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AUGUST 31, 190C
Editorials by Commoner Readers
C. W. Bowne, Mica, Washington.
Law is force. It is supposed to be used
to suppress wrong and to uphold right.
It is also supposed to bo based upon
justice. The constitution of the United
States 1b the basic law of the land.
That instrument guarantees to every
individual-certain rights, one of which
is a fair and impartial trial by jury,
and no man shall be considered guilty
until he is proved so. The constitution
of the United States and of the several
states were so formed that no man
could be railroaded through to death
without an opportunity to prove him
self innocent, but it appears from re
cent events that there is a class of peo
ple who are ready to override all law
in order to get revenge. Now, the
Lord has said, "Vengeance is mine,"
and certainly the governors of Colo
rado and of Idaho, and those who have
aided and abetted them in breaking
the laws of the land, are courting the
wrath of God. God no longer comes
upon the earth In the form of man to
argue with man about the evils they
commit, but the sword of justice
hangs by thread, and "ho who
kills by the sword shall be
killed by the - sword." The only
thing that protects any man in
the possession of property is law, and
those who have the most seem to be
anxious to educate the people to total
ly disregard law. Those In authority
seem to think that the mass of people
are fools, and will not see that law is
being bent to protect the guilty rich
and broken to punish the innocent
poor. The president protects his
friends in the same act which arouses
his Ire when done by the courts. We
imprison the corporation in efllgy
while the' individual criminal is al
lowed to run loose, but if some brain
less Idiot or some hired assassin mur
ders a man who has been an 'enemy to
organized labor we punish organized,
labor by hanging, without reason, and
in Bpite of law, the leaders of the or
ganization. I am not a, union labor
man, nor an anarchist, nor even a so
cialist, and X believe In law. As long
as man is human laws must be made
to protect man against man's injustice,
and they should be respected by all;
but if law is to be disregarded by one
class then let anarchy reign until we
can reduce the rich to a realization of
what law is for. Newspapers and mag
azines have for years been telling us
how the rich and powerful override
law and buy exemption from punish
ment, and then, if we get angry and
cry out In our indignation, many of
these same papers and magazines ad
vise us to "let the law take its course."
The powerful lawbreaker says, "To
h with the constitution," and the
papers and magazines take it as a mat
ter of course, but if an avowed anar
chist should make such an assertion
and a crime should be committed by
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No, 1 would be eonsldered an acces
sory to the crime and would be hanged.
Under the same ruling if innocent
men are murdered judicially by courts
that are prejudiced, the men who said
"to h with the constitution" aro
and ought to be considered murderers.
I know nothing about the facts in the
Moyer-Hpyard case, but I do know that
there are monopolies, men and news
papers that are and have been trying
to influence the public to a determin
ation to execute these men, whether
innocent or guilty, and by their course
they are really creating public senti
ment in favor of the suspected men.
It has created a suspicion in the mlim
of every thinking and fairminded man
that the authorities aro but the tools
of the trusts that are determined, at
all hazards, to crush out unionism. As
a farmer I know that my interests are
not with union Jabor, but aB a citizen
I am in favor of exact justice, and ex
act justice demands a fair trial; and
a fair trial cannot be giver by men
who are themselves lawbreakers and
criminals. The dangerous anarchists
of this country are not the men who
howl in favor of anarchy as an anti
dote for injustice, but they are those
.who talk law and order in public and
who practice a perversion of the same
in order to rob the public. Law keeps
the ordinary individual in fear and
trembling lest he do wrong:, but if the
masses of men take many more lessons
from the corporations and from the
officials who persist in overriding Jaws
in order to punish the innocent labor
ing man while they ignore justice and
law in dealing with the rich and pow
erful, all people will soon have the
same contempt for laws that the
strong now exhibit You can no more
hang a mob than you can a corpori
lion, and some day the laboring men
of the north will realize tbs just as
the negro-hangers do now, and thry
will deal with their enemies In the
same spirit with which they are dealt.
Government investigation showed that
the mine owners of Colorado and of
Idaho have been in a state of an-n-chy
for years, but although the na
iirnal government could send troops
to Chicago in 1894 to protect the prop
erty of a powerful corporation It can
do absolutely nothing to prote.it the
H-es of presumably innocent men in
ieaho in 190G. Hero Ik an opportunity
for the president t3 use his "b'g
stick." He should see that these men
are returned to Coloiailo wnere they
Velong; and that If they are again ar
rested the forms of the law shall ho
foilcwed just as they '-ould lie in any
other case.
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