132 HISTORY 07 THE GRANGE MOVEMENT; OR, 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE CAPTURE OF THE COURTS. 



Sources of Redress for the People against Railroad Tyranny Failure of the 

 Courts to afford Protection Efforts of the Railroads to debauch the Courts 

 of Justice The Free Pass System Judicial Stockholders Designs of the 

 Railroads upon the Law A Caso in Pgint How the Erie Road managed 

 the Courts A New System of Railroad Jurisprudence Curious Details 

 How Boss Tweed became a Director of Erie Efforts of Fisk & Co. to lock 

 up Money Daniel Drew beaten The Government intervenes The War in 

 the Courts The Value of an Injunction How the Law was made to aid 

 Sharp Practice Mr. Jas. Fisk's llttlo Journey Tho Country Judge vx. The 

 City Judge The Railroad makes V/ar on the Press Arrest of Mr. Samuel 

 Bowles Justice turned against the People. 



WHEN the individual, or the community, is aggrieved 

 by the railroad, redress may be sought from two 

 sources the legislature and the courts. These august 

 bodies are popularly supposed to be the very centres 

 and fountains of justice; but are they? 



People are beginning to lose their faith in the courts 

 in judges and juries. Recent developments have 

 shown that men who should be spotless are not fit to 

 sit in judgment upon a case involving such issues as are 

 presented in a matter between an individual and a 

 great corporation. Judges, attorneys, and jurors are 

 often directly or indirectly interested in the cause of the 

 corporation, because they are holders of stock or bonds 

 of some similar enterprise. Or, if the judge be not a 

 stock or bond holder, he has no doubt received at vari- 

 ous times courtesies from the road, or some road, in the 

 shape of free passes and the like, which incline him 



