Hutchinson gazette., 1899-12-21

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 atroclous 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 sent
its thousands Of innocent and helpless
victims to the fendish tortures of the
inquisition, and compelled Calico to
disavow the great truth he had dis
covered that the earth was round In
stead of fat.
1t was a 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
Latlmer, Ridley, Servetius and John
Rogers to the flames for contending
for the sacred right to worship God
according to the dictates Of their own
consclences, and under the criminal
reign OF that inhuman monster OF in
iQulty, Judge Jefferys, disgraced Eng
land with n perfect saturnalia OF judi
cial murder and stained the pages OF
her history even with the blood OF In
nocent women.
It was judicial tribunal that burned
innocent and harmless men, women
and little children as witches in Mas
sachusetts, and pushed and buifeted
the Man of Galilee, barefoot over the
pavements of Jerusalem, faintlng be-
meath His cross; and finally, amid the
most excruciating agony, and despite
the convulsive warnings Of nature,
wrenched his spirit from his quiverlng
body on the Cross Of Calvary.
1t was judicial tribunal that sent
the young, innocent and inspired Maid
of Orleans to the flames, and the beau
tlful and unfortunate Mary, Queen OF
SCOTS, to the block.
1t was q judicial tribunal that stole
the presidency in 1877, and that, sub
sequently, despite its 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 a negro slave flee
ing from his pursuing master paced by
bloodhounds thirsting for his blood.
1t was judicial tribunal that set free
I
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 ]. 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 trumped
up, arbitrary and wholesale inhibition,
for merely sending and receiving tel
ephone message, and for giving
friendly warning to certain negroes
that they would be killed II they at
tempted to take the places Of the white
striking workmSn in the mines at Car
terville; and which friendly warning
was subsequently and fatally verified
In the killing Of seven or eight OF the