Show i I 1 SUPREME COURT CRITICISM OUR opponents like a pettifogger in in a police court raise their hands in holy horror and roll their eves eyes in in astonishment when they refer to that portion of the chicago n platform which i ch dares to differ with the opinion of the supreme court of the united states on the income tax law they assume a virtuous air air and then hurriedly whisper anarchy this favorite phrase is is on the lips of every speaker a and nd in the columns of every newspaper that is is suo Dortine the english gold stand ard republican party from mckinley down to the little cross roads paper printed at provo utah A disagreement W with ith an 0 opinion pinion of this high judicial body is set down to be an act of treason an d a tendency to overturn the whole fabric of our government all this sort of twaddle is unworthy y the great men who indulge in i it t it is the cheap and dishonest talk of the politician the supreme court is but oue one of the branches of our government and is no greater or entitled to no more or less respect than the executive or the legislature it is composed of men human beings just jast like all courts of justice the m members embers are no more of divine origin than the blind beggar w who ho grinds his hand organ on the street for pennies they are not infallible or the essence of perfection an any y more than the men their seats in who have occupied pied years gone by rendering of this far in n the reaching opinion there was five in opposed one of favor and ana four hs his views within changed the judges three weeks thus maugg five s an and a majority of the nine judges n he also strove to hide his name fro from m his fellow country mm as though he would escape tile the responsibility lity and the odium which he knew would follow Is it anarchy or treason to ariti cise cise a judicial edict rendered under such circumstances the chicago Z plat platform forin and none of the democratic speakers or papers have ever deprecated or dissented from the views of that opinion in in more severe terms than the four brave judges who disagreed za with the five if they may may bp permitted to attack this judicial monstrosity with such strong ian language aage why may not any other citizen likewise express his di dissent I 1 assent w without I 1 i phout being za charged with anarchy do not the old time members of the republican party remember how they used to rail and condemn the same court for the dred scott decision decisions 9 tile the very verv founders of the republican party used to enjoy the privilege they had of abusing an judge laney for this wrong opinion it became tile the foundation of poetry and fiction and was instilled i uto into youth for years that it was not bonfy only inhuman but that it was a moral crime crime and vet these same hv hypocrites po crites a and nd their d descendents es cen dents now arv cry anarchy when we condemn this thi same court for a greater wrong and then the sn supreme court is entitled to no im immunity from criticism in this case for the reason that they themselves reven reversed sed the holding of the same court which had stood as the law of the land tor more than one hund hundred ret years and winch which had been presented and ruled upon by this judicial body in in the hylton case and in in the springer case thus if it is anarchy to condemn this lat last opinion then it was anarchy to have rendered it as it was in in effect a condemnation of the honored judges n who had preceded them and who had decided the income tax law valid and constitutional this party of greed reed aarl an gold does not hesitate to resort to any unfair and desperate means to advance I 1 their cause but this like many ganv others will do them more harm than good when the people get an understanding za of the matter ma t |