Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-01-13

THE Party is Faced Toward the Sun of the Peoples
Delverance."- WOE Unto Him Who Trles
with the National Platform.

would have withered here as 1t had II
Europe. and the American Republic
would today be simply an oligarchy
stretching In small settlements from the
Mississippi to the Atlantic. Hamilto,
was member of the Constitutional Con.
vention. and succeeded in establishing
| that aristocratic branch of our govern
ment known as the Federal judiciary,
unrepublican and undemocratic; 1t is moi
chosen by the people and is not account.
able to them. In fact. for practical pur-
poses is not accountable to anybody.
Jefferson opposed this manner of creating
judiciary with all his might, and he
pointed out that here would ultimately
be found the tomb of American liberty.
How prophetic was that vision? During
its whole career this branch of the gov
eminent has never been on the side of
the weak. but always on the side of
power First 1t stood for federalism and
usurpation.
Relics of Hamilton.
When General Jackson tried to protect
the American people from the clutches
OF the great rotten bank the federal
judiciary used all its power to help that
institution. After tho bank went down
this same judiciary did the bidding of
the mighty slave power, and after this
went down these courts took the cor
porations under their wings and many
OF them seemed to become mere side
door conveniences for concentrated and
even corrupt capital. For the last thirty
years the corporations have fled to the
Federal courts like the ancient murderers
fled to cities of refuge-there they felt
safe. Recognizing that the construction
OF the laws is more important than max
ing laws, these powerful influences have
allowed no man to be appointed Judge
whom they did not believe friendly to
them. They do not buy Federal judges
because 1t is not necessary. In their
eagerness to serve the corporations, these
judges have in recent years established
government by injunctions in this coun-
try under which Judge becomes legisx
lator, court and executioner. They brush
free speech-the liberty Of the Citizen
and trial by jury away with a contemptu-
Gus Sneer.
A Truthful Judge
The Anglo-Saxon race has shed its blood
to maintain these bulwarks of liberty
and our Constitution guarantees them to
every citizen. But they have already
been. stabbed to the vitals. For several
years We have beheld the spectacle of
some Supreme Court and other Federal
the land to act the part of advocates for
those interests which are destroying re-
publicanism in this country. What are
the liberties of America worth when COM
mitted to the guardianship of such men?
During the recent campaign Mr.. Depew
came to Chicago under the auspices of
the Hamilton Club to deliver a partisan
address at the Auditorium. Federal Judge
Peter 5. Groscup mounted the rostrum
for the purpose Of introducing the orator.
and told the audience, among other
things. that the light Of Jefferson was
waning-that on the dial plate of our
history this hour was Hamil-
tons. that Hamilton's great name ex-
actly fitted these times, etc.
Hanna, Quay g. Co.. Are Hamiltonlans,
My friends, must we admit that judge
Groscup was right? Let us look around
again. The Senate of the great state of
Ohio has just indicted a Hamiltonian
Senator for bribery and debauchery in
securing high Office A grand jury in
Pennsylvania has just indicted another
Hamiltonian Senator for robbinE the
treasury of the state. Almost every great
trust appears to have one or more Ham,
iltonian Senators as standing conyen-
fences. In the House of Representatives
where the voice of the people was sup
posed to be heard, we find pensioned
ringmaster of monopoly sitting the
voice of the peoples representatives and
reducing Republican Congressman to a
of pity and contempt. Two
years ago horde of Hamiltonian states
men went to the capital of Illinois and
not only sold out the people but robbed
the state of everything in sight. Wher-
ever you find dirty finger marks in the
temple Of justice or a foul odor in the
halls of legislation, there you will find
Verify, the spirit of Ham
ilton fits these times, but what shall we
say of judiciary that openly reioices
over the fact that an era of corruption
has enveloped the land that the BETRAYAL
Of the people has become a SCIENCE and
that the robbing of the people has be-
come hne art? Ana now We are to
widen the sphere of this class of states
men by giving them a chance to rob the
Philippines! Heaven pity those poor peo-
Pile. The Spaniard took what was in
sight, but the Hamiltonite, with his bond
jobbery enters the womb of the future
and plasters his mortgage on remote gem
Tho Tongue OF Treason Is Wildly Wag.
ging.
During the political and partisan Peace
Jubilee, recently held in Chicago, the
President of the United States went to
the Chicago University for the purpose
Of being dubbed Doctor of Laws. In
handing him the parchment. Prof. A. X.
Parker. who made the presentation
speech, said among other things: 1.-THE
doctrine of sovereignty of the people leads
\ precarious existence in the mouths of
men who love long sounding words and
have not stopped to consider that it is
only a specious form of the ancient bias
phemy that might makes right" Stop !
here moment and reflect. The Presi- I
lent of the United States, standing under |
The wing Of the Standard Oil Company,
accepts a proffered honor which Is
coupled with the declaration that the |
doctrine Of popular sovereignty is a spe-
,ious form Of blasphemy, and he utters |
not one word of protest, but by his 81 |
ence and by his acceptance mods his ap-
prevail.
3iorIes In the Spectacle of Lincoln at |
Gettysburg.
Come now to another scene. On No |
,ember 49, 1868, Abraham Lincoln stood |
IN the battlefield of Gettysburg. and with I
ears in his eyes asked the American |
people to dedicate themselves anew to |
hat cause for which the heroes living |
md dead had fought on that field, so |
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