The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1909-07-29
LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
Workers Ask No More Than
Equality Under the Law.
LABOR TREATED UNFAIRLY.

It's Leaders Maligned and Their Mo-
tives JeereG-Abuse From the Bench
Makes the Toiler Doubt the Justice
OF Courts OF Law.
Federationist George w Bope, first
vice president Of the Musicians union
makes logical and convincing argu
ment for justice for the toiler. We
excerpt as follows:
From the time the infant child liber
ty was rocked In the cradle by Wash
lngton Adams and Jefferson down to
a period when we are represented by
the powerful genius and the unap
preached natural resources of 10000,
900 of people liberty and justice" has
been the watchword of the American
nation. have always been of the be
lief that God and nature have made
laws which unless restricted In their
operation by the Intervention of hui
man agencies give to every man an
equal opportunity to work out his own
destiny In this world
And it Is this Intervention Of some
of these human agencies, operating
through the judiciary, that l desire to
consider.
Judge Wrights castigation Of Com
pers, Mitchell and Morrison and his
terrific arraignment of labor were
couched In terms Of calumny, vitupera-
ton and reproach. Every trust law
yer in the country pronounced Judge
Wrlght's TRADE sound judicial doc
trine. Every lawbreaking corporation
Endorsed it. Every subsidized sheet
editorially commended It, The gen
eral public was thunderstruck. The
American Federation of Labor was
staggered.
l do not charge that Judge Wright
has been commercially inoculated with
the poison fang of the Manufacturers
association. Neither do / charge that
he has been infected from an injection
ut the hands of the scorpions Of so
called Industrial alliances But / do
charge that he is at variance with
Magma Charta, Plymouth rock Thorn
as Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. l
do charge that he arrayed himself
against every constitutional guaran-
tee. | do charge that his findings In
this case are in violent conflict with
the Declaration OF Independence, and
II carried to their logical travesty
the federal constitution delusion,
American liberty dream, American
maledictiOn and Ameri-
can institutions base mockery.
Just as the rope which dragged Will
liam Lloyd Garrison through the
streets of Boston was the same rope
that subsequently hanged treachery
and treason until they were dead so
the clanking of the chains of Gompers
and Mitchell and Morrison, as they
march lockstep to prison, If they ever
do so march, will sound the death
knell Of judicial absolutism in this
country.
l will agree with some OF our preda-
tory trust magnates that they would
not go out into the streets of the city
and pick the pockets of pedestrians or
enter private house at midnight and
plumber the property and rob the in
mates or break the glass of a show
case in a shop window and steal the
But some of these men have
even worse Offenses. They
have debauched oathbound public
servants. They have polluted popular
government and are guilty Of acts Of
treason against republican institutions
no less Infamous than that for which
the name of Benedict Arnold is uni
versally execrated.
Some years ago q little man sat
down among the hills over In the Allie
ghenies and built a fire. This fire
burned for days and for years, and
when the smoke went up and the fire
went out he raked the ashes and found
$500 100000 melted in the heat and
sweat Of human toll. This mans foot
steps had fallen upon a continent of
iron. He had employed an army Of
Drawn and grit, and this army slept
not. Thus it was that he rose to be a
monarch crowned with steel. Through
granite galleries. Throughout the cities
he has erected marble structures which
are stuffed with books of science and
culture. | have no objection to how
many libraries Mr. Carnegie builds or
causes to be built. But | want every
A NIX nj n hnN nil
girl and every American patriot who
passes under one of those library
arches to know that citizenship of the
Carnegie type Is always wanting in
the name of patriotism, to wrap itself
in the stars and stripes every time It
approaches the national treasury arm
ed with a requisition from the federal
congress appropriating $500 100000 for
armor plate with the implied under
standing that One-half million is to be
handed back by way Of campaign con
tributions for the purpose of selecting
and controlling the state legislatures,
which in turn elect United States sen
ators, who In their turn confirm or re-
ject the appointment Of federal judges.
And when 50 confirmed these are the
judges who are deciding that labor
organizations are conspiracies In re
straint OF trade"
These are the judges who are send
ing GOmpers and Mitchell and Morri-
son TO jail for exercising their right of
freedom Of speech and press. These
are the judges who threaten you with
Imprisonment for saying to me by
word Of mouth printers Ink or other
wise that ought NOT tn huv a pucLy,a