The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-12-12


its employees compares most unfavora-
bly, with that Of every country in Eu-
rope-even the poorest.
I renew my recommendation made in
previous message that half holidays
be granted during summer to all wage
workers in government employ
also renew my recommendation that
the principle of the eight-hour day
should as rapidly and as far as practi-
cable be extended to the entire work
being carried on by the government;
the present law should be amended to
embrace contracts on those public
works which the present wording OF
the act seems to exclude.
Would Double Salaries OF Judges.
most earnestly urge upon the con-
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 valuable
work. nor whose moneyed reward is so
inadequate compared to their work. Be
ginning with the supreme court the
Judges should have their salaries dou-
bled. II Is not befitting the dignity OF
the nation that It's most honorcd public
servants should be paid sums so small
compared to what they would earn in
private life that the performance of
public service by them implies an ex-
cccdingly heavy pccuulary 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 operate with peculiar sever
ity against persons of small means, and
favor only the very criminals whom II
is most desirable to punish. These
long delays In the final decisions OF
cases make In the aggregate a crying
evil; and remedy shout he devised
Much OF this intolcrable delay Is due
to improper regard paid to technicali.
ties which are a mere hinderance to
Justice. In some noted recent cases this
over-reEard for tcchnlcalities has re-
suited in n striking denial OF Justice,
and fragrant wrong to the body polite.
Labor Leaders Criticised.
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 to include the most
upright. honest and broad minded
| judges. no less than those of narrower
| mind and more restricted outlook
| Last year, before the house com
mttce on judiciary, these same
| labor leaders fornulated their de-
| mands, specifying the bill that
| contained them, refusing all compro-
| mise stating they wished the principle
OF that bill or nothing. They insisted
on n provision that in n labor dispute
| no lnlunCllOn SnOulu ISSUE except TO
protect property right, and specifical-
| ly provided that the right to carry on
business should not be construed as a
| property right: and In second provis-
| ion their bill made legal in n labor dis
! pute any act or agreement by or be-
! tween two or more persons that would
| not have been unlawful II done by a
! single person. In other words, this bill
| legalized blacklisting and boycottinE
| in every form, legali2ing, for instance,
| those forms of the secondary boycott
! which the anthracite coal strike COM
| mission so unreServedly condemned;
| while the right to carry on business
was explicitly taken out from under
that protection which the law throws
| over property. The demand was made
| that there should be trial by jury in
| contempt cases thereby most seriously
! impairing the authority of the courts.
| All this represented course of policy
| which, IL carried out, would mean the
| enforcement of class privilege in Its
crudest and most brutal form, and the
| destruction Of one of the most essen
tlal functions of the judiciary in all civ
| iliZed lands.
The violence OF the crusade for this
legislation. and it's complete failure,
| illustrate two truths which II is essen
tial our people should learn. In the
first place. they ought to teach the
| workingman, the laborer, the wage
worker, that by demanding what is inn
proper and impossible he plays into the
hands OF his foes. Such crude and
| vicious attack upon the courts, even II
| II were temporarily successful, would
| inevitably in the end cause violent
reaction and would band the great
mass of citizens together, forcing them
to stand by all the Judges. competent
and incompetent alike, rather than 70
see the wheels OF Justice stopped.
-. all.
the laboring men OF the country by the
way in which they rcpudated the ef-
fort to get them to cast their votes In
response to an appeal to class hatred
have emphasized their sound patriotism
and Amercanism. Such an attitude
Is an object lesson In good citizenship tC
the entire nation.
judicial System Sound,
our judicial system is sound ant
and must ever be maintained. a.
the safeguard of those principles OF lib
erty and justice which stand at tho
foundation OF American institutions; for
as Burke finely said. when liberty and
justice are separated, neither is safe
There are, however some members o.
the judicial body who have Jagged be
hind in their understanding of Tics,
great and vital changes In the bod,
polite, whose minds have never beer
opened to the new applications of the oil,
principles made necessary by the new
conditions. Judges of this stamp do last
ing harm by their decisions, because the!
convince poor men in need OF protection
that the courts OF the land are pro
foundly ignorant OF and out OF sympath!
with their needs, and profoundly ignoran
or hostile to any proposed remedy, II
such men II seems n cruel mockery 4
have any court decide against them Of
the ground that II desires to prescrv
"liberty" In n purely technical form, b.
Withholding liberty In any real and con
structive sense.
There are certain decisions by variou
courts which have been exceedingly Diet
rimenta to the rights OF wage-workers
This is true OF all decisions that decid
that men are, by the constitution, guar
anteed their liberty" to contract to ente
a dangerous occupation, or to work a
undesirable or improper number OF hours
or to work in unhealthy surroundings
and therefore cannot recover damage
when manned in that occupation, an
cannot be forbidden to work what IN
legislature decides is an excessive mum