The state herald., 1908-12-11

months earnings In this respect the
generosity of the United States towards
its employees compares most unfavora-
bly, with that of every country in Eu-
rope-evcn the poorest.
! renew my recommendation made In
previous message that half-holidays
be granted during summer to all wage
workers in government employ
i 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.
1 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 II SO
Inadequate compared to their work. Be-
ginning with the supreme court the
Judges should have their salaries dou-
bled. 1t is not befitting the dignity of
the nation that Its most honored public
servants should be paid sums so small
private life that the performance of
public service by them implies an ex-
ceedingly heavy pecuniary 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 IA crying
evil: and remedy shouil be devised.
Much OF this intolcrable delay Is due
to improper regard paid to technical.
ties which are a mere hinderance to
justice. In some noted recent cases this
over-regard for technicalities has re-
suited in striking denial of justice,
and fiagrant wrong to the body polite.
Labor Leaders Criticised.
At the last election certain leaders OF
organized labor made 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
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 bill or nothing. They insisted
on a provision that In a labor dispute
no Injunction should issue except to
protect u property right. and specincal-
ly provided that the right to carry on
business should not be construed as n
property right. and In a second provis-
ion 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 II done by
single person. In other words. this bill
legalized blacklisting and boycottlng
in every form. legalizlng. for Instance.
those forms OF the secondary boycott
which the anthracite coal strike COM
mission so unroscrvodly condemned: :
while the right to carry on n 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
impalring the authority Of tho courts
All this represented a course OF policy
which II carried out. would mean the
enthroncment OF class privilege In Its
crudest and most brutal form. and the
destruction of one of the most essen
iial functions of the iudiiaars In all civ
The violence of the crusade for this
legislation. and its complete failure.
illustrate. two truths which IL IL essen
tial our people should learn, In the
nrst place. they ought to teach tn.
workinEmhn. the laborer. the wnEo-
worker. that by demanding what ~ Inn
proper and impossible he plays into tho
hands of his foes such crude and
vicious attack upon the courts, even II
II were temporarily successful. would
N.NH Lot
reaction and would band the great
mass of citizens together, forcing them
10 stand by all the Judges competent
and incompetent alike. rather than to
see the wheels Of Justice stopped.
The waErworkers. the workingmcn
the lhboring men Of the country by the
way IN which they ropudiated the rf-
fort to get them TO cast their votes In
response to nm appeal TO class hatred
aud Amoricanism. such an attitude
II an object lesson In good citizenship 10
the entire nation.
judicial System Sound.
our judicial system II sound and
effective at core. snd II Temains
and must ever be maintained ~
the safeguard of those principles of iib.
"rty and justice which stand ~ the
foundation Of American Institutions. for.
hN hNfhH hhttN Hhlht NNFN NtrfiN ana
Justice are separated, neither n safe.
Thgfo are, however. sons members of
the judicial body who have Jagged b.
hind In their understanding Of these
great and vital changes IN tho body
polite. whose minds have never bern
opened 20 the nrN applications Of tho old
principles made necessary hy the nru
conditions. Judges of tlhs stamp DO last
ins harm by uiair decisions. brchuae thDf
cnntiur" poor men IN need of protection
that the courts Of the land arc pr.
f1undly ignorant u and out uf sympathy
Will their needs. and profoundly ignorant
~ hostile 20 any proposed remedy, To
such men II seems n cruel mockUfy 10
have any court decide against thom un
tho ground that II desires 10 prtHor,,
liberty" In purely technical form hy
Withholding liberty In any real and CON
nifurtiNr sense.
There are certain decisions by various
courts which hHy" been exceedingly dai.
fimrnihi 10 tho rights ~ waRr.Wofktra
THIS n true Of all decisions that decide
that men are. ny the constitution guar
nntord their liberty" 10 contract tn enter
dangerous occupation, of 10 work M
undesirable Or Improper number ~ hours