| Show I Idaho Nations Nation's Eyes Upon I I T iirI ROOSEVELT'S TS T'S telegram of or protest conspicuously con Coil MR MH I VI displayed in every newspaper oJ of importance in the United States yesterday I morning has made th the Idaho instance of judicial 1 11 tyranny a national issue Casual readers of tb the newspapers who might mig otherwise have paid but cursor cursory cur cur- sor sory attention to this subject of such vital importance tance to every citizen have now g given it much more than a passing glance because the best advertised I man in Bi the world is concerned in ill it Not Kot only have havo th those so Idaho victims victim of judicial judicinI I is ni m furnished Mr lUre Roosevelt Roosevelt's s 's propaganda L the publicity it craves but hut they have furnished justification justification jus jus- I for his radicalism Showing themselves utterly l destitute of judgment and understanding the tilE I I blow the Idaho juri jurists ts had bad hoped to strike at unwarranted un I warranted radicalism has recoiled upon the tho conservative conI con con- I ber elements of the nation The chimerical L I recall of judges judge and of judicial decisions has been I 1 given all an impetus it could not have hoped from a a L decade of agitation and disputation The weakness of the former Presidents President's fervent advocacy uh of his newly-embraced newly fads during luring tho recent campaign la lay in b his bis s inability to justify hims himself him him- s self lf to the American people he ho could not convince them that there exists any necessity for such radical changes in our methods of r government go Thousands I that might have bave enlisted under his banner attracted the thereto eto by his theories of industrial democracy and social justice were repelled b by his bis endorsement of the rec recall l of judges and judicial decisions They felt that such radical control of the courts was unnecessary un nn- necessary that no abuses existed that justified tb the I resort to such drastic remedies Upon this class of j American citizenship the despotic action of Idaho Idaho's J supreme court can have but the tile one effect it makes make I harebrained cult converts con to Colonel Roosevelt s from the ranks of those thoc who heretofore had heldI held aloof because of his position regarding the judiciary I No IINo anarchist agitator declares the colonel in L his telegram to his party chairman in Idaho could I ever do anything against the courts comparable in j effect to these actions of the tho highest of one of outI our out 4 I state courts courts and and we fully agree with him NotI Not Kot 1 I even the tile most superheated imagination could have f conceived nor the tho most reckless tongue have ha published pub pub- to the world a prophecy of imminent judicial 4 despotism that could compare with ith what has act- act I nail occurred in the Gem state had the most radical radi i I cal caI of visionary L proponents 1 of direct At 1 government ti 1 J t i predicted some ume sucu ui Happening IDO umu 0 have havo only stared in incredulous amazement It has remained for judicial dignity and respect to receive receive its most damaging blow from those who should be chiefly interested in conserving inS it t The R Republican Herald pu lican has never approved Mr Ir I I Roosevelt's direct gO government principles we opposed opposed opposed op op- posed them from the moment that he lie surprised and andl l 1 We have pained his best friends by their advocacy ad I l-e l resisted isted with such skill as we may th the judicial re recall ret reI re- re t I call ma madness ness and its twin twill fallacy the tho recall of judicial judi judi- cial eia deci decisions ions Desp Despite Despite- lo the numerous abuses that 1 like stifling poison our system of ot judicial procedure we ice have felt that the proposed lemed remedy I was as much worse that the disease we considered that the tho injustice that would be fostered by cratic control of the courts of law would be infinitely infinitely t worse than titan the admittedly great injustice that now no constantly occurs Nor has has bas this Idaho outrage outrage out out- rage this travest travesty upon justice changed our opinion with r regard rd to the recall But we concede That some someS S limitation u must be placed upon this new oligarchy I that has arisen in in America before it is everlastingly e I too late lalo I Because abuses often continue until some unI unendurable unendurable un un- un- un I endurable manifestation of them brings tho the people to immediate understanding of or their dangerous I character it is probable that this wanton orgie in Idaho 1 is a blessing despite its sinister disguise The Tho I intimate connection of Mr r. r Roosevelt with the case insures wide pu publicity and much discussion The matter will be thoroughly agitated and aud from it should spring a reform that will mark the tile crime of last Thursday y as IS merely the th last desperate effort of expiring judicial absolutism I 1191 I The Th Duty of the Bar BarTHE BarTilE I T TilE THE lIE bulwark of th the indefensible American system system tem tern of government go of the people by the tile courts couris I and for the courts is the tho bar association tho lawyers lawyers' lawyers lawyers' law law- I union Primarily established to protect the people to insure to litigants that they the would bo he represented represented rep rep- I resented by competent and honest men the custom of to in appear courts as advocates ad only I those who have havo b been n duly and formally admitted to practice retains none of its original virtues The percentage of crooks to honest men at the bar is no greater no less Tess than in other professions and ald vocations vocations vocations voca voca- the grade of competency is no higher and no lower the mere fact that his counselor has been admitted to the bar is no longer an assurance to the tho seeker for legal ad advice adco co that he is being cing capably ly or honestly served Most 1 members of the legal fraternity are men I of intelligence and int integrity ty so are most other othor men Yet that profession numbers in its ranks criminals who ought to be lC in rn the penitentiary and who would be there if the members of the bar had the courage to what do-what they ought to do expel do-expel expel pel them from mem ment- I and prosecute them in the tho courts Tho The lawI lawyer law w I yer is an nn officer of the court Curt vitally Hally interested in I maintaining the present system because it is proff prof prof- f and Iud remunerative c he wishes to do nothing to i disturb it The hardihood to pursue his bis brethren who us use unlawful methods and who bring the pro pro- I I into info disrepute is lacking in him he has not nott t the courage because it ma may w unsettle the nice balance of the s system stem 1 The rhe layman man does not understand why by the lawyer should be an rn officer of the court or have havo o any connection cont con- con t ct with it The citizen who desires to appear 1 before the Governor in behalf of another citizen t I need pass no o examination to do O so nor need he lie be bea t I a member of any particular profession The individual indi vidual interested in legislation may appear b before forc the lawmaking kin body without previously de 1 in lug ing his aptitude for the task or his Lis knowledge of 1 procedure Only for before appearance his bis judicial I s 's servants r must the citizen undergo o a n lon long course of I training and anti make formal application fo for pennis- pennis I sion ion It Jl cannot be argued that the present method I protects the litigant against inexperienced and inefficient in ji 1 t. t efficient I legal g advisers it once did and it i is now 1 supposed to but but- it lees docs not lOt 1 The rhe upright ht decent members of the profession I- I E clean house nod and disbar the scalawags 1 ii te jes J Then chen again it might ight be different if those thoc suf sur r F t frage rage pilgrims had to walk to Albany |
