Show THE rHE SUPREME COURT This item is from air Mr Ir Bryans Bryan's Commoner Jefferson Jefferso was right rig ht the supreme court is the le least t democratic of all the departments of government government govern govern- ment and yet et a bare majority of it it t can ean stretch the constitution out of shape or contract act its its' powers Of or course course there is not much that is democratic c ab abut ut the United States supreme court It is tho the arbiter of peace as the army is the arbiter of war I In In the highest sense they ar are arc both imperial The army r represents presents the highest exhibition of force the court the highest exhibition of reason The law is an exact science the science the instrument through which the tine decrees of exact justice Jjustice are executed that is is as nearly exact as the study and experience esPeri- esPeri once ence of man can make it This does not imply that tha t courts are infallible that they never make mistakes mistakes' that laws themselves do not often need amendment out but the suP supreme reme court o of tho the United States to took ob the constitution when it was but a rude framework framework- and ana upon it erected J the tiie e structure of the republic making making mak- mak ing ting it something g more s splendid p lendi d than the world d ever Lver before saw And when the ordinary politician turns critic and judges the work of that tribunal it is as when the horse reporter writes rites a re- re review v oie of Irvings Irving's Hamlet Ham Ham- let letor or the singing of Calve If the modern statesman statesman states states- man on m an impulse could change the scope pe anc and power of the supreme court it would be as as- when under unde the pressure of or a hurr hurricane cane the ship in rn port pori drags her anchors and goes to wreck in the harbor Vb Why should not the supreme court be undemocratic undemocratic cratic It is not a policy shop It is an imperial tribunal to declare not what Smith or Jon Jones s ma may maj want but what the law says is the due of each euch man who is supposed to be asking for justice under the laws It is the pilot of the government When adverse adverse ad ad- verse currents are running and nc rb b nearby breakers aken are roaring when rebellious winds are arc blowing th that t n pilot ilot must hold the craft steady and facing the dang dang- danger dangl r l' l the crew must obey while one storm after another nother is and the goo good ship brings its itH cargo safe at last into port l' l 1 So far every storm has been weathered and the strong pilot has hns proved that in in n trusting it n no mistake was made |