The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-08
BRYAN'S ATTITUDE
 ON LABOR PROBLEM
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was not smuggled through without d's- cussion II was amended In open senate and the members of the senate had ann pie opportunity to understand II. II would have passed congress and be- come a law long ago but for the fact that few large corporate employers of labor have kept a lobby in Wash ington ever since, and have been able to coerce congress into ignoring the laboring mems plea
 Mir. Taft Is not an unbiased judge where the jury system Is under con sideration He is not only known as the father of government by iniunc- ton, but he is preiudiced against the jury system Every man is uncon- sciously influenced by his environ- ment, and MT. Taft's long service upon the bench has led him to underrate the importance of the jury system. In his address to the students of Yale, entitled "A Judge on the Bench" he shows decided leaning toward an l increase of the authority of the judge, and praises the procedure in the fed eral court at the expense of the west ern courts. even though he admits that the jury system popularizes the court and gives the people to under l stand that they have not only an ln- 1 terest. but also a part in the admins- tration of justice" He has fallen ] into the error of assuming that any improvement in the method of court procedure Is an attack upon the au- thority of the court This is an an cient method of opposing reforms. Lord Macaulay had to encounter a similar objection when he favored the reform of the rotten borough system of England. Those who were oppos- ed to the reform construed it as an attack upon the throne and as men, ace to the stability of government, but the reform was secured and the gov ernment of England was improved rather than impaired So the reform attempted by the senate twelve years ago, and endorsed by three democrat- ic national conventions, Is in the in- terest of justice and has for it's object the strengthening of the court in pub- He estimation
 It is not reflection upon the judge of criminal court to say that he shall not decide upon the guilt of the accused Our criminal courts are the , better, not the worse, for the substi. tuition of trial by jury. No common law judge feels that 1t is reflection upon him when a party to a suit asks for a trial before a iury If is tht special function of a jury to decide upon the crediblity of witnesses anc the manner of witness upon the stand is often as important as hi. words in determining the weight {, be attached to his testimony. A judg, is apt to be hampered by precedent He wants this decision to harmonic, with former decisions rendered h, him, although the facts are never tn, same in two cases. The jury is bette able to decide each case upon it's mer it's
 It must be remembered, too, tha in cases of indirect contempt tn, charge is a criminal one, and that tn, punishment is hy fine or mprison ment All the reasons that apply t, criminal cases apply to thesea cases 0 indirect contempt, and the abuses {, be removed by the proposed law ar those that have grown up because o the increased tendency of the grea corporations to use the writ of injunc ton to avoid the jury trial
 |, The democratic platform propose