The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-06-24

already are so exhausted as to be
incapable of going through the aut-
umn session. A more complete rea-
son is that ministers want full time
to prepare the home rule bill and
mean to reserve all of their time and
strength during the autumn to elab-
crate this momentous measure.
While the Tory papers are raging
and some of the more decorous lib
erals are silent, and while Mr.. En-
me.t. the deputy speaker of the house
of commons, has condemned the Ian
guage of Winston, and he was the
other day silenced by a combination
of Mr. Emmott's ruling and the angry
shouts of the tories, there is not the
smallest doubt that he has given
voice to the pent up feeling Of the
masses and of the whole liberal party
in the country.
It was not until time after time
the judges gave undeniable proof of
gross partially that people here be-
gan to revise their estimate and until
they began first to doubt and then
to swear. For their patience was
sorely tried. Naturally, in ireland,
where the judicial bench is one OF
the most powerful agencies Of union
ist policy, the people were not slow IN
coming to their own conclusions. 1t
came to be known that If a petition
was entered against a nationalist
member, the unionist Judges were
pretty sure II they could to decide
against him. Their judgment came
to be political harangues. once the
late Judge Keogh, a man detested
with extraordinary fervor because OF
his adoption first and then his shame
less abandonment of nationalist poll
clos. raised such a tempest of feel
ing In Ireland by tremendous and
almost insane attack that many thous-
ands of pounds were raised to pay the
costs OF the nationalist he had con-
demned; and there were many indig-
nation meetings and finally a big de-
bate in the house of commons. But
in those days Ireland had to fight
both the English political parties and
Judges like Keogh found advocates
as vigorous among liberal and among
TORY politicians; and ireland to this
very day, still has to suffer from the
prejudices of the judge in election
and indeed every other case where
political interests are involved.
= In England they we're slower to
wake up to the realities of the stu
ton; largely, of course, because the
English Judge did not dare to be so
tlagrantly and openly partisan as the
Irish brother But the awakening
has come now with such q rush that
lar.reachine consequences are GER
tain to come and perhaps to come
soon. The judge who first brought
t,,inss to the present temper was
III: tice Grantham. He tried several
election petitions and although the
violence apparently left verdict
against the member petitioned against,
Justice Grantham invariably found
the tory candidate guiltless. At last
public opinion could stand it no long
er and when there came to the house
of commons the gigantic majority of
the election of 1906 a motion was
made against Justice Grantham.
Judges Are Well Protected.
This is the only method by which
o Judge can be called to account.
When James II was expelled from
the throne and when the Wing noble
men were determined to put an end
forever to the possibility of despotic
king interfering with the impartial
couzse Of Justice by Interfering with
the Judge, they restGoed upon very
drastic scheme of protection. First
every Judge was declared irremov
able except by the most difficult of
all processes; namely a joint vote
against him Of the two houses of
parliament, process so difficult that
Il has never yet been employed
against any English judges since the
Revolution of 1859. Nor was this all,
a. the judges have even "a more re.
Enarkable form Of protection. If any
membec of the house of commons
dare to make even a criticism of
fudge, he is Immediately called by
che speaker; no such remark is per.
INVISIBLE under our rules of order;
in one way and in one way only does
Q member become entitled to criticize
Judge and that is If he is discussing
a motion calling for the dismissal of
the judge by the two houses.
Side by side with this, every tory
Judge has used all the armory of the
law against the trades unions and