Arizona republican., 1908-12-09

, their work. Beginning with the su- preme court the judges should have
 their salaries doubled. It is not be- ! fitting the dignity of the nation that it's most honOred public servants
 should be paid sums so small com
 pared to what they would earn in
 private life that the performance of , public service by them implies an
 exceedingly heavy pecuniary saeri- l, flee
 It is earnestly to be desired that
 some method should be devised for
 doing away with the long delays
 which now obtain in the administra-
 tion of justice, and which operate
 with peculiar severity against per
 sons of small means, and favor the
 very criminals whom sit is most de-
 sirable to punish. These long delays in the final decisions of cases make
 in the aggregate a crying evil; and a remedy should be devised. Much iof this intolerabe delay Is due to improper regard paid to technicalities which are a mere hindrance to jus ltice. In some noted recent cases this
 over regard for technicalities has re-
 suited in a striking denial of jus tice, and fragrant wrong to the body polite.
 The Attack Upon the Judiciary.
 At the last election certain leaders of organized labor made a violent and sweeping attack upon the entire judiciary of the country, an attack
 couched in such terms as to in- Iclude the most upright, honest and
 broad minded judges. no less than
 those of narrower mind and more
 restricted outlook. It was the kind
 of attack admirably fitted to pre-
 vent any successful attempt to re-
 form abuses of the judiciary. because
 it gave the champions of the unjust ! judge their eagerly desired oppor- ! tunity to shift their ground into a i championship of just judges who were unjustly assailed. Last year. i before the house committee on the | judiciary, these same labor leaders tfOrmulated their demands, specifying | the bill that contained them, refusing all compromise. stating they wished | the principle of that bill or nothing ! They insisted on prov ision that in a labor dispute no injunction should | issue except to protect a property right. and specifically provided that ] the right to carry on business should not be construed as a property right; and in a second provision their bill
 made legal in labor dispute any act or agreement by or between two or more persons that would not have been unlawful if done by a single person. In other words, this bill le- galiZed backlisting and boycotting in every form. legalizing. for instance. those forms of the secondary boy colt which the anthracite coal strike commission so unreservedly condemn ed; while the right to carry on a business was explicitly taken out from under that protection which the law throws over property. The de- mand was made that there should be trial by jury in contempt cases. there by most seriously impairing the au- thority of the courts. All this repre- scented a course of policy which, if carried out, would mean the en- thronement Of class privilege in it's crudest and most brutal form, and the destruction of one of the most essential functions of the judiciary in all civilized lands.
 Class Consciousness.
 The violence of the crusade for this Legislation, and its complete fail ure, illustrate two truths which it is essential our people should learn. Tn the first place. they ought to teach the working man, the labOrer, the wage worker that by demanding what is improper and impossible he plays into the hands of his foes. Such a crude and vicious attack upon the courts. even if it were tempo rarily successful, would inevitably in the end cause a violent reaction and would band a great mass of citizens together, forcing them to stand by all the judges, competent and incompe- tent alike, rather than to see the wheels of justice stopped. A move ment of this kind can ultimately re- suit in nothing but damage to those in whose behalf it Is nominally un- dertaken. This is a most healthy truth, which it is wise for all people to learn. Any movement based on that class hatred which at times as sumes the name of class conscious ness is certain to ultimately fail, and if it temporarily succeeds. to do far reaching damage. Glass cOnSClOuSneSS, where II IS merely another name for the odious vice of class selfishness, is equally noxious whether in an employers association or in a working mans association. The movement in question was one in which the appeal was made to all working men to vote primarily, not as American citizens, but as individ- uals of a certain class in society. Such an appeal in the first place revOlts the more high minded and far sighted among the persons to whom addressed, and in the second place tends to arouse a strong an tagonism among all other classes of citizens, whom it therefore tends to unite against the very organization on whose behalf it is issued. The result is therefore unfortunate from every standpoint. This healthy truth, by the way, will be learned by the socialists if they ever succeed in es tablishing in this country an impor
 tant national party based on such class consciousness and selfish class interest.
 The wage workers, the working men, the laboring men of the coun try by the way in which they re- pudiated the effort to get them to cast | .I