The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-06-06

made By the injured party or some other person
hduifg knowledge of the Otense.
With the usual cheerful obedience given to
the laws, few applications of this easy rem
edy would induce a general acquiescence
But II the aggregate wealth of great corpora
tons Is to support an organized and general
defiance CT law, the only means provided must
be cordially employed by all good citizens and
your Executive sustained by the hearty Coop
Grafton of subordinate officials.
L cannot doubt that this support and Coop
Grafton Will be accorded when the whole case
is fairly understood The interests at stake
are too vast and too vital to admit of any
other conclusions. For it will then be seen
that not only this particular law framed by a
Legislature of your own choosing, enacted in
your own interest and Ill obedience to YOUR
own expressed command, is disregarded and
condemned, but that the very idea and prin-
clple OF law, and just sense of the duty of
obedience to the constituted authorities would
be clouded and imperiled by a neglect promptly
to meet, rebuke and punish such defiance of
the popular will. 1t will also be seen that the
people are dealing with powerful and danger
Gus combination which holds itself above the
law, and seeks to make its own sanction supe-
rlor to the sanction of any statute-that it is
not the form and terms of THIS law upon
which issue Ii taken. but that these corpora
tons deny the principle that IL railway
though built With the public consent for ID
public use, and i'll part with the aid of public
gifts, and chartered under constitution
which expressly reserves to the people tho
Ight of genera control, can, for any purpose.
III any way, be limited as to its tolls by regula-
tons other than those of its own corporators.
Believing then that to the authority of the
state and to the 81 port of public officers III
their efforts to curb and restrain the threaten
ing powers OF the great corporate bodies which
now boldly defv them, you will bring promptly
and manfully all the aid and cooperation
which ev8rySCod citizen owes the state III any
time of peril toher institutions her authority or
her laws, and Icing deeply sensible of the OBJ
legations resting epon me to avert, if possible,
the danger now pending, | call upon and en-
ION every citizen Vt this state, to observe
with scrtpulous care tho requirements of the
aw herein referred to in avery instance and
particular OF business dealings with any rail-
road company of this state, and especially the
companies herein named to pav as traveller
no higher fare than the law prescribes TO pav
as a shipper or receiver of freight no higher
rates than the law prescrbes. all of which
rates the railroad commissioners have fixed
and published ; and that if i'll any eXigencv or
necessity ne should suffer any sum IN excess
of legal rates to be eXtorted from him by any
agent of any such company, he notify with all
convenient dispatch the District Attorney of
his county Of such violation of law
| also request and enjon all district attor-
neys promptly and vigorously to prosecute to
conviction and punishment all offenders against
said law.
| further enjoin all constables and police of
ticers within the state, to inquire of all such
Offenses, and complain against the offenders
before some justice of the peace, and diligently
to take are that this law be not violated III
their towns or precincts with impunity.
PriI te / forms and instructions for the prose-
cution of such action will beprompty furnished
on the request of any officer of the law made to
the Attorney General at Madison
In the possible contingency of a sufficient
resistance to the local authorities to require
the interference of the Executive, the guaran-
ties contained i'll my proclamation of May 1st,
can be relied on with the utmost coutide""-
VIM y
..-r $. IAYi0R
Governor 81 Wisconsin