The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-24
TO IMPEACH HIM


lContInued from rage One.f
sented to congress next month: The
resolution read in part:
Your petitioners represent that Judge
A. b. Anderson of the United States dis
trict court for the district of Indiana has
protect and defend the constitution of the
United States; that he had deliberately
and wllfully denied citizens of the United
States their constitutional rights and has
violated the limitation upon his authority
mR9ss snf9ss BY the ,ts% and the
decisions of the supreme court of the
United States; that he has utilized the
power of his office TO coerce free men into
Involuntary servltude: that he has substi-
tuted his autocratic will for the law; that
he has forced 100000 men to disobey the
orders of court of this United States or
else submit to tntolerable wrong and to
rights which are guaranteed under the
constitution Of the United States-aud that
thereby he has brought the courts into
disrepute and the law into contempt; that
he has compelled every mine worker who
risk his individual liberty in order that
he may maintain the freedom of labor and
preserve for himself and his fellow citizens
that liberty which the United States gov
ernment was founded to preserve: and for
these reasons we petition that the house
OF representatives impeach Judge A. B.
Anderson in order that he may be removed
from his office and congress may main
tain unimpaired for the people of the
provided in the constitution Of the United
States.
our petitioners represent that swift
and stern action by the representatives of
the people is necessary to re-establish faith
in the inviolability of constitutional rights
Step by step the government by injunc-
tion has encroached upon the rights of the
workers. In twenty five years the courts
have enlarged their claims of power from
the decision sin the Debs case, where the
supreme court announced the right of any
laborer or any member of laborers to
quit work was not challenged to the brder
of Judge Anderson commanding that men
peaceably refusing to work for an unjust
wage should return to the work of making
exorbitant profits for private employers.
1t is time to call halt upon the oppression
of labor thru the courts Men born free
VIII not long suffer tyranny or depriva-
tion of natural liberty i'll whatever form
without determined resistance.
Labor is told that the avenues of OBJ
tanning justice thru peaceful means are
constantly threatened with being compelled
to accepted injustice by force of arms. We
are peace loving, law abiding Americans
We are seeking redress of grievances thru
the representatives of our people. Bnt we
sofemnly warn all officers of government
that they must cease deny to us and our
that they must cease to invoke the power
of guns and clubs to keep us from assert
ing our rights; that the government of the
United States must be maintained as a
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
There are men of thought and speech
alien to the United States of America who
seek to foment discomfort among men who
see only the abuses of American insttu-
tions and fail to understand their grent
uses. Some of these men belong to the
are no such men. We seek the aid of our
fellow Americans to oppose the counsels
Of such men.
I'VE submit that treason against United
willful violation by any public ofr.r a, o.
any constitutional right of Citizen