Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-27

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official Paper OF City and Count,
Justice Harlan 8 Zeal for Democracy
No member of the Supreme Court OF
the United States since its organization
had greater faith in democracy thar
the late Justice Harlan.
And no citizen of the country more
vigorously than he resented encroach'
ments by the judiciary upon tho c"nsti'
tutional functions of other branches of
our government.
Time after time he raised his voice
against usurpation by the Judiciary.
Thus in 1908, in an address delivered at
PENNSYLVANIA University. he said:
IF the present constitution does not
suit the people they can amend it in the
mode, but only in the mode prescribed
by that instrument. 1t cannot be
amended by the device OF mere inter
nretation, That would be both revolu-
tiOnary and dangerous.
On his seventy sixth birthday, in 19O9,
he said:
mo official of the government, how
ever important, should be permitted in
any matter to control the judiciary sp-
pointments.
On May 29th of the present year, IN
his dissenting opinion in the Tobacco
trust case he said:
when the people wake up to the
fact that the judiciary is legislat'ng
there will be trouble. The 100000 600
of American people are not going to
submit to usurpation by the judiciary. !"
His reference in the last statement
quoted was to the word unreasonable
% read into the antitrust law to quail
fv the clause "restraint of trade. -
Four days before, in bis dissenting
opinion in the tandard Oil case. he
wrote:
CHOW this court is asked to do that
which it has d.stactly declared it could
not and would not do, and has now
done what it then said it could not con.
stitutionally do. 1t has, by mere in
depreciation, modified the act OF Con-
gress and deprived it of practical value
rs a defensive measure against the
evils to be remed;ed."
Criticism of the supreme Court for
Judicial usurpat ion is not, as frequent
ly charged, from those ignorant of law,
but from one who, as member of that
court, had greater hearing, by vir-
tue of his character and his career,
than any other man in the nation, not
excepting the president himseIf.-Du-
buque Telegraph Herald.
Taft's Tariff Board.
On biz swing around the circle Presi-
dent Taft tells the people it v as
necessary for him to prevent reduc-
ton of the cost of living because the
tariff board hadn't reported.
Here is some tariff board history that
the President will probably not refer
to:
The tariff board YVES created Sept.
e, 1909. On June z, 1911, q months
later, congress called for whatever data
the board mad collected on wool and
WAS informed the board had nothing to
rep rt. What was the tariff board
doing during these 81 months?
Soon after the appointment of the
hoard, its chai,mar, Henry c Emery,
established headquarters in the private
residence of Frederick Hale, son of
Senator Eugene Hale of Maine, who
has been known for years as one of the
most powerful defenders of ultra pro,
lection.
In October, 1910, it was announced
that "the work of the tariff board
was to be doomed at series of ban
quets. For three months the banquet
ing campaign occupied the time and at
tention of the board. Am ng the hosts
was the Arkwright club, the leading
association of high protection manu-
facturers of the country. Then on Feb
ruary /, 1911. Chairman Emery was
the guest of the National association of
wool manufat turcrs-the wards of
schedule with William M. Wood on
one side and vice president f. S. Clark
on the other.
The plan finally adopted for esti'na-
ting costs is tho plan which, ut this
dinner. Emery Was advised to adopt.
And this is the board for whose re-
port all tariff revision must be held up!