The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-11
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M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
w,cu,TA.HAo HER DAY IN COURT.


IF ever our present form government is overturned
in revolution it will be from the injustice OF quo
Hing courts than from expressions of unequal laws Tbs
higher the court the nfntessal the halrspittns
Eouty cuts little or no figure the decisions of the su
peror and supreme courts of today No supreme cour
ever decides anything if it possibly dodge dong so
Tecbuicates and presidents at once their reuse
and reliance Justice and equity are never caught sign
of while law comes for attention only when cieeo VI
when it is found to with the predictions ana
desires of the court thing about the superior
and supreme courts of land, state and federal ano
that the people recognize fact that except IN such
cases where public sentiment very pronounced they
have little or no against corporations Inc So
ciaistc forces gathering in this country To-Day are
prompted and melted from the delays ana quiz
bling interpretations of laws by the courts than the Ell
acment and attempted execution of said laws The pr
cipal complaint of the Popuist party was that there va"
too much government by injunction. If revolution
should occur the first thing that the people would 90
would be to reorganize the courts.
AS we say in our caption Wichita has had her day in
court That day day before yesterday and it was in
the supreme court of the United Wichita waited
ten years for day yesterday The majority OF the
people interested in the complaint whose rights were
involved in the suit probably dead have gone out
of business who president Of the corpora
ton against whom the suit brought is long since
dead The man who vice president and general
manager of the Missouri Pacific dead The United
States attorney who brought the suit is dead Inc case
was as plain one of discrimination the violation of
the 'ong and haul" and of the Gin restraint OF
commerce" of the law ever brought And
what years waiting, the decision? Any
body can read himself 1t in the Associated
Press news yesterday The decision is follows in
common everyday newspaper language: That the inter
state commerce commissioners had given the case
hearing that the court but by this time
the railroad is dong the thing by Wichita; that if it
is not there is the new Elkns law under which
be instituted by Wichita; that the courts below
are therefore reversed and the remanded In other
words the supreme court does not udiciay know for
certain that Wichita had and that in the
probability that she did not have she had better
start one which, if it should prove as lucky as
the present pretended one by the end of another
ten years she might get decision remandng the
new case coupled the suggestion that under
new law to be enacted years hence might again
sttlte another suit
What Wichita wanted of the supreme court
decision whether of not the Missouri Pacific rail
was or was not violating the law in charging Wichita
about double for like commodity hauled the same
line the same direction day, and under like
dtons that was charged other points distant
having furnished proof of the fact that such
excessive charges were made collected the railway
not even denying the averment That is what Wichita
waited years for. What she really got under the
decision you by hiring lawyer to tell
you otherwise readers the plaintiff in the will
accept Interpretation. And all this only
as a possibility in the that the Elkins bill which
ran up against repealed knocking the
props the suit hereafter to be insti-
tuted.
De Tocqville-we think that his name-once de-
cared that the American people would wake up to the
fact day. that instead of this government being
composed of the legislative the executive and the Judi
cary it consisted one and that the which
makes the laws by Interpretation rather than by enact
ment, the judiciary. We have wakened up. Mr.. De T.