Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-12-11

There IS a shadow of great dagger to our country concealed in that expression ot discontent, and the counterpart of the these certain symptoms of grave politi- cal ills may be seen in the broadcast dis satisfaction among the lsboring classes m all portions of the country sni the necessity they find in organizing for ID utual self protection, There must be
 s cause for all these mutterings and the heroic opposition to prevailing customs by the toilers, and the situation de- msnds careful and common sense con- sideration. Our government is founded essentially upon the dignity Of labor, and our wise fOrefathers contemplated the intelligent toiIer to be the speer of any human being, and conceived the erection of the grsndess political edifce | the world has ever seen ss tue monu- ment of his skillful architecture. Caste and the divine right of hereditary superiority were expressly eliminated from our governing principles. l ~-N- A--N SAoNLNAnONA NA AAAhu anu llAC fatherhood of God" formed the indissol
 uble chain that linked brave freemen to- gether in bond of common purpose. The simple ways of the earlier people of this country accepted the somewhat crude foundation Of the government in it's plain. homely, honest, sense, and in dividual honor supplied all that was wanting Tn technicalities. To-day con trssts strongly with the times of cen | tury ago. Our country has grown broad
 CT and longer, higher and lower. IL has expanded in all directions and in all senses. It has a royalty of mammon and a serfdom of despair, and mental, moral. ! physicIsl and financial existence We here find representatives Of the extreme antIpodsl conditions embracing all the intermediate stages and sni phases. We are not the simple, plain aud unpretentious people | of the America of one hundred years SEQ. The gradual change has entered every artery of private and public life, aud while progress has marked much of the record, there has been some retro gression and it IS thi- later misfortune that much of the present troublous agi- tstion IS due.
 Senator Evarts said few days ago,
 'it is strange that fin administering Jus tice, the wisdom of this world for six thousand years has discovered no other way than for both sides to hire a man to | exaggerate their side, and then try to ] find ont the truth between them" and he might also have added that, as the facts go to prove, the side with the ! largest amount of hiring resources gen eraliy succeeds in convincing the ms | chInery of justice that the truth preio- inmates in its plesdings. 1t Is the fre- ! quent boast Of certain classes of men Of mems that they can worry an opponent out of court, and the poor man often suffers deep and blrninz injustice that ran nkles in his heart, rather than incur a great expense and almost certain de- feat ID a suit at law. It Is not because the law is wroBg nor the courts corrupt, but It is the outgrowth of a practice If hair splitting technIcalities and exgctions that can be bought and paid for. A lawyer brides himself upon winning a smt, even though he knows his client to be rascal who has wronged the oppos- ing party. He has acquired a mastery of the secret of evadIng the law and hIs skill is marketable for the highest price. IL Is his profession, and even though he exceeds the requirements of legal coun- selor and becomes Q moral accessory af- ter the fact in his zeal to achieve suc- cesa. his victory IS heralded as proof of his genius and ability. There are, We are glad to say, happy exceptions to this perversion of noble profession. But the rule holds good, and 1t Is one of the ] grayest and most dreaded of all traves- ties perpetrsted in the name of justice 1 A woman or child half crszed with the bangs of hunger, who steals | loaf of bread, or few sticks of wood to allay the sufferinRs from indictment weather, is not infrequently sent tO the work house or prison for mouths for tue | offense, while men who hsve stolen ;helr ! little savings ride arrogsntly over them, purged of the crime through farcical pro- ' ceedings sl law To such Bn extreme has this matter gone that people have ! grown suspicious of savings banks and refuse to deposit their email surplus ot wages. The outrage has grown so fla grant that public sentiment, even m | wicked Gotham, has been aroused To nn | opposition, and the convection of the ! poodle aldermen IS one of good re- suits.
 Here in ArizOuR it was whispered that unless certain judge before whom an
 important case was pending, decided in
 favor of one of the parties whose
 influence at Washington was pOtert
 hls prompt removal would follow. We
 know nothing Of the facts, but such was
 the current rumor here. To the credit
 of the ermine be 1t said that the integri-
 ty of the Indge was not swByed, ul-
 though the consequences threatened
 quickly followed his decision. The man
 of means converted his antagonist into
 state of disafrection from which it is
 easy for him to drift into communism
 and perhaps anarchism.
 Again. upon the assessment rolls of
 New York, Jay Gould's name appears
 opposite tbe sum SIO0,OOO personal pro-
 perty, which he swears to as being cor
 rect. He IL known to own from eighty
 to ninety millions in personal property,
 a portion of winch is doubtless taxed
 elsewhere. The poor and struggling la-
 borer is compelled 10 pay tax upon his
 few necessities of furniture and apparel,
 and talss return opens the penitentiary
 for him. The law governs the two cases