WHAT A JUDGE SAYS

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 10, 1906

WHAT A JUDGE SAYS.

MORGAN J. O'BRIEN, Esq., is the new presiding Justice of the Appellate division of the Supreme Court of New York. A banquet was given in his honor a few weeks ago. In his speech on that occasion he said:

For the next few years we are to have in the great cities such storms as are bound to break over the country. There have been disclosures tending to civic, social, and commercial unrest.

This is the mildest statement of the case. Discerning men everywhere see the storm coming. Justice O'Brien appeals to the bench and the bar, as well as to public opinion, to sustain respect for law and order. The New York World declares that this is what other judges of experience, as Justice Brewer of the Federal Supreme Court, has seen, and declares: "Both the bench and the bar must act to prevent the overthrow of real democratic institutions. The arsenals of the law must be searched for effective weapons. The armory of justice must be ransacked for swift procedure. The tide of crime which is now receiving its encouragement from above will swell from the depths beneath unless its examples in high places are punished."