The San Francisco call., 1908-03-25
BEATTY AND ARTMAN
DISCUSS CRITICISMS
Chief Justice Calls Attention to
Schmitz Structures; Indianian
Denies Making Them

Chief Justice W H Beatty is on
the trail Of Judge Samuel W Artnan,
the Indiana 5urist and temperance ad-
vocste, who during his recent visit
here took rap or Two at the muen
debated and severely criticised graft
decisions Of the California appeal
courts. On March 20 Judge Beatty
wrote 70 Judge Artman thus.
/ desire 70 call yeur attention 70 report
published OF ne eighth page q MS morning
Ssn Francisco Call Of remarks Thlah you are
said 70 have made II Al address AZ Chr1srlan
Science hzu last evening. ! hand you heresElth
snd beg 70 request that Eou VIII favor ne with
50 ansVrer hy the bearer as 70 whether Eou are
correctly reported
In reply 10 Judge Beatty's query
Judge Arruan wrote from san RaIaei
on March % as follows:
Your letter ot March 20 has Just been handed
ne. and ce1 snsEer your QceSto1 10 Win
or snv reservation. feel thst ! should reduce
and 1 shall do 50 az nv earliest opportunity,
hur possibly not Until ! reach home When you
65rse TIC statement. regret mis- newspaper
noto-iery and I sincerely hope that there VIII
D. no more q IL l lad 10 intention q spIlns-
lng head line" sensation, snd feel that
you did not.
The item about which Judge Beatty
sought information told how, on the
evening ot March 1e. Judge Artman
lad made q pointed reference to the
decisions Of the appeal courts IN the
graft cases The item attributed TO
the Indiana jurist the following Ian
gusge-
SuuuoSe thet in some city ether than San
FrarcIsco 4 political CRATER were 70 contraci
with the keeper 81 some resort ana oIlee :
u the resort were 70 sue for the return OF the
hrsbe consideration Do you suppose that such
simply becsuse the contract happened 10 be :
legal rrznsactio1t
h The courts in any other state than Cali
fo-nia-but I vii not say that. after all But
II IN NY state court would enforce sucn law
and public sentiment would approve q Il We
would be ready Tor second o1n rt3nclsce
earthquake 4 wrong cannot Dc legal r1gnI
Z Tou attempt 70 enforce things on that prin
ciple and STANDARD, then al moral wrongs cal
be legal rights, and al moral rights are legsl
% I mean To declare that moral wrongs srs
wrong IN the absence q legal statutef do
Murder is wrong in the absence Of any legz
s-Trute "a the subject II you are going q
follow out the principle that everything that i
not mentioned II the constitution Is legal thel
you are going 70 legalize murder AID burglar
IN many Of the states
Without license e saloon is public
nuisance. If s saloon without license Is
l-oile lulselte t-s-, : = ~ .
A public nuisance IS public menace Ine salooi
has DO constitutional right. 10 inaiienzble right
inherent right 10 natural right II this j
50. does Il not follow that the courts can afnrn
n 4 not q lawful thing They say high licens
j. Z regulation You cant regulate 4 wrong
ny friends
=
md Judge Artman yesterday and ge
from him his own recollection OF whal
he said on the occasion A. question, bu
he was not 10 be located
That The Call quoted him with sub
stantial correctness IS declared by rep
utable persons who heard his remarks
II Is 10 be noted in this controvers.
that Judge Beatty has not challenges
the correctness Of the report OF Judg'
Artman's inferenrial criticism Of tn
appeal courts. delivered on March II
II is 70 be noted, also, that Judg'
Artrnan's statement that he was in
correctly reported on March 30 is unac
compsnied by specifications. and that
indeed. he prefers 10 wait until he get
back 10 Indiana before he lets Judg
Beatty have the revised version Of hi
extempOraneous address
But Judge Beatty does not wish Z
wait that long. he has asked The Cal
for immediate publication OF the cor
respondence. Here IL is.