The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-08-01
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amount.
There is trouble brewing in the
Zenith city over the probable approval
creasing telephone rates. The tele-
phone company has asked permission
to increase it's rates from $50 to $3S u
year for business telephones and from
500 to 1924 for residence telephones. A
special committee from the city coun-
Gil is said to favor the increase and the
business men are up in arms in conse.
quence. Why this committee should
agree to raise the rates is a question.
1t cannot be that they are acting on
the advice of their constituents. Such
course seems impossible. Has the
Zenith City Telephone company done
so much for Duluth that it's aldermen
can afford to saddle additional taxes
on the people? The present telephone
council should guard the rights of the
city at all hazards instead of making
the peoples burdens heavier. Any
change in this respect should first be
left for the people to pass upon. If
they approve of it, then let their serv-
ants, the aldermen, act accordingly.
1t is time the members of all city coun-
ellis should open their eyes to the fact
that they are elected to guard and
protect the interests of those who put
them in power and not to use that
power to increase the burdens of the
people who elected them. Let the
businessmen and taxpayers of Duluth
bestir themselves, hold Indignation
meetings and make it so unpleasant
for those aldermen who favor such a
nefarious scheme, that they will be
forced to abandon their attempt at
highway robbery, for it is nothing else.
They should publish the names of
those aldermen so that everyone in the
city and state will know who they are
and how false they are to the sacred
trust reposed in them.
10 the casual observer of the daily
press it must appear that there is an
unusually large amount of crime all
over the country. The race war in
the South was the first incentive to
what appears to have developed into
a national disgrace. Every issue of
our daily papers contains some terrible
crime and why is the question not vet
answered.? Is it that laws are too lax
or rather the enforcement of them?
Doubtless, at times, it would seem
that justice was too slow, but even
that cannot justify the wholesale
lynchings that have recently taken
place. We are quickly becoming IL
disgrace to the world at large. 1t
would appear that mere moral suaslon
is powerless in the face of the reckless
ness of some sections of the country,
particularly south of U.S. We are hap
py to say the people of the northern
states have shown disposition to
'cI eiAC ii" thNe IT'S CouiSe, DIS was
particularly noticeable in our own
state few days ago when colored
man WAS arrested for brutally beating
i; lady. He was arrested. but no mob
violence showed its hand. When the
proper time comes he will get a fair
trial. and if found guilty will be pun
ished accordingly If the courts OF
the South would punish crime accord
ing to it's enolmity, there would he
fewer cases Of lynching and our coun.
try would not be forced to blush as it
has. The courts must realize their
duty and do it fearlessly and as long
as they continue to throttle justice
Just so long will the whole civilized
world he shocked by crimes which
should be unknown in this enlightened
country of orlrs. A local paper, COM
menting on the injustice of blaming
the courts for their inactivity says the
people themselves and not the courts
are at fault. 1t truthfully remarks
that the judges are the creatures of
the people, and the latter are to blame
for not selecting good strong men for
the bench; men who know the value
of law and have the force of character
and requisite amount of determination
to administer it as they find it. Yes.
but the best of us can and are very
often deceived in what will make good
judicial timber, and once elected to
office such a man is very rarely re.
moved. He encumbers the office six
years and may, through his cowardice,
cause more trouble in that time than
can be remedied in ten years. A judge
takes the oath of office and when con-
victed criminals come before him he
should treat them as they deserve.
We cannot excuse the bench and
blame the public, as our daily contem<
pOrary does.
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