The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-30
SENATOR WARNS
AMERICAN VOTER
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into the rather reprehensive habit of
just handing a little billet-doux to
a convenient pimp or pander. and
forthwith some hapless soul found
himself in a dungeon. left to won
der why he was in Jail and how he
was to get out. one fine July day
n whole city mutined against this
unspeakable outrage; tho mud took
fire and a tattered rag became
banner" and all Paris moving
against the royal prison razed 1t to
the ground, and then they chopped
off the head OF the sceptered fool
who had peopled 1t with misery and
despair.
Matter OF Metaphysics.
II only Mr.. Daugherty had been n
citizen of Paris then, how easy TO
have explained the whole situation
to an unreasonable populace. Let
tres de cachet," after all, are not
legal documents. just new and
comparatively harmless form of
philosophical disquisition; for the
cruel and causeless arrest OF unof-
Tending citizens is. according to this
unique solon, matter not Of law
but of metaphysics. n question not
for courts but for the encyclope-
dists and the Royal academy; not a
cause for revolution, just fitting
subject for a high school debate.
l commend to the country's legal
adviser the illustrous example of a
learned and immortal predecessor.
A civilian by the name of Miiligan.
having been tried without the inter-
vention of a jury and condemned
to death by a drumhead court-mar-
tial. the attorney-general, outragC~'
at this invasion of the personal lib-
erty of a comparatively obscure and
simple citizen, appeared in person
before the supreme court of the
United States.
In the greatest defense of human
rights and free institutions ever ut
tered In the English tongue. Jere-
miah Black. pleading for the per-
sonal liberty OF n condemned felon,
expressed his adherence of this cav
alier contempt of human rights by
officers of the law sworn to pre-
servie and protect them.
In the opening sentence OF an i'm
mortal plea he impresses the court
with the vital importance and the
far-reaching effect of the violation
OF personal privilege and consti-
tutional right not by an individual
but by the deliberate act of an or
ganized society.
1 am not afraid. said the great
jurist, that you will underrate the
importance of this case. 1t concerns
the rights of the whole people. Such
questions have generally been set
tied by arms. But since the begin
ming OF the world no battle has ever
been lost or won upon which the
liberties of a nation were so dis
tinctly staked as they are on the re-
suit of this argument. The pen that
writes the judgment OF the court
will be mightier for good or for evil
than any sword that ever was
welded by mortal man.
The words of the greatest forensic
orator OF his day will go sounding
down the ages" to thrill the hearts
OF the free and to inspire the valor
OF the daring so long as the love of
liberty IL the highest aspiration OF
a human soul.
From my boyhood have abhorred
the institution OF chattel slavery
that barbarous custom imposing
chains and stripes upon the body of
covering wretch to make him
work to suit you. 1t is only less alb
horrent, It IL only less barbarous,
than that still more savage thing,
| Iintolerance-the servitude OF the
soul-invoklng the thumbscrew. the
rack and the boot, the stake and
the Jail to make men think and act
TO suit a self-constituted master.
Yesterday we embattled 1000, 900
men To save the old world from the
sumptuary sway Of military marti-
net, from the dominance of a despot-
ism which, having enthralled the
spiritual, moral and Industrial life
of the German empire. threatened TO
fasten its odious chains upon the
civilized world. Have we made the
old world "safe for democracy" only
to leave the new a hapless prey to
intolerance and oppression? God
forbid!
BY the valor and the blood and
the new-made graves of our death
less dead, / appeal 10 the free spirit
OF America TO stand for our liber-
ties here as they stood for freedom
there on the bloody fields OF Scissors
and of Chateau Thierry and in the
hell of the Argonne.
For a time unmindful, we can not
long forget "the proud and tender
me mories OF the past"
To save us from a bigots sump-
tuary sway. the ragged continentals
fought and fell, and patriots and