The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-04-01

Some years ago our taY law pro.
vided for The payment of taxes in
April, or one half in April and the
other half in September. After il
had been modified so as to make the
taxpayer remit all Of his or her taxes
in April, and an increasingly monthly
interest and fine was added by our
pedantic ana ostensible law makers.
Since then the law has been changed
again.
In retrospection of the above state
ment would it not be advisable to
confer the functions of the legisla-
ture to the Supreme Court, which,
by the way, must pass upon many
laws created by the solons. Some
are unconstitutional, others are in
discord with other laws, others are
ambiguous as to phraseology of the
measures, and having a destructive
rather than constructive tendency.
Economics of justice should al
ways prevail, 1t means reconstruc-
tion in laws, improved method of
procedure and opinions cleansed
from dross of selfshness, greed and
graft.
Persons who have attained moral
stamina will come to the front from
the ranks and file of the people. 1t
is time for us to take new and liv-
ing symbols; and tear the bandage
from the eyes of justice. To discover
the wolf masquerading in Sleeps
clothing. We must see that the
scales of justice do balance; that the
ballast of evidence is right opinions
and not fiimsy expression, precedent,
and pregmatic technicality.
AS class consciousness reigns now
supreme on the mundane sphere of
activity, there is no equality today
in the value of man. Abe Lincoln,
the illustrious statesman of yore,
whose earthly pilgrimage was so
characteristic of purity, humility,
selfless love and impersonal love, and
whose pure deeds of love are immor-
talized upon the scroll of heaven
lived up to his motto: Charity for
all; enmity to none"
Does our standard of conduct and
meteing out of justice compare favor
able with that of the sainted states
man, now sojourning in Realms of
Light?
To man alone of all creatures in
the infinite domain of natures vast
laboratory, is given the power to
create his own character. His pow
er is the sum total of his powers and
faculties in action. The all-wise
Creator bestowed upon him the light
of reason and the transcendental fac
ulty of intuition to direct his activity
purpose. After all, in the last analy-
purpose. After all, in the last enaly-
sis, the results remain with the indi-
vidual, whether preacher, banker,
judge, lawmaker, printer or manual
laborer, because the collective stan
dard of our State is conditioned by
the indiyidual units that compose it.
Justice is an attribute of the Inf
mite. A power given to man to
transmute discord into harmony; cor
ruption into purity; suburban in
stinct into intuitive perception; paro-
chial egoism into selfless and i'm
personal love, so characteristic of
the gentle Nazerene whose earthly
was a constant radiation
Of purity, humility and impersonal
love, the mystic solvent of all human
shortcomings.
Only through the economics of
Justice, tho imperfectly manifested
in and applied to human needs, shall
We solve our problems by the medium
)f the alchemy of impersonal love-
Thus, and thus only, shall we be |
in attaining our standard |
n the economies of justice promul-
gated to us by the omnipresent, ON
liscient and omnipotent Creator of |
he infinite universe.