The representative., 1896-02-05
POWER OF CORPORATIONS.
SOME OF OUR JUDGES THEIR
HIRED ATTORNEYS.
A Prominent Citizen Has His Right Eye De-
Stroyed BY Railroad Employees and is
Denied All Remedy.
wHERE Is THIS THING TO END7

A very important case occurred the
other Gay. before Judge Segrave
Smith, OF Minneapolis, which illus
trates most strongly the evil condi-
tion of things, at this time. in this
country.
Hon. P. H. Rahilly, Of Lake City,
who is the owner Of one of the largest
farms in the state, which he culti-
Yates himself. and who has served
with honor and distinc tion in the
State Legislature, desiring to go to
Duluth, some months since, pur-
chased. In St. Pa ul, of ticket-broker,
railroad ticket Of the St. P. & Duluth
railroad company, which. Mr.. Rahilly
claims, appeared on its face to be all
right. He took his seat in the car, of
the train, and when the conductor
came around handed him his ticket.
The conductor said it was not good,
and retained the ticket and demand
ed his fare. Mr.. Rahilly said:-''give
me back that tjckct;-I bought it and
paid for it, and it is my property; and
/ will then pay my fare" Mr..
Rahilly's object, in demanding the
ticket. was to collect back the money
he had paid, in St. Paul, to the ticket
broker, and he could not do this with
out he rendered the ticket. The con-
ductor refused to deliver up the
ticket, and assisted by the brakesmen
foIl T. l,o
Mr.. Rahilly swears:-'they pounced
on me like tigers, and we're bolster
Gus, arrogant and overbearing in
their movements, and exercised great
indignity toward nae.
They dragged me over the seats and
dc not know what they did not do to
me; was black and blue when l left
the train; it occasioned immediate
hemmorhage Of the bowels" He had
pain in his head about the right
eye. which became at once inflamed
and soon after went totally blind.
One would think that, II there was
any law or liberty left in the land, the
railroad company should have been
mulcted in thousands of dollars dam
| ages. What sum would Judge SIN ith
take as the price of his right eye? But
instead Of that he is turned out of
court without penny, to pay his
costs and his doctors bills
The charge of Judge Smith might
! just as we'll have been delivered by
| the defendants counsel. It is mass
of special pleading from beginning to
end. He even argues that it does not
follow because the plaintiff went into
the car, with both his eyes in perfect
with the loss Of an eye, that the loss
Of the eye resulted from the treat
| ment he received!
Why did he not rule, in the Hayward
case, that there had been no murder
proved, because no witness saw the
bullet pass from Blixt's pistol into
Miss Gings Lead? 1t might have
gone off on tangent, and disappeared
up the next alley!
But Judge Smith owes his place on
the bench to the power Of the corpo-
rations, and he has been their friend
ever since they set up their authority
in Minnesota We we'll remember how,
years ago, when we had been nomin-
ated by the eAntiMonopolists, and en-
dorsed by the Democrats Of Dakota
county, for State Senator, he gave up
the place Of County Attorney, worth
81, 200 year. and bolted;we had ter
rife canvass, with him through mud
and snow; he following us up and
speaking at every point we spoke at.
1t is we'll understood he did this at
the demand of the Milwaukee Rail-
road Company.
| He was beaten; and left the coun-
ty; and came to Minneapolis: and he
is here now to drive prominent and
honorable citizen out of his court, by
a charge which compelled the jury to
find against him.
Why did he not tell that jury that
while the railroad company might re.
fuse to accept the ticket they had no
right to contiscate the property OF an
other,in contravention of the cOnstitu
tion Of the U. S., which provides, (V
Amendment), that no person "shall
be deprived of life, liberty or property
without due process of law" There
can be no question that that ticket.
whether transferable or not, by the
company's rules, was Mr.. Rahilly's
property; he had bought it and paid
for it; and certainly ''due process Of
law does not consist in a gang Of
brutal employees, Of railroad COM
pany, jumping upon a passenger a
man advanced in years, and dragg ing
him over the seats Of car, and beat
ing him black and blue, and destroy
ing the sight of one Of his eyes. And
even If it is pretended that the
ticket, after it was bought by the
original purchaser, had been stolen
from him. and sold to the ticket-broker
who sold it to Mr.. Rahilly. that would
not entitle the Railroad Company to
seize upon it and confiscate it. The
man they sold it to might have some
such right, but surely not the COM
pany, which, for a money considera-
tion, had parted with all their inter
est in it. If A sells B horse. and e
| steals it, and sells it to ID. who in turn