The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-02-13
AN OUTRAGE ONDECENcY".
IS R00SEVaT'S TERN
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Yields IN M Man.

Yields 10 No Man.
But the court did not stop here.
IaneN and the majority Of the SUI
There was in Idaho a newspaper
which fearlessly and in entirely prot
per manner condemned the court for
this outrage. The editor and pub
Usher of that paper. and another mar.
connected with them, have been
thrown into Jail and fined heavily for
contempt by the court. The court in
its opinion has, cited the numerous
dynamite outrages and the like that
have occurred. as justifying their. ac-
ton. No more extraordinary plea
was ever made. I yield to no man
in the horror I feel for the anarchists
and for all other criminals who do
murder. whether by dynamite or in
any other fashion,
But the damage they do. though
sreat. is by no means as great to the
cause OF law and order as Is that
done by a decision such as the decis-
zen in question; ard no anarchist ever
can or ever will hurt the courts as
they are hurt by such action as this
Of the highest court Of the state of
ton OF the Idaho court in Furnishing
its critics for contempt is proper. then
Abraham Lincoln should have been
Jailed and fined for his word about
the supreme court nf the. United
States in connection with the Dred
Scott decision.
Abraham Lincoln Was. no more or
the supreme court Of the state Of
Idaho have imprisoned for contempt
because they criticized. in less severe
Language than Abraham Lincoln. a
decision as indefcnsible from every
popular rights as the Dred Scott de-
cision itself. -
Shows Need Of Recall. :
"A case like that In Idaho shows
the need OF the power OF popular re-
call Of the judiciary. a need which
I believe could probably he hest met
elected for life. but subject on petit
ton to recall by popular vote every
two years.
This action would not. however,
meet all the difficulties Of the case.
In this state. for instance. there have
been many volunteering judges who.
in certain cases. usually affecting labor
have rendered decisions which were
wholly improper. wholly reactionary.
and fraught with the gravest injustice
to those classes Of the community
tstanding most In need Of Justice. What
Is needed here Is not the right to re.
call the Judge. who in some one in.
stance gives Il mittaken and reac-
Itionarv interpretatiSh to It's constitu-
ton. but the right Of the people
themselves to express after due delib.
leration their definite judgment as to
what the constitution shall permit in
the way of legislation for social and
industrial justice.
II hold that in such a case as the
hakeshop case. in such a case as the
workmen's compensation act. in such
a case as tho tenement house cigar
factory act. ~ such as q case as, the
Ia dangerous machinery. IN such a case
rs the eight hour law, that it is for
the people themselves to decide
whether such a law ts or is not to
stand on the statute books. do not
care whether you call this action Of
theirs constituting the constitution. or
making the constitution. ! care for
the fact and not for h name"
for republican" in a letter wri ten
by Lincoln-4the Substitution being.
Colonel Roosevelt said, only that Of
the name of the progressive party Of
today for the progressive party Of
Lincoln's time-Colonei Roosevelt
read the letter az follows:
Must he Progre6aive.
AS to the matter OF fusion. I am
for 1t II 1t can be had on (progres-
sive) grounds; and I am not for it on
any other terms. "A fusion on any
(of what VIC haveJ, while the com.
mon enemy would still carry Gail the
vote that is hostile To us). The ques-
ton of men is a different one. There
Statesmen Din this territory opposed