Iditarod pioneer., 1914-02-07
EX-PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE SUPREME BENCH

Probably political development of has caused much diverse will the that President Wilson seriously considering the appointment of exPresen w. h. la the supreme bench of the United States That there probability of such being made there little doubt and the tact that the xpresdnt of opposite political faith to President Wilson way deacs from probability Indeed there those who profess such appointment graceful act toward the man whom MT. Wilson defeated for the presidency
 As President Mr. Taft the precedent for such appointment by naming Justice Whe Democrat for chief justice of the court and throughout the country the appointment looked upon of broadmnded who recognized true ability and re- warded That the appointment was unexpected by Mr. White made the act more conspicuous President Wilson to confer like distinction upon his predecessor office there little doubt but that
 quarters would be looked emnenty But among large proportion of the citizens of the republic the appoint will be viewed with There ae and should be- more questions involved such appointment than official courtesy It that recent the highest tribunal the land looked nonparsan body was intended to be- but remembered that only few that court split upon strict party lines and majority of vote important law o congress was ovehovn unconstitutional involving the necessity of change in the constitution before could put effect And previous unusual tor that court to arrive its conclusions by strict partisan dvslon
 ExPresiden Taft whether justly unju, known through the land the father of the injunction applied to labor dis pue It claimed that federal district judge he first applied this judicial weapon the handling of controversies between capital and labor That the seized by the great corporations with the aid of ubseent judges, ot queng labor d ubances and enforcing their conditions arbitrarily telr dssa fled matter of history From the declson these mJunc the of the Sherman acts restraint of trade clause labor eliminating the famous Danbuy matters where members of trade mulcted ot hundreds Of
 
 dda before the Chicago for the Republican nomination for President recognized the wrongs that had from the app of the injunction ndscrminatel labor disputes denced by his insisting the insertion of plank the Republican platform pedgng the enactment of legislation to curb the tendency of government by nuncto However, that legislation enacted and only the awakened public opinion has way restrained the abuse of this judicial power
 Men of all shades of political belief will concede the eminent qualifications of the distinguished epeden to sit at the head of the nations highest tribunal from of legal training and perienc No will doubt for that Mr. Taft would bring that exalted position great talent and ability that of other ur the country But those who have watched his with impartial eyes will have grave doubts of the adisab of conferng the power of the chief uscesp of the United States who has shown that he regards property rights superior the rights of liberty of conscience There growing sentiment this country that while property rights should given the full of the they by sacred and that there other rights conferred by the which must be gwen least equal protection under the law There many others besides the trades of the republic who will view with alarm the empated appointment of Mr. Taft chief justice of the supreme 
 Editor Thompson of the Fairbanks Newsner announced the last day of the year that he had sworn off being Demoac In the words of contemporary There trying Democratic newspaper when you have opposition Then Democracy the thing today The 5 H. DONNELLEY,
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