The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10
Let shysterg OuibbIe- Act!

attachment proceedings for contempt, rem
dered last Monday, can have surprised no.
body. In the language Of Judge Rioks,
held to the men two weeks before, the
order of the court was issued latter due
consideration, with the full knowledge OF
it's scope and possible consequences, and
with the firm purpose to enforce it." The
decision Of last Monday was foregOne
conclusion.
Il were a silly waste of time to disseCt
Ehis decision, every conclusion Of which
wrenChes reason away. For all this it is
eminently logical.
That a court should, at one time, when
railroad corporation fails to run it's cars
as required by it's charter, strike being
on, declare the corporation cannot be held
to do an impossibility, and therefore should
not be held to have forfeited it's charter,
although il is perfectly able to perform the
"impossibility if il only paid it's men
living wsges--and then turn around and
declare the employees are bound to operate
road although they have no contract with
the government binding them to do so;
that court should, at one time, hold a
railroad TO be private affair to be run as
suits owners-and then turn around and de-
clare that the employees Of such private
concern are public servants bound TO cater
to the "public;" that a court should, at one
time, when passing judgment on railroad
or other corporation declare that penal
clauses must be construed " literally" and
crime may not be "implied "-and then
turn around, when passing Judgment on
the employees of such roads and corpora
tions, not only imply duties, and therefrom
imply crimes, but furthermore imply addl-
tiOnal duties from implied ones, and thus
imply further crime-all this may seem con-
tradiCtory, and no doubt 1t is in one sense,
and may offer prime opportunities for shys-
ters to quibble, but in the truest sense il is
perfectly consistent.
So long as the social system divides
society into explOiters and exploited, into
enjoying idlers and suffering tcilers, GLASS
Justice and class law are necessary results,
and one-sidedness will ever characterize
the conduct Of government, whether dem
ocratic or republican, acting in all cases,
regardless of the facts, in the interest Of the
ruling, the enjoying idle GLASS.
The capitalist lass of enjoying idlers
and the working class of suffering toilers
are the two camps that divide our modern
social system. Accordingly, class Justice
and one sided reason mark the conduct Of
the government of to-day. There is no in
consistenOe in that, the inoonnstence lies
with those who would have il otherwise,
who would swallow stryohnine and expect
to grow strong, who would plant a thistle
and expect to Gull apples for their pains.
The working GLASS of the United States
holds the government in the hollow of it's
hand, and, with the government, oivilizs-
tioh itself. It has il in its power to over
throw the rule of the capitalist class, TO put
an end to explorations, to extinguish the
GLASSES, and to establish popular freedom.
So long as il Rbstains from fulfilling it's
duty, it has no one TO blame but itself for
the wrongs it suffers, and the oontradic-
tion under which it is made to groan.
Let Shysters quibble over law and preoe-
dents that are; but let the working class
act. Let il make haste and snow under an
avalanche Of votes the criminal class that
oppresses the people; let Is take the law
making power into its own hands, the rest
viii follow. Let all its efforts, it's energy,
its funds be expended in that direction.
Time passes, it may soon be too lste.-The
People, April 9.
HON Thav Won't Roilrood Tao5olotion