Show I I Heroic Justice S of courts of or last resort do not always D DECISIONS sustain n the tho layman's opinion of right and wrong and it ma be he possible a recent ret re re- justice and common sense an may cent jent t decision of or a Spokane county jn judge ge declaring mom mcm in the T. T W. W V. Yo a common nuisance may meet tribunal yet from with reversal rc by some higher judicial the plain Amer American cnn Y viewpoint the judge julge made a righteous decision an and one that ought to stand The pernicious activity ity of the I. I W. W Yo W. W Yo in m the state I of Washington has long been cen notorious It has Ims been d difficult dif dif- r rf f cult to convict the disseminators of sedition nn and fomenters fomenters fo- fo menters of or sabotage and violence Here Hero and there stalwart sIn stal wart characters like Ole Hansen former mayor of or Seattle Seattle Se Se- attle attic have havo arisen and und quelled their nefarious activities difficult throughout tile the for a no season hut but it has hns been entire northwest to secure juries who would resist the challenge of bias bins one way or the other In too ninny I citizens and the tile cases only the stupid the designing designing- friends of the radicals have remained to act as I jurors it is reported and this may bo be said to explain fn failures lures to convict the enemies of governmental o authority authority authority author author- ity masquerading in the guise Se of I. I AV Vb W. W The Tile judge after listening to tho the evidence ruled that it ii was the thc purpose of the I. I W. W T. W. W to overturn the government gov gov- of the state of Washington and the tile government go of the United States and to establish here a system similar sim sun ilar Hur if nol not identical with that now prevailing in Russia He continued So far as the law of or this caso is concerned the court It seems to lo me 1110 has ample power 1 Lf the I I. I W. W W. W r. r organization organization or or- and its activities do 10 not constitute a general public nuisance and menace to lo this country It would be Imp Impossible to conceive them It threatens the happiness of or this community the tho eaStty af l of or every en Individual anti and tho continuance c of bf every home homo and fireside it would destroy the hope of or the Ule country and throw us into inlo a 0 condition of at anarchy an and lawlessness and immorality that thal passes im Im- im- im Ion lie He said that the whole power of the tile st state ate would be he used to enforce this order As a result the possession 0 of a II card of membership in the I I. I W. W W. W or the p possession possession posses posses- sion sion of any fUT of or its ls literature is sufficient to mn mako the poss possessor sor guilty of contempt of court When he is arI arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested and brought before the court all the court has hasto hasto hasto to do 10 is JS 15 to decide on the length of 01 his stay in count county jail jailor or state prison The courts higher up will in have the tue last guess on the tho legality of this procedure but hut meantime it is said only I. I W W. Yo W. W to be lIe found foun in that county arc either in in the thc county jail or in in the city lockup awaiting trial Why not let the countries around the tue Adriatic cure their ailments by a plebiscite pl plaster ster instead of a n cold pact S |