The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-11
A GREAT SPEECH.
HENRY D. LLOYD OF CHICAGO.
AT THE DEBS' RECEPTION,
Profound Thoughts Well Expressed
This the Third Great Contest
for Humanity.
Government By Injunction Is
Scored Unmercifully,
Henry D. Lloyd was introduced and

Henry D. Lloyd was introduced and
said:
All classes of the community, busi-
nessmen, professional men, stockhold-
erS of corporations, as we'll as work
ingmen, are represented in this meet
ing to welcome Eugene V. Debs back
to liberty. Mr.. Debs has received
2,0CO invitations to deliver public ad-
dresses before all kinds Of bodies, from
trade unions to political gatherings
and literary societies. He has del
uge of letters from all sorts and con-
ditions Of men-eminent jurists, labor
leaders, farmers. capitalists and
statesmen. Tributes of sympathy
and encouragement come to him from
all parts Of the country, and from
every element of the people.
First, the people greet Debs because
he was the leader of a sympathetic
strike. Americans cannot forget that
America is free from Great Britain be-
cause France ordered sympathetic
strike. The negro is free because of
the sympathetic strike of the north.
What greater love hath any man than
this that he lay down his life for his
friend? The sympathetic strike in a
good cause is orthodox Christianity in
action.
Second, this outpouring in honor Of
Debs, greets him also because he is
the martyr of government by injunc-
tion, the most dangerous tyranny
that ever threatened the freedom Of
the public. [Applause.]
The American people have wit
enough to know that these precedents
of government by injunction. instead
OF trial by jury; of law made by proc
lamation instead of legislation, of
punishment at the mercy of a
Judges sour temper or sour stomach,
are precedents which will not stop
where they begin-with the working
men. II government by injunction
lasts, the right of anyone-capitalist,
laborer, Republican, Democrat, Popu-
list, farmer-can be destroyed at the
happens to have judges in Office.
Under the decision of the United
States supreme court, refusing Debs
the right Of trial, all that is necessary
to justify government by INDUCTION is
an affidavit by any unknown person
that he believes the country is going
TO the "demnition bow-vows.' That
is all the evidence the judges need
for putting the country under worse
than martial law. That was all there
was in the DebS caSe-an affidavit full
of hysterical lies by a man no one ever
heard of before Or since.
Under the government by injunc-
tion any Judge can accuse any person
of high crime by the device of enioin-
cusat ton by the Judge is the same
thing as condemnation, for the judge
| on any kind Of evidence whatever, ,and
without trial by jury, can find the ac-
cuSed guilty and sentence him to pay
any fine even to his last dollar, and
imprSon him for any term even to
the last year of his life. Government
by Injunction, like most bad things.
grows fast. In Massachusetts and
New York judges have got to issuing
injunctions forbidding workingmen
from stopping work or walking pand
down the street in front Of their en-
plOyer's places OF business.
Government by Injunction means
that d judge may at will crowd the
people into position, where they
must be all either slaves or criminals.
[Applause.l Slaves if they obey him,
criminals ii they obey Magma Charta,
the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution of the United States
DebS and his six heroic associates, in
nocent of any offense known to the
laws. without legal notice that what
they were doing was forbidden by the
| judges, without notice from any pro-
vision of the constitution or statute
Of the Legislature. without indict-
ment, without trial by jury of their
peers, without haLeas corpus. were de-
prived OF liberty and property, and
| for many months OF life. They were
denied the right to Oappeal. The right
| of a judge to punish as he will for
| cOnte mpt Of court within his baili-
wick is the choicest prerogative of his
office, and any other Judge who inter
fered with it would be looked upon by
| all his associates on the bench as a
''scab."
VICTIM OF JUDICIAL LAW.
| If DebS were the least and worst Of
us all, instead of being the generous
ell tiluSIdSC lie is IOr humanity, UnlS
outrage upon his-and our-citizen-
ship ought to be enough to call to his
side every soul fit to be free. The
most popular man among the real
people to-day is Debs, the victim of
judicial lynch law, the repudiator Of
contempt OF court as substitute for
the Constitution Of the United States,
and of Gatling guns as the harmon
izer of labor and capital. the first re-
bel against government by injunc-
tion. [Cheers. 1t is not disgrace
to these men to have been in prison.
| The bird Of freedom has always been
a jail-bird. In all great crises the
| place to look for the reedeemers Of
the race is not in the palaces Of reli-
gion or the palaces of justice, but in
the prison cells or on the road there
to. Moses had to flee from the Egyp-
tians. Socrates died in cell. Christ