The wageworker., 1909-10-23
JUDGE MuNGER's DECISION.

hG Wd6CWOIhCI ISSlClo ILdl JuuSO
''Tom" hangers decision in the guar
anty of deposits law was adverse,
holding that the law is unconstitu-
tional. But the regrets are modified
by the fact that the decision is cal
culated to bring home to a lot of pro-
fessional men and farmers few
truths that the union workers of the
country have been trying to promul-
gate for several years. While the
unionists of the country were COM
planning of the arbitrary interference
of federal judges with American
rights, the farmers and the profess
sional men gave little heed. The
farmer didn't care rap about the
welfare of the union worker-in fact,
the average farmer is antagonistic to
union labor. The professional men and
the business men merely smiled and
said a few words about anarchists"
and socialists" and let it go at that.
But now the farmer, the profess
sional men and the business men have
had driven home to them realization
of the fact that the federal judiciary
has been slowly but surely usurping
powers that the car of Russia would
not dare to exercise, powers that free
America is submitting to but which
our British cousins would fight to the
death, although they live under king
and hereditary house Of lords.
10 thiylr n Mr.
Farmer? A sovereign state which
charters banks and exercises super
vision over them, is told by federal
judge not noted for his knowledge of
law that the state cannot exercise
a supervisory power over the institu-
tions which it charters. In other
words, federal Judge who owes his
position to political pull and respon-
sible to no one, can set aside the laws
of a state, stop it's machinery at his
sweet will, and thwart the expressed
will of the sovereign voters of the
state. Is is a power not welded by
any king, czar or emperor Of civil
lied country. 1t puts federal judge
dDONe Tue iC6ioldIiNC anu SASSueA'O
branches of the government, and
clothes him with autocratic powers.
This thing, this gigantic evil, is not
a matter of sudden growth; it is an
insidious growth that has been grow
ing slowly but surely while the people
slept upon their rights, until today it
is used to deprive free men of the
right of free speech and free press,
to deprive the sovereign people of
their power to legislate in their own
interests, and to make mere puppets
of men elected to enact the laws that
the people by their express vote de-
clare they would have enacted.
So far as the killing of the guar
anty law is concerned the blow is
not necessarily fatal, but it is hard
enough to make heretofore careless
and unobservant people sit up and
take notice. In that degree, at least.
Judge Munger's decision will be pro-
ductive of good. 1t is decision that
will hit farmers and business as hard
as some OF the federal court decisions
against union men.
II 1t shall result in awakening the
people to realizing sense of the dan
ger that now confronts them in the
shape of usurpation of power by the
federal judiciary, we can easily stand
the blow Of having the guaranty of
deposits law declared unconstitutional
by federal judge. II it results in
arousing the people to such an extent
that they will proceed to deprive these
federal judges of their power, then all
will be well.
But IL the people continue their
easy-going methods and continue to
let this usurpation grow and increase,
then liberty will soon be byword,
and freedom will be only a memory.