This applies to England, France, Germany,
Russia, Canada, Mexico, South America, Cen
tral America, and the United States. It
applies to all nations.
Equal rights for all: special privileges for
none!
(5.) A toll of $1.20 a ton, on all the com
merce of the whole world, would make the
Canal a paying investment, if we don’t
waste too much money on building Gibraltars
down there “to protect” the ditch. England
isn’t afraid to leave her Suez Canal unforti
fied : we, it seems, are more timid.
Besides, the Steel Trust and the Navy need
the money.
(6.) Up come the railroads, putting their
ships in front of them., and the demand is
made that the Coast-wise steamers, &c., of
Has “A Libel Been Rebuked?”
What sort of sleight-of-hand work has
been done while those two men were out on
bond?
Didn’t the valiant James A. Flaherty yearn
for a speedy vindication? Didn’t he know
that he ought to strike while the iron was
hot? Why did he so suddenly cool oft’, and
then wait so long before pressing these cases ?
The defendants must have known that they
were entitled to a trial by jury. They must
have known that they could compel the prose
cution to produce the constitution, by-laws,
ritual, &c., of that secret society.
Flaherty knew it, too. Flaherty was in
court, but he did not produce any books,
papers, documents or ritual.
Joseph P. Gaffney, the big lawyer of the
Knights of Columbus, was also present in
court, but he had none of the Society’s papers
with him.
