The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-22
INDEPENDENT
JUDICIARY
is the Plea Put Up By Attorney
General Wickersham to Cleve-
land Chamber of Commerce
HE SCORES THE RECALL
AS UNDUE INTERFERENCE
Says 1t Is the Latest Invention of
Self Characterized Progressive
Government - He Endorses
Reciprocity

CLEVELAND. O., March 90
Speaking tonight before the Cleve-
land Chamber Of Commerce Attorney
General Wickersham endorsed recip-
rocity and scored some modern tend
encies in legislation, asking for a
proper protection of the judiciary. In
some lines he talked along lines of
thought almost identical with those
taken up at Phoenix. Ariz.. by Form
er President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Wickersham made strong
Plea for an Independent judiciary and
scored the recall as "the latest in
vention of self characterized progress
sive government
Representative republican gov
eminent" said he, sis founded on n
practical recognition Of the fact that
in busy, prosperous community the
average citizen can give but little
time to the details Of his government.
He therefore joins with his fellow
electors in selecting representatives
to frame the laws from which t be
governed and in choosing the prin-
cipal officers who are to execute them
His life, liberty and property are
protected from undue invasion in
either branch Of the government by
means Of constitutional restriction
upon their powers; and by limiting
the terms for which they are chosen
there is required of them a periodical
accounting.
Freedom From Interference
This system secures to the agents
freedom from undue interference dur
ing their terms Of office, thus giving
them time to work out any given
problem and to submit 1t to the test
of experience before 1t is condemned.
forms Of government.
Representatives chosen to make
laws for state or nation have not al
ways been faithful to their trust. The
greater importance Of the national
legislature upon which the eyes Of
the nation are directed as rule
preserved it from the corruption and
the ineffciency of many Of the state
legislatures. The history of the latter
has been too often a history Of venal-
ity and stupidity.
But is the remedy to be found in
the overthrow Of the whole system of
representative government. Political
and socidal reformers alike are prone
to advocate the overthrow of a sys-
tenn rather than the more difficult
task of selecting fit agents to conduct
the system and Of the bringing VI un
just stewards to account.
Must Protect judiciary
What are judges but impartial ar
bitrators to whom any one of us may
lie compelled at any moment to APP
pear? What will become of that pro-
tection if our system of government
should subject them to the rage Of
the mob when they assert the SUI
premacy of the law? Who Of us will
be seeuI e in all that we hold dear if
our judges can only retain their
places by consulting the passlig fer
v"r of the crowd instead of the laws
of the iand.
"A glib, cheap answer is male by
the advocates of purely democratic
gcve,Ament wnen objection is made
10 their schemes iou do r0t trust
tie leople. XoIr whole pr gram is
hased on tn. assu.n- ton that the
peoc are unit II unable t. carose
honest and faithful. fpresentat YES
Under such u s!stcn the poet lie
abandon all restraints and the neces-
sity of scmer second thought, based
on accurate information and thorough
discus .icr befor. condGmniu,, the SER
VI ts."
Reciprocity Is Endorsed
The attorney general strongly in
r. Ny4R Ill 60 a4fy Aff xy
with Canada. He pointed out that the
total gross tonnage of the American
mercantile marine for the year 1909
registered at all at Atlantic and gulf
ports was 3,500,394 and at the lake
ports 2,7S2,481 tons.
"Only vexatious revenue tariff
burdens the exchange of trade and
commerce between u.s." he said "The
aggregate amount of Canadian pro-
ducts is not large. The amount Of
duties collected by us upon them Is
inconsiderable. The amount collected
by Canada upon our exports to her
shores is trivial. Her labor is of the
same character as ours. No principle
of protection to our home industry is,
therefore involved in giving the
greatest freedom of trade and COM
MERGE between the U. S. and Canada.
1.-THE days of isolated national life
are past. We canont longer look at
our next door neighbors as aliens or
strangers. Their interests are in large
measure bound up with ours. In the
continued and closer union of the
AngloSaxon peoples lie the worlds
hope for its continued prosperity"