St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-30
Judge Tuley Sends a Remark
able Letter to the Chicago
Turner Societies.
The Abridgement Of Personal
Rights the Subject OF
His Epistle.
Usurpation Of Power by Ex-
ecutive officers the Chief
Danger.
The Judge Wants Personal
Rights Leagues in Every
School District.

CHICAGO, June 29.-Ten thousand
people, assembled to-day at the annual
games of the turner societies of Chicago,
listened to letter which aroused de-
cided interest. 1t was from Judge MUIR
ray F. Tuley, one OF the oldest and best
known jurists in the city. The letter
was read by w. 81. Dyrenfurth, the
president of the Personal Rights league.
and was addressed to the Chicago dis
trict turner's as members of the Personal
Rights league, and read as follows: 81
regret that l am unable to accept your
kind invitation to be with you O-day,
but permit me to say, however. that L
am in hearty sympathy with the OBJ
jects and the purposes of your society.
regard your organization as one Of
the most important factors in the pres
ervation of the liberties of the
people now existing in this country.
The preservation of personal rights"
and the maintenance of liberty" are
convertible terms. just so far as an in
dividual is deprived of his personal
rights, just to that extent is he in sla-
very. Every law which directly or in
directly forbids the exercise of. or
abridges mans personal rights" de-
prives him to that extent of his liberty.
When such abridgement of personal
rights is not for the benefit OF the Amer
ican people, it becomes
Unjust and TyrannicaI
legislation. But the danger to liberty
is not so much from unequal or tyran-
nical legislation as it is from the ignor-
ing of written laws, and the usurpation
by executive officers of powers and
authority not granted by the law.
When Gas in this city of Chicago)
the police arrest upon bare
suspicion and without warrant per-
sons not found in the act of violating
the laws; when the police undertake to
determine who shall and who shall not
meet in open public aSsemblage' to dis
cuss political or economic questions;
when, after 100 years of liberty in this
country, citizen is arrested without
warrant, consigned to a prison cell for
eight long days Ia recent case in con-
nectiOn with a dynamite find at the
Haymarket monument), prevented from
communicating with his friends. denied
the privilege Of consultation with his
legal adviser, and is not even Informed
of the nature of the accusation against
him; and when, in answer to judicial
mandate, the door of his prison cell is
opened and the officers of the law re-
quired to show cause "why this viola
ton of the citizens personal rights"
the chief executive officer OF the police
makes return" to his freeman's writ
of ''habeas corpus" that he arrested
this citizen upon the letter OF
An Unknown Party,
and detained the citizen in prison while
irving to find such unknown party-a
ssreturn' the like of which never before
disgraced the records of civilized
country-when 'trial by newspaper" is
substituted for ''trial by jury;" when
''original packages" of slander and
villification are hurled at the highest
court of the nation because of its de-
cisions favoring personal rights" aud
the freedom of commerce.; when upon
almost every article of food, of drink
and of clothing a fictitious price is made
by means of unlawful trusts and COM
binations, it is time, say, not only Ito
call halt" but also to establish per-
sonal rights leagues in every school
district. in every county, in every state
of this Union, Let your organization
proclaim 1t to De Jne nrSG
duty of every citizen to obey the law,
whether he be an official CT private
citizen. Demand that there shall be
absolute equality of every citizen be-
fore the law, in the administration of
the law and under the operation of the
law. Persevere in your opposition to
all sumptuary and other vicious legisla-
ton, and teach the people that, if they
wish to preserve their liberties, there
must be ''eternal vigilance" iu the pro-
lection of personal rights" Respect
fully. M. f. TULEY.