Judge — August 29, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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he E_ CHANGE TO THE GYANDIORY ‘There are pressing reasons why you should give energetic attention to the pre i tude of corporations in th of the United States. Th are so power useful to the public and go intent on their own schemes, that there nstunt danger of their t e law, invading private rights and in ng public interests, Your Jury of © Opinion is the only power that can keep them within the bounds of law and right, Fla noes of trespa this kind will be submitted to you by the Public Prosecutor of the Press. “One of these is the recently-reported purchases of the West Shore road in New York by the N.Y. Cen- tral; and of the new South Pennsylvania by the Penn, Central, ‘The roads thus pur- sed are parallel and competing lines of the re purchasing them, respectively. ‘The transfers and combinations are not cnly nst public policy, which demands con- petition between carriers, but they are in violation of statute law in one ¢ and of a speci je in the constitution of Penn- sylvania in the other. ‘These legislative and constitutional in- hibitions have been ignored by the conspir- ing and con) corporations with a coolt whic! 1 little fear they have civil authority—an indifference born of their successes in manipulating le ires and courts and thwarting justic In such a situation your jury should. inter: fere and bring these haughty outlaws with- in the bounds of 1 Their example of successful law-breaking is as demoralizing to the citizen as its effects are injurions to public inter ts. It is probable that your jury will find it necessary in the course of your inquest into abuses of this kind, to sharply overhaul the conduct of the aceredited officers of law in their relation to the schemes of corporations. ‘The highest courts of law have not infre- quently become tools of the most unscrupu- lous and corrupt desi The combination of chicane and violence by which the West- ern Union Telegr able to gain le; countenance a large property of others ina manner little short of contfis tion, will be before you 1 illustration of the abuse of judicial power for. the benefit of a would-be monopoly. There is the more need of your jury prompt indictment of such other indications of a 8 seems to periodi- there are, with th judicial decline, ach cally infect. the bench, ‘The disgraceful ralization of our courts in_ the ‘Tw regune, and the more recent Westerbrook scandals, will remind your jury that your constant vigilance is 1 ry to keep even the judicial ermine out of the mire. Your jury's deliberations will ne carry you’ beyond providing necks to these encroachments sarily temporary to the con- sideration of permanent preventive measures. Government inspection of corporate con- duct or the stricter remedy of government direction thereof, and the actual purchase and control of telegraphs are among the alternatives for a permanent prevention of corporate outlawry and depredation. B Financial Laundering. Wasiixctos departments have adver- lised for proposals from washwomen for The Treasury and Execu- for some one to clean f their eyes and furnish uncial foresight, or the biggest job of clean ing up acrash that it has seen since the panic of '3s rid-dust out with fi them country will have the Iconoclasm. The glory of Diogenes dimmed by the d which he took up} and that 1 cynical walk The lantern le been slightly scover lod igs was a brew- ud his friends indulged in round therein every night. end is based on an ‘escapade of the company one Sanday morning when y dressed in bluc uniforms and with bull’ imps set out to run in every. belated all the guilty ones escape. but bless you, the p ar hey continued ‘to draw and dream tle happy hours away. ere lice didn’t their pa THE JUDGE. | unities, that the tub in | 14 A Complete Combination, One of Keiley’s defenders pleads that a man with such assorted should not have been rejec power. — He was educated came a Catho married a Jewess and i: now a free-thinker. If Keiley could have sorted up his polities equally well, he might have become the world’s favorite. As it. i cand Butler would make a powerful team nting pantheism and panpoliti ins tied to their tails would complete the They would ‘travel to the pole | well "—North Pole, religious views I by any foreign a Methodist, be- Administration Prison Reform. t pro- | gress in wiping out net the criminal class T offensive Democrat | who was serving aterm im the Ohio peni- tentiary for illegally imprisoning a hundred or two voter Cincinnati to prevent their becoming offensive voters against Cleveland, has been pardened out by Cle’ A man in Maine, who is suffering in state abstracting government funds ne post office in which he was a been consoled by promotion to ership. been made special agent in jorado, who is under arrest for horse-steal- ing, and confesses to having served at least two terms in the penitentiary for the same offense. But, thank he the post Aman Col n, none of these were “offensive partisans!” —'They were Demo- crats,”” Bostanese ScLuvaN ought to make a good lawyer; he’s so-tistical. I stood upon the pier ve And s disappearing; The whit the steamers leave, And onward, upward, go carcering T saw the lighters’ fittin, Tn the red, radi y And to the sea-gulls’ surly hails id hoarser shrieks, was fain to listen. ped to join the eit And leave the When lo, near by T saw a Upon the sle s whirl, al grimy Janding, rl der string-piece standing, Her long hair, by no ribbei er her fair sho While from the bay thi Throw, “What dow * Aegazi ko came the poor, long-lost. fal tied, she there? Tasked my bes © whirling water? Lb rt Some victim of Fate's stern ¢ Who, weary of the Doth seek In the cree, rad c drown ber notion, miery 1, clammy elute of Ocean! 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