Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-05-09
Republican County Tickle.
NAME.

thoritics and act under their direction.
but the Federal troops ordered to Chi.
cagO last summer did not net under
any civil officer whether Federal or
state. They did not act under the
United States Marshal, but directly I'm.
der orders from military headquarters
at Washington. and were subject only
to those orders. 40 far as they acte.
mt all, 1t was military government.
Local self.government is the very fOun.
dalton Of freedom and of republican In.
stitutiOns, and no people possess this
who are subject to have the army
patrol their streets and Interfere In the
Affairs Of government, acting not I'm.
der but independently Of the local nu.
thOrities. and do this mt the mere dis.
erection OF one man. or Of central
power that Ii far away. Such local
self-gOvcrnmcnt as would be possible
under these conditions may be found
all over Russia. We grew great and
powerful and won the admiration Of
the world while proceeding under a
diffrent form Of government. AMI II we
are to go on In the same line. then the
American people must arrest ana re-
buke this Federal usurpntiOn. In all
history no power possessed by govern
ment was ever allowed to lie dormant
long. Either the man or the class soon
nj mn asn1 ss.ls f,s ALI
proceeded to exercise II. lf the nets of
the President are to stand unchal.
lenged and thus form precedent. then
We have undergone a complete change
In our form Of government. and what.
ever semblance we may Keep up In the
future. our career as n republic IL over.
We will have u rapidly increasing cen.
trnl power controlled and dominated
by class and by corporate interests.
Holding these views and knowing that
the law had been enforced, property
protected. ana order maintained for u
whole century by Constitutional agen.
Giles, ana feeling that the mighty state
Of Illinois needed neither assistance
nor Interference from any outside
source. I considered II my duty. as the
Executive Of the State. to protest
against the presence Of Federal troops
under the existing circumstances. ana
requested their withdrawal. and !
herewith submit the correspondence
upon that subject.
1t In a matter Of special regret to
many Of our patriotic citizens That this
blow mt free institutions should have
been struck by a President who was
placed In power by a party that had
made local self-gOvernment a cardinal
principle for more than a century. IT
was a stabbing Of republican institu-
lions and n betrayal Of democratic
principles.
Anarchy and the Preservation Of
Government.
The marked feature Of this age has
been consolidation. The large concerns
swallowing the small ones or destroy.
Ing them. This done. the large ones
formed trusts. thus destroying all com.
petition rs to the public and M to labor.
They arbitrarily fix the prices Of goods
on the one hand, and the rate Of wages
on the other, and neither the public
nor the labOrer has any remedy. The
one IL compelled to pay what Ia asked,
for necessity II ut Its throat; the other
Ii compelled to accept what In offered.
for hunger IL In his home. The Scotch
brigands never had more effective
weapons. The amassing Of millions
under these conditions IL an easy nlar.
ter; and as they grow more powerful.
these trusts get beyond the control Of
the Government. Prompted by the
instinct Of self-preservatlOn, the labor.
form combinations. They see that
standing alone as individuals In the
presence Of the mighty combination
Of capital, they will be ground to atoms.
That unless they can meet combination
with combination. they ana their chill
dren must soon he reduced to abject
poverty ana hopeless slavery, differing
from American slavery In this. that
while the African had a master who
had to feed ana In the end to bury him,
the white slave will have only Il master
to take his earnings. Now the men
who formed the great cOmbina tiOns of
capital are opposed to cOmbina lions
among labOrers. ana the Federal courts
that have been the special guardians OF
corpora lions ana cOmbina lions seem to
he determined to crush labor Organi.
cations. Some of these judges, not
being content with their decisions, dlu z
their ermines over the land to preach
against united action by the tOilers. In
recent years, the Constitution seems to
have become IN insurmOuntab BILE
barrier to every measure In
tended for the protection OF
the public, while Its most plainly en-
pressed provisions for the protection of
the liberty and the personal rights of
the citizen are blown away with mere
breath. This subserviency on the part
Of the Federal judiciary when dealing
with powerful corpora tiOns followed by
usurpatlOn of power, ana the assump-
ton Of an awful dignity when dealing
with the men who have to earn their
bread by the sweat of their brOws, Is
not calculated to create respect for
either the law or Its machinery, and
does tend to create unrest among our
people, for 1t Is the height of folly TO
imagine that the people do not under
stand the character OF these acts. At
present the status seems to he this: