Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1921-06-17
INJUSTICE MOST FOUL

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up before a San Francisco court.
Again the plea for a new trial on be-
half of one who is the victim of the
prostitution of court of justice TO
the service of corporate wealth was
denied. Judge Louderback who re-
fused the application professed a
willingness to do everything in his
power in the interest of justice so
grossly violated in the person OF Iom
Mooney, but under the law he was
constrained from reopening the case.
So it comes to this: An American
citizen who is entitled by the Con-
stitution of the United States to
fair trial is deprived of his constitu-
tional rights by legal technicality.
So glaring was the perjury by which
Tom MONEYS conviction was secured
that, after the verdict was rendered,
the trial Judge, on learning of the
true character of the principal wit
nesses, made it known that he no
longer believed in the guilt of Tom
Mooney and joined in the petition for
a new hearing. But the corporation,
the envenomed hatred of which the
victim of perjury had earned by his
efforts in behalf of its employees Or
dered that there should be no new
trial and its order has been Obeyed.
"The safety of the people is the
supreme law" is the translation of
a Latin saying in which the Romans
expressed their conviction that the
welfare of all takes precedence OF
everything else. The courts of law
are the bulwark of our civilization.
If they become corrupt the lives and
the property of citizens are not safe.
Let the courts once become the ad-
juncts of corporate wealth and the
liberties of the American people will
have ceased to exist. Members of
labor unions are vitality interested in
having the purity of the courts OF
law maintained. Corporate wealth
has inaugurated against Organized
Labor campaign of determination.
In this fight an injunction issued on
frivolous grounds by a corrupt judge
will be a powerful weapon in the
hands of the enemies of Organized
Labor.
Let US make a practical applica-
ton of these remarks to the Mooney
case. Judge Louderback rules that
legal technicality stands in the way
Of undoing the work of band of per-
jurers. Well, then it is up to the
labor unions of California to make
the removal of this species Of in
justice a political issue. 1t is not
only the liberty of Tom Mooney which
is at stake; it is the very existence
of labor unions in California that is
threatened. The victim of Oxman
and the other perjurers is today be-
hind prison bars because he cham
pioned trades unions. The New
York Globe states the Mooney case
succinctly when it says:
"Why, then, is Mooney kept in
prison and why are such strenuous
efforts being made to prevent rehear-
ing? The answer is simple. Mooney
was an 'agitator' and a radical Many
San Franciscans of the employing
classes believe that if he is not guilty
of the murders for which he was SEN
fenced he is guilty of other offenses-
leze-majesty, perhaps, among them.
Moreover, the case has taken on tre-
mendous importance as a test of the
righteousness of the radicals on one
side and the reactionaries on the
other. Reactionary California does
not really care whether Mooney is
guilty or not. The governor, a weak
man, is responding to the reactionary
influence. This state of affairs makes
it all the more important that those
who are trying to get Mooney his
plain legal and moral rights should
be successful. They are exactly in
the position of men trying to prevent
a lynching"