EDITORIALS
Friends of the "Dopers" PUBLIC OPINION has written in great bold letters on the government walls at Washington, "Wiley must STAY!" Taft has recognized the handwriting. His political advisers have...
...I voted for it, but a contrary statement has been given very wide publicity...
...That the charges against Wiley were prepared by three members of the personnel board, dominated by Solicitor McCabe, working together in conference...
...He was regular...
...I trust that this trying experience will not be required to awaken the American people to the monstrous importance (to them) of the continuance in a wholesome and adequate degree of wide and nonsectarian protection...
...It is Inspiring...
...It is in the assumption by the judges of the power to re-make laws to fit their individual views...
...And "Doc" Wiley will not meet with that "condign" punishment the Attorney General with virtuous fervor declared should be his portion...
...Men like Glavis are needed in the public service...
...But what about those officials who conspired to oust Wiley from the service...
...I look with great sadness upon this seeming trend at present, but my hope for the future is optimztic...
...The discussion ceases to be one of law, for trained lawyers, and becomes one of public policy, for all intelligent citizens...
...It is an inspiration to national loyalty...
...Edward T. Devine, the distinguished social worker, in a recent editorial in the Survey, made this observation: "For better or worse the courts, through a great extension of their functions in interpreting statutes and passing upon their constitutionality, have become a part of the law-making body...
...Rusby, for services in exposing impure food manufacturers...
...But how long, Consumers, how long...
...That Secretary Wilson assured food manufacturers that the famous Remsen board was created "for the very purpose of conserving the interests of the manufacturers, so you would have a safe hearing...
...He was one of the ablest orators and sturdiest warriors of high-tariff, laissez-faire Republicanism...
...It is Enjoyable...
...His political advisers have quaked before it...
...If the people do not awaken to the situation prior to the time the protection props are knocked out from beneath our economic structure, with the fall of that structure will come a condition, painful though it be, which will, as heretofore, bring the people to their senses and cause them to return to their old moorings with wonderful unanimity, with great force and with all the haste possible under our constitutional methods...
...Rusby...
...But for him the Morgan-Guggenheim Syndicate would undoubtedly at this moment be in possession of the Cunningham coal fields...
...In the report sent out by the Associated Press as to the vote on the statehood bill the statement was made that I voted against the bill proposing to admit those territories (Arizona and New Mexico) as states...
...Their citadel invaded, their high-tariff privilege threatened, their hold upon the American Pocketbook doomed, they are giving way to gloomy forebodings...
...There was no possible excuse for any reporter who has the privileges of the floor or of the gallery making the mistake...
...That William H. Harris, a coffee expert, is employed under exactly similar terms as was Dr...
...Their faith in him was vindicated by the recent order cancelling these same Cunningham claims as fraudulent...
...Yours for a healthy, whole and invigorating righteousness, A Philadelphia Reader...
...We are glad that Louis Glavis is again a servant of the people...
...What they did do was to make clear as sun-light the animus of the attacks on the vigilant chief chemist...
...Once familiar with it, and it becomes AN INDISPENSABLE WEEKLY VISITOR, awaited with interest by every member of the family from twelve to three score and double ten...
...Respite for the Trusts THESE ARE doleful days for the standpatters...
...It was wrong...
...For this the country accords him honor and respect...
...Glavis CALIFORNIA is to be congratulated upon the selection of Louis Glavis as secretary of its State Conservation Board...
...For instance, it was shown— That the Remsen board is drawing pay from the treasury under the very law which Wiley is accused of violating in pay-ing $100 to an expert chemist, Dr...
...That is not where the trouble lies...
...And when, for this, he met with the "condign" punishment that is held in store by the Administration for all such offenders, the people understood and were with Glavis...
...That Wiley's efforts to bring food poisoners and patent medicine fakirs to justice were hampered at every step...
...Neither have we...
...Their veto is as effective and as frequently exercised on vital questions as that of the executive...
...President, I desire to make a personal statement...
...It awakens and keeps alive a broader interest in both local and national affairs...
...Frye SENATOR FRYE belonged to the conservative school of politics...
...The calibre of this zealous young conservationist is well known to the country...
...It is Just Enough...
...Here is Vice President Sherman's outlook upon the situation: "The seeming trend away from protection, in my judgment, is but temporary...
...The agony of being separated from their License to Extort will be postponed...
...Laws are declared to be unconstitutional not because they conflict with anything which common sense can discover in the constitution, but because they conflict with the economic views or the social philosophy held by the judges and by them read into the constitution...
...They sacrifice their immunity from hostile criticism...
...Are these men to be permitted to remain in the public service where they may continue to serve the interests of the food "dopers...
...If the courts set aside acts of the legislature—not technically, perhaps, but really—because they believe them to be unwise, they must expect their decisions to be subjected to criticism and discussion...
...What is more, they uncovered a state of affairs in the Department of Agriculture that demands a prompt and thorough house-cleaning...
...Thinkers everywhere, in high position and low, recognize how far out of joint with our other institutions of government are the courts...
...Sherman and the predatory business which he represents will doubtless find some consolation in the impending Taft vetoes...
...Have any of you seen a statement by the Associated Press correcting that false report...
...He said: "Courts strain and torture the words of a constitution in order to find in it authority which they believe the government ought to have, or strain and torture its words in order to take out of it a power which they think the legislature and the executive ought not to have...
...Before the House investigating committee they failed utterly to make good their charges...
...It was he who exposed the Ballinger-Taft conservation policy and the coal land deals in Alaska...
...Before our people get back to the old moorings, however, we may be forced through a period of depression...
...That Solicitor McCabe removed the words "benzoic acid" before making public a judgment rendered in a Missouri court against a food manufacturer...
...He served his country with unswerving fidelity to his standards...
...And when they vest themselves with the law-makers' duties, they must not complain if they meet with the same public scrutiny and criticism that is the portion of the legislator...
...Long had he served in the higher councils of his party, and he was not more distressed than bewildered to see it leaving the accustomed moorings...
...That manufacturers who used benzoate of soda had faithful friends within the Department of Agriculture to protect them from Wiley...
...With present-day efforts to make the Republican party the pliant, responsive instrument of a progressive people, he had no sympathy...
...Now he will direct the work of conserving the natural resources of California...
...Those who like their decisions and are benefited by them will approve...
...Courts and Public Opinion SENATOR CUMMINS, one of the great lawyers of the United States Senate, took occasion the other day to refer to the tendency of the courts to abuse the powers vested in them...
...It arouses a deeper sense of duty therein, and makes one feel like getting others into line...
...Nor should they shrink from the same responsibility to the public will...
...Reporting the News SENATOR BRISTOW rose in the Senate Chamber on August 11 and made this statement: "Mr...
...It is a sad and demoralizing tendency...
...Those who do not like them will protest...
...It is a big task, but not too big, we believe, for the man...
...This would not be so apparent if the judges were merely antiquated and bookish in their administration of justice...
...An Indispensable Visitor" Editor La Follette's: It it were in my power so to do, I would order ten thousand copies of La Follette's for distribution in our city...
Vol. 3 • August 1911 • No. 33
