Show STILL ON THE WRONG TRACK notwithstanding the light shed upon the subject recently the attempt to befog the people upon the important subject of the presidents president s amnesty proclamation continues in a recent issue of then the MEWS aws was given in a few words what we conceived mr harrisons intentions to be and what we were and are assured the effect is this conclusion being supported by legal propositions by logio logic and by common sense leaving the question of common j ustice justice ou out of the count alto gether as an abstract quantity additional dit ional light does but make that position plainer and more secure but some there be who perhaps through the mista mistaken keb noad notion that a wrong course once taken must be continued in order to be consistent persist in placing the people affected at as great a biad vantage in the promises premises as an the ability and influence brought to bear will permit this is altogether discreditable in the former article we admitted that some prominent lawyers had given an opinion the other way but while understanding that huoh gentle men are not altogether infallible we were andare and are willing to concede that not having the document before them and therefore dealing with a more or less leas hypothetical question they might thus have decided properly enough as an to the view then presented but with the case fully made up with all the circumstances involved before them with the power the plain meaning and object of the executive laid bare with the philosophy of the situation fully IK considered with a ruling from the united states supreme be eh ch and the he opinions of lawyers of eminence and respectability against them the hope was en entertained if not expressed that merely political personal per donal or prejudicial consideration consider atio a would no longer control this may in fact be the case in individual instances but as a whole it to is not net there la is no sacrifice of manhood honesty or dignity involved in admitting an error and departing from it although some people seem to think otherwise |