Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-01-27
JUDICIAL RECALL -.
TAFT DENOUNCES
PLAINLY STATESl HIS VIEWS
In SPEECH To NEW YORK
BAR ASSOCIATION.
He Doesn't Think That All People Are
Fitted for Popular Government
Effort Being Made to Shorten Liti-
cation So That Delay Won't Make
Just Judgment Unjust.

cation So That Delay Won't Make
Just Judgment Unjust.
New York.-With dennncation of
the principle of judicial recall, deliv-
cred to the Bar Association of the
State of New York, at it's banquet
here, President Taft concluded busy
evening Saturday, which he employed
chiefly in speechmaking at three diff
ferent functions.
After plea for simplifeation of
legal procedure, which he argued with
much earnestness before the company
of lawyers, Mr.. Taft waxed more in
cisive in coming to the topic about
which he evidently felt SO deeply.
"'We do not believe that all people
are fitted for popular government he
said "Some of us do not dare say
so, but l do, and the question whether
people is fitted for popular self-gov-
eminent depends upon the restraint
that the minority can place upon the
majority to see that justice is done.
eve of the bar are called upon to
decide whether we are going to pro
tect the institution of judiciary and
continue it Independent of a majority
during the time that it is deciding
questions of law and justice.
Hates to Utter Words.
''The judicial recall-the words
themselves are so inconsistent that ]
hate to utter them. Are we going tC
make our constitution a liquid thing, Sc
that a majority can food the halls OF
justice, decide every action and over
ride with popular passion and preju
dice every principle of this govern
ment, the greatest God ever made7
"You must bear in mind that thi
matter of judicial recall is being agi
tated the country over; that the mel
speaking for it are many. What
call your attention to is that it i
necessary good people like you SHOULD
speak the truth that is in you in favo
of courts and their independence, an
the restraints of the constitution tina
were imposed by the wisest ancestor
any people ever had"
In reference to the simplifcation o
legal procedure the president said h
had had a feeling that the bar an
the bench "owed to the people create
effort toward making the ADMINISTERS
tion of law effective and just by exp'
ditlng justice.
Welcomes Reform Effort.
] 81 am glad to know he said, tina
D there is now profound effort to stud
. where it is that we can shorten ltig;
ton so that delay won't make ju:
judgment unjust"
Referring to the French code, I'll
president said that there, as with u
there was "tendency to assume thu
: litigants were made for the courts an
, the exercise of the refnements of rel
son rather than vice versa.
+ "'There is much the same tendenc
> there, as with us" he continued, 90
keep the antagonist paving in IL
+ vestibule of justice. We have not "
e reached the secret of promoting re-
n Justice, but am glad to know the
e is movement the world around to S
S cure reform.
IS Throughout his address the presidel
e was frequently interrupted by cheer
[, and his declaration that he was n
afraid to express his opinion on pop
lar government in connection with
- denunciation of the recall brought q
big assemblage to its feet.
e Jusserand Also Spoke.
d Ambassador Jusserand of Fran
It spoke on the law s delays, reviewil
# the attempts to simplify legal proc
Il dure. He was glad that at last me-
J. bers of the bar themselves were lea
ing in the fight to abolish the della
p. from which they do not suffer.
+ Senator Elihu Root, president of t
bar association, spoke of the principl
of justice and declared that if tn
IN are to be subordinated to the MAORI
is the liberty of the people would soon
p lost. He said many of the old theori
y are being questioned these days
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