The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-14
HaiIsne Eaals
70 NEw suPREME JusTlcE.
M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.

President Roosevelt whose vitality and vgor OF III
tative marks everything he touches has added to al
element which is becoming stronger on the supreme
bench of the United States by the appointment CT oVe
Wendell Holmes of Massachusetts
Holmes is intensely human has blood coursng in his
veins beating heart that does not dsdain small
rights and a hand that put down a statement SC
that the ordinary intellect grasp it.
This is good 1t will reinforce the Brewer element on
the bench which is not yet large enough by means
The text of the insuar decisions the last notable
document handed down by the most powerful body Of
men in our Republic was by all odds the sorrest piece
Of English in great the world has ever seen
All the rdcue heaped it for its lack OF
literary merit that majority decision deserved 1t was
upon the whole so coossally ambiguous stupidity in
volved and so little direct and decisive it's sentences
that for hysix hours public comment from the press
and BAR usually quick in response in matters OF this
kind stood benumbed dumb and in several instan-
ces able attorneys of national repute differed to its
meaning
Oliver Wendell Holmes will produce Of that kind.
Here his opinion the right OF labor to Or
ganize which is commended for its drectness:
zone of the eternal conflicts of which life is made
up that between the effort of every TO get the
most he can for his services that of society dis
guised under the capital get his services for
the least possible return Combination the side
is patent and powerful Combination the ether side
is the necessary and desirable counterpart if the battle
is to be carried on in a fair and equal way"
And Holmes will take to the bench other elements,
the increase Of which will not hurt it. Ne has more
than the legal side him. been soldier scholar
scientist and legal writer He will not withdraw himself
10 the calm cold heights, which of the supreme
bench effect where in sort of judicial clairvoyanee
man appears as nothing, and the law which made
for him as everything.
Holmes so his biographies declare, has thought
of the individual citizen of the nation his aims tenden
cies and beliefs.
His appointment means that the supreme bench is i'm
proving IN this line and the justices who of his kid
aey already will have help
At all events. goodly number Of the attorneys of
the country are rejoicing press and becomes
aware Of the meaning change general public
The new justice has seen his part of life He
born in Boston March s. 1s41 His father the world
physician poet philosopher, Dr. Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, and his mother Amelia Lee Jackson,
still remembered sparkling belle Oliver Jr. received
his early education at Dxwels private school,
tefed Harvard and graduated in 1861. when he
but 20 years old He class poet and read his poem
commencement but he wrote his verses while wear
ing the uniform of private the United States army
having joined Seensos battery at Fort independence
the 4th of the preceding April
On July 10 the same year he was commissioned
lieutenant in the Twentieth regiment commanded by
Colonel William Raymond Lee and departed Immediately
for the front was wounded in the breast at Balls
Bluff October 21 1851, in the at Anetam on Sep
tember L. 1852 the at the second Federcks
burg in May 1868 Six months before the battle of An
tietam Lieutenant Holmes promoted TO a captaincy
ana two months after the engagement Fredericksburg
made a lieutenant colonel though his regiment had
been to that his appointment never became
operative.
When the war Colonel Holmes returned to
Boston studied law first in the office of R. NJ Morse
and afterward in that of George Shstuck He received
Ii. B. from the Harvard Law School, and was admit
ted TO the bar in 1866 He edited twelfth edition of
'Kents Commentaries" and from 1870 to 1873 was ed
tor of the American Review finally entering the
active practice of his profession shattuck Monroe
He selected Lowell lecturer in 1880 published
notable essay Early English Equity" and wrote what
is considered standard work on The Common Law"
Colonel Holmes appointed associate justice of
the of Massachusetts, in 1882 received the
degree OF Ii B. from Yale 1886 and in 1899 though
the youngest of justices was raised to the chief place
on the bench by wolcott he married
Miss Fannie Dixwen of Cambridge in 1872
SACRIFICING A CROWN FOR LOVE.