Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-04-27

of their fingers.
The laundering decisions of the SUI |
preme Court, in the last few months |
have undoubtly convinced, all who |
are open to honest conviction, that it |
needs immediate and radical changes.
The members of that august body
have always split hairs over cOmaS,
SemlcOlOnS and cOlOns when, in fact,
any person who can read can take the
constitution, If it didn't contain a sin
gle punctuation, and read Just as long
as he can hold his breath, catch it
and repeat the performance and by
that method determine that the
founding fathers who ordained and
established that famous old document
intended it to commend that which
is right and prohibit that which is
wrong. Consequently, there has never
been and never will be but one ques-
tion before that tribunal, and that
question always has been and always
will be: "Is it right or wrong? If it
is right it is constitutional and if it
is wrong, it is unconstitutional. But it
seems there are four judges who can't
distinguish right from wrong any of
the time, and one who can make the
This indictment alone, if there were
no others, is sufficient to justify the
attitude of the administration toward
the court, but there are others too
numerous to mention. The opposition,
if successful, are planning to accom-
plish exactly what they claim they
are trying to defeat. GA packed SUI
preme Court" At the advanced age
of the members of the present court,
it is easy to see that, either Mr..
Roosevelt, or his successor is liable
to have to appoint the entire body, a
responsibility that no good President
wants, and certainly, no bad one
should have.
The present members of the Su-
preme Court are living back in the
days of reconstruction, still listening
to the orations of James c. Blain,
Robert G.. Ingersoll and Stephen A.
Douglas; reading the Editorials of
Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Carson
and Henry Watterson. The stirring
campaign between Ruthford B. Hayes
! and Samuel Tilden is fresher in their
minds than the November election re-
turns from Maine and Vermont
Lincoln said: cit makes no differ
ence where you are standing, if you
are moving in the right direction"
But the Supreme Court and it's de-
tenders, have espoused a philosophy
| of eternal stagnation and refuse to
move in any direction.
I can't imagine any one being sur
,, prised at Mr.. Bailey's attitude toward
the administration. Any one singing
under the lash of rebuke administer
ed to the senator at the hands of
North Carolina Democrats, was ma
turally supposed to go into tail-spin.
He saw the handwriting on the wall
and he needed no Daniel to give him
the Interpretation thereof. He had
been weighed in the balance and
found wanting. And he knew he was
going to be called, in 1912, to give an
account of his stewardship, and to dig
he could not and to come back to
Wake county and practice law in
Magistrate courts, he was ashamed.
SO he resolved to make unto himself
friends of the mammon of upright
eousness, so when he failed they
would receive him into everlasting
habitation. Hence, he boarded the
Economic Royalist's tand wagon.
Mr.. Bailey was a hireling of the
Anti-Saloon League during the ebay
days of prohibition, and used every
ounce of his legal tslent to deprive
men of their constitutional rights, and
now for him to assume guardianship
Of the Constitution, is as preposterous
as to expect 2 Hootowl to hover a
gang Of biHdies I had never doubted
the senator's sanity, but in his reply