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

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 outrages
and preserve our liberties, 1t 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.
/ 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.
| And this is government by injunc-
ton, and against which we most earn
estly and honestly protest, as being
| conceived in the worst passions of the
human heart and fraught with grave
and threatening dangers to the repub-
lic.-H. C. Bell, in Jeffersonian Demo-
crat.
The condition which confronts us
today finds a deadly parallel in the
history of the early Roman republic.
For nearly 500 years before the dawn
of the Christian era, Rome was re-
public in name, and more or less, in
varying fortune, in fact. Then, as
now, there were two contending par
ties-an aristocracy and democracy,
or as they were sometimes called, the
patricians and the plebeians. The
former held the offices and made the
laws, while the latter paid the taxes
and fought the battles. There was an
irrepressible conflict continually exist
ing between them. So great was the
gulf that divided them that at first 1t
was unlawful for plebeians to inter-
marry with patricans, and this was
not changed until the people arose en-
masse and forced from the aristocracy
the Laws of the Twelve Tables.
which were written on twelve tables
of bronze and fastened to the orator
platform in the Forum, and every
schoolboy was required to learn them
by heart. Under these laws the people
for a time secured a reasonable SEM
blance of civic, social and political
rights. But the conflict between the
classes only smoldered for awhile, to
break out afresh. A ring" as it was
then called, sprang up, and by the use
Of money secured all the offices, and
by grants of special privileges concili-
ated the armies so that in few years
nothing more was heard of patricians
and plebeians, but Rome had become
a commonwealth Of millionaires and
beggars" Then the ring" determined
, to extend it's Jurisdiction and so a pol
icy OF expansion was adopted, large
armies, amounting to hundreds oil
thousands of soldiers, were raised, a
. war of conquest followed, extending
not only over surrounding and adjoin'
ing countries, but even into Brittany
, The rights and privileges of the de,
mocracy dwindled into the right tc
, pay taxes and to die as soldiers, which
/ their patriotism and their war spirit
, caused them to do. Tiberius and