ABSTRACT
Opposition to the confirmation of Mr. Brandeis as Justice of the Supreme Court among unprejudiced people has finally narrowed down pretty much to one point. Even though the charges against him have not been established, many people cannot dispossess themselves of a lingering doubt as to his record. The force of the hostility to Mr. Brandeis in Boston is consequently broken by its intensive character. The fifty-one signers of the petition opposing Mr. Brandeis's confirmation did not represent fifty-one individual investigations and verdicts derived from different sections of the community. It represented substantially one investigation and one verdict which had been repeated so often that it ceased to require the confirmation of facts. Very few outsiders make more than a superficial impression on their business and their social behavior, and the insiders act and react most intensely on one another.
