Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-02
NEWS
JUSTICE HOPES
0 PR0SPERlTY
Judge Robinson Looks For.
ward to Better Days I'm
der Nestos' Rule.

Bismarck. Nd, Jan. 2.-Hopes
for a yea of economic reform and
thrift are contained in the New Years
letter of Justice j.. E. Robinson to a
local paper.
"All hail the glad new year" says
the venerable jurist in the beginning
of his letter. May it be a year of
economic reforms, SO that by thrift
and industry every person may have
a chance to secure the comforts Of
life. The inherent right of every per-
o is to acquire, possess and protect
property and to pursue and obtain
safety and happiness. To protect
these rights, that is the main purpose
of civil government. Civil liberty is
natural liberty SO far restrained by
human laws, and no further, than is
necessary and expedient for the gem
eral good LOT the whole The first
duty Of the state is to protect every
person against theft, fraud. violence
and every form of tyranny. The
tyranny Of a majority may exceed
that Of a hero. Robbery by a major
ity, under the guise of law, may ex-
coed that Of a thousand Robin Hoods.
In a free statethe people have a, right
to enjoy civil liberty. There is no
warrant for tyranny. The majority
have no right to decree thai assnnan
shall stand or his head or be 'tethered
out and restrained of his liberty Ikea
bull on a rope in q. pasture. 1t is only
when like King Nebuchad-
nezzar or Belchazzar has transgressed
the laws of civil liberty that he may
be staked gu and forced to a straw
and grass like an OK.
Sees Light Al New Administration.
1.-The new administration gives
| promise of success. We hear the voice
, of one crying in the wilderness: Pre-
pare ye the way Of he Lord. Make
his path straight. The new governor
proclaims that public money is not to
be lavishly squandered, that public
servants must do their duty faithfully
or quit their jobs. He sounds a note
of timely warning. a command to
break every yoke and let the oppress-
ed go free. He declares that there
must be an adjustment of, the tax
burdens and hat the people may no
longer be robbed under the guise OF
taxing them. His ~admonitions are
re-echoed by the press and the big
! dailies that heretofore never gave n
note of warning and never saw the
handwriting on the wall. or course it
is better ate han never. Now all
agree that it is we'll to bell the cat.
We must scale down and liquidate the
tax burdens, cancel the illegal taxes,
the costs and the penalties"
Discusses League Program.
"In the past we have heard much
of the League program, and the de-
mand to give it a fair trial" continues
Justice Robinson in another part OF
his letter. : who knows what is
meant by, the program? If it means
tosconduct a bank, a mill or build
ing enterprise az the same has been
conducted, then It has: been given q
trial and It has proved a'sad failure.
1t has been weighed in the balance
and found wanting. But if the pur-
pose Of the program is to conduct
public enterprises by stock corpora
:tions with Il union Of public and pri-
vate capital, like the Federal Reserve
Bank, them it has not been given q
trial. The general policy of the state
has been to throw the industries of the
!! state wide omen to exploitation with.
out any competition or restriction