Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-02
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 2 70
ROOSEVELT AND THE COURTS

as to courts-1. One is that they can
do no wrong, or IL they can do wrong
nobody should point it out: 2. The
other Is that courts should be obedient
10 the executive or yield to public sen.
tlinent. The correct sentiment lies be-
tween the two. says the Raleigh News
ana Observer. In an able editorial in
thursdays issue. AS the News and
observer wei says, no public officials 10
apoFe criticism, and court decisions
are the legitimate subject OF criticism
Judge is man, and giving him the
ermlne does not make him infallibla
ruoiic sentiment is the supreme law
put no man who is fit to sit on tho
Dehch Will permit any popular oratorv
10 influence his decision. Ultimately
the law must reflect the nermanent
decree OF the people, but the iudee
VINO Keeps his ear to the ground IN
near the rumblings is almost as unat
DIS the corporation lawyer who sees
only the corporation side of questions
aiter he becomes a judicial officer
IL was not unseemly, but proper in
the democratic National Convention nj
chicago to dissent from the income
TAX decision and to promise to find
fesai way to levy an income fay
Nelther that convention nor its nomi-
hees made attack on the Sunremo
court They differed with its find
ihss and said so, as was right and
proper. Senator Vest, a great LAWYER
whose respect for the Supreme Court
was never questioned. did reflect 60.
'erely upon that Justice whose sudden
mop on the question caused the rich
10 escape paying the income tax. In
that campaign, it was Mr.. Roosevatt
VINO on Monday at Denver, declared
the supreme Court Judges honest
out tossilized," and said they denied
justice under cover of "highly tech.
meal subleties"--it was this sauna
Roosevelt who wrote in the Review
OF reviews fourteen years ago this
reDuke OF the Chicago convention.
Furthermore. the Chicago copven.
.on attacked the Supreme cour.
again this represents a species of
ataVlsm-that is, OF recurrence to the
ways OF thought OF remote barbarian
ancestors. Savages do not like an In.
dependent and upright. Judiciary
ihey want the Judge to decide their
way and IL he does not. they want
10 Dehead him The Populists experi.
ence much the same emotions whom
they realize that the judiciary stands
between them and plumber"
The New York World. commenting
on the above declaration SAYS:
Having turned agitator and dema.
gogue. Mr.. Roosevelt has Joined the
savages and barbarians who object IN
an independent and upright judici
ary."
In the same issue of the World
John O'Keefe furnishes poem which
accounts for Mr.. Rooseyelt's attack
on the Supreme Court II is as fol-
lows;
The Only Court.
Your courts that you look on with awe
Are false in this land OF the free;
But children, one lawgiver's law
Works epdlessly. scorninE fee.
You've really no need OF the law
When you've Ne.
iou thought OF our uppermost court
That solemnly sits in D. G.
As one where man could resort
For justice of perfect degree.
YOU'D better be bringing your tort
Up to Ne
m wearing no wig on my head:
a robe very painful would be.
Those fellows whom litjgants be
Are shrieking funny 10 soc.
Why sample their Justice? Instead
Come TO Ne.
For ] am both Blackstone and Coke
Brought down to this later A. D.
No other tribunal Ger spoke
So absolutely in its decree.
There isn't one bench.warming bloke
Equals Ne
Let Justices fillct be- turned
Into a sombrero, bgee,
Let weighing Of pleadings be spurned
The Stick settles every plea.
Let all OF our statutes be derned,
Law is Me.
John O'Keefe.
Mr.. OKeofo has hit IL right MI
Rooseyelt's criticisms Of the Court is