National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-05-09
A REPLY TO JUDGE WYLIE.
To the EdltoLof THE RErUBLIcAN:

To the EdltoLof THE REPUBLrcAS:
As THE REPUBLICAN, has always had room in Its
columns for q kindly word I'm behalf of labor,
venture, even at the risk of infringing upon space
which might be used in criticlzing oracuar utter
ancos of greater weight, TO call attention to the
offensive language in which Judge Wylie on FRI
day last, while occupying the bench of the Crimi-
n very important branch of social eihics-that of
the organization OF labor. But If the terms in
which Judge Wylio expressed his opinions were
offensive, the connection in which he used them
and the subject whose case he selected rs an IL
lustration werc
GROSSLY INSULTING TO MEN
who mako and support judges in this land-the
workingmen OF the United States. common
thief stood before the court TO receive sentence
of two years imprisonment, when, not content
with the punishment embraced in the sentence,
Mr. Justice Wyle, taking advantage of the cul-
prit's, helpless condition, hurled at his head a
homily on the subject OF the organization OF
labor "Thc young man had an advantage over
most young men in having trade. said Mr. Jus.
see how young man can get trade now OH ac-
count Of these Infamous combinations who pre-
vent boys from getting trades" In the opinion OF
thelcarned judge
"Tr WAS AN OUTRAGE"
(the combinations, presume. .)upon which parents
were TO set their feet; and after dreary mass OF
similar rot Mr.. Justice Wylie concluded by saying
that these organizations threaten this country
How docs this judge of a Criminal Court dare
TO select sneak thief as typical representative
orable and industrious laborH Docs he suppose
that by prosututing tho bench TO tho level of q
crossroads hustings, where open pnlpable peryer-
sion Of facts may go unchalenged. he can safely
AIR HIS CLASS HATRED
md hope to hide its. animus behind the folds Of
the judicial eIlnine? When Judge Wylie asserts
that the principle Of trades unionism makes II
for boy 70 learn 9Se J1ds
escape from the responsibility attaching to such
an assertion Is through
THE IooPHoLE OF IGNORANCE.
Trades -uniopism. SO for from preventing boys
thoroughly learn the one which they elect to fol.
low. Judge Wylic's friends may well wish that
tho rigid regime Of the trades.upion bad been APP
piled to that gentleman for had that been done
his jurisprudence would have developed un-
tainted by pe,tifogging demagoguery. If In
existence of the Republic and the perpetston t oi
its institutions, II is
THAT SYSTEM OF CORPORATE
organization, which makes Its natural anGthesis
tho trades union, possible in this country. Bui
not word has this distinguished legal luininary
to say against those close organizations of incor.
pofated capital which are robbns the farmer, pill.
oTing the lSSorSr openly purchasing State Is,
are even suspected of some little daillnnce with
courts of Justice. have coniented myself with O
DENIAL OF JUDGE wYLIR's STATEMENTS.
0s bald as those statements were bare OF SEM
hlance Of substance whcrcon To rest themselves
II that gentleman will but consider that no attacks
n principle which in birth and growth is coeval
with modern civilization he may possibly pause
long enough to expeclorntc upon his judicial ex-
trcmitics before graphing with the question agaiu
II Judge Wylie's unique Views OH ono of the great
est problems in socin science were OF any greater
moment than the shrill pipings and querulous
plants Of his great prototype, Justice Shallow,
would not be- as now am, obliged TO apologize to
TnR REPUBLICAN, for occupying space that might
nar han A. n heftRf n In n1ax
of advertisements Il. J.. DK AKERS, '
Member of the Fedemtion of Labor.