The Labor enquirer., 1886-06-05
LAW and ORDER.
Law a Barrier Behind Which
Rich RascaIs Retreat After
Committing Crime.
Resistance to Bad Law is Obedi-
ence TO the Law of
Humanity.
Not in Sympathy With the Anarchists,
but at Outs With the Law
as it is.
For The Enquirer.

For The Enquirer.
So much has been said of late abou
"Law an Order, and so much gush hal
been INDUCED in by the capitalistic
press, over the poor, INITIATED officers o
the law at Chicago, on Tuesday, May
that l am constrained to say few
words-if you will permit me-in order
to express my views concerning law and
the guardians of the law, First. then
what is law?
NUTE:- am now speaking of what
is, not what ought to be the law. Law
is the opposite of Justice, and in every
instance it is contrary to the will of the
people
Law is enacted by rich men to secure
to themselves the proceeds of the toll OF
others.
Law is a barrier behind which rich
rascals retreat when they have commit
ted some vile act against the people,
in order to escape public indignation and
to secure title to whatever theft they
may have committed.
Law is a tyrant, inasmuch as it con-
demns people to toll and then refuses
them chance to labor.
Law is cudgel in the hands Of the po-
lice, used on the defenseless poor and it
is d baton of authority in the hands of
the rich robber.
Law is fend who compells dark
deeds of every nature and then stigma
tizes the debased ones as prostitutes,
thieves, blacklegs, etc, and devises pen :
aties against the vices fathereI and
fostered by itself
Law is a blacksmith, ever active,
rivehng chains upon the people.
Laws are passed-enacted-.by the
enemies of the people-our lawmakers
constitute murderers InstanCe-Senator
Leland Stanford was the instigator of
the murder of six honest farmers in the
Mn5sel Slough country, in Tulare
county, California, on May II, I8S0-by
usurers, (nat;onal bankers, )-and by
men whose fortune depends upon the
misfortune Of the people, Qawyers).
Now the guardians Of law" who are
they?
The police are generally considered
the guardians Of Law and Order' but
of la we hear a great deal about deputy
sheriff5, Pinkerton's detectives, the state
militia and the national army as the
guardians of Law and order" What
ever their name, one thing is certain:
they are all at the beck and call of the
moneved men in their fight against hon
est labor. The police IS a necessary ad
iunCt Of bad law; a good law, enacted in
the interests of the people. needs no
bodyguard to see that it is put in force
1t is a bad law, enacted by bad men tor
vile purposes, that requires the police
mans club and the bribed judges de-
cision to put it in operation. A police
man renders his services for money
consideration in other words, his bread
and butter depends upon his employ
ment, and this being the case he will al
WAYS serve best whore best rewarded.
Now, although it is fact beyond dis
pute that labor produces all wealth and
pays all the expenses of Law and
Order" it is never accredited for any
thing by the bosses, who have the man
ipulation of all the funds thus paid in
and who use it in every instance to
further their own ends.
The usurpersSf the rights of the peo-
pie (the lawmakers and money sYndi-
Gates are necessarily dependent upon
the polce-and the other guardians of
Law and Order-to back them up in
.heir warfare against and pillage of the
people, while the police are 0epen lent
upon the peoples masters for their bread
and butter and an easy job. These men
are necessary to one another, thev both
til rive on the toll of the laboriDg asses,
who produce all and then meeklY aC-
cept with thanks mere pittance at the
hands of those who do nothing, but V no
under the law claim all. The police are
of necessity the enemy of labor so soon
as the toilers become intelligent enough
to know tIat they are being robbed.
The people are being exploited of
everything they earn by hard knocks
from the crude natural resources by men
who do nothing but who have been ia
vored by class law and have been
granted ty government the privilege to
rob the toiler at their own sweet will
and are backed up and protected in
their stealings. Bad law-class leglsla
ton is the cause of all the suffering the
people have to endure; millions of men
are idle because of Law and Order >
hundreds of people are starving because
of law all the ills labor is now suffering
were superinduced and brought about
by bad laws, enacted by INSCRIPTIONS
unprincipled rascals to enrich a few al
the beggary of the many.
Resistance to bad law is obedience tc
the law of humanity; no truly good mar
can conscienciously obey bad law ht
will refrain from doing so in respect fol