JUSTICE BRANDEIS
Justice Brandeis fN THE MIDST of the world turmoil and the heat of party politic!, let no one who loves his fellowmen and longs for justice, fail to rejoice and be thankful that on the fifth of...
...Time will come when his enemies must concede his greatness and recognize the epoch-making event of his appointment to the Supreme Bench...
...Again and again in his argument before the Court of which he is now a member he has , established the correctness of his advanced views and secured favorable decisions on questions of great moment to society...
...The training, sympathies and general view of life of most judges has made this inevitable...
...Brandeis is free from all bitterness...
...Not only this, but when Congress and Legislatures have intervened to abolish the hardships of the old rules of law by humane statutes, the courts have constantly thwarted the legislative intent, by invalidating many of such laws and by misinterpreting others...
...The effect of this deplorable assault will pass away...
...And the country is indebted, also, to the President for the brave, unflinching fight which he made for the confirmation of Mr, Brandeis...
...Brandeis has givep so much time to serving the public before legislative and investigative committees, arbitration boards and the highest judicial tribunals, his habitual thinking, training, sympathies and general view of life have made it inevitable that he should understand and interpret and apply the law in the light of Twentieth Century conditions...
...And his understanding of the law in relation to these problems is no less remarkable...
...Gilbert E. Roe, in his work "Our Judicial Oligarchy," says: "The charge against the courts is that their judges habitually think in terms of the rich and powerful...
...He brings to the Supreme Bench, which wields such tremendous power by its proceedings, a knowledge of social and economic questions, unsurpassed by any man in the country...
...The people of the United States owe a great debt to President Wilson for this appointment...
...In Brandeis he selected the ablest and truest and best-equipped servant of this day and generation for this high service...
...His confirmation was opposed by the great financial and privil-edged business interests of tfce country...
...In the quarter of a century in which Mr...
...The campaign they carried on descended to the low level of widespread defamation and falsification of a long and honorable private legal career...
...These were organized as never before to defeat a judicial appointment...
...above all harm...
...Justice Brandeis fN THE MIDST of the world turmoil and the heat of party politic!, let no one who loves his fellowmen and longs for justice, fail to rejoice and be thankful that on the fifth of June, 1916, Louis D. Brandeis took the oath of office, and assumed the duties and responsibilities of a life position upon the Supreme Bench of the United States...
...The courts have not only held tenaciously to old dogmas but have extended the hard rules of law then applicable so as to make them bear more heavily upon the poorer and weaker classes...
Vol. 8 • June 1916 • No. 6
