The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-31

organized resistance offered. To guard
private property is the official duty Of mo-
body In the state. The laws stand guard
over all property alike, and trespasses
and wrongs are for the courts to deal
with, and force is to be used only In aid
ing the courts to execute their ordinary
processes. The governors epIstles speak
much of "lswlessness" and "vlolence;"
but no one seems to have resisted arrest
for any such lawlessness or violence.
Why, then, were no "rioters" arrested
and punished? Nonsensel The militia
was called out for the sole pur-
pose of giving the Santa Fe company
abundant means to master all opposi-
tion." Not the laws of Kansas, but the
DEGREES Of railroad officials, were the laws
to be enforced by Anthony's "troops"
But what matter? He thus concludes
his message to the legislature, and sllences
all obiectorS as sympsthizers with "an-
archY:"
Iassumed che responsibility Of meeting con-
Certed lawlessnesS aud organized crime with the
means at my command for chat purpose. If the
facts, as you find them Of record did not justify
the use Of such means, 1t was an error for which
no apology is due, for 1t was an error In the In
terest Of law, and against anarchy. Message,
page SO)
To trample upon the bill of rights writ
ten In the blood of freemen struggling
against arbitrary power with an army to
make 1t supreme-this Is no crime, but
only an "error" And when to enable q
corporation to crush a labor organiza-
ton, it is ian error for which no apology
is DUE" for it Is Sin the interest of law,
and against anarchy"
/ have said nothing Of the action of the
governor In calling out troops when no
appropriation had been made by the leg
islature, and allowing them to depend for
pay and subsistence upon the corporation
TO which their command was virtually
surrendered, thus clothing corporation
with the highest sovereign power-"the
last argument of kings" Waving the
point that, were such action lawful in the
governor, whosoever could pay for 1t
might have military power over the peo-
pie, in defiance of the legislature, sObtIe
strikers might, t0ith perfect impuNjty,
destroy the property of any employer not
able to pay for an army for has privats
use; the veriest tyro should understand
that 1t Is the prerogative Of the legisls-
ture to say whether military power shall
be used at all within the state, and that
this prerogstive is exercised by granting
or refusing an appropriation to be placed
at the disposal of the governor; that
when no appropriation has been made
for military purposes, no military force
exists for the governor to cali out for any
purpose. Though the governor holds the
sword, the legislature holds the purse;
and until the people see proper to open
the purse, the sword must remain in It's
scabbard unused. To receive funds In
such case from private sources, and put
a military force in the field though the
people have withheld an appropriation,
Is high crime for which even presl
dent might be impeached, much more
the governor of a state. have omitted
the proclamation which, In time of pro-
found peace, with the courts open as
usual, actually placed the streets Of To
peks in the vicinity Of the Santa Fe