The herald., 1894-07-08
MANS COLUMN.
coNDUcrED BY COG AND MAaoa.

come matter OF common Dellet tnat IN
thenear future retribution would over
take inordinate greed in come way.
Even capital shared the belief and had
paused for some time with bated breath,
in the meantime exercising soch meas
ures OF self-preservation as were availa-
BILE. No one seemed to know from what
sources or in what manner this was to be
accomplished. 1t was the impression of
many that, ae unwise and shortsighted
legislation had more than any other
factor been the means of bringing upon
our country this unprecedented, terrible
crisis, it was there beginning
should be made towards the un-
tying Of our monopolist knot To
attain this good beginning was the
real cause OF the onto. Washington move.
ment on the part of representatives OF
the unemployed class Of our citizens.
This move, as all are aware, has not
proved successful. These representa-
tives made the mistake of going thither
on the outside of the Pullman cars,
rather than on the inside, as is the-cus-
tom of railroad magnates, bankers. man.
ufacturers, etc. and consequently have
not been able to command sympathetic
attention or respectful hearing by our
central body OF national servants. 1t is
an open sscret that the people just now
have lost faith in the ballot as prompt
adjuster Of human rights and an efficient
remedial force in our midst. In fact,
go faithless has the people become in
this respect that Alexander's mode of
dealing with that old knot has
been fast gaining ground aa the
only one capable OF handling ef-
fectively the monopolietic knot OF
today. But suddenly, right in the midst
OF the on to Washington, in Pullmans
by money and monopoly, and by lack OF
money and want on the outside, comes
clear, steady note from our wellem-
ployed, well-remunerated class who
propose to try their hand at regulating
one o'er.topping monopoly without 80
much as going to Washington at all,
either inside or outside the Pullman
care. This labor element simply and
firmly assert by their united action that
they will no longer clasp hands with
this Pullman monstrosity. They prefer
to step back and even out rather than
further reimburse monopoly which
ruthlessly crushes che weak to the wall.
That good many people should be put
to inconvenience; that portion who
had managed to keep hold OF home and
land and business should suffer serious
loss when these tirelees workers took
their firm stand. was more the result OF
the undoing OF another class whose
records are stained with many
monopolistic blot, than of these
manly reformers. There is appa-
rently no good reason why these
kicking railroad corporations should not
have kept their contracts with the gov
eminent, with our producers, with the
plain people of the land. Only small
portion of travellers need to have been
inconvenienced, and they as rule not
OF the best. AS it is, the railroad mag
mates have given the people still more
cause to desire governmental control OF
that industry. and no one now can fore.
see what will be the outcome OF the rail-
roads refusing to take right stand at a
right moment, At this time Oh great
lsi.sisatIUn with hisn handed monopoly,
it would have been measure OF self
preservation to refuse further completely
with one branch OF it until arbitration
had settled the matter in hand.
x*x
Misfits-"Come let us reason to-.
gether" is as sound advice today as the
day it was uttered. There are condi-
tions of human progress that gatling
guns, state troops. not even interpreta.
ton OF law by supreme judges can ad-
Just. Law and order, OF which we hear
80 much, ceases to be either law or or
der when disorderly administered or
unlawlully defined. Law that is con-
stitutional, for one age or dispensation,
has its relative value to that time, so
far as it bears upon the growth and
development OF the people by whom
and for whom it was instituted, and to
attempt to fit at all points tho dead
letter of constitutional law of our ances-
tors, is equivalent to the ludlcrous, not
to say, undgn fed, injudicious and inst-
fectual effort to furnish to vigorous
youth of 20 euit OF clothing and COM
pei his wearing that hich WAS wrought
and shaped for child of 10. 1t is
plainly seen that this application OF
misf.s would be rejected, and yet
this is what our law factories at
work with the warp and wool of our
national laws are doing, and tinkering
atill at the tariff and tampering with
technicalities in judicial Interpretation,
ana if they do not hurry up and submit
a garment for the people suitable for
their present growth, the people them
selves, the source of all law, will retire
them to innocuous deeustude as surely
as their patriotic ancestors did King
George. Law was made for man, to be
used and not abused. Az man grows
his condition changes, and laws must be
correepondingly modified. Freedom in
one age granted by law becomes bond
age in another by obedience to the same
law. The Declaration of Independence
and preamble to our Constitution are
clements and com binations OF principles
out OF which can bo formulated almost
any code, and it ia upon this foundation
that all our state constitutions are
framed. The elasticity OF these
principles aud the great scope Of
statutory law has kept our nation
in existence, if not always in health.
A disease long in the blood has at last
broken out on the surface OF the ma
tional body. and its nature is becoming
more and more manifest and bids fair to
dissolve this nation by military force or
reconstruct it on the principles OF justice
ae get forth in the declaration and pre-
amble. The disease that began in the
United States congress, like the invisi-
BILE micro5e that undermines the strong
est individual cons stitution, has multi
piled and developed into the HYDRA
headed monstrosity of trusts, comb mes
and corporations, till the monster has
wound ite serpsnt-like wisdom around