Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-01-18
RAILS AT DESPOTISM
Governor AItgeId Says We Are a
Republic in Name Only.
CORPORATIONS MUST BE TAXED
He Scores the Use of Federal Troops and
Says Labor Is Fast Becoming
slavery.

Springfield, ILL.,. Jan. 10.--The bien-
NAL message of Governor Altgeld was
delivered to the legislature today, and
contains nearly 10000 words, devoted
mainly to state institutions and rocom-
mendations. He asks if it would not
be well to abolish the death penalty
The governor calls attention to the po-
lice and justice courts in Chicago
which he declares are disgrace. He
urges legislation looking to proper tax
| alton of corporations. and says the state
board of equalization is a failure and
| should be abolished.
Taking up the question of the great
strikes, the governor says the placing
of United States troops on duty in Chi
| cago under conditions that existed pre-
| sents question of far-reaching i'm
portance. The old doctrine of state
rights is in no way involved. The
great civil war settled that we should
not have anarchy. 1t remainst to be
settled whether we shall be destroyed
by despotism. If the president can at
his pleasure send troops into our cities
under the pretence Of enforcing some
law, his judgment being the sole cri-
terion, there is no difference between
the powers of the president and those
of Emperor William or the car of Rus
STA, and our career as republic is
over. The governor says the usurpation
of power on the part of the federal
judiciary has assumed "A form where 1t
is destroying the foundation Of the re-
publican form of government.
Speaking of railroads and recent
strike the governor says: Never be-
fore We're the government and corpora
tons of the country so completely
blended, and never before was the god
less of justice made more of a hand
maid for one of the combatants. If
the attorney general did not outline
ana advise the policy that was pursued
IL received his approval and was car
| ried out by his assistance The federal
courts have been the special guardians
II corporations and combinations and
seem determined to crush labor organ
izations. In recent years the constitu-
D lion seems to have become an insur-
| mountable barrier to every measure
e | intended for the protection of the pub
= lie, while it's most plainly expressed
!, | provisions for the protection of liberty
+ and personal rights of the citizens are
: blown away with a breath. This sub
| serviency on the part of federal judici-
" airy when dealing with men who have
d to earn their bread by the sweat oil
g their brow is not calculated to produce
respect for the law or its machinery
% II these conditions are continued tn,
a fate of American labor Is sealed. Rus
- sianizing the government Is an expen
= sive business and has never yet sue
ceeded, not even in Russia. Our gov
ernment is not in the slightest DANCE
. from anarchy or mob. Our DANCE
y comes from the corruption usurpation
insolence and oppression that go han
II in hand with vast concentrations O
s. wealth welded by INSCRIPTIONS mer
ne and it behooves every friend of reput
In lican institutions to give these thing
n their most serious consideration
BUDD DECLARED GOVERNOR.
20 Sacramento, Jan. 10.-The legislator
ts this morning unanimously adopted
concurrent resolution fixing noon te
a morrow for the inauguration of Cover
nor-elect Budd Lieutenant Governe
Reddck called the joint assembly
"a order The vote by counties for GOV
III ernor was read without objection SHOW
ing Budds plurality to be 1,2O6. Bud
us was then declared elected amid lou