People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — A GOVERNMENT OF LAW IN THEORY. [ARTICLE]

A GOVERNMENT OF LAW IN THEORY.

The provision of the constitution ‘That no man shall be deprived of bis liberty without a trial by an impartial jury’ is practically wiped out by this decision of the United States supreme court in the Debs’ case and the theory that ours was exclusively a government of law is now at an end, for every community is now subject to obey any whim or caprice which any federal judge may promulgate. And if federal judges cun do this then R will not be long until state judges will follow their example. The constitution declares that our government has three departments, the legislative, judicial and executive, and that no one shall trench on the other, but under this new order of things a federal judge becomes at once a legislator, court and execut’oneer. —Gov. Altgeld.