The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-16
HANFORD MUST GO
Cornelius Fl. Hanford should get off the federal
bench for which he is manifestly unfit

Cornelius H. Hanford should get off the federal
bench, for which he is manifestly unfit.
His decision virtually outlawing Leonard OLSON
and the socialist party shows this man, vested for
life with tremendous power and beyond the removal
except by extraordinary MEANS to he menace to
the whole people and to progress.
For let nobody thing that that decision of Han
ford's affects only the socialist party.
It affects every man in the United States who is
working to improve conditions to make the laws fit
the needs Of the people,
The point Hartford made prominent, the thing evil
IDENTIFY most conspicuous in his thinking, was that
Olsson's hope for government ownership of all
property was blow at present ownership of prop
erty
''The constitution, he quoted guarantees that
a man shall not be deprived of his property
Any interference with property rights is against
the constitution, is the precedent he sets up And
other judges over the country, whose leanings are
against the people, follow that trail, quoting
Hanford as precedent And precedent is all potent
In the law.
But millions of people in this country want to- see
changes in the laws and constitution governing the
ownership of property.
The dgnified members of the United States con-
gress, which passed the income tax amendment to
the constitution the president who signed it, the
states which have ratified it, all outcasts under
the law, as Hanford laid it down.
For the income tax seizes a certain part OF mems
property III order that other may find it easier
to i've
The men who advocate the initiative and referen-
dum, VINO want corporation tax, the single takers,
the men advocating cooperation between producer
and consumer the workmen striking for more
wages the men in every walk of life who want to
change conditions in this country that there shall
be fewer multi millionaires and fewer paupers, and
that all of us, the 95 per cent of u.s. may find the
making OF living easier task, may assure our
children reasonable guarantee of living conditions
Its hits us all
His decision is the most sweeping of anything
since the bred Scott decision which precptated the
civil war; 81
Of course the courts above Hanford will probably
reverse him. He has been reversed frequently
But why should Washington have to stand for
Judge whose thinking is far removed from the
people, whose decisions fundamental subjects are
always subject to reversal the man who said the
Cunningham claims in Alaska were all right the man
who has earned reputation from one end of the
country to the other, judge who is against the
people, whose rulings as to what is law, have only
made more people lawless, and who now says that
anyone who believes the constitution should be
changed is not an American citizen.
The constitution has been changed some Is times
since it was first drawn And the people will change
it again as often as they think necessary
Hanford is great living obstacle to popular gov
eminent. He is the greatest argument extant for
the recall of judges.
And Hanford must 60