The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-08-23

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people, under deliberate cultivation
by the organizers and leaders of la
Dor unions, strike the organizations
and hobby riders. an Impotence OF
the restraints of the law, and de,
sire, sometimes boldly laid open, to
follow their own inclinations, un.
hampered by the law or good morals
and governed by the one idea, that
might makes right
Cry Out Against Courts.
There people, of all others needful
of legal control meeting with just re-
straint at the hands of the courts
when engaged in wilful and wanton
destruction of property, or in other
wrongful and disregard of the rights
of others, began to cry out against
the tyranical practice of gov
ornamental injunction and the
ward politician and officeseeker
ready and willing and quick to con
ceive, readily took up the cry of that
horror of horrors, government by in
! junction. and inveighed against its
wrongs and the distressing results
until cooler heads are coming here
being turned so that this valuable
and important function of the court
is in danger of notification.
81 venture to state that no branch
of our government has been more
effective in safeguarding the rights
of the people, and that no power has
been less abused or the exercise oil
which has been less criticised in al
4 of the years of our governmental
history that the so called Govern
mental injunction"
Sought to AnnuI Constitution.
This grievance not being enough,
it is now sought to annul the con
| stitutional distribution of the func
tons of our government, and to des
troy the independence of the judicia
branch, by placing this branch un
j der the immediate control of the ma
jority, not the people, but the voters
who see fit to cast their votes upor
the question involved, who are ir
fact about one-tenth of the people
affected ! can see no distinction
in it's last analysis between the re
call of judges, and the recall of judi
cial decisions. The one remove.
the offender, and the other nullifie.
his work. If judicial recall is Z
step toward safeguarding the right.
of the people, as is vigorously con
tended by the advocates, and if the
people however impulsive, may b.
relied upon to exact justice at al
times and under all conditions, the1
why net remove all constitutional
restraints upon the people, and has
ten the glorious day when the PEG
pie, whose rights at the presen
time seem to be in such great peril
may be in absolute control of the con
stitutional departments of our gov
eminent, and may rule supreme, un
hampered by even sufficient della,
to cool a fevered brain.
! while one aggrieved might will
some degree of safety appeal to tn,
people direct, if all were like those
who stood upon the decks of thu
Titanic, not SO if all were like tn,
Mcnamara brothers and their kind
or the Huntsville mountaineers o.
the much dreaded individual of cor
porate outlaw.
Take Away Right of Trial.
Let judicial recall prevail, AM
: we have placed in the hands of tn,
people, unlimited power to take ava,
the right of trial by jury, to TAX
one mans property and give it t,
|, another, to enslave human beings
to impare the obligation of contracts
and to take public property withou
compensation, and to impose a re
ligious test upon the rights of cleo
tive franchise.
Let these steps and the powe
granted be fully exercised, and W,
have gone from a republican form O
government into a condition of I'm
restrained anarchy, and then tn,
western hemisphere might as vel
! be returned into the original chaos
!, 1t seems quite difficult to determine
what the advocates of judicial recall
. actually desire. .. ..
. I'VE find men high up in publi
: control, first advocating the recall 1
: federal judges because of appoint
ment for life, next advocating tn
; recall of judicial decisions, becaus
, important laws were construed an,
constitutional questions were decid
ed, not according to pretended poI
. ular demand, and then when appoint
ed power looms up in the distance
: and seems to be within the possible
reach, multiplying all of these reasons
advocating the recall as relating t.
the state courts only, the election O
, the judges which are veryfrequent,un-
til one prone to doubt the candor O
men seeking political preferment
come to doubt whether the recall i
: advocated by men high up in politi
: cal ASPIRATIONS with a sincere de
: sire to better the conditions of tn,
masses; and should the wheel O
) political fortune turn in certain di
rections, whether that a suggestion
as remedy for existing evils i
: should be provided that the fedora
: judiciary be made elective, woul,
not be met with executive disapprov
al.
1--WE have heard of cases. in tn,