The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-06-09
A Corrupt Judiciary.


mics the people have is a corrupted
judiciary. More is to be feared
from it than from. any other power
Under our constitutional system O
Government the Federal Judiciary
is less amenable than Congress
or the President. The Judges are
appointed for life. Political revolu
tons may sweep away parties and
Administrations; but these public
oficialshela,. On very rarely assailed
and always a law unto themselves
Power corrupts as we'll as profit
Partnership corrupts. Wearing
the yoke of majority, and SC
shaping all the decisions as toscome
under that yoke, corrupts worst.
As for the Republican party, there
can be no mistake about its purpo.
ses or its principles. The Constitu.
ton is mainly the work of Demo.
cratic hands. Up to the beginning
Of the war it did not bear a single
Federal impress. The Supreme
Court Of the United States, and all
Of the District Courts, obeyed it
Loyalty. There were no mental re.
servations concerning it, no equivo.
cations, violations, or flank move.
ments. The Federal judiciary was
the peoples judiciary, not a party's.
1t was one Of the CO coordinate bran.
ches of the Federal Government,
and was as sensitive of its rights,
and as tenacious of their recogni.
ton, as king is of his rights.
The war came, and in Selling
everything else, the war party seized
the judiciary. The American PEG
pie have a great respect for law,
even if they do not always observe
it. Any man, armed solely with a
legal process, can 60 across the con-
tiaeat and execute it unmolested.
The last thing to 60 down in the
general wreck was the Judiciary.
The land was filed with shelves,
Congress with ringsters, the civil
service with predatory officials but
he Courts were never much sus
pected until Grantism, in debauch.
nc everything else that was clean
and pase, debaaehea these.
They had to be debauched. Some.
body had t. maize the constitution
conform to partiaaR legislation, and
{ those who belonged to- the OLD Or
Ter of things wsuld not do it, there
we're plenty of adventures who
would. Before the people knew
There they were hurt the judiciary
vas in the hands Of the conspirators,
md the last bulwark built by the
athers against aggressive and DIES.
,otic power had been broken down.
Since Grants first Inauguration
everything in the line of the Federal
aw had gone on from bad to worse
Until to-day there is no more respect
or Federal Judge in the minds of
he masses Of the American people |
han there is for juggler in a show |
y . clown in a circus. He belongs
- q class Of joiners who are busy in |
Etting together the various pieces |
" machinery which 60 to make up |
Isspotisn. First Of all they are no.
orionsly partisan. They scorn the |
'skhisw Of the people because they |
re above the people. No ordinary |
'rocess Of condemnation can reach
hem. Thoroughly eonm5tted to a |
adical change in oar system of gov. |
rnment, and iniissofsbsy linked to /
be fortunes Of a party whose very |
xistence depends upon making that
hange sweeping and complete, thew
ave hesitated so far at no decision
1hich would concentrate power,
lake gigantic corporations anassail.
BILE, and usurp every right which
nee belonged to the States and the
'ourts Of the States.
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