Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-13
WILSON s COURSE
Of DESTRUCTIVE
craftsmanship
Is Rapidly Tending to "Farthest
North Among Haphazard
Agitat0rs.
The following leading editorial is
taken from today's New York Sun:
A Race for the Pole.

The following leading editorial is
taken from today's New York Sun:
Race for the Pole.
Unless we are much mistaken this
tional contest between the Hon. Wood
row Wilson and the Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt for primacy in the matter
Of destructive craftsmanship. Which
of the two will first reach that ultimate
goal in the philosophy of government
where latitude has no further north
and longitude ceases to exist?
The recent progress Of the Hon.
Woodrow Wilson is amazing all be-
holders. Some things that he has said
during his present tour of agitation.
some things that he has left unsaid.
and other things suggested by a rea-
sonable construction of his oratorical
utterances, have made his illustrious
competitor seem for the moment to pale
in the rearward distance precisely as
Bryan paled years ago in the first
splendor of the Rooseveltian apparl-
ton.
But now turn to the Outlook of May
10, today. The contributing editor
signs these opinions concerning the pos
sible undesirability of written consti-
tutions:
Such decisions as this of the Court
of Appeals of the State of New York
Gin the Ives case) would, In the end,
render 1t absolutely necessary for the
American people, at whatever cost, to
insist upon having more direct con-
troll of the courts. The only Social
ist member in Congress recently advo
Gated the abolition of all power on the
part of judges over legislation. There
is no danger of the adoption of such a
plan. unless the courts by long series
though the evils of the proposed plans
would be, the people must face them
rather than submit to the evils of the
experience of all history teaches us
that when people become goaded to ac-
tion by. a long course OF abuses they
are, apt to reject the leadership of
moderate reformers and to go to Vio-
lent extremes in the effort to provide
a remedy. feel that 1t would be
very great misfortune for US as a peo-
pie to have to abandon the system OF
written constitutions, and of legisIa-
tion under them subject to judicial in
depreciation, but decisions such as
such far-reaching injustice and wrong
(and Implying In our government such
contemplate futility from the stand
point Of remedying wrong and injus-
tice), IL unchecked and uncorrected
VIII go a long way toward convincing
people that at whatever cost, the en-
tire system must be changed"
Here Is the too familiar formula:
1t is not for the courts, but for the
moderate reformers" (whether Theo-
dore Roosevelt or Woodrow WILSON, to
tell the people what is wrong and what
is unjust and to construe the laws
which the legislatures have enacte d.
If the courts differ in opinion from the
moderate reformer" dixie Woodrow
Wilson or Theodore RooseyelD the
courts are notified by the moderate re-
former that public sentiment will no
longer tolerate them as judicial inter-
prefers of the laws of the land. If the
courts are sustained in this function
by the written constitutions, sug-
gested to the people by the moderate
reformer'' that the written constitu-
tions must go and the "entire system"
must be changed, "at whatever cost"
Who we wonder, will be remembered
In the twenty-first century - the most
original and inspiring moderate re-
former" produced by the early years OF
the twentieth? It is now the Ho
Woodrow Wilson's turn.