Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-08

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ploy.
also renew my recommendation
that the principle or the eight hour day
should as rapidly and as far as prac-
ticable 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 or
1.-The act seems to exclude.
The Courts.
/ most earnestly urge upon the con-
| sress the duty of increasing the totally
inadequate salaries now given to our
Judges. On the whole, there IL no body
of public servants who do as valuable
work nor whose moneyed reward is so
Inadequate compared to their work.
beginning With the supreme court, the
Judges should have their salaries dou-
bled. 1t is not bchtting the dignity of
4 the nation that its most honored public
servants should be paid sums 50 small
| compared to what they would earn In
private life that the performance of
public service by them implies an eX-
cecdingly heavy pecuniary sacrifice.
| 1t is earnestly to be desired that
some method should be devised for do
| ing away with the long delays which
now obtain in the administration of
Justice and which operate With pecul-
lar severity against persons OF small
means and favor only the very criml-
nails whom it is most desirable to pun
ish. These long delays in the final
decisions Of cases make In the agSrc-
gate Il crying evil, and remedy should
be devised. Much OF this intolernblc
delay is due to improper regard paid 10
techniculities which are q mere hin.
drance to justice. In some noted re-
cent cases this overregard for technl-
! calities has resulted in Il striking denial
OF justice aud fragrant wrong to the
| body polite.
At the last election certain leaders
of organized labor made Il violent and
| sweeping attack upon the entire Jul
\ dietary of the country, an attack
couchcd 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. 1t was the kind of attack adj
mirably fitted to prevent any success
| full attempt to reform abuses of the
judiciary, because it gave the cham
| pions Of the unjust judge their eagerly
desired opportunity to shift their
ground into a championship of Just
| judges who We're unjustly assailed.
| Last year before the house committee
on the judiciary these same labor lead
! ers formulated their demands, specify
| ing the bill that contained them, re-
fusing all compromise, stating they
wished the principle Of that bill or
nothing. They insisted on a provision
that i'll Il labor dispute no injunction
| should issue except to protect u prop
erty right and specifically provided
| that the right to carry on business
should not be construed as a property
| right, and i'll Il second provision their
| bill made legal in a labor dispute any
act or agreement by orNbetween two
or more persons that would not have
been unlawful II done by Il single per-
son. In other words, this bill legal
| lied hlacklisting and boycotting in cv-
cry form, legalizing, for instance, those
| forms of the secondary boycott which
| the anthracite coal strike commission
50 unresewedly condemned, while the
right to carry on a business was eX-
| lection which the law throws over
| property The demand was made that
| there should be trial by jury in con-
tempt cases, thereby most seriously i'm
| pairing the authority of the courts
| All this represented Il course of policy
! which, if carried out, would mean the
enhancement of class privilege in
its crudest and most brutal form and
| the destruction of one Of the most cs-
sential functions of the Judiciary in all
civilized lands.
The violence Of the crusade for this
| legislation and its complete failure H.
lusunie two truths which 1t is essen
tial our people should learn Iii the
first place, they ought to teach the
workingman, the laborcr, the wage
worker, that by demanding what is
improper and impossible he plays into
The. hands of his foes. Such crude
and vicious attack upon the courts,
even IL 1t were temporarily successful,
would inevitably in the end cause a
violent reaction and would band the
great mass of citizens together, forcing
| them to stand by ali the judges, com
petent and incompetent alike, rather
than to see the wheels of Justice
stopped. 4 movement OF this kind can.
ultimately result in nothing but dam
age to those in whose behalf it is
nominally undertaken This is a
most healthy truth, Which ii is wise
for all our people TO learn. Any move
ment based on that class hatred which
at times assumes the name of Glass
consciousness is certain ultimately to
fail aud, ii it temporarily succeeds, to
do farreaching damage. Glass con
sciousness' Where it is merely another
name for the odious vice of class
seliishness is equally noXious whether
in an employers association or III a
workngman's association The move.
ment IN question WAS one in which
the appeal WAS made to all work ingmen
to vote primarily not us American citi.
zens, but as individuals of n certain
class in society. Such an appeal. in
the first place, revolts the more high