Show 1 1 j H fr 1 I I i 1 fl I j di li i H I Y T UNION UN I O N LABOR LABO LABORi R Rin i in II I DEPARTMENT X i i 11 I J JI I i I l li I i j Under the Auspices Auspice Address Addess all al Communications to toI j jW t I of the W M PIGGOTT Editor I 1 OGDEN TRADES TADES ASSEMBLY Street J I 1 f t k rJ SS 4 q L I i II COURTS I II I I I I l Ernest Villard In nn an editorial in the te f i j 1 International Hod Carriers Building I I Laborers Journal says some very vor trite i things thinS of the Judiciary lary of o today toda Wo We Wet t I know that the tho courts nowadays n walS do not I and dare daro not go to tho the lengths that I j they the did In days but they tle do donot donot donot not to throw men mon Into Jail Jat I and causo cause untold suffering to helpless n women and innocent children and that lis I where there has been no violation ot 01 j It any law and rank violators of law are I fried a few dollars In sonic some BOIO cases and andin andI andin I in others other go Ecott ree and why wh For Forno Forno I no other apparent and tangible reason i 1 I I than that they Lave have money mone F Mr Ir VIllard says I I I What shall we do with tho Judic Judiciary t No doubt this iary lary question queston has been I I I agitating the minds of thousands of or workingmen Their arbitrary and un unreasonable Unreasonable i reasonable decisions lead lent UG us to only I one Olin ole conclusion c that our legislatures I and md congresses are aro useless and practically Ucal tic lly a joke when one compares the I II authoritative power of a Judge to 10 tomake tomake I I make and unmake the laws enacted I I by b the tho to peoples representatives I Charles Sumner Sunnier the profound I statesman and eloquent defender of I I I tho the sacred rights of man said Lot me mc say ear hero here that I hold holti the tIme Judges r I and especially tho the supreme court of or orthe I the te country in much respect respect but bul I 1 am nm amt l t r I I too familiar with the tho history of or Ju itt Judicial L proceedings to regard them with j I any superstitious reverence Judges I I I are hut but ut men mon and In all ages have I I I shown a fair share of o The flie I I I worst crimes In history have been I I perpetrated under tinder their thel sanction r I J Tho The blood of or martyrs and of o pat patriots I l t I riots crying cr from tho the ground sum summons lum lumI sumI I r I mons mona them to Judgment judgment Thomas Jet Jef Jefferson 1 ferson said with a prophetic eye Into I I the tho future Just before he lie died In a aletter at aI I t I letter Jeter to a friend It has long been I my Toy opinion and I have never nevel shrunk i from Us Its expression that the tho germ of or j dissolution of 01 our federal government l Is In the judiciary an m Irresponsible i I body hodr working like gravity b by day da and night gaining a little today and gain gainIng gaining i Ing a little Ile tomorrow and advancing I I its Is noiseless noiseless stop StOl like a thief over the tho theS S I I fold field fol of jurisdiction until all al shall be beI I I usurped from front the state slate and the gov government govI go I 1 k of all a become becom consolidated 1 I Into ono one To this I 1 am opposed he be het because t I cause cam when all al government in little Itc f and great gret things things shall be he drawn to l I I Washington as the center of or all al pow 5 i or It I will wi render powerless the checks provided by r ono one government on an another ant t i other and will wi become as venal and andI I I oppressive as the government from Irom fromI I which we separated It I was a Judic Judie Judicial ial ml tribunal that gave the fatal hem hemlock hemI hem hemI I lock loci to Socrates and that forced the tile tileS S I fair and Innocent Virginia Into time the 1 brutal arms of the tho lecherous tyrant rant ot of I iI I r 4 Rome It I was a Judicial tribunal that sent ita i thousands of Innocent and helpless victims to the thc fiendish tortures of the Inquisition and com corn compelled IJ le Galileo Gale to o disavow the great great truth ho had discovered that the earth was round Instead of Lint flat It I was a Judicial tribunal that justIfied anti and aOI sanctioned every act of ot King ICIng Henry VIII vIll VII tho the libertine of o Eng Eug land from the illegal and anti scandalous divorce of his lii lawful queen to the tho beheading of Sir Thomas Thoma Moore It I was a Judicial tribunal that sent sat Latmer Ridley Servetus and JoK Jol Rogor Rogers to the flames fames for contending for the sacred right to worship God GOt according to tIle the dictates of their own consciences and aud under tho the criminal reign of that hint Inhuman monster ot of at In Iniquity inIquity Judge Jeffreys effres J disgraced disgrace Eng England land with wih a n perfect saturnalia of Judic Judicial judicI 1131 I ial ml murder and stained tile the pages ot oh other other her history oven en with tho blood of In Innocent women It was wa a u judicial tribunal that burn burned bur ed innocent and harmless men women and aud little children as witches In Mass Massachusetts and pushed pitched and buffeted the man of or Galilee Oalee barefoot over the pavements of Jerusalem Jersalem fainting be he beneath neath his lii cross and finally amid amii tile the most excruciating agony ngon and despite the convulsive warnings of or nature I wrenched his spirit from his quivering body bod on the tho Cross of Calvary When Alfred Alred the Great attempted to correct certain abuses that had ha grown In his Ws kingdom ho he found it necessary In order to succeed to hang some somo saro six sixty g sixty ty tr of his corrupt corrupt and anU and vicious Judges ju gos Again referring to the tendencies and the attitude of the courts courts ol of o the tue present day dar it I will be bo Interesting to I refer to toa a dispatch appearing In tho the thoI I press of the country February th IDOS 1908 as follows I Tho Time justices of or the tho United States Supreme court have taken take counsel to together gether regarding the lie present day da po political tendencies In both parties partes BO so far as these seem to the Justices to menace monace the tho constitution They Tho have havo determined that lint upon them rests the burden burdon of standing between the Con Constitution and antI popular passion pasion They Intend at al every pont point to meet these those subversive tendencies and deleat them thor There Ther Is reason to believe beleve that the tho late lato labor decisions of or the court are arc merely the beginning of a series which wIll 1 confront the Innovators at nt ovary step The decisions in question queston de do declared dared unconstitutional lonal the employers liability Ia lly act and the Erdman compulsory sory sor arbitration act affecting disputes I between labor and capital capital The Justices are not confident that that I congress can cnn bo be relied roBed upon to stand permanently between the constitution I and what whit ope one of tho the Justices calls cals the mob and they are determined to i I I fulfill fulfil their ancient function of a bul bulwark bulwark wark ark Supreme court Justices never nevor hold hoW political situations but I conferences on I and aud talk I they boy tho are aro men like other men over current curent subjects as mis s others oters do doThe their of finding out They The have havo ways what Is thought by each without for formal 01 mal conferences In this they the have bavo been hen talking over tho ho present danger daner dangerous ous situation as It appears to them ot or otone orone and have havo reached an understanding one views Whoever Is ES President Pr now and for forthe forthe the succeeding four years ears the thc Justices are arc confident that The tho composition ot that thal the court cannot bo ho changed In time tiDe so as ns to lo Interfere with their thir In Intention President Roosevelt has proposed that certain cortin laws recently declared unconstitutional by b tho the supreme court be bo so changed as a to meet tho the objection of Senator La LaFollette Follette and others have hae Introduced measures Foloto to ne cure defects of unconstitutionally It I Is IB extremely Improbable Improbable able that hint any measure which the tho su sti premo promo court regards as of dangerous tendency can Cn pass muster before that bench no matter mater how It Is 16 amended |