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Home, AlasKa, under the Act of March 8, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, 1 Vl ruary 111, 11)1(1.
The I'nited States Supreme Court
is the most powerful judiciary in all
the world. In no other country is
there a judicial oligarchy respons
ible to no other power save them
selves. In no other country can the
judiciary so subject legislative ac
tion to review upon any basis, amt
/ nullify it where it is deemed it
should be nullified as does the
United* States Supremo Court for
constitutional reasons. In no otBer
country could the judiciary assume
executive and legislative functions
as reading into the acts of the le
gislative body and qualifying their
enforcement by such a theory as the
rule of roason.
This most powerful oligarchy has
curbed the popular power to such an
extent that the power is really so
limited as to be negligible in cer
tain cases, and although Dooley
shrewdly observed that the Supreme
Court followed the elections and re
flected the popular mandate therein
expressed, it is only true as far as
unimportant matters are conccrnd.
Now given such a body with un
qualified and unlimited power, res
ponsible to no legislative body and
remote from any democratic
control, it is quite obvious
that if certain interests can control
that body by having men appoint: i
thereto with their class interests do!
minating their minds and their legal
views, such interest will control the
national legislation.
That such is the case no one can
doubt, and it is for this very reason
that there is such an extraordinary
effort made to keep Brandeis out of
the position to which he was named
by the President.
After a justice is confirmed, con
trol can be exercised over him no
longer, and for that reason and be
cause Brandeis is accepted as a
"progressive and a reformer”, the
efforts of privilege to keep him o"l
the bench are now being even osten
tatiously displayed.
The powers that have economic
control in the United States are not
for one instant in doubt as to where
the center of government control ex
ists. The Supreme ‘‘e t i tlv- bill
wurk that may c! con
gress and a radical piv-ude.il. The
right to review legislative acts which
the Court has assumed for itseit
may annual any legislation ot
will it may annul any legislation ot
a- popular character. The interests
know that, and they will go to al
most any lengths to prevent any
radical however moderate may be
his radicalism, in getting a seat on
the Supreme Bench.
It may not be generally known
that the Insistence of popular con
trol over its Supreme Judges cost
the Transvaal republic its independ
ence. But that is a fact. And it is
a fact that is now somewhat seldom
dwelt upon. But away back in the
later nineties, a certain district was
declared a public gold fields. That
gave those who had a right to stake
claims also a right to locate ground
in that district. Among those who
acquired such right and staked such
claims was an American.
For reasons which need not be
entered into, the state revoked its
proclamation as to the district being
a public gold fields, and thus nega
tived the staking that had taken
placo. T.he American who had claims
in the district instituted an action
for damages in which ho was sua
tained by Judge Kotze then supreme
justice. Tho decision of Kotze was
subjected to revievV by tho executive
and nullified; tho Volksraad after
wards upholding President Kruger
in his action, and subjecting all
court decisions to supervision ana
review, confirmation or reversal bv
the Volksraad.
Thereupon all the interests in the
goldfields rose In union
protesting against this Invasion of
the court which should be inviolate
and superior to the legislative body.
.
i Kotze had a national reputation as
| a jurist, and was with
J udge Do Korto another
jurist notorious for decisions favor
ing the larger interests in the Rand
Kotze resigned to show his indigna-'
tion, and De Korte refused to ac
cept the chief justiceship. Meetings
were held in the stock exchange oft
Commissioner street, stock brokers,
mining magnates and leading bus
iness interests spoke against this
condition and the troublo extended
untl first came tho Jnmoson raid
and finally the war which ended
the independence of tho Boer repub
lic. But it can be all traced back
to the effort of tho capitalist Inter
ests to have the Supreme Court Oi
the Transvaal subject to no popular
control and no influence save them
selves. Indeed when the agitation
was at its height a prominent Amer
ican mining engineer under saiarj
to the Goldfields Limited, delivered
a speech and showed the very great
superiority of conditions which ob
tained “in a real republic, where the
Supreme Court is amenable to no
Other control or authority-or super
vision except themselves '.
Men are creatures of environment
and granted that judges are all men
subject to tho same human influ
• fiui'cii, they too will nii'.itlfest instinct
jively in tlioir decisions tho influ
ences of that environment in which
they have been raised and in which
they live.
Granted that they look with favor
| upon an extension of privilege to the
i great ftnancai interests, granted that
I as great corporation lawyers the)
have trained their minds to identify
i their interests with corporation in
terests, granted that they have been
associated with the privileges that
have even pressed hardly upon tie'
people, it is almost certain that a:
judges, be they ever so determine*
as to impartiality, their views will
of necessity partake of tiie views of
the class to which they belong, and
they will bo prepared to uphold n
against all comers. They will view
in the reactionary precedents which
reactiortary judges have established
satisfactory doctrines enough where
on to base their reactionary deci
sions. and even sincerely believe
them to be impartial and sound and
socially just.
Of all the grossest superstitions
that can be promulgated, none is so
gross as the idea that immediately
the corporation lawyer dons the Ju
dicial ermine he rids himself of his
former views ajul notions and is cer
tain to be free from any bias or par
tiality in consequence of those form
er views. Nothing is further from
the truth, and a short consideration
of judicial decisions will show that
they have not only retained their
class viewpoint, but under almost
inconceivably unfavorable conditions
ruled adversely to a claim where the
claim was almost obviously righte
ous.
The interests are under no such
influence. They are in no wise so
superstitious. They know very well
that it is essential that they get men
who have been as lawyers or sub
ordinate jurists faithful to them and
believers in their right to control
They look with suspicion upon any
one savoring so mildly even as
Brandeis of radicalism, for they
want one of their own reactionary
class and one who can be relied
upon in an emergency to uphold
privileges and the interests.
And It Is because they are under
no vain Illusions under this head
they will leave no stone unturned
to maintain control of the Supreme
Court. That Is the most powerful
body In the United States. As one
writer has said It ,1s Immaterial who
makes the laws; but It Is very ma-J
erlal who shall Interpret them.
The growth of a Judicial oligarchy
In the Uhited States was feared by
many of the more radical of the re
volutlonary fathers. Thomas Jefter
* • - •' e
•on openly cautioned against it, and
even a reactionary like'Madison
opined that later there might have
to be a readjustment, ot political
institutions to meet later and more
developed conditions.
The judiciary In no nation has
aided in any degree towards the de
velopment of human liberty. Indeed
except where they metaphorically
speaking occasionally followed the
elections, the judges usually upheld
privilege and supported the inter
ests. One half the struggle of the
Roundhaeds against the king ana
cavaliers In Great . .Britain might
have been avoided and a quantity of
bloodshed obviated had the judicia
ry not so strenuously supported the
King as against Parliament. It is
certain that Jeffries made the revolt
against King James not only posslbio
but necessary, and reaction was so
f clear among the judiciary, that once
and for ail they were made subordi
nate to parliament.
The manner in which the Supreme
Court has raised itself superior to
the people and superior to Congress
is only discovered when the records
of its own decisions are carefully
followed, from and during the time
of Chief Justice Marshall. But its
really supreme position today is or.e
unvexed by any questioning. It is
so undisturbed by rival authority or
supervising criticism that it can
actual amend legislation as one of
its own dissenting associate justices
declared it did, in the Standard Oil
and Tobacco trust cases, when it
applied the now famous rule of rea
son, amending the Sherman act so
that the wind might be tempered to
the unshorn wolves of monopoly.
But why should it be otherwise?
The privileged classes and the In
terests are ever on the alert. They
are watchful always and constantly
reap the reward of their earnest
ness.
They overlook nothing; they are j
indifferent to nothing and they are
determined to stop at nothing
That’s why they enjoy the positions
of privilege and dominance which
they enjoy today. They are not
ireatures of chance resulting from
some unknown and undetermined
causes. They are what they are lie
cause they know that eternal vigi
lance is the price of their privilege.
They overlook nothing; they work
in tlie dark as well as the day—
I tireless energy, unwielding persist
ency, with insatiable grasp and ail
jci.coin.ia sing grip, they have and
j they hold. Power of mind ai d body
; i.; nev slothfuHy still. They ore
eternally active, and that eternal
! activity is the price of tin :r pew
It is useless to rail at those In
terests. It is wholly vain to de
nounce them. Their methods may
he evil hut they attain the ends lor
which they are used. They compel
workers to serve them and where
they cannot cajole they bribe, and
where they can neither cajole nor
bribe they destroy. They despise
no sm -11 things and they extend the
ramifications of their economic
might into- every sphere of influ
ence public or private. That's why
they are great in power and sub
stance. That’s why those who wil.
endeavor to achieve no such solid
arity are their underlings. Nothing
can be gained from denouncing the
aims of these men as ignoble nor
their methods as base and con
temptible. Surely they aro all those
things. Was ever a great power di
rected towards so sordid a purpose
as the accumulation of money?
Instead the object of tho workers
should be to practice that vitalizing
solidarity of purpose we so© mani
fested by the great interests. To get
closer and closer together for their
interests, so that they may achieve
the end of there being no classes
but an lnductrial and political
equality that will sway neither judge
nor jury with class timidity, nor
make any man .afraid of the opini
ons which he holds; that will en
able men to follow their beliefs
through thick and thin, sure tha;
whatever . is the outcome, being
hone3t opinions', they will receive
not only the respect but the
applause of those opposed to them,
as men who held to them despite
much opposition because they held
them to be right.
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