The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-04-20
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one OF the points decided at Toledo
was that the railroad had right to
enJoin employees Of a railroad corpora
tlon from combining in sucha way as to
obstruct the operations of the road.
Ihat decision seemed to have gone
very much farther than the courts had
gone heretofore. lie understood that
that was the object Of the inquiry pro
posed in the resolution offered some
some days ago by the Senator from In
diana, (Voorhees)
FOrhceS, Democrat, said that his At
tentlon had been called a few mornings
ago to the recent decision of Judge
iatt and Judge Ricks, and that those
decisions had prompted the resolution
which he had offered. He was salts.
lied that the Interstate commerce Act
went farther than any one supposed it
did at the time of its passage. He had
read Judge Speer's decision in the
newspapers. He thought, however,
That the fault was in the law, and per-
maps In the Willingness and in the Gag
erness of the Federal judges to con
strue the law in favor of corporate
power and against the labor of the
country. The most dangerous ques-
tlon that the country was facing to-day
was the encrOachment OF corporate
power. of colossal wealth against those
who were helpiessly in it's power, and
whom it wanted to have chained to
their labor as completely as the galley
slave was chained to his oar. This
power claimed that the railroad en-
ployee was enlisted as private SOL
dier; that if he left his post he was to
be punished as deserter. When an
issue Of that kind was presented, the
country had reached the point where it
became the Senators to halt.
lie heartily responded to the senti-
ment OF the Senator from Maryland
(Gorman) as to the grasping power of
the Federal judiciary, but Thought that
the Senate ought first to clear its own
skirts aud ought to see to 1T that no
law renamed on the statute books
which punished an individual laborer
TOR leaving the employment of a cor
poratlOn whenever he chose to do so.
lie had therefore felt it h is duty to in
troduce resolution directing inquiry
as to what action might be necessary
Tor better protection of the laborilg
people OF the United States in their
natural and inalienable rights, and for
their greater security from the en-
croachment Of corporation powers.
Nobody pretended that railroad en-
glneer could leave his engine, endan-
gerlng train or cars and endangering
the lives OF its passengers.
But that was not all that was con.
templated in the interstate commerce
law. That law said, in plain terms
that he could not, alone in an orderly
way, sever his connections from the
corporation; that he was enlisted tC
stay, and was to be punished AS de
| Serter If he did not stay. He had only
this to say in regard to the judiciary
that when bad laws are enacted, when
mistakes are made, some judges are
glad to mitigate those laws and to show
no pleasure in their enforcement, but
there were other judges who grasped
after p5wer, who loved power for its
own sake, and enforced it rigidly. JEFF
terson, the great apostle of popular Ii
berty in this country, foreseeing that
danger, had once said that the Federal
Judiciary were the sappers and miners
OF constitutional liberty, and, Voor-
hees added. $50 they are, such of them
as have greedy thirst and hunger to
enforce the laws of this kind to their
utmost limit. l think that the Com
mlttee on Interstate Commerce cannot
'e better employed than in inquiring
into this dangerous question"
plaIt, Republican. said he did not
feel that the criticisms passed upon the
Judicial decisions referred to we're
well taken. They seemed to him emf
nently reasonable and in the plain pur-
pose of good law and common sense.
The real true lahoring man of this
country desired to engage in no organ
iZation or association, or to be guilty of
any act that would affect disaStrously
the operations of trade, and no greater
injury could be done to him and to his
cause than by intemperate appeals to
him to defend any fancied right to en-
gage in associations or organizations
calculated to do public injury. 1t was
not wise to attack the judiciary of the
United States. 1t was not wise to
charge the judiciary with desiring to
uSurp power. 1t was not wise to init
mate that Judges were cZars. 1t was
not wise to talk about the disposition
OF the judiciary TO reduce laborers to
the condition Of serfs; to talk about la
borers being chained to their oars.
The laborlng man had confidence in
the courts and he would be protected
in all his legal rights. But he did not
believe, and the labOring man did not
believe, that while engaged in the en-
ployment OF common carriers he could
choose his own time to leave that en-
plOyment. Ilatt apprehended that no
labor organization or not, would set
up that right; and therefore 1t was not
| true, as matter of law, that the en-
ployee could always quit the service of
the common carrier. Just when and
| how he might quit that service and un-
| der what circumstances, he would not
undertake TO say. That might safely
| be left to the courts. If the courts had
made any mistake in the recent decis-
| ions, the Supreme Court of the United
States would set it right.
The debate was continued by several
Senators, and then the question went
over to to-day when it was again taken
up.
All for Love.
CHARLESTON, S. g., April 12.-Miss
nate Leddy, a respectable young
women, who resided at 151 Queen street
committed suicide yesterday morning
Dy taking, laudannm and rough on rats
Miss Leddy had not been in good spirits
from some months. She was pleas
ant and amiable young person Of %