The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-10-25
THE POWER OF JUDGES
NOW RULE THE PEOPLE AS JEFFERSON FEARED
WOULD BE THE CASE

The constantly increasing usrpaion Of power by the Federal
judiciary calling hard raps the public press and the
San Francisco Examiner attacks the present Judicial system:
I'm civilized life the law place OF the fighting
among savages
he law the power defend the weak control the
erfu protect honest property prevent oppression stimulate progress
Iby preserving equality of opportunities.
he law the great weapon created by the people for their
defense But like every other weapon the law can cut both ways
and the people having created the careless as to
the hand that wds it. their creation will be curse instead
Iof blessing
In this country there has thought among the people
las to the laws should live Excellent laws have been
passed of the best Of them have been destroyed by
Judges and these Judges knowingly corrupt prl
diced so out with the people paying their salaries that it
was an outrage to from the corporation law office where
they breahed natural air. and them on the bench TO continue
their corporate work.
"The people of the United States have got think about
their Judges judges the real rulers Of the country
and the Judge who behind him the dishonest corporation cannot
possibly his mind the interests Of the people
he power Of the judges was briefly and oOmpreensivey eS
pressed by his address to the independence
| League delegates in New York City, follows
Il saw the judiciary be the most important,
for this reason: The Legislature has the power to make
the laws if majority OF the legislators in favor OF
them the executive has the power the laws unless
twothirds of legislators in favor OF them but the
judiciary has the power the laws if all the legislators
! in favor of them
Ve believe fail to reaze the exact
part Judge plays civilization In the quotation ABOVE
that part 5 made perfectly plain
BY gradual process of usupaton taking to themselves more
and more power Jefferson feared they would do the judges have
succeeded in making themselves real and absolute rulers OF this
country.
All the people Of the United States the Congress OF the United
States decided vain great should be taxed They
passed an law compel man with ve ten or tort
millions income year. give Of that income to the nation
that protects him But the judges sitting bench one
Of them turning and reversing his former don
had the power say all the people and to Congress- You shall
not have that law you shall those incomes
and the incomes taxed they are not taxed and they
will not be you put the bench judges that represent
the opinions the public and that do not consciously OF unoo
sciousy represent those big incomes only
1T an insult to ordinary intelligence that our country
lconst1on will not the great incomes to be taxed
The nation has power 60 widow take her only son
and send him to war to killed hasn't that nation power
enough to 90 to Mr. Rockefeller and take small part OF ms IN
come of twenty forty. fifty millions to help support ne gov
ernnent that protects him in that fortune'
yet you judges that tell that you cannot tax me @
fortune.
And YOU have judges by request OF corporations tell you
that vornigren cannot meet talk discuss their own aars
One Judge SAYS the constitution will permit income tax An
other Judge says the constitutions clause guaranteeing e Ts
free speech is null when applied to worSmgmen
you have judges viii give injunction to the big man
against the little one shameful instances OF connlvanee
by which judges made themselves the useful tools OF me ~
and most shameful financial criminals in the country
he people Of the United ruled not by the laws they
make but by judges that they put on the bench lh must %
The means to punish ghen judges that msrepet ana
bav them and they must make their business to elect judges
! that will not msrepresen betray them
e Collins the irrepressb launch Sunday paper IN Bose
shorty which promises to be lively affair As understand the
prospectus it is to be fuedgd newspaper with teeaphc news