The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-07-13

ed by individuals. Subtle distinction!
If the thieves robbed each other that
was villainous and must be stopped;
but if they robbed the tax payers who
fed the judges, that was all right, and
any remedy was unconstitutional.
And then these venerable frauds COM
pare the exactions of the wheat ring,
amounting of millions of dollars an
Eually, to the regulating of hacks and
pawnbroker shops! And they butter
over this gross absurdity with stately
language and Latin quotations.! All
paid for by the plundered people!
Does Mr. Mitchell. and CAVITY, and
Buck, and the rest, pretend that if the
hackmen had taken possession Of the
products of the industry of three-fourths
OF the people, and were robbing them in
to universal bankruptcy, the state would
have no right to interfere to any extent
necessary-even to the hanging of the
robbers?
II not, then liberty is a thing of
chains-not opportunities.
In France, where the usurers were
destroying the people by excessive
rates OF interest, through the pawn
shops, the government interfered and
established the monte de pirate" mu-
nicipal pawnshops
Have not the Scandinavian nations, 10
prevent the evils of the saloons, set up
government liquor shops ?
Has not the same thing been done in
South Carolina, and despite the efforts
of the United States supreme court to
break up the system, has it not pro-
duced splendid results?
Have the honest farmers of Minne-
sofa less right to protection that the
paupers of France, or the drunkards of
Scandinavia?
Are they not the great bulk of the
people of this state; and do they not
pay most of the taxes; and are not these
judges simply lot of impecunious law
yers, lifted up by the voter, to be their
hired servants?
AND WHERE IN THE CONSTITIT-
TION OF THIS STATE, OR OF THE
UNITED STATES, DO THESE JUDGES
FIND A SENTENCE, A SYLLABLE,
OR A LETTER WHICH AUTHORIZES
THEM TO REPEAL, ANNUL AND SET
ASIDE AN ACT OF THE LEGIsLA.
TURE SINGED BY THE GOVERNOR
OF THE STATE?
There is nothing of the kind, and the
court knows it,
1t is sheer, shameful, unauthorized
usurpation so
10 annul law is as much legislation
as to enact a1low; and the judges be-
long to the judicial department of the
government, not to the legislative.
Listen to the constitution of the state
Of Minnesota
Article l. qSee. l. Government is
instituted for THE SECURITY. RENE
FIT AND PROTECTION OF THE PEG
PIE IN WHOM ALL POLITICAL
POWER IS INHERENT"
Article 8. Sec. l. The powers Of
government shall be divided into three
distinct departments. legislative, execu-
tive and judicial; AND NO PERSON
OR PERSONS BELONGING TO OR
CONSTITUTING ONE OF THESE DE-
PAYMENTS SHALL EXERCISE ANY
OF THE POWERS PROPERLY Re-
LONGING TO EITHER OF THE 9TH
ERS, except in the instances expressly
provided in this constitution"
Now then, let the judges hunt that
constitution from beginning to end. and
find word that, even by implication
gives them the right to interfere with
the legislature and repeal it's acts. There
is not one.
See 18th Minnesota reports, page so:
Courts cannot control or interfere
with an executive officer of the state
in his official acts, even though thew
are such that the duty to perform
them might have been entrusted to
some other officer
There you have it, The court has
no power to enioin or restrain. or neeo-
tive the act Of an executive officer of the
state, but they have, the claim, the right
to take the statute book Of the state and
tear half Of the acts out.,.
And that without word Of authority
to Justify them. Not a syllable.
And yet the government was, the con-
stltution tells us, instituted for the Sc
curity, benefit and PROTECTION OF the
people in whom all political power is
inherent"
But these lawyers and politicians, by
the accidents and trades OF party con-
ventions, made judges, grasp the legis-
latlve function; and, when the people
tin whom all power is inherently, de-
cldes that state elevator, built not with
taxes, but with the money taken from
the farmers for the inspection of their
wheat, Is necessary to protect the
farmers and preserve them from being
reduced to bankruptcy by organized
thieves, then these five little men rush in
and tell us thatthe people Tin whom
"all power is Inherently do not know
what they want, but that all wisdom is
concentrated In the five little insignlf-
! icant lawyers aforesaid! And the pro-
ducers are swept into the gutter, and
| the thieves go off triumphant.