The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-03

I Springfield, ILL.,, June 2.-Governor John
p. Altgeld is of the belief that the
Supreme Court of the United States has
established dangerous precedent in re-
handing Eugene V. Debs and his A R.
l. associates to jail. He expressed him
self in a very caustic nEaner today re-
garding the decision, and accuses tie
courts Of trampling on the rights of
the people and being the tool of mon
opoly. He gives his views for publica-
ton in a signed article, in which he says,
in part:
This decision marks a turning point
in our history, for it establishes a new
form of government that is, government
by injunction The provisions of the
Constitution that no man shall be de-
prived of his liberty without trial by
an impartial jury, is practically wiped
out by this decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States, and the
theory that ours is a government of law
is now at an end, for every community
is now subject to any whim or caprice
which any federal judge may promul-
gate, and if federal judges can do this,
then it will not be long before state
judges will follow this example For
over a century our government moved
along the lines of the Constitution, and
we became great and powerful. Life and
property were protected, and the law
was enforced. Now we have made a de-
parture; the bulwark of liberty has been
undermined; trial by jury has been
stricken down.
Packed Supreme Court.
For a. number of years it has been re-
marked that the decisions of the United
vor of the corporations. Then it was no
ticed that no man could be appointed
to a federal judgship unless he was salts
factory to those interests. over a, year
ago the New York World talked about a
packed Supreme Court, and that court
has within a. few days rendered two de-
cisions which unfortunately tend to con-
firm this charge. A week ago it did Vio~
lence to the Constitution and laws of the
land, by holding that the government
had no power to tax the riches of this
country. Now it has stricken down trial
by jury and has established government
by injunction.
Forty years ago the slave power pre-
dominated; today it is capitalists. 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
fronts them is greater than was ever the
slave power.
Capital sits in the White House. and
legislates in the Capitol. The courts Of
Justice are its ministers, and legislators
are its lackeys The whole machinery
of fashionable society is its handmade.
A Brood of Evils.
Just see what a 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
industry.
"Second-The growing Of that corrupt
use of wealth which is undermining our
Institutions, debauching public officials,
shaping legislation and creating judges
who do its bidding.
''Third-The exemption of the rich from
taxation.
..Fourth-The substitution of govern
ment by injunction for government by
the Constitution as laws.
THE striking down of trial by jury.
Never has there been so much patri
otto talk as in the last twenty-five years.
and never were there so many influences
at work strangling republican institu-
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