The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-10

arrests 'sfor contempt of court" made
under these injunctions, aud of the. fact
that the federal government. in spite OF
having at hand in Chicago the COM
plete machinery of justice, found it nee
essary to retain another attorney, and he
an employe of one of the railroads in
volved in the strike, and adds: Never be-
fore were the United States govern
ment and the corporations of the
country 80 completely blended,
and never before was the goddess
of Justice made mere handmade for one
of the com mbatants- 1t is evident that if
the attorney general of the United States
did not outline and advise the policy
that was pursued, it received his ap
proval and was carried on through his
assistance.
Scores Federal Judges.
"When the interstate commerce law
was taken into court by the railroads a
few days ago. these same federal judges
proceeded TO hold section after section to
be unconstitutional until they had the
law made as harmless as a
dead rabbit Then after having
nullihed an act of congress, in
tended for the protection of the
people, they turned around and made of
il club with which TO break the backs
of the men who toll with their hands.
experience are to be disregarded and-the
federal courts permitted to ses up and
form a new government, it would be
equally proper for the state courts to do
so, and we shall soon have government
by injunction from head to toe. All
affairs will be regulated, not by law, but
by the personal pleasure, prejudice Or
caprice of the multitude of judges"
"The marked feature of the age" says
ha kbo A.
grow more powerful these trnsts get be-
yond the control of the government
| Prompted by the instinct of self-preserva-
tiOn the laborer5 of the country are trying
to form com binations. Trust magnates
are opposed to this, and the federal courts
| that have been the special guardians
! of corporations and combinations
seem determined to crush labor organ
! izations. In recent years the constltu-
| ton seems to have become an insur-
mountable barrier to every measure in
tended for the protection of the public,
while its most plainly expressed pro-
visions for the protection of the liberty
and the personal rights of the citizens
| are blown away with a breath.
This subserviency the part of
the federal judiciary when dealing
with corporations, followed by usur-
patton of power when dealing with
sweat of their brow, is not calculated to
produce respect for the law, or its ma
chinery. If these conditions are to con-
tinue the fate of the American laborer is
sealed.
American Market Will Disappear.
He must be reduced to lowest condi-
tions of existence and must de-
stroy that very. capital which
is now pushing him down, for with
the destruction of the purchasing power
of the American laborer will disappear
our great American market Further.
this process must produce discomfort
disturbance and hatred, and will greatly
increase the expense OF government and
consequently taxes. Russianizing a gov
ernment is an expensive business and
has never yet &succeeded-not even in
Russia.
"Our government is not in the slight
est danger from the anarchy of mob
Our danger comes from that corruption
usurpation. insolvence and oppression
that go hand in hand with vast concen-
tration of wealth, welded by unscrupu
lous men, and it behooves every friend oi
republican institutions to give these
things most serious consideration"