The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
WILL The GIANT Wake?

ly little joke that serves only to create talk?
District of Columbia judge, appointed, not
elected. says the constitutional guarantee of free
speech and free press is only joke and backs it
up by declaring that three who insist upon
their constitutional rights are guilty of contempt
and deserving of prison sentence
court of appeals, also appointed by political
pull, says the first judge is quite correct
Your right to free speech is mited-imited
by the whim caprice of some petty judge.
The liberty of the press is a pleasant fiction
federal judge tell you what you may may
not publish in your paper
Once upon time thought this govern
ment of law. Now we find it a government Of fed
eral judges.
Damn the constitution-what l say goes!''
Federal judges do not that exact language,
but that's what they
A sovereign state enacts law for the safe
guarding of it's people, and acting wholly with
in the province of the state outlined by the
fathers of the republic, says that certain nstitu-
ions chartered by the state must its patrons
A federal judge, who need not answer to the peo-
pie of rhe state, stops the governor the legislature
and the supreme court that state by merely writ
ing few words and calling it an injunction.
Yet talk about representative government
and ''the will of the people.
Sounds like joke, doesn t it,
The first amendment to the constitution Of the
United States reads follows:
Congress shall make law respecting the
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
speech, or Of the press the right Of the people
peacefully to assemble and to petition the govern
ment for a redress of grievances
Yet what congress may not do federal judge
may do-and does He issues his judicial ukase, and
prestola free press is abolished and free speech is
prohibited
In Omaha three thousand workers assemble
private property; they peaceful; they
dery. There is no sign of violence They are exer-
cisng right that they, in their simplicity thought
guaranteed them by the constitution What, that
antquated document Tell with it And sheriff,
the cheap tool of the corporations, and chief of
police owning stock in those same corporations,
rush in and drive those peaceful, lawabding citi-
away with clubs and revovers
O, yes, this is free country
Like the old woman kept hotel!
Any old federal judge, any old sheriff, any old
police chef-they knock the stuffing out of the
constitution any time their corporation hackers give
them the tip that it is the proper thing to do. And
workers-we who make the wheels go round;
whose toll makes the nation-we seem satisfied
long have good chance at three square
meals day and place to sleep at night
''The land Of the free and the home of the
brave! O, but doesn't that sound fine and dandye
The land Of the free-and submit to this thing
of letting any federal judge who desires aside
the constitution aside the sovereign will of the
people, and become at the lawmaker the law
interpreter and the law enforcer. And we call that
representative government -
The home of the brave-and we don't dare
peep lest lost Jobs, offend petty po-
litcal boss!
They rubbing it in, fellow workers-rub-
bing it in good and hard. Maybe the time will
when will arise in might and wipe the
whole pesferous breed from the face of the earth.
Not by bullets and bayonets! That isn't the way.
By ballots. But at times it seems hopeless Well
filled bellies will stand lot.
But maybe the men who ride will push
too hard some time, forgetting that there is
limit.
But if we going to wake up and take
notice, ask you in the name of sense.
in the name of liberty, ism t it about time do it