Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-09-23
me DenuncIatIOn Of courts.

declared that il was the party o.
Abraham Lincoln really knew wha
the platform Of 1860 upon whict
Abraham Lincoln was elected, con
tanned. In 1867 the famous Dred
Scott decision was rendered. Thu
facts concerning this decision were
as follows:
"Dred Scott had gone with his
master into free northern states, and
resided outside Of slave territory fol
nearly five years; married in Mime
sofa another Of his masters slaves,
and with child born on free soil,
returned to Missouri, where he ten
years later, after his masters death,
brought suit which involved the
question Of his freedom, winning
the case In the lower court, but the
final decision in the Supreme Court,
besides refusing him and his family
their liberty, declared that no col
ored person could be recognized as
a citizen and that they had no
rights which white persons were
bound to respect"
On May 16, 1860, the republican
convention met at Chicago. The Su.
preme Court Of the United States was
referred to in the following language;
s, "That the present democratic
administration has far exceeded our
worst apprehensions, in Its measure
less subservienoy; as especially evinc-
ed in its desperate exertions to force
the infamous Lecompton constitution
upon the protesting people OF Kan
sas; in constituting the personal rela'
lions between master and servant to
involve an unqualified property in
persons; ia it's attempted enforce
ment, everywhere. on land and sea,
through the Intervention OF Congress
and of the Federal courts, Of the ex-
treme pretensions Of a purely local
interest; and in its general and I'M
varying abuse Of the power entrusted
to il by a ConGding people,"
The italics are ours,
A republican voter in 1860 and an
anti.republican voter in 1897 upon
the question Of Federal courts might
be one and the same man. Andy Felt
Of the Atchison Champion a veteran
in the ranks of the republican party,
recently published the following;
Mr.. DsbS tslk at st. Louis was
pretty wild. Every newspaper edit
cd by a rich syndicate or By B belly
crawler in search Of an office will
denouncs Mr.. Debs as an anarchist.
We think Dsbs was excited and talk
ed foolishly, but we remember very
distinctly when Wendall Phillips,
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sum-
ner, Ben Wade, Abraham Lincoln,
VIM. II. Seward and several others,
equally famous along late in the
ffues, were denounced as anarchists
aud revolutionlsts for their hot de-
nunClstion Of the Supreme Court of
the United States and the enCroaCh-
nOnts Of the Slave Olighsrchy which
then ruled the American people with
q rod of iron.
Revolutions do not move back
wards. The Labor Unions Of the
United States are not the only men
in this country who believe that the
trusts and combines have far too
much influence In American legisla-
tion. That politician is but little less
than fool who cannot see that the
question of how much political power
organized capital shall exercise over
organized labor must be met, and
none but a mad man will dare say
that humanity in the garb OF toll
is less precious than trusts robed
with power.
"The republican party was strongest
when closest to the people and it will
be weakest when it joins in the mad
rush to curry favor with the gigan-
tic trusts whose only aim is to amsss
wealth at the expense OF labor"
Congressman Grosvenor Of Ohio,
has this to say OF Government by
Injunction"
i am wholly out Of accord with
the syStem adopted in West Virginia
under which Judge Jackson issued
his perlpatetlc, rowing injunction.
His views, as / understand them, are
bad law, bad morals and worse poll
tics. The hasty resort to equitable
remedies i. O., iDjunohong, is, to say
the least, dangerous and generally
unwlse.
"But our judicial system is equal
to the task Of settling all the ques-
tions involved and q resort to con-
gressionsl legislation would DO open
TO the objection that it would be an
exercise Of federal power over the in
ternal affairs Of the states and the
more important one that in times Of
excitement and trouble hSSty legisla-
ton always promotes opposition"
In view OF the above we believe that
our republican friends did not exactly