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Show STPBEMX COUBT SPEAKS. All of the dedsleB of the sup rams court of th United States are important import-ant to somebody. All of them pronounce the final word of organised society on the rtghte. activities or liberties of some Individual or group of Individuals. No authority In our government, ss it is framed and conducted, has Inherent In It auch a degree of might, majealy. dominion do-minion snd powsr. Within Its Jurisdiction Jurisdic-tion this grest tribunal epeaks with a finality that has not been given the president presi-dent or the congreaa. Yet the great body of its decisions and opinions are known Intelligently and thoroughly to comparatively compara-tively few persona In the united Statea The bulk of Its findings and decisions do not attract the general attention or receive the wldeBpread publicity that ate daily accorded to the acts of ths chief msgtetrsts snd of the two branches of congress. Every now and then, however, there comes before the court some question for final decision or aome problem for final solving which affecte the national fabric of buamess sffaire or th courae of the goTamnwnt, and which commands country coun-try wide attention. The whole people of the United Ptatea then await In sus-pens sus-pens the decision snd opinion of th court. Btudsnts of govsrnment And no clearer and atronger Indication of our capacity for self government than the ready acceptance by th people of the decisions of the supreme court. On of ths stock and prised snecdotes about the court lllustrstes this point. It relafea to a young lawyer who waa very earnestly pleading to eetsblish a point before the oourt. While he waa still In the full courae of hi appeal one of the lustlcee leaned over the bench and interjected crisply: "But that la no th law." Tb yourfg lawyer was abaahed. but only for a moment, before retorting. "It waa the law until the court apoke The Bum of our attltud toward th court ha never been exemplified. Edward - G. Lowry. In Harper'a Weekly. |