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Rh "Do the laborer, the common carrier, the inn-keeper, the proprietor of places of public resort, and the saloon-keeper, then, who have thus attempted a criminal repudiation of the Constitutional Amendments, enjoy the sympathy of representative men, and notable leaders with vast fortunes, the monopolists, millionaires, money kings, merchant princes, and railroad magnates?"

In answer to this inquiry the Chief Justice, who was wakeful to the expediency of avoiding further reference to the modus operandi by which the jurisprudence of public servants had so far maintained a paramount authority over the Constitution, not without a transient flush upon his face, simply replied,&mdash;

"This vulnus immedicabile is rather in the lower than in the upper classes. The wealthy citizens, to whom you have referred, have partly attained their status in the commonwealth by reason of the absence of that narrow spirit of intolerance which tends to dwarf all men. From every stand-point they realize the advantages to be derived from keeping pace with the progressive liberal spirit of the age and maintaining constitutional authority. This view is firmly held by them, not because of their abstract reverence for law, but because their intellects are broad and deep enough to discern at a glance the manifold and material advantages which result to every member of the commonwealth from the legal maintenance of the letter and spirit of these amendments. Instead of being found in the ranks of these titled dignitaries of the country, the stabbers at the Constitution and its amendments are the under-strata of our society, who draw what is called a 'dead-line' or a 'color-line' across the face both of these amendments and of the acts of Congress passed in pursuance of their authority. Aided by the special pleaders of whom I have spoken, the public servants and labor tyrants have built a sort of Chinese wall around themselves and their private and public callings; and although their guilt is notorious, yet, since the Constitutional Amendments act only upon the States, and not upon individual aggressors, no way has been found to drag any of the criminals to justice. The Supreme Court, you will find, has determined that the amendments inhibited only unfriendly legislation by the States, and could