The Alaska daily empire., 1916-02-16

in tho negotiations botweon tho anuigoturors and the operators Of the dress and waiHt industry Morrs Ell quit counsel for the workers. said Go Mr. Brandels;
 For six years without recompanso, you have served the Interests of 100000 people un the garment ndustry) with high ond noble aims You have brought about the amicabe understanding You have our love and our loyalty. and your appointment Is not only an honor to yourself but credit to tho Nation
 Julius Henry Cohen. Of counsel for the manufaetnr' ers said to Mr. Brandels
 Sitting in judgment on the disputes between the arment workers and their employees you have shown an openmndedness and fairness that have been notable You have become un adept in matters that win occupy the attention of the United States Supreme Court for the next decade and in that respect especially you arc well qualified to serve as Justice of the highest tr' bunal in the iand.'
 Let 1t be no obstacle in Mr. Brandeis path to the Supreme Court that he is called radical Differing from the narrow ogarchlos of old the Republic is radical new, maker not Q follower of precedentH. Compared with the conditions under which ninetenths of the hu. man race stil live 1t is experiment; and the su' preme Court itself part of the machinery of exper- ment When VIC cease to be radical America will be no longer America"
 The greatest of all the great functions of the Unit ed States Supreme Court is the preservation of the b eres of the people. Does any imagine that those liberties would ever be abridged or impaired by any decision of Mr. Justice Brandeis2"
 'In various ways. but mostly in the form of anony nous statements In newspapers s alleged that eharg es may be made renectns upon the professional charc ter of Louis D. Brandeis, recently appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
 eThIs Is legitimate subject for inquiry by the Ju dietary Committee of the Senate. It involves no muck raking of Mr. Brandeiss record radical reformer end champion of the people It Is wholly aside from the spasms that afict powerful interests long accus toned to regard with suspicion lawyer not in ther service It raises at once question of fitness, consd eratlon of which is necessary and proper.
 There can be no investigation, however without a complaint and to be worthy of attention somebody of responsibility must present the complaint in the open Neither Senate nor people can be expected to give heed to vague rumors and innuendoes"
 'The Railway Age Gazette makes an instructive comparison of current railroad earnings and expenses with those of like period in 1912 when the roads last handled biz business In finds that gross earnings over that time have increased only l7 per cent Ex- penses relative to business volume have been notably reduced and t is found that this reduction has been chiefly effected in Of transportation rather than tn the upkeep of road and equipment
 qt was early in the period covered by this comparl- son that the roads were before the Interstate Commerce Commission with an iusistent demand for higher rates as ther only means of salvation from bankruptcy. It was then that Louis Brandcs counsel to tho com- mission drew down upon himself the hilarious ridcule of railroad managers and all Wall Street by asserting that the roads did not need higher rates to improve net revenues much they needed greater economy and efficiency in operation.
 The results speak for themselves i2 per cent improvement n net earnings largely from reduced costs of doing an equal volume of business reflects the cut ting away of lot of grating, lot of official extrava gances lot of dishonesty in purchasing agencies and the like VII deeply impress stockholders that their
 managers are far better employed in such activities than in hanging around Washington begging permission to impose new burdens on industry and the people in the costs of transportation"
 'It was well said by the attorney for the employers at recent meeting of the Board of Arbitration of the garment workers industry New York. of which Louis D. Brandeis has been chairman off six that his judicial experience has been ample. TO have served 100000 people such capacity for that length of time to have brought out Of chaos and to have won the re- spect of all parties to many very bitter controversies establishes the presumption that Mir Brandeia a well fitted for membership in higher tribunals. How many United States Judges now in office could have made such record dealing hand hand with questions more vital and complex than of those that are ordinor fly submitted to the lawi"