The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-04-22
Elihu Roots Seditious Appeal for
Revolutionary Act by the Supreme Court

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were still against him when he closed his argument
Not even Marshall's influence succeeded in chang
ing them, he prevented decision until after their
vacation
Then the historian says campaign started to get
at" the judges during their vacation.
Political friends sent to their homes and every
conceivable thing that could be done under was
done to bring these FIVE judges to agree.
As Lodge says, 1.-THE whole business was con-
Quoted like quiet, decorous political campaign"
The campaign was successful, and the Dartmouth
College decision made 1t impossible for State to
repeal alter charter given to a corporation which
was obtained EVEN BY BRIBERY AND EVERY
FORM OF CORRUPTION.
The whole world knows that Root is Webster;
but the forces behind Root far far more powerful
and better organized than the forces behind Webster
He speaks apparently only for the liquor interests
But 1.-THE voice is the voice OF Jacob, but the hand
the hand Of Esau."
The entire army Of special privilege is behind this
mouthpece of the exploiters
decision in which the slave power used the court in
vain attempt to protect private property in human
beings and thus fastened the Owl War to repudate that
decision?
viii the court remember how the country received
viii it recall how Webster sounded his own polit-
cal death knell?
viii the court recall how Whittier marked the
great downfall in the lines Of "Ichabod?
$50 fallen, so ostl the light withdrawn
Which he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
For epermorel
"Of all NE loved and honored naugh
Save power remains
fallen angels power Of thought
Still strong in chains
The soul has fled;
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man Is Dead
Then pay the reverence of old days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward NTH aperted gaze
And hide his shame"
Who knows?
Will the court realize that such revolutionary
decision as they asked make must lead to counter
revolution and if the counter revolution is resisted to
civil war?
The slave power could not realize that an advanc-
ing civilization had changed the worlds conception OF
the rights of private property and had repudlated the
idea that property rights were so superior to human
rights that there could be private property in human
beings
Worse still the slave power would not realize that
no court on earth could long hold the American people
behind the moral advance of the rest of the world
Our privileged class does not now realize that the
civilized world has advanced far beyond their concep
ton of the relations of human and property rights
This decision is sought in order to put certain prop
erty rights beyond the control of the people
We may tear our young men away from their
friends and families ana send tnem ny the mion i'o
dreadful wars and there the batlefeds we can CON
scate their legs their their eyes, their health
and their very life by the tens of thousands.
ALI this our people may do in their wisdom
But these reactionary revoutionists would not let
us lay a hand or finger on PROPERTY.
Every country in Europe has repudiated this
absurd and insulting distinction
The world outside of America has advanced farther
beyond this conception of the relations of property and
human rights than it had advanced outside Of America
when the bred Scott was decided, beyond the
moral level at which property IN human beings was
tolerable
Will the Supreme Court realize all this and reject
the hatteru which would picture them the bnlWarks