The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-27

minds of those who sought to estab-
fish conditions of freedom is we'll ex-
pressed in Judge Storys statement of
the purpose of the first ten amend
ments to the constitution: They
were adopted to guard more efficient
ly certain rights already provided for
in the constitution, or to prohibit GER
tain exercises of authority supposed
to be dangerous to the public inter
ests."
The first amendment is explicit
Congress shall make no
abridging the freedom or speech or
of the press; or the right of the peo-
pie peaceably to assemble E"
Right to Assemble.
An amendment to the constitution
must be taken as far more decided
expression of the peoples Will than
any of the original provisions. The
original document was formulated by
IA limited convention, and study OF
the minutes of that convention proves
conclusively that its leaders were bent
upon thwarting rather than fulfilling
the will of the people; whereas, two
thirds of both houses of congress or
the legislatures of two-thirds of tn"
states must propose an amendment
before it is even submitted for con
siderati ton, and a majority vote OF
the legislatures of three-fourths of tn"
states, or ratification by conventions
in three-fourths of the states, Is nee
essary for the adoption of the amend
m ent. Indeed, only sixteen out OF
twenty-five hundred amendments pro
posed have been adopted, and these
may be said To have been forced
through by tn" stress of national up
heaval amounting To revolution. ,"
intleXible is our constitution that a.
prime minister of mOnarchiCal ENG
land has expressed the wish that Eng
land had a fundamental law like that
of America. for the better pro-
lection of her upper classes. ANY
attack upon rights guaranteed by
amendments to our constitution must
in the light of the above facts be
viewed as fragrant disregard of the
will of the majority-thc overriding
of popular rights by mino:ities whose
power resides in the special privileges
which they have plundered from the
people.
Relief by "BuSting'
We are now engaged IN pOlltlCai
campaign. The three recognized
parties of the country are presenting
to the people their propose Is for cor
rection of the abuses from which the
people admittedly suffer The repub-
| lican and democratic parties propose
| relief by "busting'' the monopolies
or regulating the monopolies The
! most effectual bit of busting" on
record was perpetrated by Mr. Roo
sevelt on the Northern Securities COM
| pany Mr.. J. j. Hill is authority for
the statement that while Mr.. Roose-
| VeltS campaign put his company to
the Inconvenience of calling in their
! red certificates and issuing blue ones.
the plundering power of said company
was left quite unimpaired. In view
of the futility of the busting and reg
. ulating methods of the republicans
and democrats, the socialists proposal
for the establishment Of free indus
trial institutions-people's ownership
j and control of industry-is striking
today a responsive chord in the peo-
pies intelligence.
! Issue Control of Spoils.
| The long and strong issue between
the republicans and tho democrats
is the control of office and the spoifs
Of office-the control OF corruption
funds that must be Wrung from un-
paid labor and Unprotected consum-
ers. Somewhat naturally. the way
faring man does not listen eagerly to
their promises of crusts TO him on
condition that he will deliver over t.
them the champagnes and salads.
somewhat naturally, therefore, the
! old parties are less Interested in the
protection of the right OF street
speaking in political campo gns than
is the socialist party. the party of the
common people. The spoilsmen, pol
. itical and INDUSTRIAL of your cities, do
/ not hesitate to fatten on graft drawn
from poisonous social ccsspools, gam
bling hells and houses of prostitution
These institutions pay their "hush
| money and flourish unmolested but
a peoples meeting. discussing lawful
ways and means of abolishlng graft
ana grafters, must be dispo. sed by
these same spoilsmcn as inimical to
| claw and order"
We notice that the order Of the city
authorities against street speaking
does not include the Salvation Army
| presumably because the Army il
working in the interests OF the worthy
poor. Permit us to suggest that the
worthy poor are product of the pre-
datOry rich who ride on their backs.
and while we defend the right of thu
salvation Army to work for it's poor.
we must with equal determination de
| fend he right of other organizations
to work for the destruction of the DO
itical and industrial tyranny out Of
which a