Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-09

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In an Impartial dlgnihod judiciary.
~ ought Co Do said however, in exc
tcnuntlon of Justice Cnnac'a oucnaei
that the manners both of English ana
American judges OF that day woro
often arbitrary and at times positively
brutal, and that il was not Uncommon
for Judges tn express their views upon
I public questions By utterauccs when
would shock our nicer modern sense
Of judicial pronrlcty The real his
| tory OF the supreme Court may De
said 90 have begun in 1901, with the
! appointment OF John Marshall os
chief Justice. From that time the
court rose rapidly in popular estima-
/ ton. It's subsequent history is de-
visible into four separate periods,
| roughly dcllmltcd By the lives of the
chief Justices and hy the character
! uf the litigation before 10. During
/ the first period. from 1901 TO 1885,
/ couicidcut with the incumbency N
| Marshall as chief Justice, the rcspec-
/ tive powers of Congress. tho supreme
| Court and the state Legislatures were
settled On general terms. which sub
scqucnt cases have recognized. fol-
lowed and applied 20 contingencies
! which have since arisen. Tho Con-
stituuon cxtortcd, as John quincy
Adams said from the grinding mo-
Cessities Of a reluctant people and
which at the outset Of Marshalfs
career had hardly "a single uncondl-
tionnl friend ne loft behind him In
lS35 without an enemy He found
mere skeleton Of government-he
clothed IL with flesh and blood. made
il "a practical working scheme. and,
best Of all cemented il I'm the affec-
tons OF the people. The story OF
Great Nation" In the National
Magazine for January.
Taft and The policy Of President
Roosevelt elect TAFT Is promptly
Compared. differentiatlng itself from
that OF President Roose-
Welt The differentiation is not at all
process OF antagonism Nothing
that Mr. TAFT has said or done has
indicated that he Is ony the less loyal
90 the Roosevelt policy" than he was
six months or a year ago. But It is
already apparent that Mr. Taft is not
20 he more echo Of his predecessor.
He Is to do something more than
stand pat on the policy laid down
during the last seven years. His per-
sonallty Is already beginning TO Inn
press itself upon the political situation.
and almost without our recognizing the
change shifting OF emphasis has
been effected IN the last few months
that Is almost startling. His woOing
va NAA| EWAAAA anu us AlNlnANllIH NlA
tariff revision are two things that have
given M the last few weeks a new
direction Co the nations thought
direction not al all hostile TO the Roosc-
Welt program. and yet markedly dis
tinct from a. There has been no in
terruption In the drama OF events. The
actors are the same. The audience is
the same. And yet there has been n
quiet shifting Of scenes. and we find
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political prospects apart entirely from
those that were few months ago en-
crossing the attention OF the nation.
and which seemed certain 10 ongross
II for years TO come The alchemy OF
Mr. Tafts ingratiating presence
which acted in such a pacific and eff
fective way upon perilous situations
In Manila, Havana, Colon and Toxic.
has already been az work I'm this coun-
try with equal effectiveness.-Curre
Literature, January
started real start In putting
\ Colony immigrants on the land
OF Jews. has been made with a
colony Of Russian Jews
near Hawkins, Wis. $50
miles from St. Paul, MINI, which IS
the work OF one man, John Rafheson,
who was compelled to give up factory
work by AN accident He took to
peddlng and while going about into
the country decided TO make himself
missionary for drawing his co-rellg-
ionists out OF the cities and back to
the soil. The new colony is small but
II owns 92O acres, sold on longtime
payments at $40 an acre. u is COZ
operative in It's plan and Will have
cooperative store. It's officers, presl-
dent vice president, secretary and
treasurer. and all the heads OF faml-
les, sit as "a court in case OF any dis
pute arising Rafneson goes into Mil
waukee and Sheboygan and persuades
people TO 80 out 10 the new colony. He
has thus far succeeded IN getting a
nucleus OF ten familias and says he
wants only four more as a beginning.
These people are working as the old
pioneers worked, clearing the land OF
timber and slowly beginning their
planting They will undoubtedly be
equally ccessful-Charitles and The
Commons.
Hut for Among the small
Outdoor wrinkles" / have picked
People. up is a scheme TO keep
One's watch dry even
though you go overheard or are
drenched from wet bushes. II also
enables you 20 see the watch face with
out removing the waterproof covering
ll may Dc an oiu Hcneme nut have
not seen anyone else use &c. Take "A
piece OF pure rubber dental dam" S
inches square put the watch i'm the
center and bring the rubber together
az the stem, tying the puokerod up
rubber snugly with a bit Of string This
keeps your watch absolutely dry and
when you wish TO see the face simply
stretch the rubber over the front and
you can see the hands clearly through
the rubber made thin for the time be-
ing by the stretching q. curl ia
Recreation for January.
The Attic The attic Instinct hangs
Instinct on surprisingly, and an OBJ
Hangs On. serving eye can tell how
many years a person has
lived IN the city by merely glancing un-
der her bed. II there are three hat
boxes one viii contain letters, one
scraps OF ribbons and laces-if it's a
man it's newspaper clippings-and one
anything from "a broken lock to old
road maps. III besides these there are
bundles OF magazines and piles OF |
newspapers, not TO mention a bicycle /
seat and a green umbrella that one |
might use I'm private theatricals-n an |
these things have been placed under /
the bed against the protests OF the |
family. ~ they are patiently moved /
every cleaning-day and clung 70 /
through "a moving, then their owners |
have tho attic instinct 10 such an cx- /
tent that there d. not the slightest hone L