Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-04-28
MINTURN TO
GRAND JURY
ON ANARCHY
Supreme Court Justice Tells
PasSalC County That Crime
Must be Stamped Out.
LAW AMPLE TO COVER IT
Special to the ETENINe NEWs.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
Paterson, Apr. 2S:-Supreme
Court Justice Minturn in charging
the Passaic county grand jury today
let 1t be known that anarchy had nc
place in America and that the court
would sustain any action to suppress
such crimes along lawful lines on
the subject of anarchy, Justice Min
turn spoke as follows:
ut becomes necessary for the
court to direct your attention to a
matter of extraordinary Importance
which has occurred In this commun-
ity quite recently and which has en-
gendered a discussion of national
proportions.
IA sheet called La QUESTION: So
ciale, published In this city, contain
ed, under the title of an Anarchistic
Revolution, an appeal to its readers
to arm themselves; to seize the po-
lice stations and the armory; to XIII
the police force, and to dynamite
and burn the city.
Whatever seeming justification
and cause for palliation may exist
for such an appeal in the despotic
lands from which such revolution
lists come, there surely can be none
in land like this where the people
alone rule; and which opens its
doors to the oppressed of every cline
and offers them a haven of safety,
and home OF refuge.
How absurd such an appeal must
seem to these men IL they would but
remember and consider the essential
features which distinguish and diff
ferentiate our government from all
the governments of the earth.
They ask the people to arm
themselves, not against King, po-
tentate or tyrant, but against tho
people themselves; to seize the po.
lice stations and the armories, not Of
a Czar, Nero or a Caligula, but OF
the people to whom the appeal Is
made; to destroy the police, who are
but the servants of the people, aud
to burn and destroy the city, which
is the property OF the people them
selves.
But, while the intelligence and
moral character of our people will
always afford safeguard against
such inhuman, idiotic and barbarous
appeals, we know from sad exper-
fence but too well that the danger
and criminality of them lies In tho
fact that in every community the Vi
cious, the depraved and the weak
minded may be Influenced by them.
Within your time and mine two OF
the noblest characters in our coun-
try's history, Chief Magistrates of
the nation, were done to death by
the hands of assassins, aetuated by
such inhuman doctrine as this and
only the other day this city assisted
in the funeral rites of q devoted
clergyman, who was struck down
within the sacred portals of the
church in a sister State, where he
was officiating.
"The men who illuminate such ap-
peals as this must be taught, If they
will learn 1t In no other manner, by
the invocation of the law, that while
our laws and our Constitution can
be changed, they will be changed
only when the people demand 1t in
the forms prescribed by law, and not
by the methods Of terrorism and
havoc of the French Revolution or
the barbarous ravages of the Goths
and Vandals.
1T becomes your duty and mine,
therefore, as the servants Of the law
established by the people, to trace
the authors, publishers and dissem-
inators of this reasonable appeal,
and apply the law In it's full vigor
fearIessly and relentlessly in defense
of our flresides and our homes, and
In defense of the law against the
criminals when apprehended.
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