| Show A LAW FOR EACH the opinions of the learned Just justices lops of the so supreme preme court on the income tax law are illustrative in one aromi nent particular at least of the view a great many people in this nation take of the administration of laws lawn in general genera as well as in this instance the majority of the court coun insists that the income tax division of the wilson law was class legislation of an objectionable tio kind while the minority insists innate that the defeat of the law la Is the establishment of a rule tor for class legisla tion of the most ef offensive character one says say the law was unjust to the few at the clamor of the many the other that its defeat is favoring the wealthy few at the expense of the poorer manse summing these conclusions up it would seem that the court is ie practically unanimous upon one point at least looking from two sides that in this thib country there Is one law for the rich and another for the poor this Is ie the notable feature to in which the opinions accord with the view per baas more bluntly expressed than in the abe curts churls definitions of a very large number of people aside from the discussions of the rightfulness or wrongfulness of the income tax enactment the idea of 0 olau class administration of the law jaw la Is becoming pretty general and has well founded support in common procedure r 0 c e dure in every part of the nation gu such ch a thing as an the impartial administration of the law civil or criminal is not expected nowadays now a days neither in this land nor io in some others our own nation probably presents the greatest illustration of ef laxity but it is not alone even with the boasted equality before the law in england it le is coming to be a very ordinary occurrence there for justice to miscarry and the abe man who in his crimes to is eon con heated with royalty or other barong influence edos escapee pop while less leas culpable persons receive punishment this has ham been frequently shown of late in scandals of aristocratic life and probably will have another notable example luthe in abe conclusion of the wildis wilde care came in the abe united states stacee the man of influence or wealth commonly has his way open often to immunity in the commission of ordinary offenses lences of and some of a serious character the exposition of this view probably will take a broad scope in the press comments on the recent decision the friends of the measure defeated yet are strongly in trenched in their views and have such inch foundation that it was only a wavering judge which deprived them of victory it Is to be anticipated that these will indulge to in a vigorous criticism of the ruling and will charge indirectly at least that bat the influence of wealth was the power which secured moored the result reached on the other hand band the papers paper oo on the winning side aide way nay be ex pecked to do precisely what one of its representative leaden senator hill has har done charge that the law was the me work of 0 ool altom political blather kates 91 demagogues and adaven turere tn ren 09 and that the defeat of these means meana the triumph of laws law decency and intelligence at the same flame time it to is clear that on both sides aides of the issue imae were men equally intelligent sincere and patriotic i the distinctive points of view on the income tax issue have the some relation to each other that do on en other important questions before the nation the wealth h olden holders and aad manipulators look at the scene oene from lb heir air point of vantage and act accordingly those of smaller mailer financial op port unities gaze on the picture from another plane and move more in harmony with the idea which there impresses them in the play between them the politician to getting the country into bad shape and it would be no surprise it if within a comparatively short abort time the predictions of disaster dis aBter from arth sides idea of the court should have common verification in that connection the income tax law and decision are but symptoms the real seat of the disease Is IB in having haviar op proved and oppressors in morals in id politics politic in society Boci ety and to lo makine the equal rights to life liberty anil and the pursuit of happiness a myth to in the land that should boulia be the hame of the free but which by reason of distinctions ions that have grown up to be COT cor log ing an n abode for the master and slave lave we ve need a return to one law for all the people of this land |
