The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-10-16


complish wonders, l hope to do some
thing besides iscolding. Yours truly,
J. M. BOWLER,
Bird Island, Mimi, Oct. H..
Ell Ri ET
A REMARKARLE LETTER.
THE LAWYER AS A LEGISLATOR AND
AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
Editor Representative:
The business men Of the United States
do not seem to recalize the fact that there
never yet has been a president of the
United States taken from the CONNER
cial world of labor, from the rank or
file of industry and commerce.
Never as yet have we as great indus
trial nation fully realized the significant
fact that up to date, every "Chief Ex-
ecutive' of these United States has
either been a member of the legal pro-
fession of a man educated and trained to
be a mental automatic military machine
In every executive board Of councillors
called a cabinet each and all of the mem.
bers have been lawyers.
Look into the United States senate COM
posed as it IS of millionaire lawyers; then
at the house of representatives, two thirds
OF which are members of legal profess
siOn
The lawyers wealth and business har-
vest is obtained through litigation; the
Quarrels of families, and crimes of the
people, the financial ruin of the nations,
international industrial enterprises the
consequent distress and misery Of the
daily wage earners. Let the nation be
prosperous, all industrial enterprises in
full operation, the people, the wage-earn-
ers content with his employer and happX
with his family at peace with himself and
all the rest of the world, the lawyers Oc-
cupaton IS gone; he has no practice. The
court rooms are silent and deserted, the
standing army cannot recruit, pr fill up
it's ranks. And why?
Because there can be no war, no riots,
no strikers among an industrial, pros
porous and happy nation of well paid
busy laborers.
We had no restless, idle, moving army
of street loafers, charity-kept "tramps,"
and society "dead-beats'' until the re-
sumption of specie payments weighed
down and destroyed industrial competi-
ton; at the same time broke the back
bone of individual energy and enterprise
with the crafty legal destruction of the
national green back, the farmers? and
Wage-earners financial system of cur
rency.
The root of the evils which Cypress us,
as an industrial race and shouldbe free
independent self-governed and great ma
ton, and which is the underlying cause
of our national industrial ruin, financial
distress and commercial inactivity to-
day, is the life-term in office Of the fed
eral judges, and the unconstitutional, il
legal, national standing army, the West
Point life class of officers.
The national constitution making no
provision for a federal army, officers and
men. The standing army of men and
officers must be taken and appointed from
the militia of the several states; and can
only hold Office, be used as officers and
soldiers "two years." (See Federal Con-
stitution, Article 1, Section 8, par II and
14D Thus the standing-or regular army
with it's official life term commission is
a direct violation of the Federal consti-
tuition, as well as of all the principles of
q -6OVSl uCu pCOplC duu 1CpuUllC.
Having life term in office of Federal
judges places in our governmental sys-
TEN class of privileged aristocrats, who,
as matter of course, must have a regular
army to uphold and defend their arts
tocratical pretences and assumption of
legal judicial infallibility; any one of
these Federal judges can, as in the case
of Circuit Court Judge James G. Jenkins,
commit the infamous crime of bank
wrecking, be arrested on criminal war
rant and still sit in the high temple of
national judicial honor, disposing what
is called Justice" Under the Indictment
deed peual bonds of thief, an embez-
zler of the peoples money, a publicly
branded criminal.
If these Federal judicial positions were
elective, not as they now are appontive,
this parody on justice could not be; for
the people who build up the state jude
ial bench could and would tear down the
judicial throne, dispense with services of
such corrupt and mentally debauched
men as Judge Jenkins.
The solution Of our present and past in
dustrial distress and commercial difficult
ties cannot be found in tariff tinkering,
hurting enathamas at our political adver-
saries, or in changing the federal consti-
tuition regarding the election of United
States senator's; for this tariff cry and
legislative measure, has been, and is be-
ing placed before the people, the business
men and voting citizen, to throw dust
into the eyes of the wage-employ.ng in
dustrial world and blind the wage-earner
the great voting majority, cover up the
underlying source of the evils existing in
the United States senate and national de-
partment of finance, the treasury and
congress.
To remedy these rapidly growing evils
of legislative as well as judicial corrup-
ton, industrial chaos and disorders, re-
store peace, law and order, we must re-
model the Federal judicial system, by not
only looking carefully into the constitu-
tionality of all the legislative acts Great
ing and keeping up the military school
at West Point, and retaining at great un-
necessary expense regular army of uni
formed automatons, or life-destrOying
living machines, but by amending the
constitution so as to take away the APP
pointive power from the president and
place it where it legitimately belongs in
the hands of the people. under the control
and jurisdiction of the wide-awake vot-
ing citizens of the United States.
]. H. C.
A FARMERS VIEWS.