many volumes of usually dusty law-books-and to present this information in such form as to make it understandable by a reader without legal training. To this end, all of the opinions prepared by Justice Hughes have been brought together and summarised within a single volume, and those which deal with questions of National power and policy, as distinguished from the adjudication of controversies based upon private law, have been quoted from at length. An effort has also been made to accompany each such quotation with a fair statement of relevant facts, helpful in grasping the public bearings of the views uttered, and then to let the opinions themselves tell their own story and guide the reader to his own impressions of the man who wrote them. I believe that each reader will form a very definite impression of Mr. Hughes from a careful reading of his judicial opinions, as quoted in the present volume. You may or may not like the manner of man disclosed; you may or may not feel that he should be chosen for the supreme executive office of the land-this volume is in fact concerned with none of these queries. Its purpose will be fulfilled if the lay reader finds fairly presented herein the information on which he can base a better estimate of Mr. Hughes. The title of the book indicates that it deals with a man, his service in the Supreme Court, and the opinions which he rendered as a member of that revered tribunal. That is at least the pretext, if not altogether the theme. In a broader sense, the volume is a record of an institution during nearly six important years of its history, and I shall be disappointed if any reader gains from these pages only an estimate of one of the members of that Court, and fails to gather an impression of the Court itself, as a great, unified working force for the development of National institutions and the conserving to the communities of those concerns with which they can most effectively deal. If there is much in the judicial utterances of Justice Hughes which reflects accurately the best thought and policy of the Republic as embodied in its organic law, it is because the Supreme Court itself performs accurately and accepably that function of interpretation and does its full part in making republican institutions the available instruments of justice under law. This volume has of course been prepared without the knowledge of Mr. Hughes or those charged with the conduct of his campaign. Conceivably they would not wish for its publication. It has of necessity been made ready in the scant leisure permitted by daily tasks which demanded first consideration, and I am indebted to Charles G. Keutgen, of the New York Bar, for aid in the scrutiny of manuscript and proofs. WILLIAM L. RANSOM. New York City, July 20, 1916. CONTENTS CHAPTER PREFACE NATIONAL POWER OVER NATIONAL INTERESTS THE DOCTRINE OF REASONABLE RELATIONSHIP IV. THE SAFEGUARDS AGAINST ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING OF FOODS AND DRUGS VI. "THE PAPER-BOX FACTORY GIRL AND THE CON- VII. COMPELLING CHOICE BETWEEN WITHDRAWAL THE RIGHTS AND INDUSTRIAL STATUS OF WOMEN 154 FRANCHISE OBLIGATIONS AND VESTED RIGHTS 164 PREJUDICIAL RESTRAINT OF TRADE AND THE XI. THE CASE OF LEO M. FRANK AND A PUZZLING QUESTION OF NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY RACY APPENDIX 'A."-TABLE OF OPINIONS WRITTEN BY JUSTICE HUGHES FOR THE COURT APPENDIX B."-TABLE OF DISSENTS BY JUS- TABLE OF CASES PAGE Adair v. U. S., 208 U. S. 161... 146, 147, 148, 153 Adams Express Co. v. New York, 232 U. S. 14.. 73 134 American Lithograph Co. v. Werckmeister, 221 U. S. 603 272 Anderson v. Pacific Coast SS. Co., 225 U. S. 187.. 73 Arizona & New Mexico Ry. Co. v. Clark, 235 U. S. 669... 274 53 87 235-247 Bailey v. The State, 158 Alabama 25. 236 Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co. v. Interstate Commerce Com Burt v. Oneida Community, 137 N. Y. 346. 211 77 Champion v. Ames, 188 U. S. 331. 65 Chicago, B. & Q. Ry. Co. v. McGuire, 219 U. S. 549..79, 88, City of Owensboro v. Cumberland Tel. & Tel. Co., 230 U. S. 58 168 Collins v. Kentucky, 234 U. S. 634. .171, 221 Coppage v. Kansas, 236 U. S. 1.. .147, 148 Dalmas v. Kemble, 215 Pennsylvania State Reports 410... 278 Dreier v. U. S., 221 U. S. 394.. 272 Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. Park & Sons Co., 220 U. S. Fraternal Mystic Circle v. Snyder, 227 U. S. 503. 269 211 |