Show I S SUPREME COURIS COURT COUR COURTIS I IS TAKEN TO TASK TAS Col Cot Roosevelt Severely Criticizes Criticize It Citing Two Decisions for Special Condemnation SAYS THEY ARE DANGEROUS eI flu Are Aro ro to 10 tl ti tho of or Men len lenn nt n to in o ver r Colo Cob Aug 29 Acts of ot til t court nf or C tho ho United Billies err sharply criticized b by evett today t 11 In nn In til the ti here before the rt i Tho The cite lit tw t decisions by Iy iy the tho premo coui coul court ho he declared were ro e t to I Ithe the principles of Ot democracy h Ii he hehl theRo dc do d MU hl that If I is 8 irs fl Indicated tho ho permanent alt fittl tude of ot O the tho court the America would b t bUP oC of t government UP 1 t itin awl Mayor Six Speer cr or oc cried CIt near lIfar the tho colonel who wo wn wore Ire re mod 11 to tho the legislator by ty Preal senate tennte of oC tho state Th colonel faced n a tile v u In both bolh on oIl ono mf Tiber of or tim tho house hou e b hIng fi n He lie II was wall presented by the cf the senate ac a n II 1 typical westerner He his that he hll h ha habe be n C n jJ member of 01 tho New York legle lat Jat 9 years ear CIUS ac II go tho colonel ft as tile the that thai ho he knew o othe at atthe the hard herti work before them and atal th tha that temptation t to which they the were ANXIOUS FOn FOB TUB NATION Th Tb n Col COt hi his formal which wn wal KB II follows I nm am that the nation am ani shall hali each endl Its Ita mate powers tp to II tho tio fullest de tI hele necessary no they the tIie should hould work to but ut above all ull they should hould no nol nolIe noIa Ia Ie a II neutral ground In which neither zettler tate state nor nation cnn can and which would become r z n of or refuse rugo for tor men who ho wish t tet tt to rit et criminally and for tor th thi ther te er rich lich men who wl h to act net th t Interests of ot the tho community ns na navi c n nh vr vi h ile lo ilet lot t S SUPREME COURT mo mc Illustrate I t mean by b n n reference to two concrete ca e Th The fin fim Is III the tho Knight ugar Tru Truet t case caseIn cn 11 In that tho the supreme court of ot the td under cover cor of ot what n a l mon mar whose hose Interest t Is Ic In eano eane con can ran only call B n 1 technical le legal leal ral subtlety handed down lawn 1 a decision which rendered It ex ox exceedingly for tor the nation ef oC effectively e to In control tho the uno u o ot oC o masses rf r corporate capital In Interstate bURl bUd business teM ness ns nil the th nation obviously was wae the theole role tele ole power that could exercise this thia con conS control fol tol for tor It was WM quite beyond the tho power ff tr any one state Mate This Thu was WM really a 11 decision rendering It dir dif difficult for the people to tn method of ot controlling and regulating the he business use tide of ot great grent capital In Interstate comm e It wee n R decision nominally national rights but really n popular right TN EW TOme The Tho second 8 cas Is la the Now York Tork bakeshop case In New Now York ity dt ns ne In most mORt large e cities the baking IB Ic likely to be bo carried on under conditions which tell lell against the tho welfare of or tho workers end acId therefore tho welfare of or orth th the genal public The NoV New York Tork leg les passed parsed and the Now York Tork gov gew governor ernst a n bill these thelle Improper conditions New Ne York state was val wa the th only body boI that could deal with Thin the Ih nation had hod no power pOr what whatever ever r In tho matter CorEr USED ITS POWER POWEll ActIng on Information which to ta thom them th m ample and acting alt n In III the of or the public end 1101 in accordance with the demand demund of or tho Iho public the th only governmental In the tile II having power CUM ale 1 the governor and the tha legislature cf cT New ew York took the tho action which they the deemed demell necessary after what In guiry and study stud was vu needed to satisfy them as nil to the conditions and ns cc to tile the remedy The governor and the alone had the affirmative I power to 10 remedy the abuse But Dut tile the thoI supreme I court of ot the tho United States SIlles 1 possessed and unfortunately exercised the Ito negative power of 01 not permitting the to bo be remedied By Try a 0 live to ta four Vote voto they declared the tho action of a the state slate of ot New Now York unconstitutional because 1 that men not be deprived of ot liberty to It work ork under tInder conditions They Th v wore were of 01 course themselves pow to Lo moire make tho the remotest t attempt to lo a 1 remedy rem lly for tor n a Wrong wron which wh eh undoubtedly existed and their refusal to permit action by b the state alMe dill did not confer any an power upon the tho nation to tot tofIt fIt al t In JIt effect It Il reduced to tn Impotence the only body bOlly which did d have havo power so M o that In this case caRe tha Ihn decision ul oh though nominally against rights waa Wal 81 really against popular righta t the tho principle of oC by tho the people under tho the forms forma of oC law AUlt FOR AI l J such lIuch as a theao thelo two imil ti the tho courts permanent attitude ther would be ba real grave cause lor for alarm for such decisions decision It If con followed up would upset our whole system of Qt popular government J I am era however hoover convinced both from tram the Inconsistency of ot these decisions with the tho tenor of or other decisions from the very fact that they the are UCO In such flagrant nod direct contradiction to 10 tho the spirit and needs of lit tho thai times that sooner or Inter later they will till he be explicitly or Implicitly I J I mention melton them merely to the nl d of or having n t 1 truly national I tem of ot under which lh the Lbs i ran Mil deal effectively with mi 1111 i meeting those Affect R the people leoil ns nil a n holo by hy affirmative action and those e that Ihal affect tho Imo people of ot one ono locality by h state action I J am a 1 most moat earnest COmbat and convinced believer In ev e cruising erel the power of ot tho time nation where that power alone can be bo really rall offer Ivo tive yet I 1 am no ito less lees convinced n a believer In seeing that the power 01 or of the state Blate bo bt made bade effective where It II bat means ot of affirming popular rights Above nil all there should hould houlde e no neutral neu ground hore owing to ho hoa a series erleR of or decisions Khall K It it shall hall appear that neither the time state eta Ie nor northe northe the time nation has hl power anti where In Inconsequence consequence able uble and unscrupulous In Individuals arc nrc left Ire free freo tp tS t riot nt It will without tho the possibility of ot checking 01 or them In tho thu Interest of or public welfare |