Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-02
THE SUPREME COURT NOT IN
FAILTBLE.


Iowa original package decision, and in
which the C0ur. r.lchos an exactly
opposite conclusion. The Court held
that after property imported into a
State reached its destination. It was at
once a commodity and became a part
Of the mass OF properly in the state
without having passed ont Of the
hands Of tire cCnsiguec. The former
decision has apparently been ever
looked.
The foregoing comes to Us in cur
regular pass dispatches. The Tri5-
NC Of Ibis city publishes It with
these headings:
REVERSED ITS OWN DECISION.
THE sUrEEuE COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES OVERLOOKED rHE RECORDS.
This is not the first time that the
court Of last resort Ess rendered a
decision Numerically opposed ia
principle aul effect &, is own rul-
iur=. AM YET We axe expected by
some unreasonable rad ARBITRARY
persons, iaclulfng g.i55Dc editors,
70 regard the Judgment % Llat ;-ibu.
nal as iul!li5le. II We point on.
weak points in its reasoning, or
show wherein jts rulings are la cJu-
travsution Of the sufGem, law, we 1
ane denounced as trag0lous and +.
reaal.iogs auG unfit Tor the rights T.
and privileges Of American citizen. l
snip.
The judges who compose the I
Supreme Court Of the United States 4
are Tut men. They are learned in
tie law, they have the experience /
Of year,, they have fuu oPgoTtun-
titles to arrive at Just aud legal con-
illusions. They ought not 10 lee
biased by amy considerations Of I
politics or sTgad or policy. They I
should Interpret the law according /
to established principles and as lin
tied by tie Eal.gua! Constitution,
w-jhou. any r,gar5 TO popular senti-
mgut or personal Or public Conse-
queucc-.
10 is g-ilveus 90 SIC such 4 body
divide IN sentiment or political l
liaas. Whenever such differences I
occur, doubts as 20 the decisions and /
the motives that lei 70 Them natur-
ally arise in the thoughtful mind.
The reverence that should be felt
for 50 August 81 tribunal is naturally
lsssanad. and confidence in its iudg-
mant must necessarily bo weak
eugI.
There is one tLiug ,Eat must be
couoelsd even by persons who
make such great pTetelee Of veuera-
tioa for tIa court. That j.. 1t is a {
body composed Of puhilc servants,
who's gilciaI acts are open 10 pub
dc criticism as much As those Of
officers in the legislative or execu-
tiva branches cC The government. !,
And wheu they make mistakes OF
are evidently swaycI by extrau,ous c
Influence, il is the right q all and !
the duty Of some men % Iolut out i
and dissent from tHeir erroneous J
rulings !
II "a .'.Ia-non' attempts to 10
this, be is ae-aiIei ut once rs dis. T.
loyal, 80 ami all kinds OF opgrobrious
cpIthut~ are lyngpu upon him. And o
il lac he man OF influence in his d
Church or am2nS lis people. the
Church Itself is sought 70 Ire maize o
responsible for his uttgrauccs. n
We hav, taken OCCASION at differ
cut times TO show wherein some o
decisions oi the Supreme Court are
ia violation Of constitutional rys;rle-
items and established principles OF a
Jurisprudence. But the Church 10 q
which we have the honor Of helong-
Ing has never issued any manifesto. d
DR. given Any instructions. OF taken p
any action Of this character Il ha-
.'een silent on the subject. And vet e
.he Mormon Church is reprc- O.
scented. continually, by tine paper in Il
which the above headlines are dis 81
played, as setting it-alf W. 10 decide
.'s itself and its ngaGgrs Is to the So
''nsri,utiouaiity Of laws which
nave been T1escj upon BY the Sup "
'rme Court. 81
The Mormon" Church has il
iever done anything Of the kind
When the supreme Court speaSs Of V
as "a cguiumaci5sis organization, :
{ goes outside the record in the h'
ase before it and outside Of the
acts aai is just Is much mistaken "
: it mcst nave been in Gle out Of ~
IS -"o exactly opposite rulings in 'i
he original Iaekayc-' case. go
Fidelity 70 American institutions III
'ya.'y To the Republic. rr.lty to
he Federal government. 10 not rs- IA
aire The worship q: any pcrscn c.. 40
Ithogity IN tine land. nor Gemln5 ae
lm3 acIuie-ccHce in any act ola
ua!!a servant or holy. The So pa
reme Cnar, Of the United States. IN,
e ase =crEy 10 say,has exposed Itself
public criticism ami has made ca'
ANY csresi0us blunEers. Let those '-''
no wish 30, shuttle ewes to the
.2i that it has repeatedly reversed
S own rulings, and done so uuwit- ,
nE'E, having overlooked It's own 49,,
cord. But We take the liberty Of m n
'euinE or eyes ans looking At the
lns- ~ they are, AMI 40 not think uis
~ is any more Ike wisdom be- DeiI
use dispiaye! by supreme Judges wa. VA.
Y that wrong j. male right be- rem
use il : embodied I'm railing by new
e high s. legal tribunal. wit
Ia tle decisions Of the majority c,lii
taat court IN the two recent cssFs ijo5i
.ec;ing she members Of the sAIor- the
1U" Church who have not vic. mar
ed the law, the court has not only P ~
red in : disregard u the Con a
tuion, but also in reference to tim
e Claims OF counsel represent nee
g them. Il ms put statements in ~
G mouths II counsel that they N
TeE uttered aud argued against a hav
si.ian that they never assumed mai
I'd, iar,Eer, it actually announced ~ :, =
Be ''Iubiic policy'' Influenced its yoir
oisions and showed tat public com
fJAaise swayed it, when only law tain
II equity should have been SUI
ame.