St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-06-03
ILLINOIS, ANARCHISTIC COVER
NOR CRITICIsES THE DECIS-
ION IN THE DEBS CASE.
RULING BY INJUNCTION
is WHAT HE TERMS 1T, AND DE-
CLARES IT TO BE A DANCER
Gus PRECEDENT.
HE FLAUNTs THE RED FLAG
Declares the Power of Capital
Must Be Crushed as Was the
Slave Power.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June Gov.
the United States supreme court has
established dangerous precedent in
remanding Eugene V. Debs and his
friends to JAIL He expressed himself
in a very caustic manner today re-
garding the decision; accuses the court
of trampling on the right of the people
and being tool of monopolies. He
gives his views for publication in a
signed article, in which he says in
part: This decision marks a turning
point in our history, for it establishes
new form of government never before
heard of among men, that is,
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.
''The provision of the constitution
that no man shall be deprived Of his
liberty without trial by an impartial
jury is practically wiped out by this
decision of the United States supreme
court, and the theory that ours was
exclusively a government of law is
now at AN end, for every man in the
community is now subject to any whm
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 their example
For over a century our government
moved along the lines of the consti-
tuition, and we became great and pow
erful--life and property were protect
p6 Ia
we have made a departure; the bul-
wark of liberty has been undermined;
trial by jury has been stricken down.
For number Of years it has been
remarked that the decisions of the
United States courts were nearly al
ways in favor Of corporations. Then it
was noticed that no man could be ap-
pointed to federal judgeship unless he
was satisfactory to those interests.
Over a year ago the New York World
talked about packed supreme court,
and that court has within few days
rendered two decisions which unfor-
tunately tend to confirm this charge.
A week ago it did violence to the con-
stitution and laws Of the land by hold
ing that the government had no power
to tax the rich of this country. Now
it has stricken down trial by jury,
and has established government by
Injunction
Forty years ago the slave power
predominated; today it is capitalism.
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 crushing force which now
confrontS them is greater than was
ever the slave power. Capital sits in
the White house and legislates in the
capitol. Courts of justice are it's min
listers, and legislatures are its lackeys
And the whole machinery of fashion,
able society is it's handmade. Just
see what a brood of evils have sprung
up since 1870 from the
POWER OF CAPITALISM.
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 cor
rupt use of wealth which is undermine
ing our institutions, debauching pub
lie officials, shaping legislation and
creating refugees who do it's bidding.
"Third-EXemption of the rich from
taxation.
'Fourth-The substitution of govern
ment by injunction for government
| by the constitution and laws
"Fifth-The striking down of trial
by jury.
Never was there so much patriotic
talk as in the last twenty-five years,
and never were there so many in
fiuences at work strangling Republi-
can Institutions