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Show right of the employer on the oi-e hand, and of the employee on the other, to contract about their affairs. This is part of the liberty of the individual protecter by the guarantee of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." The decision is extremely valuable in defining the limitations of a state's power to control private business, and is a warning to those who seek by law and rec;ulatio na remedy for all things, and that they can not go much farther in their indiscriminate regulation regula-tion of business. The big thing about the Court's decision is in drawing the line on state legislatures declaring that this business of that business busi-ness affects the public interest end is therefore subject to state regulation. regu-lation. The question "What is public interest" must be determined by the courts and cannot be declared by the legislature. RIGHT TO CONTRACT UPHELD K-msas is the land of political experiments and it has taken three y - rs to find the weuk spot in the famous Industrial Court law of that tate. As a result of a U. S. Supreme Court decision it seems not even Kansas can tell the employer how to run his industry, fix wavia he is to pay his employees, or make the latter take what a benevolent and intelligent state thinks he should take. It s-'erns that the paradise of industrial peace can only be reai lied li-ed through the straight gate and the narrow way of constitutionality. In the opinion of cx-Govcrnor Allen, the Supreme Court decision de-cision "'only denies the right to fix minimum wages in contemplation contempla-tion of an emergency. Ihe power of the Industrial Court to art is l"ft intact." "Ihe Industrial Court still has the power to fix wa:;cs in the 1 ii- in'-'.-, of transportation and the production of fuel. It still has l!;- power 'o restrict strikes in essential industries. It: has all the 'it!,' r p-.ivrs it had before, with regard to the general operation of t! e foitrt." Chief Ju-.licc Tulft in his decision says the law "curtail the |