Willmar tribune., 1909-09-22
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UI0lIUDIs
MAR SUBSCRIBERS.
daily use by banks, private detective
agencies, anti horse thief associations.
sherins and marshals. have here
three postal cards mailed by national
and state banks offering rewards for
the arrest of men whom these banks |
allege to have committed crime. The
card which offer for the inspection
of the court. it will be noted. bears
upon the back or outside Of the card.
in large letters, figures and characters.
the following language: ''B. b. Bond.
produce dealer, wanted for issuing
forged bills of lading: $3.50 reward will
be paid by the First National bank.
Nashville. Tenn. for his arrest and
delivery to Nashville authorities"
First Instance on Record.
It will be observed that this Ian
guage, to quote this courts decision
on our demurrer to the indictment.
"is calculated to impress the readers
Of the language with the thought that
Bond was guilty of the commission of
some crime for which he would be
prosecuted by the Tennessee authort-
ties If captured and returned to them"
It can further be said, following the
courts line Of reasoning, that this Ian
guage was obviously intended by the
First National bank to reflect inju-
riously upon the character Of B. B.
Bond and from its terms and the man.
ner and style in which it was dis
played on the postal card is calculated
to have that effect.
The other cards contain similar Ian
guage and display. This is character
istic Of thousands Of cards which daily
pass through the mails Of the United
States, and yet in not a single instance
has any effort been made by the gov
ernment to rid the mails Of this OBJ
jectionable matter and protect those
of its citizens who are fugitives from
justice.
My arrest and conviction 10 the first
instance on record whore q man was
prosecuted for attempting to bring to
tho bar Of justice an indicted fugitive
charged with the crime Of murder.
Tho Reason Not Hard to Find.
There must be some reason why I
alone of the thousands of men who.
according to the rule Of this court and
the opinion of the district attorney and
his assistant. have committed substan-
TALLY the same act should be singled
out and marked for prosecution.
| The reason is not hard to find. So
ciety today is divided into two classes.
On the one side we find the work peo-
ple-men, women and children who
have no means of obtaining liveli-
hood but by their hard labor. On the
other hand we find relatively small
| group of men who own the land and
the tools which these people must have
access to If they are to live. It is the
primary If not the sole purpose Of the
men who own this productive proper
ty to obtain as large profits as possi.
BILE, while on the other hand the WORK
people strive constantly to increase
their wages. This creates a class con
fict.
The Conflict Began With Civilization.
This conflict began with civilization
and has come down under varying
forms to this day and will continue
with increasing intensity so long as {
small group Of rich men are permitted
to lay upon the masses. to quote from
Pope Leo, "a yoke little better thar
slavery" Discussing the ever presen
problem of labor and it's compensation
John Adams in 1778 observed:
It is Of no consequence by what nam,
you call your people, whether by that O.
freemen or slaves. In some countries th'
laboring roor men were called freemen
In others slaves, but the difference wa
imaginary only. What matters it wheth
. his farm gives them annually as mucl
as will buy the necessaries Of life o
gives them those necessaries at frs
hand?
Coming down to the civil war pc
Rod, we find that the Charlestow1
Baptist association in presenting
memorial to the Georgia legislature II
1885 discussing this ever with us prob
lem of labor gave expression to tn
following conclusion:
: It amounts in effect to this whether tn
] | operatives of country shall be bough
and sold and themselves become property
as in this state. or whether they shall be
come hirelings and their labor only be
. | come property. as in some other states.
Slavery Of the Working Class.
It will be seen from these two quo
!. tations, clearly rejecting the opinio
/ Of the Revolutionary and civil war pt
3 RODS, that the master class recognize
q no difference between the chatt'
J. slave and the wage hireling. In 18e
) Karl Marx, the founder of scientif
n socialism, summed up the labor pro1
e lem in the following striking sentence
r In point. Of fact, however, whether
. man works three days of the week II
: :, himself on his own field and three da!
for nothing on the estate Of his lord I
whether he works in the factory or worl
shop six hours daily for himself and
hours daily for his employer, it comes
: the same thing.
= This surplus value over and abo'
that which is required by the slay
ID the serf and the wageworker to mai
y tain his physical existence is the pe
to ton which the master, the feudal 10
y and the capitalist have taken by for
of Of arms in the first case, by ownersh
Of Of land in the second and by own,
r. ship Of tools and cunningly devils
h laws and court decisions In the ls
he instance.