The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-01-09
Published Weekly at 1877 No. 14th
St., Lincoln, Neb. One Dollar Year
WHO IS JUDGE WRIGHT?

VINO Is Judge wright, inc JuuSe
who recently sentenced Gompers,
Mitchell and Morrison to Jail for dar-
ing to exercise the right of free
speech? There appears to be differ
ence of opinion concerning his polit-
ical antecedents.
One thing certain, Judge Wright
was not elected by the people, there
fore he is not responsible to them.
He holds office for life. and therefore
Is beyond the reach of an outraged
people. But perhaps it will be inter.
esting to investigate this judicial
gentleman. Something might be re-
vealed that would explain a few
things that may now appear some
what mixed.
Judge Wright was appointed to the
supreme bench of the District of Co.
lumbia in 1908.
He was appointed by Theodore
Roosevelt, the gentleman who pre-
judged the Moyer-Haywood case and
declared the defendants guilty before
they were arraigned for trial.
He was appointed upon the recon-
mendation of Joseph Benson Foraker,
senator from Ohio.
Senator Foraker is the eminent
representative of the Standard Oil
company who assisted that giant mo-
nopoly in fastening it's puppets upon
the bench, who accepted it's retainers
and who has just been forced into
private life by an outraged people.
Dearly beloved, do you not begin
to see great light? Wright-For-
aker-Standard Oil Co.
or course Judge Wright is a repub-
lican, but that has no particular bear
ing on the case. We have long since
discovered that it is not the political
aifiliation of the judge that cuts the
figure-it is the personal equation.
In other words, show us the class OF
men the judge has been training with
and we can predict the trend of his
judicial opinions when the clash comes
between his class and class looked
arnn as being inferior.
We have for centuries been asked
to believe that just as soon as some
lawyer is invested with judicial ermine
he loses all bad human traits and is
And whenever some ordinary man
vcntured the opinion that the judge
was only human and as prone to err
as the rest of mankind, Immediately
the ordinary man was adjudged in
contemp. of court and thrown into Jail.
But we have been progressing lately.
They still would love to Jail all who
deny infallibility to the judiciary, but
there are SO many of us who do deny
IT that the Jail facilities are made.
quate.
Joseph Foraker. satellite of the
Standard Oil Company, recommended
Wright for position on the federal
bench. Wright was appointed. The
first time a question arose concerning
shS iiShtS VI TIC SoluuioH pSOplc oo
against the claimed rights of the self
appointed trustees of Divine Provi-
dence, the common people got the
worst of it. And need any close OBJ
server be surprised thereat?
Until the people of this country
awaken to the danger of allowing a
judiciary appointed for life at the
behest of dangerous elements in So
ciety to run things, just so long will
their liberties be curtailed, until finally
they will have none left.
A federal judiciary appointed for
life must be abolished. judge re-
sponsible to no authority and able to
work his own sweet will is repugnant
TO the spirit of our free institutions.