| Show DTTNIOPS ADDRESS Editor Dunlop of the Chicago Dispatch Dis-patch who was convicted of violating the federal postal laws and whom President McKinley has refused to pardon has issued an address It is in part as follows Notice has been served on the D < X > ple of the United States that their personal per-sonal liberty their property and their citizenship are no longer protected by the constitution but are at the mercy of individual spite business jealousy and political intrigue The refusal of President McKinley to make abortive the deep laid plot against a private citizen a plot orig inated by business rivals and forwarded forward-ed through theinstrumentality of the 1 United States courts is an annaunce ment to the wdrloLjthat Americans Jjo longer free that p litfcal opposition to 1 the powers that be is a crime that the law is no longer a nrotection but a menace that the machinery of this government canbe manlnulated in the interests of a trust and at the dictation dicta-tion of personal malice to crush a nan who dares to champion the cause of the people in short that liberty is dead I It is no longer the case of Jeseph R i Dunlop it is the case of every man in the United States it is the cae of right against might If liberty is to prevail if citizens of this country are to be protected In the rights guaranteed guaran-teed to them by the constitution this immolation of Joseph R Dunlop as a victim of envenomed private hate must be accepted by the people as a terrible terri-ble exposition of what any individual may expect to suffer hereafter Realizing Real-izing this fact forced upon them by the course and conduct and conclusion of this case the people will also realize that there is a principle involved a principle which being subverted carries car-ries with It the entire fabric of constitutional con-stitutional rights and places every mans life and liberty and business in imminent and constant peril at the hands of infamous conspirators For the first time in the historv of the United States have the star chamber cham-ber of Venice and the autocracv of Russia been outrivaled in gratifying secret and malevolent conspirators through the agency of its courts For the first time Yes For the last time No This triumph of personal enmity of corporate greed of indvid ual hate bears in it the promise and potentiality of a reign of terror of a rule of rings of a gospel of expression expres-sion of an espionage a denunciation and a destruction of individual rights that will make every man a slave and this boasted home of liberty a hissins and a byword among the nations of the earth The victory gained in this conflict between one of the people and the enemies ene-mies of the people is net so much a victory over Joseph R Dunlop as it is a triumph of plutocracy over the people peo-ple of plutocracy which hates the people peo-ple and which has now found a weapon which it will rot be slow to use against the people Let no man think for a moment that Joseph R Dunlop is the only victim marked for destruction Let no man dream that this is to be an isolated case in the annals of injustice The precedent has been established I The rights of a citizen have been overthrown over-thrown The means through whlch to ratify iose revenge and envy have been discovered and henceforth no I man is safe The people of the United States who love liberty and who have been croud to claim their I country as the home cf liberty are not so blind that they will fail to see what the condemnation of Joseph R Dunlop means I means that the press must be muzzled i i means that the trust are in the saddle it means that the expression ex-pression of political opinions is dangerous danger-ous I means that success in lesiti mate enterprises is a crime to be punished pun-ished with imprisonment it means that the petty spite of a narrowminde I bigot may invoke the allpowerful arm of national law to work out his revenge re-venge Can such a condition exist and the people remain free The question carries car-ries with it its own negative Will H1e res negtive I people of the United States submit i tamely to this subversion of their liberties lib-erties It is difficult to answer Mr Dunlop will hardly cut such a figure in American history a Job Wilkes and his North Britain do in English His Star Chamber of Venice Ven-ice is absolutely unique Why was there no reference to the London Bridge of Sighs |
