The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-12-11


Il THE COURTS. :
most earnestly urge upon the congress
the duty or increasing the totally mad
squat ate salaries a,hn,s .n now given sa to our judges;
servants who do as valuable work, nor
whose moneyed reward is SO inadequate
fSSmp s'apeem TO c ans,f We %ork i,,o Bssinning with
their salaries doubled. il is not beftting
the dignity Of the nation that its most
sums so small compared TO What they
would earn in private life that the per
formance OF public service by them
sacrifice.
It is earnestly to be desired that some
method should be devised for doing away
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
rem .as s s6enld be dev fissans M sSai; Of and his 3
tntolerable delay is due to Improper re-
gard paid to technicalities which are a
recent cases this over regard for techni-
%caltties has resulted in a striking denial
81 yus oaiisjc. and fragrant wrong TO the
At the last election certain leader. of
organized labor made a violent and
swesspins attack upon the entire judiciary
or the country, an attack couched in such
honest and broad minded Judges, u no fess
than those OF narrower mind n more
tack admirably fitted to prevent any sue
cessfnl attempt to reform abuses Of the
Of the unjust Judge their eagerly desired
opportunity to shift their ground into a
ShampIonship Of just judges who were
house committee on the judiciary. these
same labor leaders formulated their de-
m ham specifying the bill that contained
nothing. They insisted on a provision
that IN a labor dispute no injunction
right, and specifically provided that the
right to carry on business should not be
eens,due nlo as q property right; and in a
q iapor dispute any act or agreement by
or @o,l 6etWeen two or more persons that
" we sinxl not nen naye been &c unlawful II done bY
legalized %blacklisting and boyeottins in
every form. leEalizing, for instance. those
anthracite coal strike commission SO une
reservedly condemned; while the right to
cafry ron on ; a business was explicitly, taken
law throws over properly. The demand
was made that there should be trial by
Jury IN contempt cases. thereby most
courts. All this Represented a Course NJ
policy which. IL carried out. would mean
c,rudest and most brutal form, and the
destruction Of one Of the most essential
functions of the judiciary in all Civilized
Attack Too Crude.
me violence of the crusade for his Lex
islation. and Its complete failure. Illus
p fsa1s 5w s1o arHth Ies which - it t i essential zen our
they ought to teach the workingman. the
, ,,oori,, the wagsworker. that by de-
= NJ, crude e,,a ana 9. vicious stack upon the
eessfaii, s Wenld = ,n It Msbs tis n 4Sa anG sue.
a violent reaction and would band the
great mass Of citizens together, forcing
them to stand by all the Judges. COM
movement Of this kind Ie can uls a,1neP Pely re a
whose sube 4" BEAM ebbshin e +, put ao daimage to those in
This is a most healthy, truth. which it is
m Miss Tor all h. our people to learn, Any
which at times assumes the name 81
mately to fan, and il, 1T temporariiy s ale-
consciousness," where It is merely Si ASS
other name for the odious vice Of class
elfi arn 1s Is equally n%soxious. whether in
ingman's association. The mnvenae MffK IN
au |. n,as was 3 one N, in which the appeal
was A!oAV = dl W~OTkln2ENen 10 vote
as individuals of a certain class in So
ciety; Such such an appeal in the first place
sighted among the persons to whom 1t is
addressed, and in the second place tends
o to arou u1s.ses st 70 t%asntagonism among ali
fore tends to unite against the very or
ganization on whose behalf 1t is Issued.
h result Is therefore unfortunate
truth ruth, by the way. will be learned by the
Ssofiailsts II they ever succeed In estab-
tiishins IN this country an important ma
sciousness and selfish class Interest.
me wageWorkers. the w%orkingnen, the
ia ia09 %hiseh m theS OF r the ss{G1ntry ib by e 5ne wa ~
get them to cast their votes in response
nba an aIze appeai to class hatred. have en-
Americani.m. h whole country has
cause to feel pride in this attitude Of
s,n a,a independence in this uncompro-
out regard to fancied-and Improper
eiass interests; Such an attitude is an
entire nation.
Rsaetionaries Should Pause.
But the extreme reactionaries. the per-
sons who blind themselves to the wrongs
laborinG men. should also think seriously
as to what such a movement as this por-
tends. The judges who have shown them
WllIlLH cl1cCllNely 10
check the dishonest activity of the very
rich man who works iniquity by the mis-
of corporations, who have
shown themselves alert to do justice to
the wageworker, and sympathetic with
the needs of the mass Of our people. SO
that the dweller in the tenement houses,
the man who practices a dangerous trade,
the man who is crushed by excessive
hours Of labor. feel that their needs are
are the real bulwark Of the courts; these
judges. the judges Of the stamp of the
p~resident-elect, who have been fearless
in opposing labor when it has gone
wrong. but fearless also in holding to
strict account corporations that work
iniQuity.. and far sighted in seeing that
the ~worktngman gets his rights. are the
men of all others to whom we owe 1t that
legislation has fallen on leaf ears. that
the agitation for its passage proved to be
without substantial basis.
The courts are jeopardized primarily by
the action of these federal and state
judges who show inability or unwilling
ness to put a stop to the wrongdoing OF
very rich men under modern Industrial
conditions, and inability or unwilllngness
to- give relief to men Of small means or
ageworkers who are crushed down by
these modern industrial conditions; who,
In other words. fail to understand and
apply the needed remedies for the new
wrongs Produced by the new and highly