The Washington herald., 1910-11-07

States, the income tax which Taft, AID
rich, and all that crowd are now trying
so hard CD TO have the State legislatures
adopt as an amendment 10 the COnstitu-
ton. but has anybody seen Roosevelt"
urge New York or any other State adopt
the amendments
Abuse of supreme Court.
Roots DOGGY man and ROoseveIts
Room 2I2' and "bossism' grand stand
plays for his protege Stlmson, in the
light Of his own hossism at Saratoga and
his ludicrous attitude on all questions
cannot obscure from the minds Of his
auditors the American people, his un.
iustIfiabIe, unnecessary, reprehensible
criticism and abuse of the Supreme Court
Of the United States. This greater than
thou" this great l am. has shot his
bolt, let rs hope, for all time 10 come,
and for mis- cruel abuse of the highest
court Of our land let me substitute the
glowing eulogy of Gen. John b. Hender-
son. of ST. Louis, I'm concluding an argu-
ment before that august tribunal sew
eral years ago, a tribute particularly ap-
prOpriate at the time and deserving Of
wider circulation than IL has received
And, Roosevelt and his abuse TO the con-
uary Notwithstanding. II is appropriate
now:
May it please your honors. these evil
dences of debt constitute "A contract in
the state where they were made. The
local law recognized them as binding be-
tween the parties. The instruments
came here with the Endorsement OF local
judicial sanction. We have before US
the standard by which the parties them
selves measured the obligations of their
contract. This court viii not now change
that standard Il is the especial glory of
this tribunal that local Influences cannot
here turn aside the currents or justice.
In this world nothing is immortal but
truth The monuments we build OF brass
and stone finally molder and decay. The
eternal principles Of justice take new
strength and luster from the lapse OF
time. The stone tablets on which the
Decalogue was inscribed no longer exist,
but the Ten Commandments sim remain
in perfect moral grandeur teaching man
his social duties. The Roman Forum is
well-nigh gone but Roman law survives
in all its beauty and in all its benehcence.
and so viii live. I hope and believe. the
decisions Of this court For nearly
quarter of a century, in a modest way.
/ have argued causes before you, and in
that shSrt period / have witnessed many
changes In tac personnel of this court;
but no change have ! seen in the wisdom
and learning of its decisions. or in that
unerring certainty with which they point
70 the administration and establishment
OF justice. 1t is because of this that they
have received the stamp of judicial au-
thority in all the nations of Christendom,
and it is because OF this that they will
live when this magnificent structure. in
which they have been delivered shall
have sunk into undistinguishable dust"
IL Means Good Night"
And what OF Roosevelt, Teddy the Ter
rible, after Tuesday next? Let it be sic
gloria transit and de mortuis MI nisl
bonum
But let il be remembered that when
Democracy comes into its own next Tues
day and in 1872 and Cannonism, Roose-
veltism. and robbery In the shape of pro-
tecuonism have made their final exit, we
viii keep our platform pledges strictly TO
the letter hewing to the line, no matter
where the chips may fall. and exercising
every traitor 70 the people. the party.
and its pledges who shows his head above
the surface, Forewarned is forearmed.
In the meantime, down with the bogav
man, the faunal naturalist, and all other
takers now roaming the country over
from New York to Iowa and Ohio.
R0REUT L ~fTT