The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-09

be granted during summer to all wage workers in government employ
 also renew my recommendation Chat the principle Of the clght-hour day should as rapidly and as far as practicable be extended to the entire work being carried on by the govern ment; the present law should be amended to embrace contracts on those public works which the present wording of the act seems to exclude,
 The Courts.
 J most earnestly urge upon the cou- gress 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 val- uabe work, nor whose mouoyed rec ward is so inadequate compared to their work Beginning with the su- preme court the judges should have their salaries doubled. It is not be- fitting the dignity of the nation that ifs most honored public servants should be paid sums so small 'com- pared to what they would earn in pri- Vate life that the performance of pub- He service by them implies an exceed Ingly heavy pecuniary sacrifice.
 It fig 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 operate with pecu- liar severity against persons of small means, and favor only the very crm- lnals whom it is most desirable to punish. These long delays in the final decisions of cases make in the aggre- gate a crying evil, and a remedy should be devised. Much of this in- tolcrahle delay is due to improper re- l gard paid to technicalities which arc a mere hindrance to justice. In some noted recent cases this over-regard for l technicalities 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 a violent and sweeping attack upon the entire judi ciary of the country, an attack couched in such terms as 10 Include the most upright, honest and broad minded judges. no less than those of narrower mind and more restricted outlook. It was the kind of attack admirably fitted to prevent any sue cessful attempt to reform abuses of the judiciary. because it gave the champions of the unjust judge their eagerly desired opportunity to shift their ground into a championship of just judges who were miustly assail- ed, Last year before the house com mittee on the judiciary. these same labor leaders formulated their de- mands, specifying the bill that con tatned them, refusing all compromise, stating they wished the principle of that bill or nothing They insisted on a provision that in labor dispute no injunction should issue except to pro- tect property right. and specifically provided that the right to carry on busness should not be construed as a property right; and in a second pro- vision their bill made legal in a labor hA'fhA' any d'A VI elbifflll'lll liN NI between two or more persons that would not have been unlawful if done by single person In other words this bill legalzed blacklisting and boy cotting in every form legalizing, for instance. those forms of the secondary boycott which the anthracite coal strike commission so unreservedly con . ! Il 1,D ts business was explicitly taken out from under that protection which the law throws over property Tho demand was made that there should be trlal by jury in contempt cases, thereby most seriously impairing the authority of the courts All this represented a course of policy which, if carried out would mean the enthronement of class privilege in its crudest and most bru. tai form and the destruction of ont of the most essential functions of tho Judiciary in all civilized lands.
 The violence of the crusade for thi, legislation, and its complete failure
 Illustrate two truths which 1t is essen tial our people should learn In tho
 first place, they ought to teach tho workingman. the lahorer, the wage. worker, that by demanding what ie improper and impossible he plays Into the hands of his foes. Such a crude and vicious attack upon the courts even if it were temporarily successful
 would inevitably in the end cause Q
 violent reaction and would band tht
 great mass of citizens together, fore, !, ing them to stand by all the judges competent and Incompetent alike
 rather than to see the wheels of jus
 tice stopped A movement of thli kind can ultimately result in nothlnf
 but damage to those In whose behal
 it fig nominally undertaken. This ls {
 most healthy truth, which it is wis,
 for all our people to learn. An,
 movement based on that class hatred which at times assumes the name O
 "class consciousness" is certain ulti mately to fail, and, if 1t temporarily succeeds, to do far-reaching damage Glass consciousness, where it fl
 merely another name for the odiou
 vice of class selfshness, fig equally nox , ious whether in an employers associ alton or in a workingman's assocIa ton. The movement in question wa one in which the appeal was made {, all workingmen to vote primarily, no , as American citizens, but as indlvid uals of a certain class in society, Sucl an appeal in the first place, revolt the more hiGh-minded and far-sightec , among the persons to whom 1t is ad dressed and, in the second place tends to arouse q strong antagonisn i among all other classes of citizens whom 1t therefore tends to unit against the very organization on who's f behalf if is issued. Tho result is therefore, unfortunate from ever.
 standpoint. This healthy truth, D. IIt.- 1.ya I,s l.,t