The Washington herald., 1918-05-04

United States Supreme Court fer a
few moments, though with measured
tread and slow.
We have heard not o few visitors
from over the nation exclaim at one
time and another when they wit
messed the opening or the delioara-
tions of that bench: "Oh, there's
more ceremony than there ought to
be. Why do they hang on to that
foolishness?"
Wait a moment. visitors, and We'll
bring out something the guides don't
tell you.
1t is well that the court hangs onto
it. 1t is the exemplification of the
dignity of the highest court OF the
land, and a symbol of the eternal
justice that is to be found there. Ban
ish that and you Danish one of the
fought. 1t may be a long jump for
some of you to gather this, but IL
you'll think it over carefully and log
ically, we think you'll come 10 no
other conclusion.
In Russia it would be easy to repeat
the remark which we have heard
many of the visitors lightly and
thcughtIessly drop. And it would be
quite as easy in Russia to Overturn
the court and its precedent-every
day before lunch If the Russians
thought it would help them any--but
who among you cares to Russianize
this country?
The Supreme Court has peculiar and
sacred functions to perform. God
grant they may always be performed
in the spirit in which they are per-
formed now, and have been since the
establishment of this arm OF govern
ment. We pray for our country that
the ceremonials may continue. and
that the court may remain unchanged
though other arms OF the government
submit to sometimes hasty but we'll
meant changes.
One change, we hope. will be ap-
parent in the years to come. We
hope America grows so thoroughly in
touch with the government-which
none will care TO assail, demagogue
though he be-that no one, not a
single visitor to the halls of justice
in the Capitol shall be heard to say:
what is this we have here, and why
do We have it?"
You may not have heard of Henry
occasionally of his peregrinations in
very genial and intense soul who
halls not far from the Mojsv Des-
ert-and a man thoroughly in sym
pathy with the dry atmosphere in
which he breathes Home, Sweet
Home"
Occasionally Henry rises in his Sem
+NrlI
to combat-and then sits down. con-
tent to have achieved the honor Of
having no one seriously interpret his
challenge or else afraid to accept it
for fear It will bring q plethora Of
debate upon the heads OF the SEN
ate. Tother day Henry talked long
and loudly about the Overman bill
and without any arduous attempt at
preparation ran of a document which
the printer-man of the government
received orders to dash Off for cir
cuiation. In this our Henry gave
forth this gem:
where the President has with
clear lenses horoscoped and interpret
ed events his partisan critics con-
fusedly recognize the events only long
after they have happened. and then
too often see them, not clearly, but
through blurred and indistinct lens
es. While the President acts with
precision and promptness and cor
rectly points the way, his partisan
critics stand like large locomotives
on a side-track. without driving rods,
wasting their steam in vociferous and
futile sibilation."
As IL 1t were not, enough to think
how to end the war and end the Ger
man menace with II, some Of our
keen citizens are already seeing
ahead to the time when the war will
be over and the reconstruction will
come. n -
There are ideas and ideas and other
ideas about this. Of course. and prob
ably only a few Of them that will
be shown to have been accurate sur
misses Of the condition to confront
US then.
Henry Clews, wise financier and
forecaster Of everything that might
come and that has come, prefers to
let the future work itself out more
clearly before he endeavors to point
the way for the further distant fu-
ture. He says: Concentration, cam
bination and cooperation are the or
der of the day in Great Britain and
In Germany. They must likewise be
the watchwords Of the United States.
though doubtless each country will