Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-21

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AccoFdtnS ID pps II ahs hsKhsss
Judges tAeA and npw a. ths EupseEas
court af til nation. W. had Tired fx1f 4
hundred yaars nnder q PROSTITUTION
whioh permitted 4 sstsones incasns
tax, until suddsnsy BIZ one vote the
surname court reversed It's previous
decisions for q oentuTyT, aud said thai
for a century WI had been living under
q wrong Interpretation Of the Gozssttit
ton THAT IL, under q wrong Constitur
toni, and therefore 10 effect sstab-
lishsd q new Constitution which We
are now lsborionsly trying to amead
40 AZ to get It bahk to tho Constiti<
ton that for a hundred years every
body, including the Supreme court,
thought 1t to be. When ] was prssi.
dent, VIZ passed q National Workrnen'a
Compensation act. Under 1t a rajk
way maj named Howard, ! think, was
killed In Tennessee, and his widow
sued for damages. Congress had
done all It could to provide the right,
but the court stspped IN and decreed
that congress had failed. Three of the
judgea took tho extreme position that
there was no way In which congress
could secure the helpless widow and
children against suffering, and thai
the mans blood and the blood of all
similar men when spilled should for.
ever cry aloud In vain for Justice.
This seems a strong statement, but
~ L. IA. l~nu ~%r4~1 &hon fhn actual
facts; and I have difloulty In making
ths statement with any degree OF
modification. The nine justices OF the
Supreme court on this question split
into fye fragments. One q ex-
Justice Moody, In his opinion stated
the case In Its broadcast way and de.
manded ~justioe for Howard, on
grounds that would have meant that
In an similar casss thereafter t~ustics
and not injustice should be done. Yet
the court, by q majority OF one, de-
oidad az I do not for one moment be-
lieve the court would To- decide, and
not only perpetuated q lanlentable In
justice in the q OF the maj himself,
but set . standard OF injustice for all
similar cases. Here again / ask you
net to think ct the msrs legal formal
Ism, but to think OF the great Inn
mutabie principles Of justice, ths
great immutabie principles Of right
and wrong, and to ponder what II
means to mar depAndsnt tor their live
iihood, and to the women and chill
dren dependent upon thess men. when
the courts Of the land deny them the
Justice to which they are entitled. /,
Now, gentlemen, In closing, and in
thanking you for your courtesy, let ms
add one word. Keep clearly In view
what are the fundamental ends of
government. ! hope that not only
you and I but all eur people nay eys
remember that while good laws ara
necessary, while IL 10 necessary to
have the right kind OF governmental
machinery. yet that the allimportant
matter is to have the right kind OF
man behind the law. A good Consti-
tuition, and good laws under the Com
stituticn, and fearless and upright OFF
heials to administer the laws-ali
these are necessary but the prime re.
quisite In our national life IL, and must
always be, the possession by the ave-
6 citizen Of the right kind of char
acter. Our aim must be the moraliza-
ton OF the individual, of the govern
ment, Of the people al q whole We
desire the moralization not only Of
political conditions but Of industrial
conditions, so that every force In the
community. individual and collective,
may be directed toward securing for
the average man, and averages woman
a higher and better and fuller life, In
the things OF the body no less than
those Of the mind and the soul.