Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-09-30
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Capitalization.
EDITORS HERALD-There are certain
people who belong to a new-made
and self-constituted aristocracy of wealth
in this country who fondly hope they
will see the day when the rights guaran-
teed to the States by Article 10 of the
Amendments to the Constitution shall be
swept aside, and the Government re-
duced to q bureaucracy. Their cry is
that they desire strong Government,
that capital demands it for protection.
These people desire to subvert our form
OF Government and centralize it's power
at Washington. They have pushed this
idea so persistently that it has
even begun to take hold of our Judges,
Judge Sawyer, in the late case OF
Nesgis, going SO far az to say, virtually,
that the judges while travelling in their
circuit were, to all intents and purposes,
in court at all times, and that United
States officer in the performance Of the
role OF guard could shoot a disorderly
citizen down and not stand the investi-
CATION of State court.
Judge Field is 80 impressed with the
danger to his person that he goes 80 far
40 W ody Uuht A0 bulukE tll6 tTdK6uY
would result in good, as he thinks Con-
gress, at its next session, will pass an
act that will protect the judges.
Judge Sawyer and Judge Field have
lived so long in an air above the people,
whose servants they are, that they have
forgotten the people, and do not under
stand them. This is government of
the people and for the people, and when
au hn off Al, al - AbrH a..
to 60 around with armed guards, fare
we'll liberty. They traduce the people.
There are no facts before the public to
soow for such assertions of danger to the
judges, or any other officials of the Gov
ernment, that warrant any extraordinary
prrc ,utions as necessary for their safety.
We are not State of assassins, and we
90 not visit vengeance on the heads of
judges when they decide against u.s.
This lis proved by the history of our
State, which was settled by a hardy,
fiery class of adventuresome Americans,
VINO believed in their Government as
they did in their God, and many OF
whom had fought in the very battles that
had won this fair domain, and knowing
that the blood and treasure of the people
had won the State, they naturally looked
Ou all vi ucI uOludlu Us IOV6Iu-
ment land, open to the American set
tier.
The Sacramento settlers war of 1883
which Judge Field took prominent
part in, went against the settlers. Was
any judge killed on account of the de-
cision in that case? When the country
was first opened it is claimed that there
were only twelve valid Spanish grants in
the State. Since then there have been SOL
passed to patent, many on proof that
would not pass presumption claim in
the Land Office. Years of litigation
were gone through with, before these
were finally settled; thousands who had
settled upon the lands in good faith were
ruined and lost their all these were
mostly men who were used to frontier
life and the use Of arms, and believed
the grants to be frauds. Did they mur-
der any of the members of the Board of
Commissioners or any Of the judges who
gave the DEGREES that ruined them
Not one! Does any man who has ever
seen frontier life think for one moment
that Judge Field was in any danger from
Terry, by the use of deadly weapons
We know better. If Judge Terry had
intended to have killed Judge Field and
got near enough to him to have slapped
his face, Terry would have cut him down
With his bowie knife, and before Neagle
could have got mis- pistol to bear; even if
he had it lying in his lap ready for use,
he would have been dead man. Terry
did not mean murder, he meant insult.
He could have been overpowered, as he
was in the San Francisco court room
and Neagle should be tried by the local
court of the State as any other officer
who happens to kill his fellowman in
what he supposes to be his line of duty.
W. E. S. RUTHvEN.
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