Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1898-03-24


the strong, and they never hesitate to
use them. am not dreaming or theo.
rizing. We have seen it done in this
You remember when diff
Guilty arose between the railroad men
and their employees, and the men struck,
az they had right to do. They simply
laid down their work, as they supposed
they had a right. A president, at the
request Of the railroad corporations,
called out the army to put down this
strike. When Cleveland sent the
soldiers to Chicago he overrode the
of the state of Illinois and
on the republic which he had
sworn to protect aud defend.
When you have an army you must use
it. II there ls nothing for them to do
abroad they will ind something to do at
home.
"There are great and growing ques-
tions to settle, which must be settled
soon. The most important, to my mind, i,
is the dealing with trusts and corpora
tions. We tave reached the point in
our industrial development where &C.
cumulatlons OF capital have hold OF our
industries, and buy our legislatures as
fast as We can elect thesn. They have
no politics except to get the right men.
Nearly all the legis'a atures OF our states,
incredible IS it may seem, have become
the tools and chattels of these great cor
poratious. 1t is 90 in all our great
cities. Everything is up for barter.
"The great corporations have under
minded the government in the nation,
states and cities, and it has come to pass
while people have been complacently
Dragging about our country, old glory
and the rest. They are not satisfied
with this. The judiciary is not free
FROM their influence. 1hey have been
mEch less corrupt than other branches
OF our government There are few
judges that take bribes. But there are
more ways than one of getting people
besides buying them.
WHO MAKE TEE LAWS.
Most all of the judges are personally
honest, but the liberties OF the people
are threatened more by our honest
judges than by our corrupt Legislators.
Our federal Judges are appoiated Tor
life-you cent turn them OUT They
may do what they please. Our state
Judges are elected for long terms. Laws
are made by legislatures and by opinions
OF judges. 1t ls a great system. The
opinion OF a judge who didn't know
enough to come in out Of the rain
twenty years age is the law. and the
older it IS the better. 1t has to go and
we can't change 1t. Laws made to
apply to an ox-cart now apply to rail
road train. It is great system
There is popular superstition every
where except in Kansas that judges
must be lawyers. Sometimes law and
Justice come to the same decision, but
80 seldom 1t is not important
Judges are selected from the best
lawyers. Corporations are always look
ing out for the best ones, to help them
run around the law instead of against 1t.
Perhaps they don't get the best, out
they get the smartest. The corpora.
tions have all the money, aud q lawyer
either has to work for them or prey on
them. When q lawyer gets to working
for corporation, it is much pleassnter.
He doesn't have to hustle around for bis
witnesses, and the court listens to him
more respectfully. Sooner or later he
gets on the bench. He meaue to be
honest, but there is a good deal IN the
way q mao y eaised. They Gee every
thing from the standpoint OF corpora.
ton. The only thing be seee that IL
sacred is the rights OF property 1t ie
protected above everything else. 1t is
only now and then that jadge is
found who locke beyond hls environ.
ments, and decides on the broad ground
Of humanity.
"Now, every decision becomes law to1
other cases. The stronger side wins. the
abler man, and this decision becomes q
guide for all future time. Thus the
smartest lawyers make the law, the law
lis made and m0aLded 80 that the liberties
Of the people are absolutely destroyed. I.
Justice ls more apt to be found in the
masses OF mob than in the meehes OF
the law"
The injunction system, he said, was
the latest and most damnable device to
throttle labor. By il men are sent to
Jail without trial, for laying down their
work. "When any tribunal that We
create" he remarked, "becomes greater
than the American people, We are sll
slaves It is time We bow down and
worship the thing We have created.
There is one court Of appeal higher than
tho supreme court, and that is the
American people. When any law pre-.
tends to be 80 strong az to subvert
human liberty, we will make one final
appeal to the American people for the
liberties We have lost"
High Prices for Seed Wheat.
Where and how to get good seed
wheat are questions puzzl.ng farmers all