The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 12, 1916, Page 4

B This nas, been a great year for Spooks:. Ghost stories enough have been to}d to seud the cold sluvers down anybody's back. .There have been: un- canny mutterings and weird sounds in the halls of politics. Big Business has been hearing noises. 'He has sent his most talented spook:story tellers: into North Dakota to frighten the farmers out of the haunted hqQuse of government. “See that terrible Class Feeling spectre,” wails the agent ofx Big Business; “he’ll surely eat you up. And look; there’s Hard Times and. Scared Money and Mortgage Foreclosures along w1th hnn”' - But: the - farmer is wfllmg to take a chance in the haunted house, anyway. * ignorant farmers to be meddling with the control of this state’ S affairs? ghosts. one of the judges of the supreme court, elected by the votes ‘of the sov- ereign people of North Dakota, uses these words: - “One would thlnk indeed, from this arg'ument that idle votmg was “the chief industry of the state; that it was our only means of prosper- \ - ity and of crop production, and that the lead pencil in the eleéction booth was of more importance than crops and homes and schools and state stability and self-respect. Counsel, indeed, seem to appear to believe that we must fritter away our resources like wanton savages; that we must act-as children and for the sake of some alleged theory of popular sovereignty play at holding election.” These astounding sentences are the words of Justice Bruce of the North Dakota state supreme court in his concurring opinion “on the: capltal removal case. Not a candidate for election at this time, he turns: loose the full venom and rancor of his contempt ‘for the rights of the people of the state. In these sneering sentences he tells the ful] story of the attitude of this court toward popular nghts ; At the last legislature one of its most notorious politieians OR- DERED YOU FARMERS AND COMMON PEOPLE TO “GO HOME AND SLOP THE PIGS,” adding that the legislature — meamng' the politicians—would' take care of making the laws. _ Here is the same thing in different words from your supreme court, “What business,” says the court in effect; “have you poor, deluded You don’t need to fuss around with the LEAD PENCIL IN THE POLLING BOOTH. You don’t need to. PLAY AT HOLDING- AN ELECTION. ' THE LEGISLATURE WILL MAKE THE LAWS AND THE COURTS WILL SAY WHAT THEY MDAN 44 * %k You people of this state are “CHILDREN’ 8ays Judge Bmee Your silly idea that the PEOPLE SHOULD RULE is only an “aHeged theoty= : of popu]ar soverelgnty," a theory alleg Walke up! : The Courts, _People are Rulers ton- or ‘Thomas Jeifelfion ‘or A‘brah‘ Lincoln, ies and demagosues may ‘h e‘-. jtheil day, but THEIR DAY H. He doesn’t think fear of the future should keep a man from. doing his duty. Beszdes. hing= but condemned by the hlgh beneh o' the ‘te of his nerves are steady and he doesn't take mieh- stock in, CHILD’S PLAY now. It has notiung to do thh. the real facts of gov-b ernment. THE COURTS ARE SUPREME NOW, says Judge Bruce. MAKE THE COURTS. AND WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT‘? * * % Now let’s be calm about this. BOLD BOAST OF THE TYRANT, but let’s not permit our anger to get away with us. can’t make a sane and sober plan. : Just One We've got to FIGHT to get back our rights; Thing to Be and how shall we do- it? Doney * Let’s borrow some. advxce from ‘that calm- Elect the ";vmced lawyer. we quoted ‘above. It is useless; People’s i says’ Atbomey Bronson, to try to reform the - ‘courts by legislative enactment. '-“"reform, he says, is the JUDICIARY ITSDLF 3 And how shall this be done" ATE (6] NVENTION OF THE NONPARTIS A TRUE'F‘RmNDs_ r 'I'HE.PEOPL 7z THE COURTS MAKE THE LAWS ANII THE OORPORA’:I‘IONS £ Our hearts burn with mdxgnatlon at tms_ ; Let’s not be so furious that we' : The thing to