The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 6

e Seattle Star N oe A Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Main ¢¢ dr thang United Press Bervies 4 montha, 92.18; un, ee = An Impeachable Offense? q The general strike committee of the Eastern railroad | Bhopmen has wired Senator Borah, at Washington, urging ; impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Daugherty and Federal Judge Wilkerson, of Chicago. Im- shment was asked on the grounds that the strike was in violation of the constitution. Under the caption “Impeachable Offenses?” the New York Wovld has this to say editorially: “The demand of the striking railroad shopmen for the impeachment of Attorney General Daugherty and Judge Wilkerson is not so ridiculous as some people may regard it. It is, without question, an impeachable offense for judicial and executive officers of the United States to pro- ceed officially and with deliberation contrary to law, as was established in the impeachment and conviction of United States Judge Pickering, of New Hampshire, in 1808. And when Mr. Daugherty sought, and Judge Wilkerson granted, an injunction restraining strikers ‘in any manner whatsoever,’ no matter how peaceful, from *persuading’ or ‘encouraging’ men to,leave the employ- ment of the railroads or to keep away from it, they were not only proceeding against the plain provisions of sec- tion 20 of the Clayton act, but they were, as charged by -this strike committee, invading the constitutional guaran- tees of freedom of speech and of press and of peaceable assemblage. “When the attorney general, in open court, declared a purpose to use the power of the United States government to prevent the unions from ‘destroying the open shop’ he ‘Was declaring a purpose to usurp the legislative power of that government and make laws and create crimes on his own motion exclusively. Compared with such talk and such action on the part of Mr. Daugherty and Judge Wilkerson, the charges on which President Andrew John- son was impeached were trivial. The charges on which Justice Samuel Chase, of the United States Supreme court, was impeached were trivial. The charges back of the impeachment of United States District Judge James Hi. Peck were trivial. The case against President Johnson Was, by and large, merely one of partisan rancor and mal- ice. The offendings in the other cases mentioned rested at best on technical irregularities. * “But in this case we have high judicial and executive officials of the United States acting not only to set aside the plain provisions of an act of congress, but the protec- ‘tions of the fundamental law of the nation.” ‘The senator from Connecticut reminds me of the city chap who went ‘You get this butter?” The farmer's wife said: “We keep a cow.” Then “they passed him the honey, and when he tasted It he exclaimed with Anterest: “Do you keep a bee?"—Senator Heflin (DJ, Ala. Sometimes we think girts are like salads, All about the same except ‘different dressings. Drawback about living In a swell neighborhood ts acting bored. The Supreme Court Ticket Voters are to be congratulated this year on the supreme court ticket that is presented for their consideration at the primary, especially as to the six-year vacancies. For these three positions there are five aspirants, Ken- Mackintosh, Mark A. Fullerton and Emmett N. er, incumbents; and W. D. Lane and Bruce Blake. Mackintosh, Fullerton and Parker have all been indus- trious, fair-minded and reasonably progressive judges. Because of the small number of candidates in the field is virtually certain that the primary vote will give three the five men the necessary majority for election. In the dream of Nebuchadnezzar it was only the feet that were part of fon and part of clay; but many of us now are getting so cruel in our ‘Bvarice that it seems as if, in us, the very heart of us were part of iron and part of clay —Johin Ruskin. Deer ran thru the streets of a Michigan town. It may have mistaken ‘Mself for a cow. Health hint: Humor thy cook. They're Thinking of It, All Right ‘The proposition that our government take over the ‘Yailroads and coal mines is unthinkable radicalism,” shrieks a down-east capitalistic organ. _ Oh! it’s not so very unthinkable. A whole lot of folks : thinking about it and, in a little while, you'll hear «wp industrial corporations howling for it. Of course, it’s radical. It even hath the odor of mild bolshevism. Bht there’s something more behind it than ‘socialistic or other theory, and that’s the pressure of When all other propositions break down, we get the “unthinkable radicalism.” After fuel and trans- tion, there are some other vital human necessities that are likely to be treated with radicalism, The human “anima! will stand just so much crushing and gouging, and ‘then he goes after what he wants regardless of what Name is given his proceedings. One might say the Mexican oil men who struck salt water are up salt Fiver now. If ignorance is bliss, a man with an Ivory dome is solid comfort. One time we saw a $100 bill. Big Eats in Ye Olden Days Peter the Great, of Russia, and his gang of 12 stopped at Godalming village, England, in 1698. For breakfast they ordered half a sheep, a quarter of lamb, 10 pullets, 12 chickens, 3 quarts of brandy, 16 quarts of wine and 84 eggs. The tavern records show that the 13 gluttons devoured this repast to the last crumb and the last drop. Compare this with the dainty breakfast we eat today. Despite the enormous morning meal, they recovered their appetites by night. For supper they ate 42 pounds of beef, 56 pounds of mutton, 3 quarters‘of lamb, a loin and shoulder of veal, 8 chickens, 8 rabbits and 42 bottles of wine. It is difficult for us moderns to understand how they got away with so much meat. The 42 bottles of wine are more easily comprehended. Ohio man shot himself because he had a wife too many. Wonder how many he had. One at school beats nine at pool. Life Insurance Gaining Insurance Press, trade paper, says that Americans this ear will take out a total of $9,000,000,000 of new life urance, Life insurance is growing eight times as fast as our population. A fortunate situation, for at least seven- tenths of men would leave their families practically pen- _— except for insurance, systematic and scientific sav- ng. Many a man going along on easy street turns off into Wall Street and gets lost. Michigan woman had 111 operations, Guess what she talked about? Editor The Star: | I read the Seattle papers and try to keep abreast of the news. I nee! THE SPATTLE STAR FOLKS ARE ALWAYS BEING SO KIND TO US Resents Unfairness to Woman | } | the minds of the public are polmoned | before the jury ts drawn? ! I am not arguing Miss Sarkin’s| service men with his “I got you the bonus” rot, he is mistaken, more interested tn good government and an efficient one than tn the po Utica! fortunes of one who will re gard the legion as a bunch of fel lows to trot out every time some one | Who poses as their friend runs for | office But what about the port, the mill levy, the loss of contracts, ete.? Is Seattle to sit by and watch this bust jong articles about Clara Skarin and) case or trying to clear her; tf #he ls | ness disappear and let Lamping con- some of the stories do her @ great injustice. Now I do not know Clara Skarin | And have never seen her so far as 1/ recall, It looks to me as if much ta being published to polson the minds of the public against her and try to convict her before she comer to trial It i# her constitutional right to be tried in a fair court, a court that ts not predjudiced for or against her, and how can a fair Jury be found if Would Halt Jap Aggression Editor The Star: “The AntiJapanese League” had me listed among the legislative can- Gidates from the dist district as un- decided in regards to the Japanese question. I desire to state that I have de Supreme Court Responsible? Editor The Star: Permit me to call the attention of your readers to the fact that it was the ruling of the supreme court in the Hart administrative code case that prevented a referendum on the poll tax, and allowed It to go into ef. fect. The supreme court held that, be- cause the legislature had attached a so-called emergency clause, the act wan not subject to the referendum. Two of the judges eald that the de cision was preposterous; that there never Was & more supreme example of the kind of a law Intended to be reserved to the vote of the people. These two judges said that the of fect of the decision was to destroy the constitutional right of referen. dum by Judicial construction. ‘The poll tax mw also carried an “emergency clause,” and for that rea. Takes a Rap at Lamping Eéitor The Star. I, like The Star, belleve that vot era in the senatorial primary haven't any too much to choose from any way they vote, put I hope that no! one will be misled by any of this “I got you the bonus” racket of George Lamping, the perpetual job hunter and public payroll hanger-on. Tam an ex-service man and know I got a bonus in this state because & majority of the voters, at a gen- eral election, cast ballots for the bonus. No politician had anything to do with it and it ts the cheapest kind of political bunk to get out cards, “Vote for me, Buddie; I got you the bonus.” Any man who runs for office on this “Buddie, votefor-me stuff,” deserves defeat. I have my idea of ex-nervice men who will put on their uniform at election time and go cam- paigning with anyone who insults the American legion by trying to make it a political football, I belong to the legion myself. Then while Lamping pretends to be “of the people, for the people and by the people,” he, as port commis. sioner intrustea with supervision of public terminals valued at $15,000,- 000, takes a month off, takes the traf. fic manager of the port, Major Muir. head, as his campaign manager, has members of hin office forces working as -stenographers nt his headquar- ters, decorates port cars with his banners, At the same time as Lamp: ing and Muirhead are campaigning, the port commission announces that it will make another onemiil levy for the port, and until Lamping got onto the port and loaded it up with political friends, the incurables, we did not have a levy, Last year he promised that the mill levy, or part of It, would be used to establish agen- cies in the Orient and New York. But not one cent has been appropriated for that. Last week the Portland pa- pers announced that 2,000,000 bushels of grain will be shipped from Port- Jand this month and Harry Hudson, the Portland port manager, t# lining up grain by the hundreds of thou. sands of bushels and taking {t away from this port while Muirhead ts act ing as campaign manager for Lamp. ing; and while Hudson and Portland port people were in eastern Wash ington talking to the farmers about Portland terminals, Mutrhead and Lamping were there talking polities The same day that Lamping and Muirhead announced they were go- [since 1914, and they are now storing guilty she deserves the punishment. | for publishing this stuff. It ts much the judge's and the prosecuting | attorney's sworn duty to protect the Innocent as it is to convict the guilty. } lam a friend to humanity and be | Heve In doing justice to every one. | But it never did uplift society to con vict an innocent party DAVID CANTWELL, 409 Thomas St. cided opinions regarding the Japa nése, and would like to see «a law pansed restricting immigration and forbidding the leasing of lands or business property to Orientals, Yours very truly, MAZIP R MARTIN. 1163 Sunset Ave son the referendum could not be tn.) voked upon ft. It was t decision | taches the emergency clause the} right of referendum ls thereby do-| feated, that prevented the filing of a/ referendum against the poll tax. that could have been done the poll tax would never have gone into ef fect. The supreme court ls respon: sible, Three of the judges respon- sible for the decision are up for re. election. ‘The other judge running for reelection was appointed by Gov. Mart, and the only reason he ts not! responsible ts that he was not In yet! when the decision was rendered. Turn out these Judges who anddied the poll tax upon us. Vote for the new enndidates, Lane, Blake and Pemberton, G. N. HODGDON. ing east of the mountains to cam- paign and leave the port to take care of itself for a fow weeks, the Libby fish people announced they were moving out of port comminston terminals, which they had oceupted 1,000,000 cases of the 1922 salmon pack at the Ames terminal, a private | dock, In the last year the port has Jost several big contracts and that in why we have the one-mill deficit, | along with the pensioners on the pay | rot Potndexter may vote wrong some- jtimes, and everybody makes a mis- take, but at least he tan't a trim. mer or a promiser, and he has the | backbone to vote and then sink rah | swim on the issue. If Lamping thinks he Is going to bunk any of us ex tae | tinue to campaign at the expense of | Nor I am not saying who Is at fault) the people of this port? MARTIN 8 WYMAN. The Men That | Ferguson Dropped Editor The Star: Ry the pres notices of politiea? meetings held lately, I see that our Present auditor, D. E Ferguson, can didate for reelection, is quoted as stating that one of his first acts upon taking office two years ago was to clear the office of all “incompetents and undesirables” Aa a bell in “clean politics” nd & “square deal,” I wish to enter an emphatic protest against this wholesale and uncalied-for slander of the men and women who were elim nated from the auditor's office in January, 1921, solely because they had suppo: & enndidate, who tn their Judgment, was better qualified | for the ponition than was Mr. Fergu-|ers incomunicado (often Incorrectly | spelled ‘incommunicado’, while long of the supreme court in the Hart code| On the memorial tablet tn the! practiced in Latin countries, ts in case that when the legisiature at-/County-City building under the head | gross violation of the captives’ rights fon. DR. J. BR. 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Incompetent? They were not. Un desirable? They were not. Mr. Fergu son needed thelr positions to award to some of his political supporters. Granting his authority to dispense with their services for that reason, he ts not now warranted in making th urring attack upon their dn > Had Mr. Ferguson the inward con- sciousness of having fulfilled his promines of an efficient and econom- feal administration, he would not now be reduced to the extremity of such slanderous attack upon others who, in thelr time, served faithfully and efficiently One of the ex-service men, CHARLES W. BOWN, Kent, Wash Brain Testers Solution to Thursday's purzier Around me shall hover, Till life's dreams be over Sweet memories of thee, LEARN A WORD EVERY DAY Today's word #-—-I NCOMUNI- It's pronounced—een-co-moon-}-kah- do, with accent on the fifth syllable. 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