Hutchinson gazette., 1899-10-12
citizen I protest against this outrag

citizen | protest against this outrage
Our government had existed for more
than century, and during all that
time 1t protected life and property and
maintained order The law Of the land
was found ample for every emergency;
government by injunction was not
heard Of during all that time But
with the advent Of corporate power
and corporate control in our country;
that Is, during the last few years, this
usurpatlon and innovation has been
established and used as q club to
pound the back OF labor. For twenty
five years no man has been appointed
to q federal judgeship who was not
satisfactory to the corporations. Prior
to the war, the slave-owner used the
lash and the bloodhound as rear guard
conveniences to coerce the colored
laborer; today the corporations use the
United States courts, the United States
marshals and the prison as side-door
conveniences to coerce their white la
borers. While the instruments have
changed, the hand that Yields them Is
that OF the boss, and the flesh that
qulvers under them is that OF the la
borer. Jefferson declared that In the
federal judiciary would be found the
grave of American liberty. Here was
an arlstocratc branch Of the govern
ment; here were men holding Office for
life. not elected, but appointed, and
responsible to nobody; men who would
In the very nature Of things be selected
by and from the powerful influences OF
society, and who, by education,
by association, by taste-if not by d.
rect interest-would be on the side
that is inimical to liberty, The great
Lincoln attacked the Supreme court
OF the United States because it had be-
come a convenience to the slave power,
and Its decisions were in violation OF
the principles OF free government.
After the Dredd Scott decision, Charles
Sumner denounced the Supreme court
OF the United States in the most
scathing terms for having lent itself
as convenience to the slave power,
for having falsifled facts, suppressed
truth, and trampled upon the most
sacred rights Of man. Subsequently,
In commenting on the tendency OF
courts to exercise arbitrary power, he
said:
Let me here say that hold judges,
and especially the Supreme court OF
the country, in much respect, but
am too familiar with the history of ju-
dlcial proceedings to regard them with
any superstltious reverence. Judges
are but men, and in all ages have
shown a fair share Of frailty. Alas!
Alas! The worst crimes OF history
have been perpetrated under their
sanction. The blood Of martyrs and Of
patriots, crying from the ground, sum-
mons them to Judgment.
1T was judicial tribunal which con-
demned Socrates to drink the fatal
hemlock and which pushed the Savior
barefoot over the pavements OF Jeru-
salem. bending beneath His cross. 1t
was a judicial tribunal which, against
the testimonies and entreaties of
her father, surrendered the fair Vir-
ginia as slave; which arrested the
teachings Of the great apostle to the
Gentiles and sent him In bonds from
Judea to Rome; which, in the name OF
the old religion, adjudged tho saints
and fathers Of the Christian church to
death in all Its most dreadful forms,
and which afterward, in the name Of
the new religion, enforced the tortures