The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-25
THE OPEN MOUTH AND TIE
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In his address TO the State bar As
ISOLATION of New Jersey last week
Gcvernor Woodrow Wilson said:
I The United Suites is in very
.critical mood with regard to Its
&courts,''
In the current number of The Out
Hook Magazine. OF which he is Con
Arieusins Editor. Colonel Roosevelt
t.flops around and Stops over in the
believing understandable mess OF
Language:
IF. on tho other hand, in any State
ffhe judiciary yields to improper in.
Hiuence on the part of special interests,
Sor II the judges even. although honest
Omen. show themselves so narrow
Fninded and SO utterly out oe sympathy
with the Industrial and Social needs
Drought about BY changed conditions
Hhat they seek 10 fetter the movement
,1or progress and betterment then the
people gre not TO be excused If, in q
sservile spirit. they submit to such
Adomination and fall to take any meas
cures necessary TO secure their right
20 go forward along the path OF eco
pomio and social Justice and fair deal
sing. III our people are really 1T for
sself- government then they will insist
/
sters affecting the nation as a whole
Fhis power of self government should
preside in tho majority OF the nation
tas whole. and upon this doctrine
mo one has insisted more strongly thnn
I have insisted. for In such case non
mlar rights becomes n meaningless
phrase save ms IT is translated into
national rights
In an address at Yale University
iduring the commencement exercises
Sscveral days ago. spoke OF tho
tUnited States Supreme Court and gave
trtterance to this very notable senti-
Ment:
1T is tho bulwark of our liberties.
FIN its work of construction II recoE-
tnizes the wonderfully COMPREHENSIVE
character of our Constitution In meet
anE the needs of sane progress, but il
Stands between us and extreme and
.unwise radicalism. 1t stands for tho
institutions that served our fathers
land will continue to serve us If the
country Is to live"
If the United states is in a critical
mood about our courts it is the work
OF the dcmagogues and not the faui,
OF tho courts; the spell of what the
New York Sun calls "The Open Mouth.
the crop of the tnres that tho enemy
hath sown among tho wheat The
wonder Is not that there IS criticism
of the courts but that the mob has
not torn down these bulwarks of our
liberties after the manner of DINER
fTevolntionists who have followed Tho
counsels of other Robespicrres. we do
not believe thatthe people of the coun-
Try sympathize with the attacks that
nave been made on the courts; we be-
lieve that the people are sound nj heart
and that they will reject the leader
ship of the men who would lay violent
thands upon the Law. Thanks to their
courage and patriotism. tho Courts
have not been moved by The Omen
Mouth" from the discharge of thci,
idnties In only one or two instances
nave .the,.Judgts yielded to the Inter
ITretetions" OF the mob in the street
MIerc is case directly in point.
In 1901, Edward II. Hartman accom-
Eplished the merger of the Union Pa
iciiic and Southern Pacific Railroads
tln 1905 suit was brought in tho limited
Estates Circuit for the District OF Iytn,,
80 dissolve the merger. The Irnitcd
Estates Circuit Court of Appeals n,
FSt Louis decided yesterday that the
coordination effected by Hartman va
snot In restraint OF trade; thai sine,
Fhe combination was made there was
with respect to either of these lincs ~
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