Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-26
Attorney O'Neiil's Discourse.

II suppose you all rode down on the
trolley" Great laughter. IT need not
say to you that favor law and order
and peace and that know that every
man here is like myself in that respect,
and the fact that so many of you are
here shows that You have an interest
in law and order and peace. But, of
course, you want little hand In maxi
ing that law and you don't want any
man to go to Hartford and
make laws that you don't want.
So far as the so-called Tracy bill is
concerned the morning paper says
there IS no harm in the bill itself: that
the bill is not his; that 1t was concoct-
ed by someone else. But now as he is
said to be the father of it, / would Like
to know who drew 1t up I guarantee
someone Is behind 1t that had some
thing to gain by it, some Interior pur-
pose Senator Tracy says he sees
nothing bad In it; that labor unions
are not compelled by it to become in
corporated II they don't so desire.
That Is not so. 1t provides how anv
persons may form a union and how
they shall be Incorporated, and then
II says how they may be punished:
now they can be got at in bunch.
There are many vicious elements
In the bill. Anyone who IS not even
q member of an Incorporated union Is
liable to lose his civil rights under this
bill, and he has got to have q speciaI
act of the legislature passed to GET
back his vote. This is the penalty of
the common felon, my friends: the
punishment OF common thief. There
are too many laws now of this kind on
the books; too many not intended for
the public benefit; none of them are
Tor the working men; they are all for
the benefit Of capital; not one OF them
y for you. There Is lots of law for
1respass on the property of the rail-
road company. The public
prosecutor takes care of
these cases, but if you trespass on INV
property or on yours, we have got to
hire our own lawyer to take care or
the case; but the railroad companies
have the public lawyer to do their
work. There Is lots of law for some.
lots of law in favor of some, and lots
OF law against some.
Now Ii Mr. Tracy had an employers
liability bill drawn up, such as ia In
force in other places. Such q bin
passes the house every time, but II IL
always Knocked out in the senate
There Is too much of a combination
there. If he had got up law to GET
You and me on the jury. there woTld
be great deal of good in that But
you do not appreciate that" And then
Mr. O'Neill went on to explain the Jury
law, a nail he has been driving Mt for
the past six or eight years He showed
up the unfairness of the lTsnner IN
selecting the jurors, as 1t seemed to
him, and how 1t appears impossible to
get anyone but certain kind Of men
on the Jury. Once the late John
Thompson, who lived for years on
Dublin street, got on the jury. but he
never heard a case. He was always
AFFECTED to- He advised the audience
to keep an eve on the Jury lists and
see IL he Is not borne out in this state
ment.
$50 r say he resumed, II would
pass jury laws such as you desire, not
as they desire. And precisely the same
III selecting judges for the superior
court. They are selected by the gov
ernor and nominated BY the legisla-
tllre. Do ron think you have hand|
III naming thema guess not. But
suppose one Is selected who IL not In
sympathy with the big corporations.
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