Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-10-31

He left no room for doubt either thai
he felt there should be a way pro
vided that would give the people a
reasonable opportunity TO remove
venal or incompetent judges.
In a limited statement such as thu
it is impossible to set forth in full
what Theodore Roosevelt said on that
subject, in this great speech.
He covered almost every aspect Of
the court situation, particularly q
applied to the working people of oui
country, the farmers and wage earn.
ers. He stated that he believed our
government should be a pure demo
crazy, on both of these proposition
which are of such vital Importance
Mr.. Dawes views, If established N
our nation, would destroy our Repu5
lie. Lincoln's and Roosevelt's view
if carried into effect, will restore L
the people control of their government
and fe-estabish and perpetuate reaI
American government as handed down
by the fathers. There can be nc
question but that if one of these
(Mr. Dawes or Mr.. Roosevelt) was a
real American, that the other is OPP
posed to real Americanism an
American institutions.
The statement of our former great
presidents, Roosevelt and Lincoln,
were mainly directed at the power
which the courts had usurped to anBul
laws by declaring them unconstitu-
tional, and in the decisions that had
been made that were wrong and which
provided for injustice being done.
The use of injunctions as affecting
personal rights and liberties guaran-
teed by the constitution and statutes
of our country had not been developed
at that time so fully as it is now.
And because the use of injunctions to
abrogate existing laws as applied TO
certain sections of our citizenship,
and to supplant them with writs, court
orders, inunctions, which have the
effect of law, altho they are only the
personal wishes, desires or commands
of the individual udge-not only in
wolves all that the usurpation of pow
err in annulling laws on constitutional
grounds (Which they were opposed to-
means, in spirit and in effect, but
which goes to much greater extremes
in those things and in addition, dis
eliminates as between sections of our
citizenship in the abrogation or null.
fication of constitutional and statu-
tory law, and also in the application
of the substitute for it, contained in
the court orders embodying their
personal wishes, which they applied
as law in the form of an injunction,
which in addition did away with a
reasonable limitation of punishment,
jury trial, perhaps the greatest bull
wark of the citizens of a democracy,
reversed the procedure in trials in all
civilized countries, that of considering
man innocent until he is proven
guilty, and considered him guilty until
he had proven his innocence, and
made the judge issuing such injunc-
ton, the prosecutor as well as the
judge, the jury and the eXecutioner,
leaves no room for doubt but that
they would have been much more
bitterly opposed to this usurpation
and abuse of power on the part of
these courts than they were in cases
where they assumed the power to de-
clare laws unconstitutional, and par
ticularly when exercised, obviously to
serve the selfish interest of the privil-
eyed corporations, and when such in
functions as it is usually the case,
are issued by the low quality, small
caliber, mediocre incompetent, biased
or venal Judges.