The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-12-09

| general governmental schemes tnal
most European governments have fonnd
| themselves Obliged TO adopt
| our present system, or rather nc
| SYSTEM works dreadful wrong, and Il
| of benefit To only one class of people
the lawyers When a workman is in
jured what he needs is not an expensive
and doubtful lawsuit. but the certainty
of relief through immediate admin
| cidents which result in the death of
Gripping of wageworkers. in the Union
| at large. Is simply appalling in a very
few years ii runs UP 10 "A total lar IN
excess of the aggregate of the dead and
wounded of any modern war. No
academic theory about freedom of
! contract" or constitutional liberty 10
contract should be permitted To in
| terfere with this and similar move
| ments. Progress in civilization has
| everywhere meant a limitation and
/ special attention To the bulletin of
| the Bureau Of abor which gives a
/ statement of the methods of treating
/ the unemployed in European countries
| as this is a subject which in Germany,
/ for instance. is treated in connection
with making provisions for Worn out
and cripple working men
THE COURTS.
most earnestly urge upon the Con-
sres the duty of increasing the totally
! Judges. On the whole there is no
body of public servants who do as
valuable work. nor whose moneyed re-
ward is 50 Inadequate compared to their
work. beginning with the Supreme
Court the Judges should have their
salaries doubled, 1t is not betting
the dignity of the Nation that its most
honored public servants should be paid
sums 50 small compared To what they
would earn in private life that the pre-
formanee of public service by them
implies an exceedingly heavy pecuniary
sacrifice.
1t is earnestly to be desired that
some method should be devised for
doing away with the long delays which
now obtain in the administration of
justice. and which operates with peeu-
liar severity against persons of small
means. and favor only the very Grim
inals whom il is most desirable to pun
ish. These long delays in the final
decisions of cases make in the ag-
gregate crying evil, and remedy
should be devised Much of this in
tolerable delay is due To improper re-
gard paid TO technicalities which are
mere hindrance To justice. In some
noted recent cases this over-regard
for teehniealities has resulted in a
striking denial of justice. and fragrant
wrong to the body polite.
At the last election certain leaders
OF organized labor made IA violent
and sweeping attack upon the entire
judiciary of the country, an attack
couched in such terms as to include
the most upright. honest and broad
minded judges, no less than those of
narrower mind and more restricted
outlook. 1t WAS The kind Of attack
admirably fitted 10 prevent any sue
eessful attempt to reform abuses of the
judiciary. because il gave the cham
pions Of the unjust Judge their efgerly
desired opportunity 10 shift their
ground into a championship of just
Judges who We're un1ustly assailed.
Last year. before the House COM
mittee on the Judiciary. these same
labor leaders formulated their dema nds
specifying the bill that contained them.
refusing all compromise, stating they
wished the principle of that bill or
nothing. They insisted on a provision
should be issued except TO protect
property right, and specifically provid-
Cd that the right TO carry on business
should not be construed as a property
right. and in a second provision their
bill made legal in a labor dispute any
act or agreement by or between two
or more persons that would not have
been unlawful If done by single per-
son. In other words this bill legalized
blacklisttng and boycotting in every
form. legaliziug, for instance. those
forms of the secondary boycott which
the anthracite coal strike commission
50 unreservedly condemned while the
right 10 carry on a business was ex-
plicitly taken out from under that pro-
lection which the law throws over
property. The demand was made that
there should be a trial by jury in con-
tempt cases, thereby most seriously
imparing the authority of the courts.
All this represented a course of policy
which, If carried out. would mean the
enforcement of class privilege in its
crudest and most brutal form, and the
destruction OF one of the most essential
functions of the judiciary in all CIV
ilized lands.
The violence Of the crusade for this
legislation. and its complete failure,
illustrate two truths which ii is essen
tial our people should learn. In the first
place, they ought To teach the working
man. the laborer. the wageworker. that
by dena nding what Is improper and
! impossible he plays fnro the hands of
/ his foes. such crude and vicious
attack upon the courts, even II IL We're
temporarily successful. would in
exitably in the end cause a violent re-
action and would band the great mass
Of citizens together, forcing them to
stand by all the judges. competent and
incompetent alike. rather than To see
the wheels of justice stopped. move
ment of this kind can ultimately result
| in nothing but damage TO those in
whose behalf IL is nominally UNDER
taken. This is a most healthy truth
which IL is wise for all our people to
learn. Any movement based on that
class hatred which at times assumes
the name of "class consciousness" is
certain ultimately to fail, and If 1t
temporarily succeeds, to do far reach
ing damage. Glass consciousness"
where it is merely another name for
the odious vice of class selfishness, is
equally noxious no matter where 1t
Is found. The movement in
question was one In which the appeal
was made to all working men TO vote
primarily. not as American citizens,
but as individuals Of a certain class In
society Such an appeal in the first
place reVolts the more high minded
and far sighted among the persons to
whom II is addressed, and in the second
place tends To arouse q strong an
tagonism among all other classes Of
/ citizens. whom ii therefore tends to
unite against the very orga nization on
whose behalf il is issued This healthy
truth. by the way. viii be learned by
the socialists ii they ever succeed in
establishing in this country an inn
portant national party based on such
class consciousness and selfish class
interest.
The wageworker, the workingmen.
the iaboring men OF the country by
the way in which they repudiated the
effort to get them to east tehir votes
IN response to an appeal to class hatred
have emphasized their sound patriotism
and Amercansm. The whole country
has cause to feel pride in this attitude
OF sturdy Independence in this un-
compromising insistenee upon acting
simply as good citizens. as good Amer
leans without regard to fancied--and
improper--class interests. Such an
attitude is an object lesson in good
citizenship to the entire nation.
The chef law makers In on. country
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