Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-17
Is our Government a Failures

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
"The above question is not new one, but
is oft repeated, and, in view of the present
status of strikes and other violations of law
without redress, it comes home to every
American citizen"
The above paragraph formed the first five
valuable journal under date of January 80,
1888.
Day before yesterday morning You recalled
the insult perpetrated in the Supreme court
of the United States six or eight months ago
at Washington on Judge Field when reading
an opinion of the court, and yesterday you
gave us the sequel to the effect that the same
judge has been whacked sideways of his head
| in q railroad station in middle State by the
same marauder and when about to repeat the
blow he was warned to desist and not needing
was shot dead by the United States marshal
who wss charged by the Attorney General of
the United States to protect the person of
Judge Field, then ON his way to San Fran
cisco to hold court.
You tell us also of the arrest and impris-
onment of this United States marshal by To-
/ cal State authority, the which deprives the
United States Supreme court judge of his
| protector, and left him subject to grosser In.
| suits or perhaps loss Of life. Bat you do not
| stop here. You add to this infamy the news
that the authority of State has armed one
| OF their State officials with process to arrest
Judge Field while holding court In San Fran
cisco, treating him rs an accomplish of the
marshal of the United States In the alleged
crime Of murder, when he had no more to do
with the killing than II he himself had been
killed by the side head blow of the marau-
| der.
SO that as the case stands after the dignity
| aud decency of the United States Supreme
court had been invaded and, after repeated
| Judge when out of court, his journey to q
| remote State is protected by United States
Marshal under order from the United States
Attorney General, this United States Mar.
shall Is severed from the protection of the
person of United States Supreme court
judge and lodged in Jail. by State sheriff
and the United States judge compelled to
pursue his journey to hold court in San
Francisco alone and unprotected, aud when
the judge arrives in San Francisco, he is
served with process of arrest, as accessory to
| the shooting of the assaulting marauder,
| and Is permitted to hold United States
court, only by sufferance of underling State
l officials.
This il the mirror in which the people are
| now viewing the evidence of falling govern
! ment or no governments at all-and while its
President is off on vacation, and the Attorney
| General, though at his post, is powerless to
protect United States Marshal or even a
| judge of the highest court in the land, who
ia travelling to and holding court on the Pa
cifc coast, and while the assassinations OF
| two Presidents arc narrowing the law abiding
citizens of the creates nation on earth.
| While this high treason is going on in the
West, we, here In the East, are dazing oul
eyes upon the destruction of the only world.
renowned Greoian-Dorio temple of legisla-
ton in New England, 200 feet long, so feet
| wide, and nearly or quite rs feet high,
contrary to the balloted order of
the people, advised to the court
of Common Council, who, instead of repair
ing the building at cost less than $50, 600
as they voted they would do-and appointed
q special committee to do the work-come tc
q hault-and order it down, without &C
much as repeating their own previous orders
to repair, or discharging their committee to
do this work or even submitting their order
| to destroy, to a committee for consideration
"a recommitting the case to the people
and all this when, by a careful examination
of the historical and legal facts, 1t would b.
shown, that this great building was Jointly
built by the state, and the county who legal.
ly own it now, and that the city of New Ha
ven had not legal title to, and had not one
dollar of interest, as will be shown in the
structure they are now pulling down, what
nextl
j b. Moves