Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-07-03
personal RIGHTS"
Judge TuIey Denounces What He Terms a
Dangerous Tendency.

Dangerous Tendency.
CHICAGO, June 30.-Ten thousand
| people assembled yesterday at the an
| nual games of the Turner societies OF
Chicago, listened to the reading OF
letter by w. II. Dyrenfurth, president
of the Personal Rights League, and ac-
dressed to the Chicago district Turner's
as members of the Personal Rights
League. 1t was from Judge Murray r.
Tuley, one of the oldest and best known
| jurists in the city, and read as follows:
Iregret that am unable to accept your
kind invitation TO be with you to-day, Dut
permit me to say, however, that am IN
hearty sympathy with the objects and pur-
poses OF your society. Iregard your organl-
cation as one Of the most important factors
In the preservation Of the libe ties OF the
people now existing in this country. The
preservation of personal rights" and the
maintenance of liberty are convertible
is deprived of his personal rights
Just to that extent is he In
slavery. Every law which directly or indi-
rectly forbids the exercise of or abridges
mans personal rights deprives him to
that extent of his liberty. When such
abridgement of personal rights is not for
the benefit of all the people, it becomes un-
danger to liberty is not so much from un-
equal or tyrannical legislation as it is from
the ignoring of written laws and the usurp-
alton by executive officers of powers and
authority not granted by the law.
Where (as in this city of ChicagO) the po-
lice arrest on bare suspicion and without
warrant persons not found in the act of Yio-
lating the laws; when the police undertake
to determine who shall aud who shall not
meet in open public assemblage to discuss
political or economic questions; when. after
a hundred years of liberty in this country,
citizen is arrested without warrant, con-
signed to a prison cell for eight long days "a
recent case in connection with a dynamite
ind at the Haymarket monumenD and is
prevented from communicating with
his friends, denied consultation with his le-
gal adviser, and is not even informed of the
nature of the accusation against him, and
when in answer to a judicial mandate the
door of his prison cell is opened and the
officers of the law required tn "show cause
why this violation of the citizens personal
rightS"-the chief executive officer of the
police makes" return" to this freemIn's writ
of"habeas corpus"that he arrested this citi-
zen upon the letter of an unknown parry"
and detained the citizen in prison while
trying to find such unknown party
a return" the like of which never be-
fore disgraced the records of a civilized
country; when "trial by newspaper is sub
stituted for illegal juries :" when "original
packages" of slander and yillifcation are
hurled at the highest court of the Nation
because of its decisions favoring personal
rights and the freedom of commerce; when
upon almost every article OF food or drink
and clothing fictitious price is made by
means of unlawful trusts and combinations,
ii Is time, / say, not only to call a halt, but
also to establish personal rights leagues"
in every school district, in every county, in
every State of this Union.
Let your organization proclaim It to be the
first Guty of every citizen to obey the law,
whether he be an official or private citi-
z n. Demand that there shall be absolute
equality of every citizen before the law
PerseVere in your opposition TO all sumptu
ary and other vicious legislation and teach
the people that if they wish TO preserY"
their liberties there must b, eternal vigil
ance" in the protection Of personal rights"