The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-04-17
THE BULWARK OF
HUMAN LIBERTY
Is In the Stronghold OF
Our Laws.
THE MENlc81BF0 OH cBjRIsi.
OF Justice often FcsIndIifIths
.Dnreasoning Demands
.nl0f' the Mob! .lrl
tH.APTER'fI.
CONTINUED from April 3d.

woven fhat specialization has be-
come a necessity. Now only the
most fitting talent and tempera-
ment, specially trained, can trace
the knotted threads and perpleXing
tangles in our social fabric, so COM
picked is its silken warp and wool,
No longer may we trust the bungler
The occupation of the Jack-at-all-
trades is gone. Now a botch is
crime. However intelligent the
farmer, if he have watch to re-
tair, he must seek a jeweler; II a
legal document to draw, lawyer.
Re the court and bar never so
learned, if a human stomach is to
I've analysed, a chemist must be call
ed. Everybody to his trade, the
shoemaker sticking faithfully to his
last.
The common people are great,
sublime in their way, and the best
OF Judges of general principles.
They know good government from
had. but it takes lawyers, jurlsts.
Statesmen and economists to work
out the details and apply the prin-
ciples. They knew THE Woman
Triumphant" was inimitable and
immoral, but who of the millions
but a Hart could have seen that di-
vinity. locked in the quarry, plead
ing to be chiseled out? Why, then,
should we try to reverse these ma
terlal conditions, and set the farm
er to drafting constitutions, peace
Compacts and international laws,
the manual laborer reviewing and
recalling judicial opinions on Ken
lucky Rate laws, Vested Rights and
eminent domain, with a tilt now
and then at the enigmatic Fourth
Dimension? .....
But of all the fantastic whims
and newborn vagaries, that of re-
call of the judiciary and its decis-
ions, strikes me as the most Wis
iopary and subversive. 1t is not
evolution; it is revolution. WHY, it
was never intended that this co-or-
climate branch should eater or de-
fer to public opinion. Unlike the
legislative branch, it is not repre-
sentative in that sense. Without.
stultifying itself, betraying its trust
and defeating the very purpose or
its existence, it could not yield in
the slightest to public clamor. BY
wise provisions against the human
elements of impulse and excite
ment, the judge is sworn to render
Judgment according to laws by
which every citizen is bound, not
to popular cry, no dif-
ference what that cry may be, and
the Judge who has the moral cour-
age TO stand by the law in spite of
this powerful influence, Is the ideal
Judge. Our courts are bulwark
against this very danger, and
breach in it's wall means confusion
and anarchy. --...
Our most precious rights a . not
in the hands of numerical power,
but lodged safely in the Constitu-
ton. with our courts on guard. Tell
me, are they 10 be recalled by
mob? A fine scheme of progress
and reform, to be sure! Who can
read the history of the Old and
New Court without realizing that
such scheme is a dance upon a
smouldering volcano? ! believe 1t
was the Jews who recalled the de-
rision of Pontius PLATE, with APP
palling consequences-the horrible
crucifxion of the Prince of limo
Cencc. Are not our remedies am
pie? If a judge is wrong, appeal;
ii "A fool, defeat him; if a scoun-
drel, impeach hip, and, If the law
IS wrong, repeal il. 1t is our duty
70 carefully select able and upright
judges, stand by them and uphold
Them as conservators of the rights
Of the people, and a refuge of the
weak and oppressed who Seek pro-
lection from the arbitrary power of
"A fitful and temporary majority.
Failing to do this, endangers the
very foundation of our system,
We have made no great shakes Of
progress in self-government in the
last century, but grant that we
have, and that we are much more
competent to pass upon fundament-
al laws than, our forefathers, what
about the millions of foreigners
who know nothing about the re-
sponsibilities of a free citizen and
who are piling in upon us every
year, to say nothing Of the millions
or a race WHO have Just emerged
from q. state Of slavery. Use, 900 d.
whom are in our own State? 1t