The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-10-12
IALTGEL DIS GREAT.
/ 5 LABOR DAY SPEECH.

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the gutter and daughters turned their
feet toward. destruction. Z
Look back over 30 years and see how
the families Of bribe- givers and bribe-
takers have rotted down. Railroad
men, merchants, bankers. manufactur-
ers, politicians. all going down In a
moral leprosy. " a.>.'~ A,-&E
Corrupt commercialism destroys the
men and the families that succeed in
it. while it strews the wayside with the
wrecks Of those who fail in it. Com
mercialism may be link In the chain
Of human development, a state through
which man must pass to reach higher
things, but standing alone-it cannot
point to a single great idea or noble
monument.
EFFECT ON THE COURTS.
History records the facts that the
courts Of this country represent what
is for the time being the dominant force
For nearly q third of century the
United States Supreme Court was DOM
mated by the Federalists, then for a
third of a century 1t was absolutely
controlled by the slave power, and for
more than third Of century it has
been controlled by the syndicates; that
Is. by concentrated capital. The syndi-
Gates did not buy decisions, they saw to
1t that no man was appointed judge
whom they did not believe they could
control. That is they aimed to get
men whose mental organisation, taste,
ideas. environment and association
were such that they could be relied on
to favor syndicates.
For one hundred years the supreme
court had held that an income tax was
constitutional, and that the rich should
bear their share of the burdens Of gov
eminent. Finally the syndicates OBJ
jected. and the majority of the court
came to their relief, and held the tax
to be unconstitutional, thus reversing
It's decisions Of hundred years. Judge
Shiras changed his opinions over night
in order to bring about this result.
For nearly one hundred years the su-
preme court held that the constitution
followed the flag, and that our repub-
lie being founded on the. principle OF
equality and freedom could not have
subject colonies; that they must be
either part Of US or else strangers.
Finally the syndicate wanted this
changed so that they might despoil
weaker people without permitting them
to trade free with us, and the major
ity Of the court reversed It's decisions
Of nearly hundred years. and thus
gave the syndicates what they wanted
The right of trial by Jury has beef
called by all statesmen the bulwark OF
Anglo-Saxon liberty; it IL guaranteed
by both federal and state constitutions
but when the American corporations
wanted to break the back and crush
the split aof labor, they wanted trial
by TURK Destroyer ana tie + federal
courts are wiping it away with q mers
wave Of the hand. IT, -. - ~ zs@i,
The right of assembly and. free
speech lies at the foundation of all free
institutions, yet at the demand Of thu
corporations the courts are stabbing l.
to death with their injunctions.
For centuries the law was ample tt
protect life and property and to pre-
serve order and punish crime, and thi.
was 80 during the hundred years IL
which our cities, and our country wa
developed.
| But after all this was done the man
ipulators, the syndicates and the fierc,
birds of prey gobbled up the fruits O.
other peoples toll, and then demand
ed a new system of government, a sys
| tenn which honest men did not need
and at once the federal courts re
sponded with government by injunc
ton. whereby Judge becomes legisla
tor, court and executioner, a despo
such as Europe never saw; and all thi
in order to comply with the demani
of the corporations. Formerly onl,
parties with clean hands could com
into equity courts: This barred tn
trusts. Now the motto seems to be
"Anything you want and, no question
asked" Formerly when man VIII
was charged with contempt Of cour
denied the accusations under oath h
had to be discharged and could onl
then be prosecuted by Indictment. Al
this has been changed in order to de
stroy trial by jury. Jefferson prophe
sled that the federal courts, bein
based on the aristocratic principle, an
not being amenable to the people
would destroy American liberty, an
we have lived to see that prophec
partially fulfilled.
| EFFECT ON LEGISLATION.
Today corrupt commercialism seek
to absolutely control the press of tn
land, the, lecture rooms Of the lant
the pulpit Of the land and the though
4 Of the land. and 80 far as 1t can dc
base them all.
It has destroyed the statesmanshi
Of America, and made politics a cess
pool In which men become Shiny, sir
perry and contefnptible; the man VIII
will seek the votes Of labor and the
betray 1t is so absolutely contempt
bic that even satan will handle hi,
with tongs.
We seem to have scarcely any state,
men left. The majority of our publ
men are only conveniences controlle
by special interests, and manipulate
by corrupt lobbyists.
An Ex-Governor Of New York told n