The herald., 1894-07-10
of no importance whatever, and can be
readily adiusted

AocNiy oAluotOos
We can see clear skies before us il
the inevitable effort of this injunction
of the court which operates equally or
both parties to the struggle. 1t will
smooth ths sharp edges of the contest
take away any element of hard feeling
that may have been aroused, and enable
each party to the controversy to come to
an amicable understanding, and resume
their duties towards the government
and the public without the slightest
friction upon their sensibility OF self
respect or honor.
AS to the travelling public on long
trips. arrangements can be improvised
by which sleeping ccommodationB can
be furnished them without infringing on
the numberless patents of the Pull
mans. The ability to sleep has escap-
ed the all-absorbing Introduction OF
the patent Office, and blankets and plain
hunks are still free. The men out on
strike will be placated by finding that
ior once they are placed by the practical
Interpretation OF the law on an even
footing with the corporations, and will
return to their duties with a renewed
sense OF their manhood.
The interstate commerce law has
been much farther reaching in its
ecope than was dreamed OF by it's
trainers. 1t was intended to cover the
evils Of discrimination by the com mpanies
for and against points on the railroads.
and to protect the public from abuses
In charges and service that had grown
to be science in railway management.
1t was intended to curb cor porate cupid
ity and to place the public on an equal.
ity OF relation with the roads. 1t has
been discovered III this time OF trouble
that it possesses the double virtue OF
embracing within the scope OF its rem
edial forces the power to open such tie.
ups as we are suffering from, bringing
the companies and their men before the
courts OF the country Oh plane Of per-
feet equality.
But the courts, under the laws as We
now hsve them, cannot Offer psnaces
for al the evils with which we are be-
aggregated capital, and protect the man,
whose life and well-being depend upon
the employment of his labor and reason
able compensation therefor, from being
arbitrarily reduced to starvation wages.
That is a wrong for which the laws must
supply remedy promptly, or the coun-
try will DRIFT on from labor disturbance
to labor disturbance until snarchy reigns
supreme, or some man on horseback"
will ssizs the reins of power, wipe out
our liberties and establish on the ruins
OF the republic an iron despotsm.
We are confronted in this with a con-
dition that must be met by providing a
legal and constitutional remedy, not a
theory to be bufesed by tho winds raised
by Greamers and doctrinaires. We must
make the law what it ought to be in fact,
and which the events OF the past few
years show it is not. There must te a
! practical remedy for every wrong. Ii
the prescriptive principles OF p.~o.;-a
declare that no legal wrong is committed
by corporations and trusts lowering the
wages of their employees to starvation
point, then those principles and prac-
tices are false in effect. They embrace
within the scope OF their operation not
only direct wrong done to the people
who Immediately feel the dire effect of
their results, but they stand as a con-
etant menace to government and good
order, involving in their evil train the
stability of our Institutions and the
ability of our people to enjoy that great
est of fundamental guarantees, life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness. No
hosry maxim handed down to us by the
one moment against this sublime guar
antse of The Declaration ofIndependence. OF
1t is the very corner-stone OF our liber-
ties, and if all else were swept away and
thia inspiring chart of our freedom left
We should still be standing on solid
ard immovsble rcck.
In this moment of our country's peril
we should hold fast to thu thinge that
have proven to be good, wipe out thoee
that experience has taught lead to evil
and evil only, snd make the law to sane.
tify every principle that il found to be
Indispensable to the perpetuity of our
institutions and to the well being OF our
people. Where we find great wrong,
right it, though the heavens fall.
A tribunal, armed with full power to
enable the leborer to be secure in a fair
share OF the products of his labor, would
fell upon the perturbed waters Of our
country like oil upon the tempestuous
waves OF an ocean storm. In this emer
gency we need not plead, Ike Bassnnio,
to the lawmaking power, ITO do great
right do little wrong" but rather we
may cay with the textbooks, where
there is a wrong, there must be a
remedy for it. With such measure as
we suggest, the system OF jurisprudence
would not be belittled, but it would be
made whole as the marble, founded as
the rock, as broad and general as the
casing air."
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AMUSE MENTS.
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