The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-18
BAD TIMES ARE
PASSING, DEERE
OFFICIAL SAYS
nusiness Outlook Better. Says VIZ
liam Butterworth-Dietz Also
Speaker.

the period of bad times is pass
,ag and the largest Industrial con-
eerns are predicting an improve
ment in the near future, William
Rutterworth, president of Deere &
N and vice president of the Ma
tional Chamber OF Commerce. told
the 100 members of the Tri-City
Manufacturers association in the
hotel Blackhawk last night
The manufacturers' annual ban
met was an informal dinner in
contrast to the elaborate affairs
beid each year. S. b. Lafferty of
the Red Jacket Pump company, r.
q. Lea OF the Moline Plow com
many and L. r. Clausen of Deere &
n were reelected trustees.
Eastern manufacturers and re-
rail business men are predicting a
hoom in business and a continual
Improvement in conditions" Mr..
Butterworth said. steel and tex
file manufacturer say that good
times are near and that all cause
10 worry about the depression
should be over"
Mr.. Butterworth described con-
ditions in foreign countries and
PARTICULARLY commented on the fl
nancial depression in Germany.
Attack Of public opinion on de-
eisions of the courts on constitu-
tional questions is a form of ar
archy because it is a direct assault
upon the form of government and
the government itself, Mr. Dietz
said. He said further:
at IS an axiom that Nothing can
forever Withstand the assaults of
public opinion The United States
supreme court and the United
States constitution are no excep-
tons. It is the inveterate procliy-
ity of the American people to criti-
cize everything. We seem to feel
that this is the godgiven preroga-
tive Of those who live under our
free institution.
1.-The high and the low, the schol-
ar and the ignoramus, the we'll
meaning and the evil-minded, have
all taken their fling of criticism at
the courts and the constitution, and,
quite generally, with more or less
popular applause.
Not Recent Symptom.
''These ratings at the courts are
not a recent symptom. The dect-
SONS of Chief Justice Marshall
we're subjected to a nation wide at
tack of public opinion. And yet we
know today that in the opinion of
the best recognized students of
government. without these deci-
sions of Marshall, the decline and
fall of the American republic
would now perhaps be a matter of
history.
'The two recent decisions of
forth veritable storm of rebuke
from certain quarters.
The most bitter of all these crit
ieisms are directed against those
decisions which relate to constitu-
tonal questions. 1t is one thing
70 criticize congress and the legis-
lature. II is an entirely different
thing to criticize the decisions of
the courts on the constitutional,
question. The first class of criti-
ciSm relates merely to the function
ing Of government. The latter is q
species of anarchy, because it is Il
direct assault upon our form of
government, and therefore upon the
government itself
There is, and there should be,
some remedy for this condition. In
erest in legislation is good. Hon
est lobbies and legislative commit
ices before congress and before our
state legislatures have their prop
er function. They do not, however,
reach this vital issue.
Proposes Safeguard.
In my judgment there should be
some movement, some organization
directed TO the protection of the
opinions. There should be in the
Office of the clerks of the supreme
court OF every state in the union,
ana IN the office of the clerk of the !
supreme court of the United States, |
some one whose business it would |
% TO examine the causes as they !
are MED, for the purpose of de- !
Vefmlnlng whether or not any of !
tuese fundamental questions are !
involved. This should be done in !!
order that the apparent equities of !
,ae case or the sudden fare of pub
NC opinion with reference TO some |
ooilateral issue, may not overshad- |
." and obscure the greater funda-
mental principle involved.
Unless something of this sort |
% undertaken and accomplished, SO !
nat the judges of our courts may |
ue Tree from adverse criticism and !
aouse, there will be driven such a |
crooked furrow through the constf- I
.atlonal law of this country, that,
"a less than half a century to come,
sue landmarks established by the
tdtners of America and indelibly
hAen IN the great decisions of /
!uuses Ike Marshall. will be lost
"a Wilderness of uncertainty. and
ne permanence and perpetuity of
.nlS republic will no longer be
guaranteed
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