The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-27

and suggests error. He takes state
ments of stubborn debtors whom the
judgments and DEGREES Of courts have
made agree most unwilIfngly to pay
their debts. All the quidnuncs of the
community are on the alert. The eX-
aniner is a person of largest conse-
quence He seems to hold the fate of
the Judge in the hollow Of his hand
"Al the while, be II remembered
there is not a syllable of imputable
Censure or criticism pending against
a judge where alone charges should be
made and that in the app Jpriate of
fees of the representatives of the peO-
pie, to whom are committed as we'll
the rights of their constituents to an
upright and honest Judiciary and the
honor and character of judges who
are presumed to have done their duty.
NO CHANGE FOR DEFENSE.
I'm the meantime. the examiner i'm
parts to the judge NJ infOrma ton
whatever Of any complaint. There is
then no chance for defense, even If
defense to an unauthorized inquisitiOn
by an unauthorized inquisitor was not
unworthy of the judicial station. Who
then can forecast the report the exam
liner will make when it will be made
is equally uncertain. Finally the at
tcrney general himself informs the
public in the most public way, that no
charges have been preferred. but alas,
the permanent, irremediable, causeless,
cruel harm is done.
This method is very. very recent.
l dare declare that no other could be
more offensive to the chastity Of jul
dicial vigor. With experience Of four
years in the service Of my state. and
thirtyeOur years in the service of my
country, l declare that no other pro-
ceeding can. be so destructive of the
judiciary by the masses of the people.
If proner with the district judge, it is
equally proper with the judges of the
supreme court of the United States.
For action less directly in the pres
ence of the court. less interfering with
the administration of justice, men
have been convicted for contempt of
court an5 the convictions have been
sustained. 1t is indeed to place the
Judge at the mercy, not only of the
chief. but Of the subordinate of an
executive department. 1t is CONT
mental and not an American method.
Aye. 4 * more Russian than Amer
lean.
Then. too. there IS TO end to It.
VIOLATION OF PRINCIPLES.
THE Investigations of the judge may
end do follow for ca CHI successive year
Does it not trench upon the supreme
privilege of the representatives of the
people? 1t is not violative of every
well known principle Of our constitU-
ton to secure the independence of the
CO. ordinate branches of our govern
ment? Surely this method has grown
UP through the action of subordinates,
and the non observance, rather than
the orders of lawyers who fill the sta
ton of attorney general. VIII the at
tCrney general longer permit such con-
tinuous torture to the judges of our
country? And shall this I'M American
method continue? BY it and similar
q expressions upon the independence of
the judiciary shall the august fabric
which Marshall and the great judges
who held with him have builded, amid
the cursings of the mob, the jeers Of
the hoodlum, amid the mouthiagS Of
the demagogue, Crumble into nothing
ness?
Forget not, my brethren. that the
dignity Of our noble profession de-
ponds upon the undeffled purity and
wherein you are the priests Of Justice.
Your courts degraded and enthralled,
your judges prejudged, uncertain, tim
OF Gus, trembling before partisans in
office and before that many headed
monster, the mob wherein lies your
safety. your repose of mind, the glory
and honor of our noble profession and
the security of liberty itself; first to
feel the change, you will be the most
constant sufferers and the last to suf-
Ter. Is II not lHSh your SOIuITln
to stand by the system the fathers
framed? Stimulate. if you please, your
law reformer to merit the pride and
rival the achievement of Napoleon.
who, in his darkest hour, despite the
of Lodi, Marengo and Aus
terlitz, exclaimed, 7 shan go down to
T.osteritv with the code in my hand
Let this be your ambition and the
purpose of the great, sane, ju1icious,
patriotic masses Of our countrymen.
and in the prophetic words of q great
American lawyer, Judges will be ap
pointed and pass away. but whoever
comes and whoever goes, the courts
remain. strong in their traditions, con-
ccntrated by their memories, fortified
by steadfast support of the profession
around them, anchored in the abiding
trust of their countrymen, they will
go on and still go on, keeping alive
many century that we shall
not see the light that burns with con-
slant radiance on the higher altar of
: american constitutional Justice"