Show JUDGE LANDIS A dispatch tells us that Judge W. W K Landis o othe or of orthe the United States district court imposed a fine of and sentenced to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth for six years W. W A. A Broadwell the offense charged being th the violation of the law governing the making a and d selling of garine As to the guilt or the innocence of the prisoner prison r we do not know except a brief dispatch but we k know ow this that Judge Landis Laudi never ought to pr preside pro pre side on the bench in any criminal case ease He has not the order of mind which ought to give him him a place to sit in judgment when the liberty of an American citizen is in jeopardy lIe He may be an honest man he lie may be a thoroughly thor thor- conscientious man but he is of the same order tf of mind as some some judges that we r reed d of he hein hein in ill his zeal becomes a fanatic so pronounced that lie he loses his clear reasoning power lIe He is of the class o of man we take it who would go to the stake or th the scaffold in ill vindication of a principle and who would send a fellow man to the stake or the scaffold if he differed with him in his beliefs This sentence of the dealer in oleomargarine nay may he be absolute justice that we ar are arl not judging we e are only judging the man from what he has done in two famous trials and our conclusion is til that at he lie has that order of mind which for a holy cause would die and who at the same time would with perfect cheerfulness send anyone anyone anyone any any- one else to the stake if f he lie happened t to differ with him kiln in Ii his opinions There is som something thing more than personal integrity integ integ- rity and more than a knowledge of the law needed for a man manto to be a righteous judge He Ic has got to have lave a heart in his breast he lie has got to remember the time weaknesses of human nature fhe The various creeds tea teach h that all men shall be judged for their acts on earth shall be punished if they deserve it t shall be exalted if they deserve it but hut all the time shall be ju judged ged by an all wise and all mer merciful In a little way a perfect judge has to have haveit at it least a sh shadow shidow dow of those same attributes He Tie ought to have a great deal of knowledge some sOlle and while doing exact justice in order to todo todo do exact justice his Imis disposition must be tempered with mercy And looking at a long distance and Judging Judge Judg Landis simply by h his s acts it will willbe wille be e absolutely impossible for him to be absolutely just when his hot pa passions or his ice cold conclusions sKins are interfered with |