The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-06-03
ONCE MORE HISMOUTH
Altgeld Works it In Comment On This
COuntry's Courts.
HE'S TALKING FOR PLACE
Debs Is Injured BY the Blatant
Babble of the Illinois Gov
ernor Who Put His RAN
dom Rot In Print.

Springfield, Ill. June Gov. John
p. Altgeld is of the belief that the su-
preme court of the United States has
established a dangerous precedent in
remanding Eugene V. Debs and his A.
r. u. associates to Jail. He expressed
himself in a very caustic manpar to-
DAY regarding the decisoion, ana ac-
cases the court of trampling on the
rights of the people and being n tool
81 monopoly. He gives his views for
publication in a signed article. in
which he says in part: This decision
marks the turning point in our history.
for IL establishes new form of gov
ernment; that is, government, by in
junction. The provision of the consti-
tuition that no man shall be deprived
of his liberty without trial by an inn
partial jury is practically wiped out
by this decision of the supreme court
and the theory that ours is a govern
ment of law is now at an end. for ev-
cry community is now subject to any
whim or caprice which any federal
judge may promulgate. and If federal
judges can do this. then it will not be
long until state judges will follow this
example.
For more than a century our gov
ernment moved along the lines of the
constitution. and we became great and
powerful life and property were pro-
tected. and the law was enforced. Now
we have made a departure; the bull
wark of liberty has been undermined; !;
trial by jury has been stricken down.
For number of years IL has been re-
marked that the decision of the United
States supreme courts were nearly al
ways in favor of corporations. Then
it was noticed that no man could be
appointed to a federal judgeship un-
less he was satisfactory to those in
terests.
More than a year ago the New York
World talked about the packed su-
supreme court, and the court has with
in a few days rendered two decisions
which unfortunately tend TO confirm
these charges. A week ago II did vio-
lence to the constitution and the laws
of the land by holding that the govern
ment had no power TO tax riches in
the country; nov ii has stricken down
trial by jury and has established gov
ernment by Injunction Forty years
ago slave power predominated: today
IL is capital The American people
crushed the slave power and saved our
institutions. Can they rescue them
again? Many say yes. but they have
not reflected that the case Of the
crushing force which now confronts
them is greater than ii was in slave
power. Capital sits i'm the white house
and in the state capitol Courts of JUS
tice are its ministers and legislators
are its lackeys.
THE whole machinery of fashionable
society is its handmade. Just see what
brood of evils have sprung from the
power of CAPITALISM since 1890. First
the striking down of over one-third of
the money of the world, thus crushing
the debtor class and paralyzing indus
try; second, the growing of the corrupt
use of wealth which is undermining
our institutions, debauching public Of
ficials, shaping legislation and creating
Judges who do its bidding; third. the
exemption of the rich from taxation;
fourth. the substitution of government
by injunction for government by the
constitution; fifth, the striking down of
trial by jury. Never has there been so
much patriotic talk as in the last %
years, and never were there so many
influences at work strangling repub-
lican institutions"