Marriage Laws and Customs” of past ages, we can, in some measure, congratulate ourselves that our Marriage Laws are better than those of the past centuries, yet when we consider the large class of “Predestined Lost” ones, born as a result of diseased and mismated marriages, and when we give but a cursory examination to the divorce statistics, we can see that we have grave need for better laws on this most important of all subjects, the regulation of the relation, through which the standards of citizenship are controled. The Witch-Craze, in Europe and America, which resulted in the wholesale slaughter of innocents, through a blind faith by the Courts, in the popular standards of the people, whereby unprovable offenses, were permitted to be established in utter disregard of the rules of evidence, and a vacillating, dependent judiciary helped for centuries, to perpetrate the most intolerable outrages against civilization, illustrates the necessity of an absolutely independent judiciary, free from the dominating influence of the frenzy of the public and a constant adherence to the rules of evidence and the proper legal ideals, in the administration of the law. The Judicial Recall, as we see it in ancient history, is another of the present popular fantasies to be avoided. Hammurabi tried this system 2,500 years before Christ’s time, when witches were convicted according to their ability to swim a torrent and surgeons were mutilated, by the loss of a hand, for an unsuccessful operation. It was also tried in ancient Athens and because of some unpopular decision, the “most just Judge” of that city, Aristides, was recalled, and some votes were cast against him, because the voters were simply tired of hearing him called “The Just.” Aristotle’s evidence is to the effect that this law brought about the most deplorable consequences, in Greece, Persia and other antique nations, where it was in vogue. The old Anglo-Saxon practice of preferring the charge of “False Judgment” against the judge whose decision was challenged, who was recalled, if this charge was sustained, was found inimical to the interest of the Government and since the English Judges were emancipated from the narrow groove of an unskilled public sentiment and were appointed for life, the majesty of the law has been revered in no other country on the face of the earth, as it has been in England. This is testimony worth considering, for, judging the future by the past, if this practice undermined the judicial institutions of other countries, it would also undermine our own judicial system and ought to be avoided. The demand, by the ill-formed, for the destruction