Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-12-22

prophecy bids fair to become history
in the not far distant future.
From the days of Pontius PLATE,
who murdered Christ, to the electoral
commission that robbed Tilden and in
stalled Hayes; yes, from remotest
times to the present hour, some OF the
most atrocious crimes in all history
have been perpetrated by compliant
inhuman and merciless judges.
1t was a judicial tribunal that gave
the fatal hemlock to Socrates. and that
forced the fair and innocent Virginia
into the brutal arms Of the lecherous
tyrant of Rome.
1t was a judicial tribunal that sen
its thousands Of innocent and helpless
victims to the fiendish tortures OF the
inquisition, and compelled Calico to
disavow the great truth he had dis
covered that the earth was round IN
stead Of fiat.
It was a judicial tribunal that justi-
fed and sanctioned every act OF hlhg
Henry VIII, the murderous libertine
of England, from the illegal and scan
dalous divorce of his lawful queen 10
the beheading OF Sir Thomas More.
1t was a judicial tribunal that sent
Latimer, Ridley, Servetius and John
| Rogers to the flames for contendlng
| for the sacred right to worship Hou
according to the dictates of their own
consciences and under the criminal
reign of that inhuman monster OF In
iouity, Judge Jefferys, disgraced Eng
land with a perfect saturnalia OF judi
| cial murder and stained the pages OF
her history even with the blood OF IN
| nocent women.
| It was a judicial tribunal that burned
innocent and harmless men, women
and little children as witches In Mas
sachusetts, and pushed and bufeteo
the Man of Galilee, barefoot over the
pavements of Jerusalem, fainting be-
meath His cross; and finally, amid the
most excruciating agony, and despite
the conyulsive warnings OF nature
wrenched his spirit from his quivering
body on the Cross of Calvary.
It was a judicial tribunal that sem
the young, innocent and inspired Mait
of Orleans to the flames, and the beau
tiful and unfortunate Mary, Queen Of
Scots, to the block.
1t was a judicial tribunal that stol'
the presidency in 1877, and that, sub
sequently, despite its own decisions tt
the contrary during a hundred year!
of our history, exempted the rich ant
powerful from the payment OF thei
share of taxes necessary to support thu
general government.
It was a judicial tribunal that salt
that the black man had no rights
white man was bound to respect, ant
that sent men to prison for givini
shelter and food to negro slave flee
ing from his pursuing master paced b.
bloodhounds thirsting for his blood
1t was a judicial tribunal that set fire.
whole company of hired assassin
that had shot to death an unarme'
crowd of marching workmen on tn
public highways of Pennsylvania, an,
that subsequently, through Fedora
Judge William ]. Allen of Illinois, an,
by virtue of the dangerous power o
injunction, without indictment, with
out information and without fai
and impartial trial by an impartia
jury, sent three men to Jail in Illinoi
for the alleged violation of trumpe
up, arbitrary and wholesale inhibition
, for merely sending and receiving tel
ephone message, and for givin
| friendly warning to certain negroe
: that they would be killed il they at
tempted to teke the places of the whit
striking worrnfen in the mines at Car
} terville; ans which friendly warnin
: was subsequently and fatally verifie
J in the killing Of seven or eight of tn