The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-09-01
MANY RESOLVES
Resolutions Committee of the ST.
Louis Conference Presents
Its Views.
Powers Assumed by the Courts
Should Be Speedily
Checked
To the End That They Shall Not
Become Our Absolute
Rulers.

ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 1.-The delegates to
the convention of labor leaders were
slow in assembling, and it was nearly
an hour after the time set for the meet.
ing before the body was called to order.
The delay was due to the committee on
solutions, which sent word that it was
not ready to report.
It was 10 o'clock when the committee
on resolutions filed into the hall, and
the delegates were called to order to
hear its report.
Mr. Berger, in presenting the resolu-
tions, spoke of the great task the COM
mittee had before it. He said the report
about to be submitted was the best the
committee could do under the circum-
stances; whether it would suit was the
main question. The platform as pre-.
septed reads as follows:
The Resolutions.
The fear of the more watchful fathers
Of the republic has been justified. The
judiciary has become supreme. We wit
ness political phenomenon, absolutely
new in the history of the world; a repub-
lie PROSTATE Mt the feet of the judges ap-
pointed to administer its laws They
acknowledge no superior on earth, and
their lespotic deeds recall Milton's warn-
ing to his countrymen;
"Who bids Il man rule over him above
law,
May bid as we'll a savage beast"
Under the cunning form Of injunttions
courts have assumed to enact criminal
Flaws, and after thus drawing to them
selves the power of legislation, have re-
pealetl the bill of rights and for violations
of these court made laws, have denied the
accused the right of trial by jury.
Right of Assembly Denied.
The exercise of the commonest rights of
freemen-the right of assembly, the right
of free speech, the right of travelling the
public highways, have by legislation un-
der the form of injunctions been made a
crime, and armed forces disperse as mobs
people daring in company to exercise
these rights. At its last term, the SUI
preme court of the United States decided
that the 18th amendments. forbidding in
voluntary servitude is mot violated by
nrresting seam IN, imprisoning him un-
til his vessel is ready to leave port, and
then forcibly putting him on board to
serve out the term of his contract de-
cision under which the old fugitive slave
laws may yet be revived and striking
labcrers he seized and returned to the
service Of their masters
Judges Will Soon he Sole Governors.
Having drawn to themselves all the
powers of the federal government, until
congress and presidents may act only by
judicial permission, the federal judges
have begun the subjugation of sovereign
states, so that unless check is soon put
upon the progress of ursurpation, in q
short time no government but the abso.
Lutte despotisln will exist anywhere over
any portion of American soil. The pend
ing strike Of coal miners, starved to feeble
ness by their scant wages by arduous and
dangerous toll, the pending strike for the
right to be fed enough to make labor pos
Sible, has been prolific of judicial usurpa-
zion, showing the willingness of judicial
despots to resort to the most shameless
defiance Of decency, as we'll as of law and
humanity, in order to enable heartless
avarice to drive its hungry serfs back
to the mines to faint and die at their
druGgery, and there remains today not
one guaranteed right of American citi-
zens, the exercise Of which an injunction
mas Hot euIhcN hcic AAt'uo CilIAe StarCcO
by these subversions of constitutional
liberty We have met to counsel together
and have come to the following conclu-
sions, that
Whereas, the present strike of the coal
miners has again demonstrated the fact
that our so-called liberty is not freedom,
but is stupendous sham, under which
millions are degenerating, while hun
dreds of thousands Of men, women and
children are starving in novels and on the
public highway;
Whereas, this condition has become per.
manent for large and ever increasing
number Of our population, as long a. we
y permit q comparatively small class Of
y legalizcd expl0iters TO monopolixe the