Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-09-11

babes. These things are so plain tina
| it seems almost wasteful to mention
them. But they-even they-are no
all, To them must be added tn
countless examples and instances tina
have come day by day, month b!
month. with ever increasing force ant
number, to drive home the lessons
Just look back few weeks or month!
and consider.
A senator of the United States as
sociates himself with other senators
to bring about a recall of the supreme
court judges when, on the law and evi
dence, they render decision which
displeases the people, who have read
neither the law nor the evidence.
A senator of the United States as
| sociates with himself other senators
of the United States to debar, legally
debar. the courts from pronouncine
any act of congress unconstitutional
that is, to allow congress to abolish
any or all of the constitution, to vote
away by bare majority the constitu.
tional safeguards against cruel and
unusual punishments, against the con-
fiscation of private property, against
special class legislation exempting
some and disabling others, and so
on back to the erasure of the Bill OF
Rights, the Great Charter, and every
other measure of what has been con-
sidered right, justice, equity, protec~
ton and safeguard for the citizen, his
life and his property, since there has
been an English language.
And is this razing the foundations
of the only shelter that we have from
government murder, rapine and rob.
bery-consider these words-a mere
idle dream, a Jewelers. chimera, a
Socialists trance? No indeed. The
practical first step to this almost un.
thinkable goal was attempted in
territory that was about to become
sovereign state, was approved en-.
dorsed and furthered by majority of
the house of representatives and the
senate of the United States, and was
halted only by the last ditch interfer-
ence of the president with his veto.
To shout "demagogues." Jewellers" "
"revolutionists" at the men who speak
these things and do these things, set
ties no issues, alters no conditions.
Hard name, true names, do not change
a word of record or rewrite single
page of what is now history. What
ever they are, whatever they were,
the majority of the men whom the
people pick and send to Washington
to make laws for the protection of
the life and property of US all, did
and spoke and voted to bring about
the conditions which we have out.
conditions under which
within twenty years reign of ter
or, twentieth century reign of ter.
ror, would sweep this nation into
vortex of woe such as the modern
world has never seen.
Nor is that ALTAR from it. While
these things were doing and saying
in the supreme law making body Of
the land, the administrative part of
the government was neither silent
nor idle.
The attorney general of the United
States, chief law officer of the nation,
head of the United States department
of justice-of justice, mind you-and
a member of the presidents cabinet,
came to the middle West and, in a
public address, proposed that the gov
eminent be intrusted with the power !;
to fix the prices at which the principal
articles that the people make, buy,
sell. eat and wear, shall be transferred
and acquired throughout the United
States.
The government to take possession
of the industry of a nation of 9O,OO0,-
900! The government to wipe out
the livelihood rights in one one makes
in his occupation and to leave him
only the duty of providing the cost! ,
The government of the United States
to undertake what even medieval tyr
ants shrank from after trial. The
government of the United States to
accept Karl Marx as its prophet, Karl
Marks Capital" as it's constitution,
Karl Marks socialism as its policy,
and Karl Marks Confiscation as it's
manual of procedure.
And this proposition from the head
of the department of justice of the
United States and chief law officer of
the nation. And, worst of all, from a
man who is still a member of the
presidents cabinet.