The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31

Senate: which foresaw that at Chicago they would control their last convention. Foreseeng these things with unerring sagacity they have pre-empted the federal judiciary Never in the history of the government have they so used a Presl- dent to secure the appointments of their agents to judicial office, from the lowest even to the highest courts
 An Alabama railroad judge says that such statements constitute profanity. and are the saereigious traducing of sacred things.
 Tn our federal courts we must so down or up Our only chance to rise above the suits that flow from a suborned court Is te fight. Those who counsel non-resistance because of the sanctity of the courts, must go to the Bible and read the story of Eli and his sons. of Samuel and his sons; must read the story of The courts as recently told in Everybody's Magazine must read the story of the inferior courts at Montgomery and it's connection win the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
 Must Be Born Again
 Our federal courts to be raised from evil to good must be born again.
 No railroad president or interest has any right to make or control court. The history of Seattle, California, Min nesota, Missouri, Alabama; the story of Judge Hanford and Grosscup forced to resign; of Archibald of the commerce court charged with receiving money and in giving advisory counsel to the Louisville and Nashville railroad in a case on trial, make marvellous record of subordination of the courts. The commerce court, with it's unbroken rec ord of decisions favoring railroads, was so outra geously partial that even the Senate voted its abolishment
 "The fact that President Taft fills the federal courts with railroad and other corporate advocates, using only thAt class of men for his cabinet and close advisers, marks him the most dangerous President the country has ever had. and Is one of the principal causes of universal revolt against his administration!
 Government and Agriculture
 Tt Is a suborned government which allows a tariff or trust or unrestrained carrier tax against farm products and farm supplies. It is a sure sign of government decay when combinations of trade are allowed to prey on the farmer; when such men as MT. Arch bold and MT. Smith are allowed by visible and invisible influences. to en- viron and coerce that power which makes the laws and appoints ths courts. When Morgan can form com binations of trusts and railroads to tax everything which correlates with agriculture. then it is time to sound the note of resistance, for all property has got to come in its last analysis from that primary source. To guard agriculture with law, to guard it with courts and Jury, to guard 1t with an army if need be, Is the highest science of government To turn 1t over to the looter or taxer is a madness which no governmen can survive.
 "Every attempt by Congress to de- crease the tariff tax on cotton ana woolen cloths. on iron and steel pro ducts. on harvester machines and other agricultural implements, on all articles of common production, consumption and use. are met by vetoes. Like at- tempts made by the states to reduce the carriers tax are met by injunc- tions. Both processes are against the vital interests of the producer and con sumer and are in the interest of pred atory wealth. These conditions have always preceded revolution and 1t would well become the interests, the courts and the appointing power to be less steadfast against the popular demands  steadfast sometimes in pursuit of their enemies and oppressors. The source Of the hearts blood of our nation Is not the corporations, is not wealth, IS not the public carrier. but is back where the eight to ten billion crop value Is created
 "A judge who refuses to protect the people when he-can against unjust tax ation by public carriers, or by any 1ac pnnCnntiOn Of tho first principles of law or government. To speak of suborning jury sounds coarse and Is associated with scound- relism. Hearst magazine is publish ing photographed letters showing how the Standard oil magnate, MT. Arch bold has suborned the highest law making power in the world-the fed eral Senate. It is also publishing the story of how he had as coadJutor MT. Milton H. Smith, representing the Morgan interest
 Subornation
 "suborning may be done by means of money paid as a brbe; by means or a lucrative office or employment; may in its widest sense, be practiced by any method by which an individual can be influenced for or against another. Our jury sys- tenn in the selection of jurors recognizes this principle.
 'Ihe LOulSNllle ana INdSiiNiiic Ihiiion the principles of suborning, and never hesitates to use its methods. In Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama that corporation has always had In eonstitu- tional and state conventions, in the Ieg1s- lature, in the judiciary, in the railroad commissions, in every branch or govern ment it's friendly representatives, its surborned men.
 Alabama's First Efforts Thwarted
 Alabama following the Granger move ment. attempted to secure a law estao- fishing a railroad commission with power to regulate and limit freight charges The railroads through one of their at torneys Hon. Thomas Goode Jones, member of the house, suborned man, de- feated the proposed law and retained in- stead a commission, nominated sy the governor. generally with the approval of the railroads, having only advisory power. and drawing it's pay from the railroads. This commission as was intended, drew a salary and acted as buffer between the people and the railroads, always pro- tecting the railroads.
 After the legislature adjourned MT. Thomas Goode Jones was continued as the attorney of the Louisville and Nash vile railroad.
 Tn 1892 a petition was presented by the shippers to the legislature. asking for an effective commission. At the same time was presented a comparison or the freight charges on many or the arucles of common production, consumption ana use. as levied by the same railroads in Georgia and Alabama, showing gross dis crimination against Alabama.
 ..The Hon. Thomas Goode Jones. pre- yjous to his election a railroad attorney a suborned man, was governor and the hul x,oa defeated After Governor Jones'