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Show HYSTERIA SEIZES THE REACTIONARY PRESS The organ of the Federal bunch in Salt Lake wants the Judges of the supreme court of Idaho Impeached The Progressive editors have severely J denounced the Judges for their con-I con-I tempt proceedings, but nothing they I have written 1b cjulte so radical as tha j utterances of the agalnst tho recall I critics The Sait Lake organ flnd6 no j precedent for the abuae of power and 'no parallel except that of the auto-de-fe of tha c-ccleaiaats In tne days of the Inquititlon Horror of horrors' Here Ib a Quotation from this morning's morn-ing's Herald "All power In this great republic Is derived from the people The gov ernment is administered by servants of the people by methods which have been designated by the people. As the basis of government, the people have the right and privilege to change that government in It a personnel and construction whenever they desire. No stream may rise hlghor than Its source, and what the people have created cre-ated they assuredly may destroy. "It therefore follows as the night the day, that no branch of our tripartite tri-partite government may fix motes and bounds for i( sovereign superiors, the people, and that none may consider consid-er that any of the authority that has been delegated to them is inherent. Inherent power, which is none other than natural power, therefore, is lodged lodg-ed in no department of our government, govern-ment, because the people themselves arc the source of all power What the people have givon the people can lake away, whatever authority they have not specifically delegated to any branch of tne government must therefore there-fore be considered as withheld. "Defying any possible successful challenge of the above bill of rights we submit that the supremo court of Idaho Bhould he arraigned by the lcg-I lcg-I Islature of the state, , indicted of Im peachment god attainted of high treason trea-son against the commonwealth In their calm assertion that "the legislature legis-lature had not th Inherent authority to restrict the Inherent power of the court to punish loi contempt." as Mated Mat-ed in the rqajorltj opinion In the Capital Cap-ital News ease, the Idaho COUri not I Only usurps power granted neither by fundamental law nor legislative en lactment, but rilalnij defies the people of Idaho through their representatives In the legislature to regain ibal stolen I authorii y. I "Arrogating to themselves a pow.-r for which they can find no justifies jt'.on In constitution or on the statute books, these Idaho Jurists in effect r!9-,ny r!9-,ny to the people the right to construe 'the law, to discuss It. or to pretend to understand what It means DrunS en with the unquestioned sway of Btok fen rule which they assume a century lot urn hallenged possession to Intve ' dnflrthed, their frame of mind i i OtT) parable only that of the ancient monk who controlled the minds and bear's j of men from cloistered seclusion These tonsured members of n pries' ly ollgan by denied the people the right to read and understand the Bl Die and arrogated to themselves the privilege of exiiouuding thei Scrip tures; VehgMBCe swift and tt-rrlble descended upon all who dared bjief-tlon bjief-tlon that nuthontv or who bad the (hardihood to think for themselves The Herald is willing to have ih guilty Judges guillotined or gibbeted, anything to avoid putting In force that more sensible and feasible mdth od of dealing with Judges who do wrong, known as the recall The people, after all, should be the ultimate Judges of the conduct of their servants, whether those servants be dog tax collectors, or supreme Judges, so wliv not make It possible from now on. instead of resorting to lm peachmenl proceedings, for the citizens citi-zens of Idaho to pass on the stewardship steward-ship of Just such haughty fellows as i be wearers of the Judicial ermine, Who have done their utmost to de-stroj de-stroj the right of free speech? |