The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-05

mated by business rivals and forward
ed through the fundamentally of the
United States courts, is an announce
ment to the world that America3is no
longer free; that political opposition to
! the powers that be is crime; that the
law is no longer a protection but a
menace; that the machinery of this
government can be manipulated in the
interests Of trust and at the dicta-
ton of personal malice TO crush a
nan who dares to champion the earse
of the people; in short, that liberty is
dead.
1t is no longer the case of Joseph r.
Dunlop: it is the case of every man
in the United States; ii is the case of
right against might. If liberty is to
prevail, if citizens of this country are
10 be protected in the rights guaran-
teed to them by the constitution, this
immolation of Joseph r. Dunlop as a
victim of envenemed private hate must
be accepted by the people as terri
bic exposition of what any individual
may expect to suffer hereafter Real
izing this fact, forced upon them by the
course and conduct and conclusion of
this case. the people will also realize
that there is a principle involved,
principle which, being subverted, car
ries with it the entire fabric Of con-
stitutional rights and places every
imminent and constant peril at the
hands of infamous conSpiratcrS.
For the first time in the history of
the United States have the star cham
Der of Venice and the autocracv of
Russia been outrivaled in gratifying
secret and malevclent conspii ators
through the agency of its courts. For
the first time? Yesl For the last
time? No, This triumph of personal
enmity, of corporate greed, of indvid-
ual hate bears in it the promise and
potentiality of a reign of terror of
rule of rings, of gospel of coDres-
sion, of an espionage, a denunciation
and destruction of individual rights
that will make every man a slave and
this boosted home of liberty a Kissing
and a by-word among the nations of
the earth.
The victory gained in this conflict
between one of the people and the enc
mics Of the people is not so much a
victory over Joseph r. Dunlop as it is
a triumph of plutocracy over the peo-
ple-of plutocracy which hates the peo-
pie and which has now found weapon
which it will not be slow to use against
the people. Let no man think for a
moment that Joseph r. Dunlop is the
only victim marked for destruction. Let
no man dream that this is TO be an
isolated case in the annals of injustice.
Inc precedent mas Deen eStaDISHeu.
The rights of a citizen have been over
thrown. The means through which to
crafty rage, revenge and envy have
been discovered, and henceforth no
man is safe. The people of the
United States who love liberty and
who have been proud to claim their
country as the home of liberty are not
so blind that they will fail to see what
the condemnation of Joseph r. Dunlop
means. 1t means that the press must
be muZzled; it means that the trusts
are in the saddle; 1T means that the ex-
preston of political opinions is danger
Gus; it means that success in legiti-
mate enterprises is a crime to be pun
ished With Imprisonment; it means that
the petty spite of a narrow minded
bigot may invoke the all-powerful arm
of national law to work out his re-
venge.
Can such a condition exist and the
people remain free? The question car
ries with it it's own negative. Will the
people of the United States submit
tamely to this subversion of their lib
critics? It is difficult to answer.
Mr. Dunlop will hardly cut such a
figure IN American history as John |
Wilkes and his North Britain do in
English His Star Chamber of Ven /
Ice is absolutely unique. Why was |
there no reference to the London
Bridge of Signs?