Show S MAGISTRATE AND MOB One of the tho Now New York papers announces announces an an- flounces to the tho world that the tho Supreme Court of or the United States despairIng despairing despairing despair- despair Ing o of congress checking the aggressions of or the tho mob has hils planted itself S in the path of or the proletariat It H will not permit the liberties of the country country coun S t try to overlap on tho the reserved rights S of the nation It will vIll be the tho bulwark 1 of the constitution the defender of the thc faith tho the champion of or Institution 5 S And ma maybe bo the Supreme Court 1 is right and ma maybe maybo be It Is not flOt There Thore ha have va been en times Umes when the Supreme Co Court Cort rt would better havo bavo left unsaid I I 1 the things which it expressed On OnES One S of or those times Umes was when at the tho command com corn t. t man mand of oC the bondholders It repudiated the tho greenbacks s of the nation One other time was when It rendered Invalid In valid the income tax law of the na na- na na-I na tion These Thesa were cases where the theS I S Supreme Court went wr wrong ng Tho The nation na nation na na-I tion lived through the tho mistakes that S body made but It would have been better for or tho the nation If It tho the will of the people expressed in those laws had hadnot not been stifled b by an any tribunal It will not nol do for the mob to run i the government Jo of or course But for forS forthe S tho the tho court to render the will of ot tho the nation Is quite as harmful quite as unfortunate S Read Rend this dispatch I The Tho Justices of tho the United States r court have taken council together together together to to- gether regarding the present day political po po- S-S S tendencies in both parties so 50 fI far as these seem to the Justices to menace the constitution They have havo r. r determined that upon them rests the burden of ot standing between the constitution con con- j. j and popular passion They Intend at every point to meet these subversive sub tendencies and defeat deleat them There is reason to believe that the late labor decisions of the court are arell merely the Ibo beginning of or a n series which ll I I I 5 r I J t. 1 1 J will vill confront the Innovators at every step The decisions in question declared de do- dared unconstitutional the employers' employers liability act and the Erdman compulsory compulsory son sory arbitration act affecting disputes between D labor Jabor and arid capital The justices are not confident that congress can cnn be relied upon to stand between the constitution and what one of or the ju justices calls the mob and they are determined to fulfill their ancient an an- cleat clent function of oC a bulwark President Roosevelt Roosevel t has proposed that the employers' employers liability act be he so changed as to meet the objection of oC unconstitutionality Senator LaFollette LaFollette lette Jette and others have Introduced measures mea mea-I measures mea mea- Bures to cure similar defects It is extremely ex ex- extremely ex- ex improbable that any measure which the Supreme Court regards as of dangerous tendency can pass muster before beCore that bunch President Roosevelt believes it rIght to protect the thc workingman with laws lawn which make his employer to some extent extent ex ex- ex tent liable for Cor Injuries received The Supreme Court may undo all that legislation legis legis- lation once once or or twice But the sense of the nation expressed In the laws of congress ought to be effective e ordInances or or- of the land And even evon the Supreme Court ignoring that force is like to make havoc of republican institutions in In- and and of itself The rights of the people may some some- times seem radical But Dut If Ie they are reaU really the rights of the people the they should be respected even If the they shock the court |