| Show NOT AN encouraging PROSPECT thin THE gr angers of minnesota aro are not to be numbered among the worshipers of the court of last resort they eevi to think they have the right to crit criticism criticise critic leise ise even that august tribunal at a recent meeting of tile the executive committee of the minnesota farmers alliance some of the doings of that judicial body were roughly overhauled 4 A call was issued for a state convention bention ven tion and in it a number of national issues are treated upon the mckinley tariff bill bih is severely criticised criticized and described as protection gone mad and several de of the supreme court of the united states are strongly denounced noun ced the statement being made after particularizing particular izing dangerous rulings of the court that it ap aspires pires to even a greater degree of infamy than the dred scott decision achieved for it because its recent decisions contemplate the enslavement of the whole american people 19 this is 18 a very serious charge and coupled with the fact that other granger organizations in different states have usel usei equally vigorous langu language ag concerning that eminent tribunal it indicates that the veneration which has been felt for it during so many years is beginning to depart from the public mind this is uti unfortunate fortunate both for the court and the country it is to he deplored that any influences but those of law and equity should haxe have power in the determining of questions which are of vital importance to the nation that either politics or public feeling should bias a body supposed to be elevated far above them both that as parties succeed each other in power rulings of the same court are changed to comport with the difference in pAi political complexion when public confidence ceases to be reposed in the judicial department of the government the affairs of the nation may be justly considered in a dangerous condition among all the denunciations of the supreme court which have been recently uttered we have not beard of any charges that this faultfinding is treasonable 15 or disloyal or I 1 in n ti cating any jack of fealty to the government N or are there any propositions to disfranchise the gr angers and others who have had the temerity to express their disapprobation of the peculiar decisions rendered by that body it is only when the mormons cormons Mor mons venture to criticise criticism critic ise the reasoning and the rulings of the court that the loyalty ah ab get in their shouting work we do not like to see the court treated with disrespect we do not approve the use of the strong language employ ed by some people in denunciation of the court but we maintain the ground we have always taken as to the rights of citizens in relation to the court and aad consider that gifts just as much open to public criticism for its official doings as the legislative and the executive branches of th government when the court evidently panders to popular sentiment and in doing so swerved from the straight path of judicial principle or uses for argument platitudes that are transparently patently ly inapt and irrelevant to the subject matter there is no good reason why any person or of paper sho should uld refrain from pointing out the error this we have taken occasion to do and may do again and those who take this criticism as a token of tr treason easow must be very much at a loss for an excuse te fl find ad fault we are sorry that the supreme bench to which the nation looks for a final arbit of the most im tant legal questions orie involving the lives liberties and properties of the citizens should be open to the criticisms to which it has been justly subjected and that the respect and confidence which it should command are gradually fading from the public mint mind the prospect this opens is not pleasant to the patriotic vision |
