Show EDITORIAL NOTES the logan journal from time to time in timatea that the press is a republican paper other journals Jour nala have pronounced the press democratic and an idaho sheet baa gone so far to that the press is a bitter church organ thia has gone far enough the press has never at any time devoted much apace to politic its editor is a who believes in utah and free silver he is one of the common herd an every day sort of laboring man and is against monopolist and gold barons who today are at the head of governmental affairs he is for silver first last and all the time and will vote for any candidate for any office who believes as he does whether he be a republican democrat or a member of the salvation army salina press the charge that the chicago convention assailed the supreme court because the platform declared in favor of an income tax is idiotic the income tax had heretofore been held constitutional in this country and a justice of the present united states supreme court had to change his mind before it was declared unconstitutional things have come to a pretty pass forsooth for rooth if citizens have no right to disagree with courts this nation has outgrown many and a supreme court decision and the people will advance beyond some recent dictums of the supreme urt bench before the world is many years older but let us see how the chicago m assails the court the platform concerning the income tax declares but for this decision by the supreme court there would be no deficit in the bevenue under the law passed by a democratic congreve ae in strict pursuance of the uniform decisions of that court for nearly years that court having in that decision sustained constitutional objections to its enactment which had been overruled by the blest judges who have ever eat on that bench we declare that it ia the duty of congress to use all the constitutional power which remains after that decision or which may come from its by the court aa it may hereafter be constituted so that the burdens of taxation may be equally and impartially laid to the end that wealth may bear a due proportion of the expenses of government now where ie the upon the supreme court the present supreme court has assaulted all other supreme courts which looked into thia question and in order to the assault one of the justices hai to reverse his previously expressed opinion on thoeub eject it 19 a crime for a national convention to call attention to these facts Is it an assault to aver that congress chati 10 lo all it can under the circumstances to force wealth to bear its due proportion of its of the la it anarchy to hope that the court will reverse itself when new mood gets into it the world moves on and 19 the supreme court alone to aland still the present supreme court has reversed far abler supreme courts on this very t who maresto declare that it is a crime express the trust that an abler court yet to be and one nearer to the beope will re versa the present court and go back to the principle declared by some of the masters of jurisprudence that this kation has ever the supreme court decision waa only n majority opinion a majority obtained by the personal reversal of justice Is the bare majuri ty 0 court so superior in legal lore and in comprehension of constitutional points to the bare minority that one must to the five you are all wisdom and ti the tour you are all imperfection one of th was justice stephen J field man in whose those wha enow him besta never aay a man on the verge of the grave who bas drifted back to second childhood Wha his mental condition when be acquiesced in thia in come tax decision which must not be criticized criticised Is the right to asail th supreme court to be limited to certain pere ons the people will remember eliat the most violent attack ever made upon the present supreme bench for that tax decision waa contained in the dissenting opinion of one of the justices was it his peculiar privilege to blackguard the majority of that court at his pleasure and are the representatives or a great political organization to be denounced as anarchists for daring to godspeed god speed to the day when some differently constituted supreme court will reverse the recent decision and the peculiar majority of the will become the hopeless minority of the future r |