Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-11-05


 lor as for seven years the state of Kentucky had standing reward of $l00000 for the capture of the mur- derers of Governor Goebel, for which crime Taylor had been indicted by the Franklin county grand jury in Janu- ary, 1900.
 Similar to Other Rewards.
 But did expect that the offer of this reward in the manner and with the language used would attract pub. Tic attention to the Kidnapping decision of the supreme court. l felt that if this decision, sanctioning the kidnap- ing of poor and defenseless working. men by rich and powerful capitalists, was understood by the American peo- pie wave of protest would sweep the country and force the supreme court to recede from its position, as had been done before. notably in the famous Dred Scott decision, and will undoubtedly be done again.
 This Taylor reward was circulated througth the mails in q manner in daily use by banks, private detective agencies, anti horse thief associations, sheriffs and marshals. l 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 I offer for the inspection of the court, 1t 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 ladlng; $250 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. 'ls 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 authori- ties if captured and returned to them" II 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 E. E. Bond and from it's terms and the man. ner and style in which 1t 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 single instance has any effort been made by the gov ernment to rid the mails of this ob- jectionable matter and protect those of It's citizens who are fugitives from justice.
 My arrest and conviction is the first instance on record where a man was prosecuted for attempting to bring to the bar of justice an indicted fugitive charged with the crime of murder,
 The 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 tially the same act should be singled out and marked for prosecution.
 The reason Is not hard to find. So clety 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 a 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 possl- ble, while on the other hand the work people strive constantly to increase their wages. This creates a class con flict.
 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 q small group of rich men are permitted to lay upon the masses, to quote from Pope Leo, "a yoke little better than slavery" Discussing the ever present problem of labor and its compensation, John Adams in 1776 observed:
 It is of no consequence by what name you call your people, whether by that of freemen or slaves. In some countries the laboring poor, men were called freemen, in others slaves, but the difference was imaginary only. What matters it wheth- CT a landlord employing ten Iaborers on his farm gives them annually as much as will buy the necessaries of life or gives them those necessaries at first hand?
 Coming down to the civil war pe- riod, we find that the Charlestown Baptist association in presenting a memorial to the Georgia legislature in 1885 discussing this ever with us prob lem of labor gave expression to the following conclusions:
 It amounts in effect to this-whether the operatiye of a country shall be bought