The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-10
FOR LAW AND ORDER.

Senator Cushman K. Davis, of Min
nesota, added to his fame when he de-
livered his noted speech in support of
the resolution endorsing the prompt
and vigorous measures adopted by the
President, to repress by military force
the interference by lawless mobs with
the due process of United States laws
He particularly opposed the anarchis-
tic utterances of Sesator PETER.
We have received a copy of Senator
Davis speech, and make from it an
extract or two, which will give our
readers a better idea of it's tone and
purport than that conveyed in the tel
egraphic dispatches:
Mr.. President, what is society? 1t is
all the members thereof taken toget TIL
er. The railroad employees of this
country number some five or six hun
dred thousand men, perhaps, indispen-
sable, useful, valuable citizens in or
binary times, when not misled. but.
compared with the great mass of the
American people, how few they are in
number! Why will they not learn and
why will not their self-appointed teach
ers teach them the doctrine of com
munity of interest and interdepend-
enee OF all upon the whole?
Does anybody suppose that by burn
ing cars, destroying property, disturb
ing security, wreoking credit taking
life, their means of employment are to
be increased hereafter? They are de-
stroying everything from which thew
derive their employment the very
thing which they, so much to their
credit, have helped to upbuild. it is
true, an act of which they would have
never thought unless it had been for
the self-appointed dictators who have
placed themselves at the head of their
organizations.
People prate about liberty. and define
that liberty as the liberty of the par
ticular class they are speaking for. The
only liberty worth having in this coun-
try is the equal liberty of all men
alike. Liberty in its philosophical and
common-sense definition consists in
that right of each individual to- exer-
else the greatest freedom of action up
to, and not beyond. that point when it
impinges upon the like exercise of free
dom of action of every other man. Be-
yand that it is the destruction of the
liberty of the weak by the strongest.
a suibversion of the very theory of a
republic, and a return to primeval an
archy on the one hand, or, as an alter
antiyse' to .despootism on the other.
can not be denied, Mr. President
Within the limitations of the Constitu-
ton it is supreme. The duty of the
President of the United States is to see
that the laws are faithfully executed;
the duty OF the courts is to declare
those laws and their consequences, and
to execute them through their process.
Those limitations are plainly drawn
and settled, not only in the original
instrument, but by comment after COM
ment in recorded decisions. Why
should the hand of the government be
kept off these Insurgents under the cir
,umstances? Is the interstate COM
merce of this country to be held in sus-
}ense and paralyzed, property destroy
ID, food cut off, conveniences taken
way, necessity thwarted, until some
-emote disagreement as to wages be-
ween private corporation and its
Employees can be adjusted? Is there
my such reserved rights as that to
ny of the citizens of the United
States, or is it the mere usurpation of
mob, commencing in riot and tend
ng towards anarchy?
-