The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-18
LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
Workers Ask No More Than
Equality Under the Law.
LABOR TREATED UNFAIRLY.

It's Leaders MaIisnsd and Their No.
tivss Jssrsd-Abuss From the Bench
Makes the Teller oeubt the Justice
Of Courts Of Law.
In the current issue Of the American
Federationist George W. Bope. hrst
vice president of the Musicians union.
makes a 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
ington. Adams and Jefferson down to
q period when We are represented by
the powerful genius and the unnp-
preached natural resources Of SO.OOO,-
coo Of people liberty and justice has
been the watchword OF the American
nation. I have always been Of the be-
lief that God and nature have made
laws which unless restricted In their
operation BY the Intervention Of hu.
man agencies give to every man an
equal opportunity to work out his own
destiny In this world.
And 1t is this Intervention Of some
OF these human agencies. operating
through the judiciary. that desire to
consider.
Judge Wright's castigation Of Com
pcrs. Mitchell and Morrison and his
terrific arraignment Of labor were
couched In terms Of caiumny. vitupera.
ton and reproach. Every trust law
yer In the country pronounced Judge
wrights TRADE sound judicial doc
trine. Every lawbreaking corporation
Endorsed it. Every subsidized sheet
editorially commended 1t. The gen.
eral public was thunde1tFuck. The
American Federation Of Labor was
staggered.
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
at the hands Of the scorpions Of %
called industrial alliances. But I do
charge that he Is at variance with
Magma Charta. Plymouth rock. Thorn
as Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln.
do charge that he arrayed himself
against every constitutional guaran-
tee. I do charge that bis 0ndings In
this case are in violent conflict with
the Declaration Of Independence. and
II carried to their logical travesty
the federal constitution q delusion.
American liberty a dream. American
| citixenship a malediction and Ameri.
can institutions base mockery.
Just As the rope which dragged WIN.
liam Lloyd Garrison through the
streets Of Boston was the Same rope
that subsequently hanged treachery
and treason until they were dead. %
the cianking Of the chains Of Gomperu
and Mitchell and Morrison, - they
march lockstep to prison. II they ever
do 90 march, will sound the death.
knell Of judicial absolutism In thia
country.
win agree with some Of our preda
| tory trust magnates that they would
not 60 out into the streets Of the city
! and pick the pockets Of pedestrians Of
enter q private house at midnight and
plumber the property and rob the In
mates o. break the glass OF . show
case in q shop window and steal tn
contents. But some Of these men have
| committed even worse onenses. They
have debauched oathbound publi<
servants. They have polluted popula,
government and are guilty Of acts 81
treason against republican institution
no less Infamous than that for which
the name Of Benedict Arnold II uni
| versally execrated.
| Some years ago q little man sa
down among the bills over in the ALE
ghenies and built q IRE. This m
burned for days and for years. and
when the smoke went up and the frS
went out be raked the ashes and fount
$500, 600. 600 melted In the heat and
sweat Of human toll. This mans foot
steps had fallen upon q continent o.
iron. He had employed an army d
Drawn and grit, and this army slep
not. Thus It was that he rose to be {
monarch crowned with steel. Through
out the country this man has donated
granite galleries. Throughout the citie
he has erected marble structures which
are stuffed With books Of science and
culture. ! have no objection to how
many libraries Mr.. Carnegie builds o.
causes to be built But want ever,
American boy and every America
girl and every American patriot WIN
passes under one Of those libraf.
arches to know that citizenship Of tn
Carnegie type II always wanting II
the name Of patriotism. to wrap itsel
In the stars and stripes every time I
approaches the national treasury arm
ed with Q requisition from the fedora
congress appropriating $4,000. 900 70
armor plate, with the implied under
standing that one-half million II to b.
handed back BY way Of campaign con
tribut1ons for the purpose Of selectin,
and controlling the state legislatures
which IN turn elect United States seu
ators. who In their turn confirm or e
Jet the appointment Of federal judges
And when 30 confirmed these are tn
Judges who are deciding that '1abo
organisations are conspiracies IN n
strafnt OF trade"
These are the Judges who are send
lng GompeGU and Mitchell and Mort,
son to Jail for exercising their right o
freedom Of speech and press. Thes