The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-11
WARREkS SPEECH BEFORE FEDERAL COURT
Indictment of Capitalism and It's Despotc Institutions
Eloquent Plea for Free Press and peechEpoch Making
as Patrick Henry's Immortal Grafton


not believe that the $1,000 offered by
the Appeal would induce any man to
undertake the abduction Of Mr. Tay-
Tor, as for seven years the state of
Kentucky had standing reward of
/ 100000 for the capture Of the muir
derers Of Governor Goebel, for which
crime Taylor had been indicted by the
Franklin county grand jury in Janu-
| airy. 1900.
Similar to Other Rewards.
But l did expect that the offer of
| this reward In the manner and with
the language used would attract pub
| lie attention to the kidnapping decision
Of the supreme court. felt that IL
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 bred Scott decision, and will
undoubtedly be done again.
This Taylor reward was circulated
through the mails in a manner in
daily use by banks, private detective
agencies, anti horse thief associations,
| sheriffs 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 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 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.
1t will be observed that this lam
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 authori-
ties IL captured and returned to them"
II can further be said, following the
courts line Of reasoning, that this lam
guage was obviously intended by the
First National bank to reflect inju-
riously upon the character Of b. 3.
R0ud opd from, itc farms md tho 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
eminent to rid the mails of this OBJ
jectionable matter and protect those
of its 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 tho 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-
TALLY the same act should be singled
out anu naked 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-
pIe-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 IL they are to live. 1t Is the
primary IL not the sole purpose Of the
men who own this productive proper
ty to obtain as large profits as posi-
bic, while on the other hand the work
people strive constantly to increase
their wages This creates class con-
1lct.
,, 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 than
| slavery" Discussing the ever present
problem of labor and its compensation,
John Adams in 1916 observed:
| 1t 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 1t wheth-
| er a landlord employing ten laborers 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 pc
Rod, we find that the Charlestown
Baptist association in presenting a
memorial to the Georgia legislature in
1924 discussing this eyer with IS Droh.