The phrase "contempt of court" has ceased practically to have any significance whatever.

The front pages teem with caricatures of the judge upon the bench, of the individual jurors with exaggerated heads upon impossible bodies, of the lawyers ranting and bellowing, juxtaposed with sketches of the defendant praying beside his prison cot or firing the fatal shot in obedience to a message borne by an angel from on high.
How long would the "unwritten law" play any part in the administration of criminal justice if every paper in the land united in demanding, not only in its editorials, but upon its front pages, that private vengeance must cease?
Let the "yellow" newspapers confine themselves simply to an accurate report of the evidence at the trial, with a reiterated insistence that the law must take its course.

Let them stop pandering to those morbid tastes which they have themselves created.

Let the "Sympathy Sisters," the photographer, and the special artist be excluded from the court-room.

When these things are done, we shall have the same high standard of efficiency upon the part of the jury in great murder trials that we have in other cases..