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OUT 02 ORDER.
During the recent < ampaign an in
<iuisitive newspaper man put the
question fairly and squarely to
Hugh s “If he were in the Supreme
Court, and the matter was submit
ted to that tribunal would he de
dare the Adamson Bill unconstitu
tional and if so for what reason?"
it will be recollected that Hughes
attacked the bill, and Congress fcr
passing it and President Wilson tor j
urging its passage, yet the newspa- j
per man's very reasonable question
was d dared out of order, because
what Hughes as a judge would do,
and what lie would do as a political
offii :al wer two different things'
The ; lion of th- judge should i: t
he brought i: to polities:
There's, a e- • rmined effort made
to inculcate a belief in the divine
r glit of judgi and the infallibility
of judicial d i .ions, and T it does
not be nine general it will not so
fail b the < ffo. ■ s of the
judges to hedge themselves in with
a series of sacred mysticisms which
tend to confuse the popular mind
and confusing to prostrate their
reason.
In point of fact the man who is
elevated to the bench, whether he
does so consciously or not. takes
with him all his prejudices, precon
ceptions and partizan experiences
which will he with him as long as
he wears the ermine. Thus a re
publican judge will have all the re
publican's views when rendering a
decision, and if he identifies his in
terests with a certain class, those
interests will dominate his rulings.
In former days the court repre
sented the King. The King was sup
posed to be present theoretical!}.
And the Judge exacted a respect for
his dignity would be due the King
were he actually present on the;
bench. As time passed, the theory j
that king could do no wrong failed :
for the king, but remained for the ;
court. And that concept of judicial '
functions remains everywhere to j
this day. We still talk of the maje- j
sty of the law, and less mejeste^and j
contempt of court are terms equal
and interchangeable. But the judges 1
are just, like the res* of human be
ings. Subject are they to the frail
ties of human nature and the pre
judices of human experiences and
the sway of human passions. They
have very great power, and the pos
session of that power, unchecked by
any popular curb as far as immedi
ate evidence is concerned, tends to
give judges and those who are sub
ject to their decisions, a wholly irra- ,
tional idea of their status, and |
makes mystic the source of their i
power.
Now here is Judge Hughes. The
man went to the Supreme Bench
■with strong political passions. Dur
ing the years he adjudicated on the |
bench, he never lost one of them,
and so intense were these feelings
lhat when he was asked to be a
•candidate for office he leaped at the
opportunity. He shed the magic
power of his judicial position, and
stumped the country like
any common political mountebank.
It is impossible to believe that such
decisions as he handed down were
<:ee from the partisanship of which
he has given such ample evidence
during the late campaign If was
right and perfectly in order to ask
him what he w’ould tiave done as
a judge. What lie would do as a
man and a politician, tnat he has
<lone as a judge; and vice versa.
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buncombe.
Capitalist writers, speakers and
politicians are not the only set o!
men that peddle to one another
about one another. Laborites do the
same with the same degree of eclat.
Take Gompers the other day in
New York City when the tractlpn
strike was on. He said that he and
the rest of organized labor were
with the traction strikers ‘body and
soul". That was buncombe. They
were not with them at all; neither
as to sou! nor as to body. They j
gave them jaw sympathy, but help j
went no further. When the matter i
of a genera! strike came before the
organized followers of Gompers
their “body-and-soul support” was
scattered “like ashes of burned !
tow”.
OWNKKSHfP.
They had a strike in the cigarette
plants of t e American Tobacco Co.
in the city of Xew York. When the
company found that the employees
were standing pat for their de
mands, a slight wage increase to
meet the increased cost of living,
and there was no sign of any sur
render or defection the company put
this ultimatum to the employees:
that they would move the machinery
and the manufacturing plants to
Richmond, \'a.. and leave tlie seven
thousand Xew York employees with
out any means of subsistence if they
did not return to work.
Great is the power of ownership.
It is the only power. It alone con
fers upon those who rejoice in its
possession tjie right to control the
lives and destinies of others. What
other thing is like to this? How else
can men, women and children be do
minated if not by controlling and
owning the means whereby they
live? And how in the name of
common sense, could reason and un
inflamed intelligence is such a thing
as freedom possible where the few
control the means whereby the mas
ses live?
THE FREEDOM OK THE PRESS
When the Bayonne strike was on, ;
one New York daily dared to circu
late the facts as to Bayonne and the
strike and the police violence.
Whereupon the authorities imme
diately banned the paper from the
city of Bayonne and forbade its
sales, its circulation or its distribu
tion within the confines ojt this baro
ny of Standard Oil. Let’s all don
war paint at the outrages perpetrat
ed by those European censors—
never mind Standard Oil.
A D.WlEl
Judge Daniel Brumm was being
entertained by the Patriotic Sons of
Something or Another at Pottsville,
Pa. In the course of a speech in re
ply to the Sons who filled his ample
girth with good wine and tasty
viands, Brumm said that tne memb
ers of the I. W. \\. ougnt to be
hanged!
That was very clear and explicit
as an expression of one man’s opin
ion,. But suppose the members of
the I. W. W. were to publish the
fact in their estimation that hang
ing Was too good for the Brumm’s
where would they get off at? It is
an interesting question of equality
before the law.
WAR AND OTHER DEBTS.
What is a war d^bt? You can hear
see and believe every other financial
expert teling what is going to hap
pen after the war when the nations
face a war debt of several hundred
billion or thereabouts.
A good deal of this forecasting
is tommy rot pure and simple. The
nations that are in debt suffer no
undue hardship. If it is not taken
from labor for one purpose, it is for
another; and what the financial
over-lords do not get the captains of
industry tyill.
To the people of any country it
Is quite immaterial whether the
major portion of the product ol
their labor goes to pay up interest,
rent or profit. It makes some diff
erence to the man over them, but
lot' to the workers at all. In those
belligerent countries, the war will
occasion a re-distribution of wealth
among present time owners. But it
will not change the system of distri
bution whereby the owners take
four-fifths of the product of the i
labor, their ownership of the means
of production and distribution en
ables them to extract. The work
ers will live anyhow. They are the i
wealth producers and as an engine j
cannot be driven without fuel or
steam, so the wealth producers must
be fed and clbthed.
Financial writers and other talk
about national bankruptcy and the
rest. But there is never any
trouble in these bankrupt nations
getting along very nicely. The Na
tional Debt has never interfered
with national prosperity, nor have
the extravagancies of government
proved anything in the way of a
curse. The only thing that the bank
ruptcy of nations reveals is how ■
bankrupt is the political economy of
its professors who refuse to see that ;
labor applied to the natural re- !
sources creates all wealth, and own
ership grabs it.
SOME MlEPAJlEI>XESS.
When a grave possibility of war j
jvith Mexico arose, Roosevelt offered
:o a raise a Division and asked tor
i major-generalship. Where the
blazes did Roosevelt learn enough
ibout soldiering to become a major
general? At Tea Kettle Hill? Who
said anything about preparedness?
ACCORDING TO REASON.
It is impossible not to admire j
i he noble effort poor Hughes made
to be a political spieler. The poor
man did the best he could, but ilke
the boat that wouldn't sail in rough
weather, he wasn't built that way.
Hut what he did, say is quite suffici
ent to show that after a while he
might equal Wilson as a maker ot
epigram and as an utterer of plati
tude.
Thus he deplored “any other set
tlement of labor controversies save
according to reason". The author
of the New Freedom himsel!
couldn’t beat that. It's a gem. It
sounds good, feels good, appears
good and looks good. Settling labot
controversies according to the rule
of reason ought to appeal to all. But
whose reason, Governor? What
looks all right and reasonable and
just and fair and square and righte
ous and equitable to John D. Rocke
feller in Bayonne, looked all wrong
and outrageous and unjust and in
quitous to the slaves of the oil re
fineries.
The viewpoint is the rub! If the
reason of John D. and the reason
of John D's slaves are taken, there
are two incompatible reasons devel
oped which no Judge, not Solomon
himself, Governor, could attempt to
settle.
That has been the way in all
ages. The feudal laws, the law of
mortmain and all other folderols in
the way of feudal privileges which
were enjoyed by the feudal lords,
were regarded by the serfs with feel
ings of outrage and injustice that
never did become satisfied until an
Age of Reason came with a Reign
of Terror.
The viewpoint is everything. The
buyer and the seller cannot ap
proach the subject alike, master and
slave cannot see the question in the
same manner so what's the use of
this talk about reason. Whose rea
son, the employer's or employee’s?
A COXTRIBLTIOX.
the people of New York with a sis *
rent loaf in vogue will pay sixteen
million more annually for their
bread. Suppose Chicago is about j
three Quarters of this, St. Louis half j
San Francisco and other towns of j
like size a third, it is plain to be i
seen that on these figures the bread J
price increase levies a toll front the .
country of a hundred million dollars
Those who like to consider this
question may ask who gets it. The j
answer is easy. It goes to swell the |
profits of the exporters and specu .
lators, to pay for the high insurance |
upon shipping and generally very
generously to pay a pro rata of the
expenses of a European war. When
the European people are playing at
soldiers, the masses in the States
pay the piper in the form of in
creased cost of living. It is all
right for the other fellow.
\YE CAX DO IT.
For Urnt class work, ana pron pi
delivery ph >ne Main 1M and Iht
People's Steam Laundry will c< li ,
and get yonr laundry.
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GENERAL HARDWARE AND MINING SUPPLIES.
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THE ROSE CANDY STORE
AND ITS NEW ADDITION
ARCTIC BAKERY
are prepared to serve their patrons with a fine line of Breads,
np to date pastries and Lnnebes.
Onr Ice cream, made from the Nome Dairy Cream speaks
for itself.. A fresh supply of Augustine & Kyer Chocolates ar
rived on the Victoria.. Home-made Chocolates, Peanut Candies
and salted nuts specialty.
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