THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1912. A SERIOUS INDICTMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10579, 9 March 1912, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1912. A SERIOUS INDICTMENT.

A great deal lias been heard of the gnnvth oi' monopolies and the evils of the system in America. Great corporations have '.flourished in accordance "with their power to over-ride the law. The House and the Senate have [been bribed to make laws to (protect 'the Trusts, and no one has beeji thought strong enough to withstand their combined attacks. The judiciary, however, has been deemed throughout the trying times to be infallible. The Bench has been held in a Ave and given a reverence that was extended only to Kings. .Whilst this faith and worship was going on the justice Avhieh was deemed infallible Avas being slowly yet surely undennined. ''The- Interests have retreated into the courts," said a statesman Avho (Tied recently after a lifetime of fighting for the people. ''Beaten in legislatures, councils, and executive offices, they are going to make their last stand against the judiciary." Among the lighters in the United States against the corrupt "Practices, of the Trusts is a Mr C. 1\ Connolly, a man of high literary and legal ability. He has commenced a series of articles, the first of which is appearing in "Everyfbody's Magazine." publi lied by the RidgeAvay Company, New York, in which he makes a strong indictment against the justiciary, and sets out how tho cnurtr- have been invaded and

judges swayed by the powers of corruption. The writer endeavours to show that courts have been packed in order to render decisions favourable to certain corporations—not once, but so often that resulting danger has become too great to ignore. Indeed, the things that are oppressive in the tariff, in" freight rates, in financial trusts and industrial monopolies, in the private exploitation of public service, and in the seizure of •privilege, are in n great measure due to the courts' obedience to the will of the powerful interests. The charge is made, and proof is .promised, thatjudicial opinions of the highest courts have been written in the offices of legal departments of railroads and other corporations. Federal judges using the power of their great offices have looted prosperous concerns to the financial advantage of judicial rings, and they constantly hear cases of corporations in which their sons and nephews hold salaried positions. The waiter goes on to show that tho law, as at present- administered, lias outlived its usefulness; that because of its indeterminable delays and absurd technicalities the business man is discarding it in the settlement of disputes and setting up tribunals of his own. It is hecoming more and more difficult for the poor and uninflueutial litigant, even if his claim be just, to get a decision against a large corporation. Present day instances are given toy the writer in support of his cl&irges of wholesale malpractice and corruption. These magazine articles are read by thousands, and are so fraught with significance that everyone should give them his closest attention, reserving his final judgment until the entire case is presented and proved.