The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-24
Federal Jurist Declares Edu-
cation in Principles of Lib
erty and Constitution Is
More Important Th a n
Laboratory instruction in
the Schools; Urges Bar AS
sCciatiOn to Take Leader
ship in Impressing Justice
of Fundamental Law
(Special to The Tribune)

Devils Lake, Aug. 24.-"The power
of the people can only be expressed
at the ballot box" said Judge Mar
tin J. Wade. of the Iowa Federal
Court, in speaking before members
of the North Dakota Bar Association
here today on the subject of who's
Running This Country Anyway"
81 hope to see the day when there
will be a substantial fine imposed up
on every voter,-men and women,
who without just cause, fail to vote,"
continued the speaker. ut is not in
the pool halls, in phamphlet pro-
or appeal that the power
of the people is expressed" he said.
The speaker asserted that it rest
ed upon members of the American
Bar Association to educate the peo-
pie to the significances of the consti-
tuition and impress upon them the
necessity of voting. He stated that
after making due allowance for those
who could not 60 to the polls only
about 80 per cent of the American
voters performed their civic duty at
the last presidential election and
said that it was through the teachers,
the preachers, the women's clubs
and the patriotic societies that this
education could be carried on under
the leadership of the Bar associa-
tiOn.
"America is not governed by rules
of logic, nor mental processes Gov
ernment in democracy is the or
ganized will of the people," continued
Mr.. Wade who concluded his address
as follows:
"And it should be organized good
will of the people. What are we do
ing to crush the spirit of prejudice
and malice, and hatred. and suspic-
ion, and doubt which is manifest all
about US?
"What are we doing to aid those
who are trying to accomplish legi-
innate reforms3
,"What are we doing to convince
the people that the Constitution OF
the United States was created and
adopted for the benefit Of the rail-
roads and the big corporations. and
the rich?
"What are we doing to enable the
people to understand that in the
Constitution alone do we find the
guarantees Of human rights-the life,
and liberty, and property rights.
"What are we doing to show the
people that the injunctions some
times issued in strikes 10 nothing
more than the exercise Of the same
power and the same duty which the
court would exercise In behalf Of the
widow with little patch of ground
which some railroad sought to take
for side track. without compensa-
tion; as required by the Constitution.
M What Are We Doing
".What are we doing to bring to the
people the knowledge that the thou
sands of courts in the United States,
are engaged in hundreds of thousands
of cases each year, and that in nine
ty nine per cent Of those cases. no
one questions the fact that substan-
tial justice is administered.
"Where can the people get the in
formation that the occasional recital
in the newspapers. Of some perhaps
apparent miscarriage Of justice in an
individual case. 10 only one instance
out Of the thousands whe5e the
courts are enforcing, and defending
and protecting hunan rights.
II have been told by teachers that
they would be glad to teach the Con.
stitution in the schools. but that
every hour is now taken with the
present subjects. Well. ! think il
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