The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-03
TAFT MAY NAME
GEORGE SUTHERLAND
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leaders of the Mormon church. II
would eclipse in Importance the reten
tion of Reed Smoot in the senate. II
would give the Mormon church rrotec.
tion in its pernicious and criminal
practices for AZ least thirty years-foT
George Sutherland is still young man
and may reasonably be expected TO live
thirty wears. and through all that time
serve his masters the Mormon church
and the corporations.
Menace of the Church.
! Here in the east the menace Of the
| Mormon church so far as relates TO It's
political and commercial departments
is little known, Those who have
studied the Mormon question as il pre-
sents itself in Utah and the adjoining
states look with horror upon the threat
ened action of President Taft. They
| see in il the turning of the highest
| tribunal of the land over TO a gang
of conspirators operating under the
guise Of a religious organization. and
they pause in alarm at the portent The
triumph won by the Mormon church
virulent Jack Mormon will be lasting
and will be terrible in its effect.
The appointment Of Sutherland will
be for the corporations A triumph NO
less magnificent than il will be foI
the Mormon church. Sutherland may
be in all cases depended upon BY the
gigantic trusts to do their bidding
| There is no question about that His
record Of the past is in ample evidence
that be is corporation-owned, body and
soul. His record on the Payne Aldrich
tariff bill is incontrovertible testI
mony that he was in the deal with that
iniquitous measure when it was mp for
vote in the senate, and that having
been so selected, he delivered the
goods, He voted with Aldrich III
times, and doubtless would have voted
oftener had he not been absent. His
Infamous record on that bill is sur:
passed only by the records of Reed
Smoot and Aldrich themselves. =,
Is Of Momentous Value.
A place on the supreme court Just
at this time is Of momentous value to
the corporations. 1t is worth by away
and far more than places in the senate
or the house OF representatives. This
is true for two reasons: First, there
is always a possibility of the people
demanding a change in their delegations
to c~agress, as was clearly shown at
| the recent election; and. second, that
the tenure OF office of senator or rep
resentative is, in addition to being un.
certain. comparatively brief. AS q
member OF the supreme court, d corpo
ration Justice has a lasting power
whose immensity can be measured only
| by his capacity for honesty or dishon
esty.
| Presently the supreme court will
pass upon the validity of the corpora
tlon excise tax, That tax has, in many
scores Of cases, been paid under pro
! test, and on these protests the ques
! tion of constitutionality will come be
| fore the supreme court. With Suther
land on the bench, the corporations will
| have sturdy advocate Of the inva
lldity of that manifestly Just measure
Presently, too, there will be Demo
cratic house of representatives. 1t is
reasonable to presume that the Demo
Gratis will pass q personal incom tax
measure. Enough senators Of the Re
publican side are known to be in ac.
cord with the idea of requiring great
and disproportionate incomes to bear
their share OF the burden of taxation
The income tax law would be certain
10 find its way to the supreme court
and there is no question in Washing
ton that the supreme court is being SO
arranged as to be hostile to it. Suth.
erland would be an invaluable lieuten-
ant of the financially abnormal And
he can at all times be relied upon to
vote right upon that question
Absolutely Unqualified.
In addition to these truths. it can,
without fear of successful contradic.
ton, be said that Sutherland is abso.
| lutely unqualified for the position of
| Justice of the supreme court. His ca.
pacitv AS lawyer is as well known in
Washington as it is in Utah, where
he has little, and his ignorance of even
the first principles of jurisprudence
especially constitutional LAWS pro.
found, His service in the employment
of the railroads and coal companies Of
Utah is all that Sutherland has to rec
ommend him. and surely such a rec
ommendation cannot be taken for more
than its face value, which is nil All
that Sutherland has learned in bis
practice of the law is that every
thing a corporation does is right and
everything a corporation S victim does
is wrong. 1t would be as impossible
for him to see two sides of a question
involving corporation interests as it is
for a man TO see around n corner. So
far as fitness for the place of supreme
court Justice is concerned, it is gener-
ally admitted that Sutherland has
none.
Sutherland Claims.
Sutherland s claim for consideration.
heads: The perpetuation of the Nor
mon church In its deeds of lawlessness
and his subservience 10 corporations
Certainly. President Taft knows the
facts in the case. Certainly. the presi-
dent is not blind. nor yet is he deaf.
Certainly. the president read in this
mornings Washington papers the
words of protest uttered by Senator
La Toilette. words that were more than
protest-they were n prayer that the
president do not do the awful thing
he has IN coptempla ton.
Sutherland for the supreme court!
Shades of John Marshall and Melville
Fuller!
PRESIDENT TAFT DECLARES