Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-09
THE COURTS

most earnestly urge upon the congress the
duty of increasing the totally inadequate
salaries now given to our judges. On the
whole there is no body of public servants who
do as valuable work, nor whose moneyed re-
ward is so 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 so small compared to what they would
earn in private life that the performance a
public service by them implies an exceed
ingly heavy peeuniary 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 adj
Of JUSTICE and which operate with
peculiar severity against persons OF small
MEANS and favor only the very criminals
whom it is most desirable to punish. These
long delays in the final decisions OF cases make
in the aggregate a crying evil; and remedy
should be devised. Much Of this intolerabie
delay is due to improper regard to technlealues
which are mere hlndrance 10 JUSTICE IN
some noted recent cases this over-regard Tor
has resulted in a striking denial
of justice, and fragrant wrong to the BODY
polite.
ganfzed labor made a violent and sweeping
attack upon the entire judiciary of the coun-
try, an attack oouched in such terms as 70
include the most upright, honest ana proao-
minded judges no less than those of narrower
mind and more restricted outlook II was the
kind of attack admirably fitted to prevent any
successful attempt to reform abuses OF the
judiciary, because 1t gave the champions OF
the unjust judge their eagerly desired oppor-
tunity TO shift their ground into a champion
ship OF just judges who were unjustly assailed.
Last year, before the house committee on the
judiciary, these same labor leaders formu-
lated their demands, specifying the bill that
contained them, refusing all compromise, stat
ing they wished the principle of that bill or
They insisted on provision that in
a labor dispute injunction should issue ex-
eept to protect a property right, and speci1-
cally provided that the right to carry on bust
ness should not be construed as property
right; and in a second provision their blll
made legal in a labor dispute any act or agree
ment by or between two more persons that
would not have been unlawful If done by 9
single person. In other words this bill legal
lied blacklisting and boycotting in every form,
Iegalizing, for instance. those forms Of the
secondary boycott which the anthracite coal
strike commission so unreseryedly condemned
while the right to carry on business was
explicitly taken out from under that protec-
ton which the law throws over property. The
demand was made that there should be trial
by Jury in contempt cases, thereby most seri-
ousiy impairing the authority of the courts
All this represented 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
civilized lands.