Show A JUDICIAL Portland Oregonian Pitiable Is the snorts moral morl plight of oC Chief Chic Justice Marshall Marhal of the tho Supreme me court curt of or Wis Wisconsin Stripped of or evasion and circumlocution I lion tion ton what he did was wa to solicit a rebate re rebate re- re bate on his life Insurance premium and he made the matter worse by balkIng b-alk- b ask asking ing lug to have It I paid Indirectly through a bank bank with wih the evident motivo mot o of or concealing his part In tho the transaction Such rebates are unlawful under the statutes of or Wisconsin Tho The whole affair af nr- af- af fair air tall is edifying In the thc extreme It I casts a curious light upon tho the secret seret motives of or those who contend that all allour allour al our courts court court and judges must remain Im- Im muno from criticism that tho they thoy can on dono do dono dono no wrong that even c their mistakes and prejudices prejudice are arc sacred This was the tho position which Mr Ir Jerome Jerome Jerome Jer Jer- ome took the tho do day In his diatribe against the President for Cor objecting to Judge Humphreys Humphrey's decision granting Immunity to tho the packers Mr Ir Jeromo Jerome puts put tho the judges JUdge In th the same fame rank with wih Indian medicine men Whatever the they say my or do Is necessarily Ill divinely in In- In To question It I Is sacrilege e. e Were er his opinion to be accepted and folowell followed It I would cause cau e a relapse e ot of the courts to their moral condition In Inthe Inthe the time of Lord Lord Bacon Newspaper S criticism Is the salt Nit that keeps the Judiciary ju judiciary ju- ju as well wen as M the other department departments departments depart depart- ments ment of ot the Government from spoil spoil- Ing Strange and lamentable as a It ma may sc sem It I Is n nevertheless true tru that human hu hu- man rectitude will wi not flourish In the dark ark It I Is a plant which requires light and a great geat deal of It I all al the time Grant an any man or any department ot of government go the privilege of ot secrecy and Immunity from anti and you OU doom them to corruption What hat moral morl distinction n can honestly be drawn between the tho act of ot a n judge who accepts a pa pass paM and that of or Lord Bacon Bacon In taking gifts from litigants A pass pas ma may sometimes be received In Innocent Innocently innocently In- In Just as ns the great chancellor says his presents were but the they are never bestowed with wih innocent intent No railroad ever gave a n. pass pas to a a public pub pub- lie lic lc official with wih any other purpose than to corrupt him and antI every el e officer who accepts a n pass pas does docs so with wih guilty guity knowledge of ot this fact fact Such being the ethics of unsolicited d favors what must be said of the act of or a judge who beesa begs bees a a pecuniary tip tp from a corporation and does docs so knowing that It I is contrary to the law of o his state It I is to be he hoped that judges with wih a sense of or judicial slut duty cut as a rudimentary as that of the Wisconsin Justice are rare It I Is believed believed be be- Ic ed that thc they are arc rare If I the they were numerous what hope would there be bo beof beof of Qt enforcing tho the Jaws of or the country countr against the corporations When hen Judges themselves break the laws which tho they I are appointed to administer whittier whither shall we turn for Justice |