The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-10

true ef our various state -nue,itu-
Itious.
what has happened From \ .imji
IatteWpt to grasp "A pows- not be-
qucathed II By the ConStitution-au
Iattempt which vas ignored and de-
fed by President Jefferson and in
ilater years by President IincaIn-fho
courts have reached out AMI taken f,
themselves power nntii ~ the pre~rns
time We are living under Il form Or
government which can be described
only as a "iudicracy."
The OF our national Constl-
tuition voted BY an Overwhelming ma
iJ"rity against the modest proposal
that the judiciary be called into con
l~sulfatIpH before a bin Mas offered for
passage. ii being urged that Congress
should take advantage 81 their wis
dom 10 experience. The majority
declared that the judiciary should
have nothing to do with egislation."
Since you are a scholar and a his
t"rian. senate Lodge, you surely are
familiar with this fact and viii sub
atantiate my statement.
what find We now. After wears ia
which the American people have had
the in~fallibility Of the judiciary dinneI
INTO their ears. we have arrived ut 4
time hen we are the only nation on
the earth in which an individual can
by 4 judicial pull absolutely nulIIfg
the mandate Of the people as ex-
pressed in its Legislature ana en-
d"rsed by It's executive. and we call
our government a "%republic.'
Right at the present We find
President Roosevelt checked and
crippled by a judicial decision which
declares mmune corporate criminals
enmeshed in a just law demanded b.
the people and passed by Congress.
Hardly q week passes without the
PRONUNCIATION of some decision which
the press pronOunceS as most sweep
ing in its scope and overthrowing all
established ~precedentS. These de
cisions' are so numerous and con-
hcting that IL Wisest legal talent IS
C~Onfounded.
Instead Of an orderly administra-
tlon by our of laws passed
by our legislatures we have arrived
at a condition of judicial anarchy in
which the dictum of one court is ig-
nored or overruled by another ana
in which the officers of the law not
only do not know their duty. but are
beWildered and helpless.
Ralzac aid tn a INT which
had forty thousand laws had no law.
We have twice forty thousand laws
and as many "decisions' on each of
them, and if You know of any man in
this country who knows what the law
II vi LII SUBJECT you nav e Il piece VI
exclusive information.
And o rise in the Senate and SOL
EMMY declare that gray dangers
Turk in the readiness to criticise the
courts which administer our Justice
| wish to record my opinion that the
gravest danger which, this
country is the coWardice of it's Con-
gless in failing to meet q judicial
situation which has become intoIer-
able and which cannot much longer be
endured.
1t is not of the slightest permanent
consequence whether or not Commits
sioner Prouty's charge is true that the
courts are owned by the railroads.. We
preVent corporations from us
politicians. 1t is of overwhelming
consequence if the Legislation which
will be demanded by the people in re-
straint of corporate aggression is to be
nugatory by courts, be they
or dishonest.
Permit me to tell you something,
Senator Lodge. The time is past
when the whispered a~dnonitions.
platitudes, uplifted eyes NJ
d~eprecatory gestures eve of men of
your dignity and influence can hold
dammed-uD flood of protest
a continuance of these abuses.
| wish also to remind You that judic-
interference with the rights of the
American people is not an institution
has been handed down from
the forefathers: it is a weapon fash
lOned by self-intereSt, and it has been
tolerated only because of ignorance.
The people of the United States will
DOT permanently surrender to judicial
ancroachers their blood-bought right
o pass and enforce laws for their self
government. 1t is their prerogative to
say to the courts 10Y far they shall
go, and they will not fall down and
Worship something they nav created
can unmake.
FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS.