The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-07-28

cisely as do the serfs who elected
them at the benest of these same
masters?
The recent decision of the circuit
court of appeals in the celebrated
merger proceedings has been ex-
plotted by the capitalist press as a
great victory for the people. Roose-
welt smiles and bows. the people ap-
plaud and throw up their hats. an
other term at the white house is in
sured and Jim Hill and Archbishop
Ireland wink the other eye.
| Will the anti-merger decision
the supreme court has yet to pass
upon it, compel the Pacific roads to
compete with each other and lower
passenger rates and freight tariffs in
The interest of the people?
Will not their owners cooperate
in holding UP the people just as if
they were united under a single cor
poraton title?
OF what possible interest is the de-
cision to the working class, who own
no railroad shares and have no hand
in tns stockholders game Of freeze
out?
What crumb of comfort can they
extract from this so called crushing
blow at corporate power?
Isn't It all blow and no crush :?
Fine bait to catch political suckers =?
Every judge on the federal bench
today, district. circuit and supreme.
with but a single exception. is a
trained and successful corporation
a,torrlay. and instictively subservi-
ent to corporate interests.
That exception is Henry Clay Cald-
well. the last surviving appointment
OF President Lincoln. and HE is a So
cialist and has announced his deter
mination to retire from the bench.
doubt not from scruples Of integrity
for he is a pune and conscientious
man.
And still our trade union leaders,
for the most part, sanction the labor
lobby that hangs around the ragged
edge Of capitalistc legislation to beg
like mendicant for what it ought to
command like a man: and when now
and then it receives Legislative
ci-umb, it is snatched away by the
judicial tentacle of the capitalistic
devil fish.
The supreme court of Indiana re-
Gently annulled the law providing for
the weekly payment of wages, and
10 vii iy,ir,
in municipalities for city employees
The corporations and captalistic
interests objected and that SETTLES it.
And yet the working class will elect
the same Legislature over and over
again on the record they made as the
friends Of labor
Yet another thing about the courts
The poor man-and most men are
poor in the capitalist system; that
is it's distinguishable characteristic
the poor man is shut out as complete
~ as if he were an outlaw The
lower court is open to him and that
takes all the coin he can raise. If
he wins, tho case is appealed. and
goes higher and higher. until it is
out Of sight The poor man is count
ed out in the first round. The cor
Torations have their array of legal
talent in court all the way up and all
the time, and litigation is no extra
expense to them
Thousands of crippled railway en-
ployes have good claims under the
statutes have been ground out of the
iu1icia, mill. with nothing left but
their mutilated. crutch propped bod
les and their despair.
Workinemen. wake up! The time
has come to open your eyes and see
fhings as they are. You have been
hoodwinked and robbed and enslaved
long enough. Be man and line mp
with your class in the great struggle
for freedom. To train with the enc
my, ignorantly or otherwise, as you
fellowman. To be the ally on cleo
tion day of the class that lives out
of your labor and holds you in con-
tempt. is not only cowardly and con-
temptible. but criminal and means
death to your manhood and infamy
TO the name you bear.
The courts can be reached in Just
one way. The road is straight and it
has no connection with any of the
side tracks. The socialist party I'M
erringly points the way
The courts. to serve the people,
must be made free and untrameled
tribunals, and this they can only be-
come in cooperative common
wealth. a republic in fact as we'll as
in theory, and, when that time comes.
courts will ba in little demand, and
they will make UP in purity and honor
what they lose in prestige and power.
Eugene " Debs.
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