Decorah public opinion., 1922-10-25
c. R. BAKER
WRITES AT CALF.
Attends City Meeting. Hears Many
Gentlemen of Eurov can
Prominence Spes g.
MEET SEVERAL M
MEXICAN DELEGAA'ot
Lord Shaw of Supreme Court OF
England and Scotland and Ex-
Minister Davis of the
Court of st. James
Smoke

Following is letter received from
Mr.. Geo. r. Baker of Los Angeles,
California. Mr.. Baker previously
resided at Ridgeway and his many
old friends there and at Decorah and
the surrounding vicinity will no
doubt be glad to here from him.
Los Angeles, Calf,
Oct. 18th, 1922.
Public Opinion,
Decorah, Iowa.
Dear Editor:
attended a meeting at the City
Club that possessed more than or
dinary, as the speaking was of the
spicyest ! have ever listened too, the
speakers were Lord Shaw of the
suprel Il of Scotland and Eng
land and Minister Davis former
ally at the courts of st. James. Lord
Shaw was the speaker and Minister
Davis came in as the guide and one
that conducted Lord Shaw to the
place and from their witty descrip-
ton of their trip from New York to-
gether they certainly had more eX-
perience than is allotted to the aver
age man on such trip.
Lord Shaw's talk as | will call it
was upon the Judiciary laws of
America as compared with that of
England and he made allusion to the
Birch and Mrs. Obenchain cases that
are still pending in the courts heres
He spoke decidedly in fa-or OF two
thirds in most cases and that a ma
iority should rule in all decisive
cases.
This would certainly apply to the
cases alluded too as it is certainly
not in keeping with the better con-
troll of the spirit of disobedience to
! law and the best interests of the
people.
The possibility Of two people as
was the case in the first trial of
Arthur c. Burch to have heard all
the evidence and noted the actions of
the prisoner and one say that HE
is insane" and the other that there
was no. evidence that Burch was ever
in the Glenn. Either of which We're
as foreign to the actions and evid-
ence as minds can reach out and not
grasp the case in hand.
Another thing happened at this
meeting, when | want to get my
seat the room was getting well fill
ed and | found a table with four
chairs turned in and only one vacant.
! took the vacant seat. Very soon
three gentlemen came and were seat7
ed and shortly the fourth one came
and / noticed their dialect was fore
ign and upon giving it closer can
vas | located it as Spanish.
The four spoke until one at my
left spoke good English and intro
duced himself as the representative
here from Mexico, a Mr.. Kyees, the
next one was a Mr.. Robert, from
GautamaA and Is vice counsel from
there with offices in the new Paci-
fic Electrical Bldg. The third had
been a teacher in the City of Mex
leo for over ten years end had been
subsequently transferred to the Phil
liphine Islands at Manila. The
fourth spoke very poor English and
l, was unable to get his position as
a representative here.
Their conversation was quite an
imated and they used more gestures
than we do and finally from some
thing | had dropped they asked me
. of my opinion of the future treat
ment of Mexico and what this eoun1
try should do in the matter. From
the framing Of the question | inter-
red what was coming and ] found
that they were a unit that this
country should take the governing
control of Mexico, until the people
became OF a more blending ana gov
ernable nature. To do with it as
they had with Cuba and the Phil
lipines Islands. The educator con-
tended that the cities of Mexico had
Just as good schools as we have here.
But that there were a lot OF out
laws that must be overpowered and
brought under control. The best
people of the country wanted peace
and quiet to rule but they do not
know how to get at the lesser per-
centage that win not conform 10 any
law. 1t is interested ne TO hear thai
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