People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — A PACKED SUPREME COURT [ARTICLE]

A PACKED SUPREME COURT

For a number of years it has been marked that the decisions of the United States courts were nearly always in favor of corporations. Then it was noticed that no man could be appointed to a federal judgeship unless he was satisfactory to those interests. Over a year ago the New York World talked about a packed supreme court and that court has within a few days rendered two decisions which unfor tunately tend to confirm this charge. A week ago it did violence to the constitution and laws of the land by holding that the government had no power to tax the rich of this country. Now it has stricken down trial by jury and established government by injunction.—Gov. Altgeld.