The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-12-10
II COURTS.


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i most earnestly urge upon the congress
the duty of increasing the totally mad
equate salaries now given to our Judges
On the whole, there Is no body OF publ,
servants who do as valuable work. moi
whose moneyed reward Is SO inadeduat,
compared to their work. Beginning witt
their salaries doubled. II is not befttinl
the dignity of the nation tina its mos
honored public servants should be paic
would earn in private life that the per,
torrance OF public service by then
implies an exceedingly heavy pecuniary
II is earnestly to be desired that some
method should be devised for doing away
with the long delays which now obtain
w , che snerafa w lien Of Justice: and
against persons of small means. and IA
vor only the very criminals whom 1t Is
iaSSs' in nef the mai % dPe SnIiisa; These as.a lon de.
remedy should be devised. Much OF this
s Hard pa,S "a Sela sscb Is due to improper re-
mere h~indrance to justice. In some noted
recent cases this over regard for techni-
cahties has resulted In q striking denial
OF justice and fagrant wrong to the
At the last election certain leaders of
orsanized LABOR made a violent and
sweeping attack upon the entire Judiciary
OF the country, an attack couched in such
terms as to include the most upright,
honest and broad minded Judges, no less
tnan those OF narrower mind and more
restricted outlook. 1t was the kind Of at
tack. admirably fitted to prevent any she
cessful attempt to reform abuses of the
judiciary, because IL rave the champions
or the unjust Judge their eagerly desired
opportunity to shift their ground into a
championship Of Just judges who were
mouse committee on the judiciary, these
same labor leaders formulated their de-
t msnas' specifying the bill that contained
they wished the principle of that bill or
nothing. They insisted on a provision
mat IN q labor dispute no injunction
right, and specifically provided hat the
rlBht TO carry OIL business should NOT he
SonseTued as a property. right; n in a
second provision their bill made legal I'm
q labor dispute any act or agreement by
or TIVE two or more persons that
woHld not have been unlawful II done by
z slngle person. In other words, this bill
legalized blacklisting and boycottinR in
every form, legalizing, for instance, those
aorms OF secondary boycott which the
reservedly condemned; while the right to
carry on q business was explicitly taken
out from under that protection which the
was made that there should be trial bV
jury In contempt cases, thereby most
seriously impairing the authority of the
policy which, II carried out. would mean
me enthronement of class privilege in It's
erudest n most brutal form, and the
lands.
Attack Too Crude.
The violence of the crusade for this lag
tS,asso two a tT,t hes S complete failure, illus
people should learn. In the frat nlsc4
they ought to teach the workingman, the
Iae0dsr: I wsa waseworker. that by de-
he plays into the hands OF his foes. Such
a crude n vicious attack upon the
e eeSri S WenId y in re Me6s t;s n 20 sue.
q violent reaction and would band the
great mass of citizens together Forcing
5aem to Sns st ;ncdm by all the judges, COM
to see the wheels OF justice stoned a
of this kind can ultimately re-
S wbos IN b nStn,nE put damage to those in
This Is q most healthy. truth, which IL Is
wise Tor all our people to learn. Any
wS,US Gassd on that GLASS hatred
Glass consciousness Is certain mil |
mately, to fail. ana II 1t temporarily sue
ce~nscio 30 @e s%F rSbhenang + damage; Glass
other name for the odious vice OF ola ss
s~elfshness, ls equally noxious, whether In
lngman's association. The movement in
question was one In which the appeal |
made to all workingmen to vote |
as individuals Of a Certain ciass i, Sot
clety, Such an appeal in the first place
reyolts the more high minded and far
sddresIe sdmo onS the persons to whom It is
TO arouse q strong antagonism among ali
other classes of citizens, whom 1T there
,9Ts seqds to to unite wb6sa against the very or
The result Is therefore unfortlnate |
rom every standpoint. This healthy
snuuttni py the way, will be learned by the
lshlng In this country an important ma
l9nal party based or such class con-
'G Tha Tea n selfish class interest.
aboring men of the country, by the way
n which they ~repudiated the effort to
81 an mem to cast their votes in response
ohasized their sound patriotism and
americanism,. The whole country has
,aasS to feel pride in this attitude Of
missing insistence upon acting Simply as
5000 citizens, as good Americans, with
,ut regard to fancied-and improper
,h1aot interests; Such an attitude is an
entire nation.
Re%aotionaries Should Pause.
BUT the extreme reactionaries, the per-
Ions who blind themselves to the wrongs
sb%or hn1 m 1nen committed by the courts on
20 what such a movement as this por-
Inc judges who have shown them
Ewes able and willing effectively. to
len man who works ~iniquity by the mis-
management of corporations, who nave
hown themselves alert to do justice to
ne wageWorker, and sympathetic with
ne needs or the mass Of our people. so
NAT the dweller in the tenement houses,
ne man who practices a dangerous trade,
ne man who Is crushed by excessive
lours or labor, feel that their needs are
by the c~ourts-these judges
re the real bulwark of the courts; these
Judges, the judges of the stamp of the
resldent-elect, who have been fearless
n opposing labor when 1t has gone
VronS. but fearless also I'm holding to
trlct account. corporations that work j
niqulty,. and far sighted in seeing that
Workingman gets his rights, are the
nen or all others to whom we owe IL that
appeal for such violent and mistaken |
has fallen on leaf ears, that
ne agitation for its passage proved TO be
Vlthout substantial basis.
Inc courts are jeopardized primarily by
ne action Of these federal and state
who show inability or unwilling
to put a stop to the w~rongdoing Of
cry rich men under modern Industrial
onditions, and inability or unwillingness
give relief to men of small means or
Iageworkers who are crushed. down by
hese modern industrial conditions: who.
q other words, fail 60 understand and
pply the needed remedies for the new
Irongs produced by the new and highly
OmDleX social and induafrial oTr,Jij.nS