Middletown transcript., 1916-04-29
The aataalttntun Urauarrtpt
THOSE BRANDEIS LIBELS

"A fne-tooth comb, and hearing all
the malicious gossip that a few petit
Jogging attorneys could produce, aided
bv some of the rogues Mr.. Brandeis
had prosecuted; and after hearing also
the opinions of certain Big Business
plutocrats who think no judge can nave
Judicial temperament unless he ap-
prove of their crooked stock and money
manipulation, as their ex-attorneys,
now Federal judges, usually do after
all this, and more, the subcommittee
investigating the "cooked-up' charges
against Mr.. Brandeis, nominated by the
president for the Supreme Bench, found
there was nothing in all the mess, and
recommended his confirmation.
A few tory judges who think corpor-
rations and Big Business are divinely
ordained to rule the people, and what is
more, make them pay roundly for the
privilege of being thus ruled, also de-
clare Mr.. Brandeis "lacks judicia
temperament
Among these is that fuke of presi-
dent, William H. Taft. He is viciously
bitter against Mr.. Brandeis, and with
sufficient reason, for Mr.. Brandeis was
the fearless, public-spirited lawyer who
in the face of Taft's persistent opposi-
ton, prosecuted his rascally Secretary
of the Interior, Ballinger, who but for
Brandeis, CLAWS and few others, would
have handed the peoples rich Alaskan
coal and other treasures over to J.'P.
Morgan, Guggenheim & Co., to exploit
for their own selfish purposes.
Moreover, Mr.. Taft has a strong
personal grudge against Brandeis for
exposing, in that Alaska fight as the
champion of the plain people against
these despoilers of the public domain,
the discreditable fact that he, William
H. Taft, an ex-judge. and an ex-presi
dent, had fradulently altered the date OF
a public document in hopes to clear this
fellow Ballinger, acting as the hireling
tool OF those rich grafters.
This shameful act of deliberately
tampering with public record in such
way as to make it speak lie, may
not legally amount to forgery, but it
morally does, and Mr.. Taft stands eter-
nally pilloried by Brandeis for the ig-
noble deed Therefore he loves not
Brandeis, for as runs the old saw,
Meier thief felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law"
No, not scintilla of dishonor does ali
this evidence impute to Mr.. Brandeis,
but it and a multitude of other deeds Of
his, do prove that early and late he has
ever vigorously fought the battles of
the common people against the intrench-
ed special privileges of Big Business |
We saw again. not an atom of dishonOr-
able professional or personal conduct |
upon the part of Brandeis was dis |
closed, but the damning fact was abun- |
dainty shown that he believed the com |
mon people had quite as many rights |
before the law as this conspiring Big |
Business, and believed, too, that they |
should vigorously assert those rights
against all such fraudulent corporation
encroachments as for years have scan
dalously marked the history of our
country.
That Mr.. Brandeis as a lawyer has
thus ever honorably held brief for the
plain people is In the eyes of those rich
and powerful corporations, fatal to his
Judicial temperament and his utter
condemnation in the eyes of tory like
William H. Taft and others of his cor
poration-worshipping kidney. Hence
these Taft tears
Because Mr.. Brandeis holds to this
heresy that the people have rights quite
equal to those of the rich and powerful
corporations and Of the multimillionaires
who today are ruling our land, and who
have seated their ex-attorneys without
number on judicial woolsacks-for this
very reason, he should be put upon the
Supreme Bench. The people in that
event will have at least one fair and i'm
partial representative who does not be-
lieve in the "divine right" of money to
lord it over the people. Furthermore,
we say all this while remembering that
Mr.. Brandeis is Democrat.
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