The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-12-22

victims to the tiendish 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
1t was judicial tribunal that justi-
fed and sanctioned every act of King
Henry VIII, the murderous libertine
of England, from the illegal and scan
dalous divorce of his lawful queen to
the beheading Of Sir Thomas More.
1t was a judicial tribunal that sent
Latimer, Ridley, Servetius anG John
Rogers to the flames for contending
for the sacred right to worship God
| according to the dictates of their own
consciences, and under the criminal
reign Of that inhuman monster of in
EQUITY, Judge Jefferys, disgraced Eng
land with a perfect satu"nalia Of judi
cial murder and stained the pages of
her history even with the blood of in
| nocent women.
1t was Il judicial tribunal that burned
innocent and harmless men, women
and little children as witches in Mas
sachusetts, and pushed and buffeted
| the Man OF Galilea, barefoot over the
pavements of Jerusalem, fainting be-
| meath His cross; and finally, amid the
most excruciating agony, and despite
| the convulsive warnings Of nature,
wrenched his spirit from his quivcring
| body on the Cross Of Calvary.
1t was a judicial tribunal that sent
| thp II n M,i6
! of Orleans to the flames, and the beau
| tiful and unfortunate Mary, Queen of
| Scots, to the block.
1t was a judicial tribunal that stole
the presidency in 1877, and that. sub
sequently, despite it's own decisions to
| the contrary during a hundred years
Of our history, exempted the rich and
powerful from the payment Of their
share of taxes necessary to support the
general government.
! 1t was a judicial tribunal that said
that the black man had no rights a
white man was bound to respect, and
that sent men to prison for giving
shelter and food to negro slave flee
| ing from his pursuing master paced by
| bloodhounds thirsting for his blood.
1t was a judicial tribunal that set free
a whole company of hired assassins
that had shot to death an unarmed
| crowd of marching workmen on the
public highways of Pennsylvania, and
that subsequently, through Federal
Judge William J. Allen of Illinois, and
| by virtue of the dangerous power of
injunction, without Indictment, with
out information and without a fair
and impartial trial by an Impartial
jury, sent three men to Jail in Illinois
for the alleged violation of a trimmed
| up arbitrary and wholesale inhibition
| for merely sending and receiving a tel
ephone message, and for giving
friendly warning to certain negroes
that they would be killed if they at
tempted to take the places of the white
striking workmen in the mines at Car
terville; and which friendly warning
was subsequently and fatally verified
IN the killing of seven or eight OF the
men thus given timely warning of
their danger.
When Alfred the Great attempted to
correct certain abuses that had grown
up in his kingdom he found it neces-
sary in order to succeed, to hang some
sixty of his corrupt and vicious Judges.
While we may not find it necessary
to initiate his example in this country.
yet the day is not far distant when. in
order to stop these judicial outrases
and preserve our liberties. it may be-
come necessary to impeach and drive
into everlasting disgrace large num-
Der OF federal judges who are con-
stantly perpetrating these acts of in
justice and oppression.
I know it will be so unless the
shameless practice of government by
injunction is forever destroyed in this
country by the passage and rigid en-
forcement of counteracting state and
federal laws.
Government by injunction abrogates,
the constitutionally guaranteed right
of fair trial by an impartial jury, and
gives the swift and obsequious judge
the power to constitute himself the
maker, the prosecutor and the execu-
toner of the drastic and unjust edicts
he thus arbitrarily DEGREES, and from
whose illegal and shameless judgments
the right even of appeal for the help
less victims of his tyranny does not
lie.