The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-12-10

months earnings In this respect the
generosity Of the United states towards
It's employees compares most unfavora-
bly, with that of every country in Eu-
rope--even the poorest
renew my recommendation made In
previous message that hnlf-hoiidays
be granted during summer TO all wage
workers In government employ
also renew my recommendation that
the principle OF the eight-hour day
should aa rapidly and as far as practi-
cable be extended 20 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.
I most earnestly urge upon the con-
gress the duty OF Increasing the totally
Inadequate salaries now given 60 our
Judges on the whole there II no body
OF public servants who do as valuable
work. nor whose moneyed reward IL 80
Inadequate compared 10 their work Be-
ginning with the supreme court the
Judges should have their salaries dou-
bied. II II not behtting the dignity OF
the nation that Its most honored public
servants should be paid sums 80 small
compared 60 what they would earn In
private life that the performance OF
public service by them implies an er-
ceedingly heavy pecuniary sacrifice.
II ~ earnestly 20 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
IN most desirable 20 punish. These
long delays In the final decisions OF
H.. Ia As 80 n o.
evil: and a remedy shout be devised
Much Of this intoierable delay IN due
TO improper regard paid 20 technicali-
ties which are n mere hinderance 10
justice. In some noted recent cases this
over-regard for technicalitieE has re-
suited in a striking denial Of Justice.
and fragrant wrong 20 the body polite.
Labor Leaders Criticised.
Al the last election certain leaders Of
sweeping attack upon the entire judi
Nary Of the country. an attack couched
in such terms as 10 include the most
upright. honest and broad mi nded
judges no less than those OF narrower
mind and more restricted outlook
Last year. before the hodse com
mittee on judiciary. these same
labor leaders formulated their de-
mands. specifying the bill that
contained them. refusing all compro-
mise. stating they wished the principle
OF that bin or nothing. They insisted
on provision that In labor dispute
no injunction should issue except TO
protect n property right. and specificai-
ly provided that the right to carry on
business should not be construed as a
property right. and In a second provls-
ioa their bill made legal In a labor dis
pute any act or agreement by or be-
tween two or more persons that would
not have been unlawful ~ done by a
single person. In other words. this bill
iegalized blacklisting and boycotting
In every form. legalizing. for instance.
those forms OF the secondary boycott
which the anthracite coal strike com
mission SO unreservedly condemned;
while the right to carry on a 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 a course Of policy
which II 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
tial functions OF the judiciary In all civ
illzsd lands.
The violence OF the crusade for this
legislation. and its complete failure.
illustrate two truths which a. IL essen
tial our people should learn. In r.the
nrst place. they ought TO teach The
workingman the iaborer. the wage
worker. that by demanding what is i'm
proper and impossible he plays into the
hands OF his foes. Such crude and
vicious attack upon the courts. even IL
~ were temporarily successful. would
inevitably In the end cause violent
reaction and would band the great
20 stand by all the judges. competent
and incompetent alike. rather than to
see the wheels OF Justice stopped.
The wageworkers. the workingmen.
the labOring men OF the country by the
way In which they repudiated the ef-
fort to get them TO cast their votes in
response 60 an appeal 20 class hatred.
have emphasized their sound patriotism
and Americanism. Such an attitude
u an object lesson in good citizenship TO
the entire nation.
judicial System Sound.
our judicial system Is sound and
effective at core. and II remains.
and must ever he maintained, as
the safeguard of those principles OF lib
erty and justice which stand at the
foundation OF American institutions for
as Burke nneiy said. when liberty and
justice are separated. neither Is safe.
There are. however. some members OF
the judicial body who have Jagged be-
hind In their understanding OF these
great and vital changes In the body
polite whose minds have never been
opened 20 the new applications OF the old
principles made necessary by the new
conditions. Judges OF this stamp do last
ing harm by their decisions. because they
convince poor men in need OF protection
that the courts OF the land are pro-
foundly ignorant OF and out OF sympathy