Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — Not to be Swayed by the Mob. [ARTICLE]

Not to be Swayed by the Mob.

There are many citizens whose action issuch that they at least allow us to believe that they expect the Judicial department of the government to be run in accordance with public sentiment. When the day comes—let ui trust that it may never come—that the judicial branch of government is swerved from its official duty by the clamor of the populace, the end of the government Is not far distant. No government can long surv've whose judiciary yields to the popular frenzy that follows for a moment the mere clamor of the unreasoning, uneducated, in that particular case, opinion of the/publid, or even of the press. Law u not the arbitrary creation of a majority’s will or of any will, but It ought to be, as we trust It may ever be, the wellrounded, well-considered justice of the state, enlightened by the reasonings of the court which enforces it You would have little respect, I think, for a court who curbed his views to meet the popular clamof. (