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Show SUTHERLAND'S SWEET SCENTED SWASHBUCKLERS. The Herald-Republican of Salt Lake is overflowing with laudatory laud-atory articles on Senator George Sutherland, praising the man's legal mind and eulogizing his record in congress. The twaddle has grown to such proportions that those who are forced to read the Herald-Republican haVe felt a nauseating sensation. The Herald-Republican quotes, from Eastern corporation papers, a syndicated story of. how Sutherland has been mentioned for tho supreme bench. This demand for the Utah senator comes from those who, recognizing the man's pliancy and his subserviency to predatory pred-atory corporations, have decided he might serve their purpose where his truculency would help, to avert exact justice. But no one has heard of any call from the people as a whole for George Sutherland Suther-land as a jurist of high station. The advocates of the fellow-servant act have not asked for him; the great industrial organizations and unions have not asked for him ; the farmers and dairymen, whose interests in-terests he has opposed, have not asked for him; the great body of the electorate of this country does not want him. He is spoken of by those who seek to hav weak men of corporation cor-poration leanings and bent of mind placed where they can be commanded com-manded to commit outrageous acts against the purity of justice. Our country needs more safeguarding today, in repelling the influences in-fluences working to make the Sutherlands of our nation the interpreters inter-preters of the limits of our constitutional liberties, than in warding off any other one danger that threatens honest government. The Tribune, commenting on the, self praise which Sutherland prints in the Herald-Republican, a paper of which Sutherland is one of the owners, says : Sutherland admits that he has one of the greatest legal minds in the country; that President Taft thinks very highly of his legal attainments; and Sutherland sets forth further that if he could be let alone at home perhaps President Taft would give him some comfortable judicial appointment that would maintain him in a dignity, to which he is a stranger for the rest of his life. It would be a curious turning of fortune indeed to have this small-minded egotist, this shifty, selfish politician, this bitter, smallbore small-bore hater of mankind, quartered upon the people of the United States as a life-long pensioner under the pretense that he could do them judicial service. There have been many incompetent and narrow characters appointed to the Federal bench at different times in the history his-tory of the United States ; but we doubt if the equal of Sutherland in small minded, narrow, petty incompetence wa3 ever even considered consid-ered for a Federal judicial positon before, if, indeed, Sutherland is beinsr seriously considered now. It is all Very well for President Taft to have personally a high esteem for Sutherland's "judicial mind" and acquirements; but if he will refrain from inflicting Sutherland upon the Federal bench here or anywhere else, he will be forgiven his mistake in thinking highly of Sutherland as having a judicial mind or judicial acquirements. acquire-ments. A man, even a President, is entitled to any kind of mistaken notion that he may fancy; but he ought to refrain from inflicting his erroneous fancies upon a public that might be grievously afflicted for many years to come by his mistake. |