What Justice Brewer Says.—
In an interview in Milwaukee, Wis., July 22, Justice David J. Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the United States, said, “The building up of great fortunes is not strange.” Conditions favor it as never before. He tells us that great “wealth if honestly made ought to create no prejudice.” But he believes that the men who have thus acquired wealth “owe to the public the moral duty of using some portion of their wealth for the public good.” He also spoke of the social unrest, and of the men in the slums, but he offers no remedy. He does not believe that any “judge ought to object to any honest and fair criticism.” Justice Brewer thinks there is too much cumbersomeness, too many delays over technicalities. He regards as an “outrage” the reversing of Appellate Courts of just judgments over mere technicalities. The question of woman suffrage, he declares, will have to be met by every state and by the nation. These are live questions.