Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-12-16

months. earnings In this srespect the
generosity OF the United states towards
| its employees compares most unfavora-
| bly, with that of every. country-in Eu-
| fope-even the poorest f-'---
i renew my recommendation made I'M
a previous message that alf-holidays
be granted during summer to all wage
workers in government employ ~ /
also renew my recommendation that
/ the principle of the eight hour - .day
should as rapid1y and as far as practi-.
cable be extended to the entire work
| beinsi carriedi on by the government:
the present law should be amended to-
embrace contracts on those public
| works xhichfthe present wording of
the act seems to, exclude. r.,
Would Double Salaries of Judges. .
| + most earnestly urge upon ithe:con-
gross, 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 rnoneyed reward As so
inadequate compared to their. work. Be
| ginning with thA4Hsupreme+ COURT the
Judges should have their salaries ,dou-i
| bled. 1t is not BETTING the dignity sof
the nation that it's most honored pubiic:
servants should be paid sums so small
compared to What they would earn in
private. life that the performan noe Of
public service by them implies an ex-,
ceedingly heavy pecuniary Sacrifice
|, ~ It is earnestly to be. desired that some,
method Should be devised for doing
AWAY. with the-Iohg delays whichI GdtvI
| obtain in the administration of Justice,
| and which operate with peculiar sever
ity against. persons of small 94l, means, and
favor only the very Criminals whom it
isf- most desirab bile. to punish 1Thesel
| long delays in, the final decisions of
cases make in the aggregate a crying
eyiii r-1d "a remedy: sheqil7, be DEVISED.
Much of this intolerable delay is. due
| to Improper regard paid to teetnfcaH-
ties which areJa mere shinderance to.
| justice. In some noted recent cases this
over regard for techhicalities; has re-
suited. in striking denial of, Justice,
and fagrant wrong to the body politic.
Labor Leaders Criticised.
y At the last election certain leaders of
organizedslabori made "a violent and
|, sweeping attack upon the entire judi.
| ciary of the country, an attack couched
| in such terms as to includes the. most
| upright, honest and broad-minded
judges, no less than those of narrower
mind and. more restricted {, outlook.
mittee> on judiciary, these same,
labor ! leaders formulated their de-
pands. specifying the bill that
contained them, refusing all coinpro-
mise. ,statingithey wished the principle
of that bill or nothing, They insisted
| on a provision that in labor dispute
no injunction should issue = except /. TO.
protect a property right. and specifcal-
ly provided that the right to carry on
business should not be construed as a
property right; and in a second provis-,
ion their bill made legal in labor dis
pute any act or agreement by or be-
|. tween two or more persons that would
not have been unlawful If done by a
single PERSONS In other words. this bill.
| legaliZed blacklisting and boycotting,
in every form i1apa 1i1iTIe- ii,,c
those forms of Sthe secondary boycott.
which the anthracite coal strike, COM
mission so unreserved1y condemned;.
|, while the right to carry on a 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
impairing' the authority of the courts
All this represented a course Of policy
which, If carried but would, mean the
enthronement. of class privilege in it's
i crudest and most brutal form, and the,
| destruction OF one of the most essen
tiat functions of the judiciary in all eiY-i
iUzed lands.
The Violence Of The crusade for this
legislation, and its complete failure,
illustrate two, truths (which it is essen
tial our people should learn. In the
| first place, they ought to teach the
/ work. gman, the -laborer, the wage
proper and impossible he plays %1nto>the
hands of his foes. Such "a crude and
vicious attack upon the courts. even if
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 all the judges competent
I and hncompetent alike. rather; than to
See the wheels of Justice stopped.
The wageworkers, the workingnen,'
/ theslaborfng men ef,the country by the
way in which they -repudiated the eff
| fort to get them to cast their votes in
i response to. an appeal to class hatred,
l. have emphasized their sound patriotism
aid Ainericanfsn1! Such an :! attitude
+ IL an object lesson in good citizenship 81 to
go Judiofaf System Sound! ~
Our judicial system is sound and
and must ever Be maintained as
| tho Safeguard ofcthose, principles ofZlfb-
/ erty and justice which stand at the
| foundation of American institutions for;
T as Bnrke finely. said. when liberty and
I There are, however, some members nof
| the judicial bodyfuRll6 have Jagged be-
| hind in their understanding of these
IegreHt and vital Achanges in the body
+ polite, whose. minds. have never been
/ opened to the new applications of the; old
| principles made necessary by the new
/ conditions. Judges of this stamp do last
ing harm by their decisions, because they
II convince pool. men in need of prO9eetfen
/ that tlfel icourts. efsitt1ey iarid ARE spro1
1 foqndly ig9orant Of and out of sympathy
h With their needs, and pFofoihdly ignorant
y or hs1tA. any proposed, refnedy. To
i suchi pen II seems e. cruel mockery to
4 have>any court decide agalEs4I them on
Il the :groHnd tAatcfit desires to- preserve
IL liberty" IN, a purely technical form, by
IL withholding 2Ab6rts Id any TsalgahdF CON
IL stTu9ttve- segeel sIl;: fss3tJs r$ea
IL There are certain decisions by various
II courts which haze bssni exceeding iyalet-
II This. is true of all decisions that decide
i that men aress BY thu coHstftatieh; -Egslsf-!
IL aAtsed theft libertE's to, contract to: enter
II a DANGEROUS occupation, Or to work an
hntfesirSble4oF frnPfepef Ral1ibsr Of hohfst
III orr to rSbES-=in unlteaI thy, SURROUNDINGS: