Middletown transcript., 1916-02-26
X1DpLETOwN, DEL, FEB s9' ISl6
MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS

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aon+ Wilson of Louis D. Brandeis as
Justice of the United States Supreme
Court in the seat made vacant by the
death of Justice Lamar.
No act of the President reflects
oeater credit upon him than this worthy
choice for that high and responsible
office.
The selection of Mr.. Brandeis has met
with an instant approval among almost
oil classes and parties, while the free
and unbiased Press is generally faVor-
able The opposition to him comes al
moot wholly from Wall Street. and the
Snecial Interests whose venal, suosideo
organs at once set up a great howl
calling Mr.. Brandeis radical ,
socialist" wanting in judicial temper
ment" etc.
It is an unforgivable sin in the eyes
of Wall Street and all Big Business that
Mr. Rrandeis has not been a believer IN
the divine right Of money-bags-ln the
snac;al privileges of rich and powerful
corporations to do as they pleased
,,surp law and Justice to their own sell
fish purposes and against all the rights
of the people.
Because he has refused for hire to
stoop to the ignoble task of panderlng
to plutoeratic royalty-as do so many OF
o,r foremost LAWYERS but on the con-
trary has nobly fought without hire the
battles of the common people, these
possessors of vast and ill-gotten wealth
are to a man against him, using every
form of quibbling and SANDER to defeat
his confirmation.
Mr.. Brandeis is not only. learned
and experienced lawyer, but he is an ex-
pert political economist of keen and far
reaching views upon the important
questions of the day that vltally concern
the whole country.
His most noted trait of character is
that which more than any other made
Lincoln at once so famous and so be-
loved-a belief in and love of the COM
mon people, for whose rights we find
him in public life constantly demanding,
with voice and pen, an adequate recog-
milton, as against the tyranny and rob-
berry of the great corporations.
He has made open and bitter war
against these huge corporation engines
of plutocratic rascalitiss, and thus
earned their bitter hatred and theil
fierce antagonism.
Witness his bold and winning fight
against the BallingerMorgan ct al.
Alaska steal; his long and eqaully sue
cessful war on the huge Morgan-Mellen
ct al conspiracy that wrecked the N.
Y. New Haven and Hartford, R :, R.
His tory critics and all the mighty
forces of Big Business had come to
think that it was necessary qualifica-
ton for a justice on the Supreme
Bench that he had for years as then
hireling attorney served their interests,
and tooth and toenail fought those of
the people.
That as lawyer he had dared tc
spurn their rich bribes and fight on be-
half of the common herd, the holy ano
almighty Trusts, was sure proof thai
he lacked "a judicial temperament anC
was, therefore, evidence conclusive Of
his unfitness to sit in that exalted tribu-
nal.
So the Predatory Trusts, the railroad;
and all of the big corporations, witt
their liars and their lObbies are moving
heaven and earth to defeat this hereti
cal lawyer who actually believes the
great mass of the people have equal
aye, greater rights than these big cor
porations.
''What Justice on the Supreme
Bench who has never served an appren
ticeship as our attorney, impossible
We do not want our Bench tainted will
the presence of any lawyer who ha'
been an advocate for the rights of the
people as against our special privileges.
The people generally, the hosts of or
ganized Labor and the unfettered Pres
everywhere, are demanding of thu
angry, reactionary senate mis- confrma
ton, and we believe that they will no
dare affront so strong and widespread
a public sentiment much as they woult
like to serve Wall Street and Big Busi
ness.
The coming of Mr.. Brandels to tn
Supreme Bench will mark an epoch tha
is a glowing prophecy of better things
of the diviner day that judicially recog