The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-07-26

S58.65, making as a grand total /
the sum of S11O.45, to be served out at
the paltry rate of Is cents day. This
will snecessitat the confinement of the |
prisoner 442 days or one year and
nearly three months.
Mr.. Capps has a wife twenty-four
years of age, and four children, the
eldest being six years old, and one Of
them sick at the time of the fathers
Imprisonment. His family is left all
alone a quarter Of a mile from any
house. He is a poor man and unable
to support his family during his con-
fnement. He does not deny working
on Sunday, but did SO because he had
rested the day before, according to the
bible; because he recognized his God
given right to labor six days in the
week, beginning on the first, as did his
Creator; and because, in acceding to
the demands of the State to rest on
Sunday, he would be denying his Lord.
Hence he refuses to pay the fine and
costs, regarding them unjust, since the
State is attempting to enforce upon
him a dogma Of religion, with which
it can of no right have nothing what
ever to do. Therefore he has gone to
jail, though a physician stated that he
could never live in that unhealthy
place the time required by the
enormity of the States assessment.
Precedents. :. .~~ - 4
A good many precedents have been
established in the last two weeks, some
of which are of doubtful value and
some of excellent use. ... e..
The Western Union telegraph COM
pany in the cause of justice has offered
copies of dispatches it handled. It is
rather unusual for the Western Union
to put itself out for the cause of Justice
and quite unusual for it to give up cor
respondence in its possession, always
holding that was confidential. If the
courts can at all times call on the tele-
graph companies for copies of their
business after this it will be very con-
venient in a number of cases, although
it might easily develop into an abuse.
It was a precedent for the federal
troops to be called to suppress a local
insurrection while the State had re-
sources for combating disorder still
untried It has been usual to leave
police duty to the States. However,
as lIr, Clevelands said, it seemed best
to act first and discuss it afterward.
Another new thing in some parts of
the country has been the use Of United
States marshals to run trains. You
see it is the duty of the railroads to run
trains and if they can't do it it is the
duty of the government to see that
they are run. That leaves the right to
strike in a queer quandary. The men
may strike and if nobody can be found
to take their places they win. But the
government is charged to fill their
places if the railroads can't. On that
theory the right to strike includes only
the right to beat the air. You may
strike but you must not hit anything.
In the matter of contempt of court
number of innovations have come in
vogue so very new that we do not yet
know exactly what they contemplate.
Men have been forbidden to advise
others to do a certain thing that they
had right to do if they did it of their
own accord, and have been punished by
imprisonment for giving such advice.
The court has spread the aegis of it's
sacred dignity about brakemen and
section hands so that it is unlawful to
speak despitefully of them. That is an
excellent innovation without doubt.
If it applies to brakemen it applies to
everybody or there is no justice in it,
and if it applies to everybody we must
all be more careful Of our speech. The
court has done we'll. What need is
there of legislatures when the court by
simple extension of the doctrine of con-
tempt Of court can regulate all things?
These innovations and precedents
have taught US many things. We have
learned number of new wrinkles in
government that the trainers of the
fundamental law never dreamed Of
Duluth Commonwealth.
Suckers Taken In.
D. n. Wells of Dayton, a prominent
and prosperous resident of that place,
attended Forepaugh's circus in Anoka
Thursday, and now he wished he
hadn't. He got to betting on numbers,
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