Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-01-26
CHAfIn IS SCORED
IN CHURCH LECTURE
SUFFER- IS PRAISED
Edwin F. Jones at Grace
Episcopal Church in Tue
son Plainly Denounces
Demagogues Who ASsail
Officials and Courts.
DEMAGOGUE DRUNK
WITH OWN EGOTISM

The rights OF the individual as al
iected by the proposed progressiy,
measures, was the subject OF a pro
found disse. tation by Edwin F. lone
at Grace Episcopal church in Tue
son on last Sunday evening. The lee
tuTe was a protest and an attack a.
well as a defense and justification
The speakers diction was pure Eng
ish and simple, notwithstanding the
welshty matter dealt with. and was
easily eomprehended by the audience
whose intent interest was held for
three-quarters OF an hour.
In the course of his lecture. Ny
Jones took yelled dig at Eugene W
Chahn for attacks at the honesty of
the president of the United States anJ
the supreme bench. and took occa
sion TO commend Judge Fred Suffer OF
the superior court OF Cochise county
Tor liberating a prisoner on a writ OF
haDeas corpus on the ground that 4
telegraphed request was not sufficient
warrant for arrest.
Referring 10 "a member OF the bar
who has aspired TO the highest Office
IN the gift OF this country on a great
moral issue the speaker said: 4
have heard him sheer and hiss at
what he saFcastically called the sacred
rights of the judiciary 10 protect tho
constitution; ! have heard him de-
hounce the supreme court of the
united states as corrupt and incompe-
tent in public address in this CITY.
No sane man, who has given the mat
ter the least investigation, believes
that any single decision the supreme
court ever delivered was corrupt. and
no man. no matter what his capaci-
lies or prejudices, ever believed il 10
De incompetent Ii was reserved for
The demagogue, plying his trade. drunk
with the frOth of his egotism and
reckless alike OF truth and conse.
luenees' TO make such q charge"
We ali know that President TAFT
issan honest heightened man, that his
integrity is beyond dispute and thai
he has lahored hard and unselfishlv 10
discharge the duties OF his Office as ne
Saw them. We know that he has ken,
lnsullied the high traditions of his
Ocice and that he had done no ACT
"hlch would cause any American to
lang his head in shame, and yet ne
ias been compared to a pickpocka.
folding his sway. No man ever be.
ieved that he was dishonest, and II is
greatly to be regretted that any man
should be found willing to make such
| charge"
Eugene ". Chaffin. TIL man re-
erred 10 by the speaker, lEctured from
he same pulpit several weeks ago.
Speaking OF the safeguards thrown |
hound the individual the speaker
aid: The right is boldly claimed |
nd is permitted in some quarters for
ne officers of the law to arrest ana 1
old on suspicion any unknown char
cter who came their way, and ii IS
common practice for people to be
rrested on kilograms, printed de-
criptions and the flimsiest Of
harges and to be held incommunicado
nile the officers investigate. II il
llts his purpose he, in the face of the
NV, seeks TO wiring confession from
Is prisoner by any lie that suits his
urpose or by any means which mis-
Experience can suggest, and this.
'hich is a greater crime than nine
enths that they discover. is condoned
D the ground of necessity. The third
egree. as it is called. is the devils
wn weapon, and finds neither sane.
on nor excuse in the law. II is but
new assertion OF the age-old failacy
lat the end justifies the means. II
noted with pleasure that one of our
lperior judges has laid down the Law
his Jurisdiction that a telegram IS
Of a warrant and that the writ of
abeas corpus viii still release such a
r.soner"
The judge referred TO is Judge Fred
utter OF the superior court of Co II
Use county. who recently released a
an on the writ of habeas corpus who
I'D been arrested by Douglas officers
ith NO authority other than a teIe-
am from California officer. The
Use was noted in The Star at the Z
me and Readers probably will re- X
III IT,
II was in Itself a significant COM
ent on the undercurrent OF American
,iitics TO hear speaker in a public
ace defend the right TO trial by !.
~, the habeas corpus, the presump-
- A--~%0[NA~-s HtftCaf anu UatAi- -
ials- the right OF the accused TO be ,
tempted from testifying against :
mself, the right to have compulsory :
'ocess for Witnesses in his behalf, :
% right to be confronted by wit :
,sses against him
The speaker declared that the mod =
n nostrums were the discarded gar 4
ents Of the past. -All the questions. I
these reforms and revolutions so I
portrayed to us. It cannot n
} said too often are very old, they s
e hoary with failure and outgrown i
les ago. They are as old as human q
scontent and are as ancient as the D
lttery which has followed sovereign q
Ithority from the days OF Pharaoh 4
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