Life — September 7, 1911 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Judges or Majority ? OME of President Taft's reasons for vetoing the recall of judges are not overconvincing. To refuse New Mexico and Arizona admittance to Statehood because he disapproves of a certain thing they desire, and mercly for their own use, is in itself a wee bit arbitrary, especially as Mr. Taft himself admits that It is to be their government, and while the power of Congress to withhold or grant Statehood is absolute, the people about to constitute a State should gen- erally know better the kind of govern- ment and constitution suited to their needs than Congress or the Executive. One of his grievance: By the recall in the Arizona Constitu- tion it is proposed to give the majority power to remove arbitrarily and without delay any judge who may have the cour- age to render an unpopular decision. And why not? stitution call for a government by the majority? If a judge proves himself corrupt, what harm in removing him “without delay"? Able lawyers have often expressed the opinion that our judges’ terms of service are much too long. Mr. Taft is an honest gentleman. But, is it not barely possible that, in this case, he is merely retarding the wheels of justice ? is that Does not our Con- @ EEE # Honored by Emperor William Manager of Husbands’ Corres >ondence Bureau Tells of Flying Visit to Europe—Royal Customers Everyui.ece —King George and Wife Extremely Cordial—Sad News From Portugal—A merican Husbands Ahead HE fact that on our recent flying trip abroad we were presented by Emperor William with the order of the Golden Eagle, and that King George re- gretted during our visit to the corona- tion that he could not knight us owing to our being an American citizen, has called attention to the wide scope of the Husbands’ Correspondence Bureau. We should not have mentioned the matter ourselves, as we felt more and more strongly, as time gocs on, that the great work we are doing in bringing husbands and wives together has its supreme re- ward in the feeling of satisfaction which is ever present with us. But inasmuch as the matter has been alluded to, in order that no false impression should get abroad, we think the facts would best be known. Before the shrine of Hymen all men are equal; Love makes no distinction of persons; we treat everybody, regardless of age or worldly position; but owing to the prominence of some of our ratrons, we have always made a rule to respect all confidences. We have for some years done a splendid business with kings all over the world, and the many testimonials we have received attest the effectiveness of our methods. It has al- ways been a regret with us that our special agent—the tall handsome blonde who presides over our office—arrived at the court of Abdul Hamid too late to do that monarch any good ; if we could have given him six months’ preliminary treat- ment we could have cured him, and he would still have been on the throne of Turkey. Both Alfonso of Spain and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands owe to us much of their happiness. The fact that we have not been invariably successful with other European kings is duc to conditions over which we have had no control. As a rule, they were too far away to avail themselves of our entertainment committee, or to get the “OH, WAD SOME POWER TIE GIPTIE GIE US, TO SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS (WISH TO) SEE Us.” comicbooks.com