The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-12-10

ers in government employ.
I also renew my recommendation. that
the principle of the eight hour day should
as rapidly and as far c. practicable 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.
ii THE COURTS. y
1 most earnestly T upon the congress
the duty of increasing the totally mad
equate salaries now given to our judges.
servants who do as valuable work, nor
whose moneyed reward 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
s,Jms "a p s1naE se on9aars st to Vac pe iRs alu
would earn in private life that The per-
formance Of public service by them
implies an exceedingly heavy ~pecuniary
sacrifice.
It 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 severity
Vor only the very criminals whom it is
most desirable to punish. These long de-
lays IN the final decisions of cases make
III Lne aSSTSSal6 Il CRYING evil! and a
remedy should be devised. Much of this
i~ntolerable delay IS due to improper re-
gard paid to technicalities which are a
nero hindrance to justice. In some noted
recent cases this over regard for techni-
~calities has resulted in a striking denial
Of Justice and Migrant wrong to the
At the last election certain leaders of
organized labor made a violent and
Sweeping sS attack upon the entire judiciary
terms as to include the most upright.
honest and broad minded judges, no less
than those of narrower mind and more
restricted optlook. 1t was the kind Of at
tack admirably fitted to prevent any sue
cessfnl attempt to reform abuses Of the
or the unjust judge their eagerly desired
opportunity to shift their ground into a
champllonship OF just judges who were
mouse committee on the judiciary, these
same labor leaders formulated their de-
mands, specifying the bill that contained
lhey wished the principle of that bin or
nothing. They Insisted on a provision
mat IN a labor dispute no Injunction
81 h9uld issue except to protect a property
tight and specifically provided 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 laoor dispute any act or agreement by
OF between two or more persons that
a single person. In other words, this bill
tegallzed blacklisttng and boycotting in
every form, legalizing, for instance, those
anthracite coal strike commission SO UNI
reserVedly condemned; while the right to
o car yro On a business was explicitly taken
law throws over properly. The demand
was made that there should be trial by
seriously impatring the authority of the
courts. All this represented a course of
policy which, if carried out, would mean
the e~nthronernent of class privilege in its
crudest and most brutal form, and the
of one of the most essential
functions of he judiciary in all civilized
Attack Too Crude.
The Violence of the crusade for this leg
t tIs t and it's complete. failure. illus
people should learn. In the first place
9hey ought to teach the workingman the
the wageworker, that by de-
plays into the hands of his foes. Such
"a crude and vicious attack upon the
c ces + e gye,n,d II 1t were temporarily sue
a violent reaction and would band the
great mass Of citizens together, forcing
petent and incompetent alike rather fbi,
to see the wheels of justice stopped. A
movement OF this kind can ultimately re-
whose behal Il is nominaIiy undertaken NJ
This Is a most healthy truth, which it ia
m miss fsa al ba eei people o. hat to e ]essn. :. Any Any
which at times assumes the name Of
Class conseiousness'' is certain ulti-
ceeds, to do far reaching damage. aClass
consciousness" where it Is merely ans
other name for the odious vice. Of class
seifshness, is equally noxious, whether in
an employers association or In a work
ingman's association. The movement in
was made to all w~orkingmen to vote
as individuals Of a certain class in sou soe
Tevolta the more high Minded '' and if fae
sighted among the persons to whom 1t is
addressed. and in the second place tends
70 arouse a strong antagon1sm among ali
.pther classes OF citizens, whom it there.
Tore + tends to unite against the very or
h result is therefore unfortunates
truth, by the Way, VIII be learned earns n By : thy
fishing in MS country an important ma
Iional party based on such class CON
tTI9husne ase and selfish he class ass Interest;
saooring men Of the country, by the way
IN IN. which they %repudiated the effort to
get them to cast their votes in response
Americanism., The whole country has
stnrdy to feel pride in this attitude of
nneutay ~dependenc in this uncompro-
nnising insistence upon acting simply as
Out GUT re eeslTdhs; as coed Americans. with
class interests. Such an attitude IS an
OBJECT lesson in good citizenship to the
AtA1e nation. f#t1 t.
R~eactionaries Should Pause
But the extreme reactionaries. the per-
sons VINO blind themselves to the wrongs
now and. then committed by the courts on,
lADorlng men, should also think seriously
as 70 what such a movement as this por-
TENDS. The judges who have shown them
serves able and willing effectively to
check the dishonest activity of the very
Tlch man who works iniquity by the mis-
managemen of corporations, who have
SHOWN themselves alert to do justice to
me WageWorker. and sympathetic with
the needs Of the mass of our people. so
= the dWeler In the tenement houses.
me man who practices a dangerous trade,
the man who is crushed by excessive
hours OF labor. feel that their needs are
judges, the judges of the stamp of the
pIesioentLelect, who have been fearless
IN opposing labor when 1T has gone
wrong, but fearless also in holding 10
slTlct account corporations that work
thlQulty. and far sighted in seeing thai
me workingman gets his rights. are the
men OF all Others to whom we owe it that
I Inc appeal for such violent and mistaken
tsgisla!on mas fallen on deaf ears, that
the agitation for its passage proved to be
without substantial b:lsis.
Inc courts are jeopardized primarily nv
tns action of these federal and stat to
Judges VINO show inability ar nnuiiIina