Judge — November 14, 1885 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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“THE JUDGE. a monstrous perversion of justice. Your Jury should strip off their marks of respec- tability and present them at this court in the *s dock—even as Fish and Ward have | stood in the docks of New York courts, It | is uot fair that twe or three of the parties prise | to this great fraud ‘should be arrayed in stri- ped suits and eat the hard bread of disgrace, while the rest of them flourish in’ fine rai- ment and live in luxury and respect. ‘The major crime that is set down in the code of Public Opinion they have been guil- ty eckingto get rich by unlawful mes ‘The whole fabric of fraud re sin and it is Your Jury's special duty to strike at the root of the evil. — While estab- lished courts of law, at your unceasing, irre- sistable demand, vigorously enforce the statutory penalties in cases within the cog: nizance of those conrts, be it your duty to Ladies aud Gentlemen ef the Grand Jury of Public) visit the full penalties of the High Court of 6 Public Opinion on all who, in making haste to be rich, have not been innocent. c. F ris Court of Last Resort desires to impress i upon Your Jury the striking effects of your power as shown in the conviction and ‘sen- tenee of Jas. D. Fish and Ferdinand Ward by the courts of New York. We also con- ite Your Jury on the speedy just thus secured in obedience to your tribunal of Public Opinion. It has recorded a con- traliction of the cynical and despondent iy sometimes entertained by you, that | courts would not convict a rich Jury, while takin heart of © convictions, should not abate your determined attention. to the law- less and injurious conrse of rich men, for eternal vigilance is the price of your author: ity An Awful Example of Temperance. Jay Gould nev and ‘that was t decided tha life he mu there registered asted whiskey but once rty-four years tie din eyalone; he then and nin vow to drink enly a he has rel he i Moe this class of temperance men is not more numerous, He 1S to si man, hope from ‘The convictions already 1 in the special cases mentioned hav ched but two of the conspiratore int din the ntand Ward frauds. ‘There must be many and equally guilty with F Fifteen or sixteen millions of dollars have been swallowed up, and the most of it is yet in hid Your Jury should not abate your inquest until | every dollar of the seqne is | accounted for, and so far as any jar has | been unjustly taken, restitution to the right e ent of all the guilty secured. Such a pushin to the last end do not let the n You will find as you investigate that there was no legitimate business done by the Ward © property was bought, no en- no contracts entered ments of any kind that could | ern money with Ward | 1 gains out of depositors, Tt was one man robbing another through Ward, But the most of those who put their money in there drew out, or expected to t, interest that they knew was ille- profits that they knew were dishon- ‘There is no blinking or evading the of Justice | ured if Your Jury terprise un upon, no inve pay a just y d le. and the funds of othe est. criminality of moat of the banks, corpora- h men that furnished mon ¢ law-breakers, eve and most of them tions and ri Ward. Th to of them, in inten were such in fact | Your Jury should not abate your indict- ments until the statute Is against waury have been enfo: Inst every man who drew unjust gains from the Ward operations; and when that has been done you should indict and a n every one of them at this bar for further punishment by the Court of Public Opinion, Many of these men now stand high in honor and public contidence— , LABOR Ignorance ix bli ed on that | A Mixed Definition. | ‘The Mugwump is the only go-as-you- please contestant in the polit arena. He is never handicapped by records or weight (moral). Ife cannot lose a race. © Which- ever of the favorites wins, he claims a vic- | tor Ife is the umpire of the national game. Batted by all, he yet decides the contest ir- ctive of the efforts and merits of the Ile as the monkey that decides the contest ithe cat and dog for possession of | ys Jago to the Democratic Cassio ublican — Hoderigo, saying: Wheth uleriga kill Cassio, or Cassio kill him, every way makes my gain,” t to the application of the victor belongs the wvided he be allowed to designate the principle spoils,” y the victor, The Mugwamp is the tramp of American | politics—fat, happy, ragged and indepen- dent. Wants nothing and gets everything. | New York Desocracy makes a business of politics the whole Thecam- || er before the munici- pal departments sent in their demands for several millions increased appropriation ar around. paign of '85 was not ¢ What are Republicans doing to meet. the: previsions and prov ions? xs on both sides. comicbooks.com