Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-31
Guaranteed Rights oil American Gill,
zsDs ara Made a Crime.
PEOPLE CALLED UPON no ARM.
Arr.ixnmant ofthe Nations Judieiary
New Good Friday Proposed I'm
bar Convention - An luminous
scene.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3l.-The delegates
10 the convention OF labor leaders
were allow In assembling this morning.
The delay was cue to the comm ittee
on resolutions, which sent word that
It wse not ready to report. The COM
mlttse had been In session almost con-
linuously since 5 O'Clock yesterday and
al 8 O'Clock this morning had not com.
pleted the plan OF action. The com.
mittee at midnight had practically
agreed upon recommending owner.
ship OF mine land rights. "But," ne
one OF them remarked then, "tbere
is no telling what they will do with
that idea before morning."
Oue OF the members OF the commit
tee fsvors a committs. with pleua'y
power to appoipta general committee
OF one from each state and t, call q
national convention In western
state In case the miners end operators
fail to come together anu settle their
difference.
Al 10 O'Clock the committee on reso-
IullOuh ultu lhtu the Htil anu NeI =
gates we're called to oruer to hear lis
report.
Mr.. Bergen, presenting the resolu.
TORS, spoke OF the great task the o0m-
miuee had before 1t. He ssid the
report about to be submitted was the
best the committee could do under the
eircumsi aDces. Whether 1t would
suit. was the question. The platform
npfeseDtad Z, ads:
DENoUNCEs THE JUDICIARY.
"rhe fear of the more watchful
fA,asfs Of the Republic has been Iusti-
Asc. The judiciary has become
Supreme, We witness political
phenomenon absolutely now in the
history OF tho world; q republic pros.
trsts ut The feet Of Judges appointed to
administer the lave. They aoknowi.
edge no superior on earth. anu their
despotlo u.eus recall Milton's warning
10 his cOuntrymsD: who bids man
rule over him ab,ve law, may bid nj
well savage BEAST
"Under tue cunning form OF iDjuno.
uiht, courts have assumed to enact
criminal laws and, after thus drawing
TO themselves the power OF legislation,
have repealed the bill OF rights anu
revolutionisl court made laws have
denied the accused the right OF trial
by jury.
"fhe exercise OF the com IN nsst
rights OF iIeemsn, the right OF assem-
bly,, the right OF Tree speech, the right
oil travelling the public Highways
have by legislation, under the form OF
ib]unctionsi been made crime aud
armed forcss disperse AS mobs people
DARING In company TO exercise those
rights. Al its list term the Supreme
court OF the United States decided that
The thirteenth amen dment, fOrbidding
Involuntary servitude,' Is not violated
by Afresting q seaman, imprls0ning
him I'LL his vessel is ready TO leave
port and then iorcibIy putting him Oh
board to serve out the term of HE
CONTRACT q decision unuer which
the old fugitive slave laws may
yet be revived and striking laborers
Dc seized and returned to the service
Of their masters. Having drawn to
themselves all the powers of the fed
eIal government until congresses and
Presidents may act only by judicial
permission, the fejeraI JUDGES have
begun the sutjugstion OF sovereign
Natee, 30 that uDless q cheek 10 soon
put upon the progress Of usurpstion, In
bshort ume no government bus the
ABSOLUTE usspotism Of federal Judges
WIZ exist anyw here over any portion
u American soil. Tae pending strike
" coal miners starved 10 feebleu ess by
.neir toant wages Tor arduousand dan.
setous Toll; the pesdin ing strike for the
ugul 10 Dc led enough 10 make labor
possible, has been prolific OF Judicial
u,utpsuOn, showing the Willingness
VI lulicisl despote u resort t0 the
most shameless defiance OF decency.
Wen as OF laws anu humanity, in
4 otu'f to enable h, attles, avsrioe to
aIi'e lis hungry seris back 10 the mine
ls'nt and die at their drudgery; and
mere remains to-day not one guaran-
wen night OF American cilizsns the
Aelolse oil which an injunction has
D' aOlnew here made crime starte1
Il ~ THESE suDversions OF constitutional
noehy. We have met to counsel to. |
sesner and have come to the following
n conclusions:
EREEDoM Is A SHAM.
"Wheress, Toe present strike Of the
soai miners has again demo nstrated tue |
act that our so-callod freedom IL o |
sham, under which mil |
"DnA are uegenerstipg, while hundreds
'uousanus-meD, women nnd ehii- |
aeL-RIe Starving In novels ana on
9s Public highway.
NheTeaS, the condition has become
msnent Tor large and ever.iDcr
k numbers OF our population, rs long
1--WE permit comparatively small
Ns's oil leRaliztd exol0it,rs 10 monOpo'
M me means OF prod ctiou aud dit
s.unon OF their private benehI-i
sa again obvious In tie case OF the
hnets.
whereas, sppeals to Congress and
"seouIts Ter rsIist are fruitisss. since