Show DLTmcJ SUPREME 1 COURT AM TIlE COSSTI S v TOTIO > I J THAT the chief tiibunal of the i nation is gradually Joeing the reverence rev-erence of the people I tootplaina sIgn of the Units for any mistake to bli entertained concerning the lamentable lam-entable fait Every decision rendered ren-dered by it which Is doubtful con sUtuiionalily must ncccisanly have that effect Of such a character Is thejudgment in regard to the Idaho left oath We observe from the public journals that attorneys in I CUTrent suit arc citing I 3 n authority in cases In which there is an opportunity for insisting upon application of its purpoit Discussions cussions arise during which the unconstitutionally un-constitutionally of religious test oaths and acts that inflict political diraluLitic on the ground of religious belief I clearly delineated The Supreme Court inevitably euflera from these legal contention the untenable character of its conclusion in the Idaho matter being plainly e blbilcd > o source of authority can gain or retain the respect of the iwoplc by mere irtue of 1U lower That condition of sentiment Is the cole result of the proper and just use of liurauthority with which Jt is in teJlctL The highest court of the Ct cur te nation l exception t the rle One of tho moot striking lmp tom C depreciation of the U S Supremo Court l that whIch has arisen among the farmers of Minnesota Minne-sota over I decision rendered in what a termed the granger C Thin judgment practically shelves the Minnesota Hallway Commission sionTho The executive committee of tho State Farmers Alliance which represents over 30000 farmers met Ju the early part of tills month at SU Paul and inscd the mOt remarkable markable fl of resolutions ever adopted in this country They are terribiy denunciatory and In way of spreading the feeling the committee commit-tee ask all the Farmers Alliances in the country t join with them In a National Convention loosing to the abolition of the Supreme Court Following are the resolutions HTiereas It I reported by the dally press that tlie United States Supreme Court h recently decided in a cato appealed from this State that the Railroad Rail-road Commission fund Inferentially the State Legislature has no right or power to prescribe rates for transportation transpor-tation on the railroads of the State or to do more than establish pnma facie reasonable ntes each detail to b fought over In a succession of couits with interminable litigation thereby practically nullifying reversing Ibo great decision of the same court I telon o cur made some years since In tho granger cases therefore Haolral By executive committee commit-tee of the State Farmers Alliance speaking in behalf of 30000 farmers of Minnesota that wo regard the said recent decision as one of tbe greatest injustices In the history of our country coun-try and as signifying tbe sublection of tbe people and the State to Ibo unlimited unlim-ited control of the railroad corpora lions of this country JctolrcJ That wo appeal from this second Drool Scott decision to the poj pie of the nation and wo ask them t consider whether any other race would submit 1 have their liberties thus wheedled away from them on technicalities techni-calities by a squad of lawyers sitting as a supreme authority high above Congress President and people We call attention to the fact that tho citizens citi-zens of England from whom we have largely derived our form of government govern-ment would not permit for one Instant meo rrit stant a bench of judges to nullify an e of Parliament There the people arejimperly omnipotent yo civilized rrrrl omulptent cI government on earth hi ever con ferred such powers upon any court ai ore by our ConitituUjn granted to tbo United Suitei Supreme Court In our anxiety to protect the rights of property prop-erty we have created a machinery that threatens to destroy tho rights of man Hffolifl That copies of these resolutions reso-lutions bo sent by our secretary to the alliances of the several States of the Union With the request that they umto with us in an effort to s amend the Constitution of the United States i a t abolish this new slavery the I Stales and = lon established by and fur the benefit of corpnrate vteallb and t make I so plain that the people peo-ple are masters In this event that no court howeVer shallow or corrupt shall over again attempt to subject tem to domination of tbe artificial personages they have themselves created c fleeofrcsl Tat wo recommend the holding a convention by tbe alliances al-liances ef Ibo United Stoles at an early date to consider the very grave and momentous questions arising out of the extraordinary d < lloo Marred That wo hereby express the gratitude of tho farmers of Minnesota Min-nesota to Judges Bradley LamarGray and the other Judges of the Supreme Court who dissented from the mid decision and stood by Ihe peoplo upon the question Tho same causes which reduce the degree of esteem in which the chief court of the country should 0 held have similar effect In relation t the rpt that ought t cxi l for the Constitution Thai glorious Instrument I gradually being r i atc as I mossback1 production bleb should cither L altered beyond be-yond recognition abandoned In these fast times it l beginning t b looked upon a good deal as fatblon able lady would regard olio of the old tylo coa6knttle hloscraping bonnets wit which tho great grandmothers of the jreient genera I ttm used t trudge t church took ins with their row jklrtJ like to many animated axes The fashionable fashion-able woman of the day prefers i little flower and feather bedecked birdencst having tier complexion with a un Ie S the politician of today to-day want t change or JUcarJ the Constitution leaving the peoples rights t be scorched and destroyed by tbo hot breath from the furious furnace of selfish majorities The fundamental law of tho nation IS I in the estimation of many political wireworterp to antiquated and restrictive re-strictive t longer adoru the comely form of our system of government It will boazorrydayror the I wi 0 sorry dy nation ton when there iliaD b bo line of iemarcaUon over which majorities may npt step in their tfrl t cwd minorities t the wall Unless the present tendency of the times visi a his In high and low places l checked by some unforeseen conditions condi-tions the calamity I not distant 9r |