The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-03
ANARCHY IN HIGH PLACES.
Courts Assailed, Even in Congress By
 Fanatical Members.


 Fanatical Members.
 Washington Special.-What practi- cally amounts to anarchy has found foothold In Congress and the bureaus of the government This statement Is a sensational one. but nevertheless 1t is founded in absolute fact. The found- ations of Justice have been smfrched by no less personages than United States Senator and a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The aspersion of the latter was treated in a manner 1t deserved, until the Senator endorsed the revolutionary attack on the Federal courts. Now Washington is thoroughly awake to the dangerous times in which the government has found itself.
 Senator Tillmans direct attack on the Federal courts of justice created a. storm during his speech on the Hepburn rate bill. in which he was arguing against providing specifically for the inherent right of shippers and carriers to appeal to the law from orders of the Inuterstate Commerce Commission. He declared emphatically that the people had lost all faith in the Federal judges, and that the nation was like ship adrift, and without the rudder of the law. Instantly Senators Scott. Gallin- ger. Spooner and Foraker rebuked the speaker, but the "pitchfork" statesman. in characteristic fashion, repeated his accusation. He said:
 T did not expect to get into any un- pleasant controversy like this when I stated. as a general proposition. the reason why the passage of this bill is of such vast importance. It is because the people have lost faith in the judges. Now. repeat 1t. I believe It. That is all there Is about It."
 Senator Lodge called attention to the dangerous preachments of government officials He first quoted an interview with Eugene " Debs, Tn which the So- cialist leader declared his views with regard to aiding certain labor leaders in the West. accused of a series of brutal assassinations unequalled since the days of the Molly Maguires. MT. Debs said:
 We have no courts to appeal to: they belong to the plutocracy, and I am op- posed to spending our means going up against brace game judicially."
 MT. Lodge pointed out that MT. Deb's remedy was civil war. and asked:
 You may say that is the raving of a man of violence and anarchy. Per haps 1t is the last extreme; but Is it wise for others to encourage that who'll ly false view of the courts and to teach the American people that the
  Then Mir Lodge referred to a clip ping taken from a Chicago newspaper in which Charles \. Prouty. member of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. was quoted as saying:
 If the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion were worth buying, the railroads would try to buy it. The railroads. 1t is well known own many of our courts and other public bodies."
 After drawing this deadly parallel between the inflammatory utterance of a man pladged to out and out anarchy and the more deadly statement of an officer of the government. presumed to be foresworn to law and order Mir Lodge said:
 Tt is when man of ability and character holding high government po- sition like that of an Interstate Com merce Commissioner uses the language that have quoted that the matter be- comes deeply serious It Is when the doubts and suspicious in regard to our courts are suggested by the words of men eminent in public office, as has been the case in the past months dur ing the discussion of this question: if Is when every effort is made to shut the courts out from all consideration of the momentous questions raised by this Hepburn bill that the matter grows grave indeed. for it Is In this way that the distrust is bred of which the Sena- tor from Texas spoke and which every reflecting man must believe to be an inestimable if not an irreparable in- jury to the country"
 District Attorney Jerome of New York. on the very day that Senator Tillman wah making his address in the Senate, touched on the causes of the present wave of Socialism in a speech at New York banquet. He said:
 Public opinion goes hther and thither like a ship. but n the long course of time 1t is sweet and sane and sound, and will make It's port Today all through this nation what do we find? A case of absolute hysteria.
 David Graham Phillips is now writ ing about the treason of the Senate for a magazine Treason is an ugly word. It is punishable by death. The Senate of the United States-is it q reasonable body? A body that holds such men as