The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-01-11

roads. and for everybody. A t ..
should not be laid witoilut consider,
~; ma the fact that 10 destroy the coal
and iron interests would be to dam
age seriously, ifnot irreparably, the
rs;Iroads. It is fiie outward bound
freight that provides the inward r, {
bound freight which keeps up 1he
railroads. 70 destroy onc-hail 81 I
ri. traffic would be to destroy all OF
#. A discriminating tariff IS one
thing that is needed by the govern
ment.-Riehmond Dispatch.
The Tariff Reform Bill.
The tariff reform bill will be call
cd nn after the holiday recess. we
trnst that It will then be pushed with
energy and decision, and especially
that the partisan efforts Of the
minority. to block the way with their
maneuvers on the Hawaiian question
or anv like matter will not be allow
cd to interfere with it. The major
iry in Congress 50 far has not shown
the frmness and spirit that it ought
to show. It's power is quite sufficient
for legislation. That power was
given by the people Tor a specific and
MISUNDERSTOOD purpose. The re-
sponsibility is in proportion to the
power, and if the majority does not
recognize that fact the people do
Ne1u York Times,
An important Order.
The injunction order which the
United States Judge in Milwaukee
has Just made restraining the ems ems
ployes of the Northern Pacific rail.
road from combining and conspirlng
to ,squit the service of the road with
or without notice served on tho road
with the object of crippling or en-
barrassiny it's operation, and gener-
ally from interfering with the officers
or the agents of the receivers, or
sheir employee Tin any manner by
actual violence, intimidating threats,
or Otherwise is very similar to tho
order made by the United States
Judge in Ohio, last summer, which
kicked mp such q rumpns in the
country. It approaches perilously
to the line which divides the national
liberty of the citizen FROM invasion
by despotic power, and It deserves
the most careful consideration before
it can be accepted as embodying any
sound principles tolerated by our in
stitutions.
1t is essentially the province Of the
court of equity to prevent, by the aid
of injunction, injuries to property
which cannot be adequately compen-
sated in damages awarded by the YER
diets of jurics. But our institutions
radically demand that all controyer-
sies between citizens 9r between
the government and citizens, snail be
adjusted by the verdict Of juries, if
that be possible. That is deemed to
be the very essence of our rights and
our liberties. The corollary Of this
is that under oHr theory of govern
ment the citizen may refuse to per:
form any service whether he has con-
tracted to perform it or whether he
has-not, laying himself liable if he
breaks his contract to pay the other
party wiaeeysE damages he has caus-
ed to that other party by his wrong
fnl act. those damages may be as
certained by the verdict of a jury of
twelve meB.
The order that ths United States
judge has just made in Milwaukee,
while entirely justified, so far as it
undertakes to protect the railroads.
property from violence, is in direct
contravention of the most cherished
principles of our laws, SO far as it
seeks to rsstrsin the men from quit
ting work at " their pleasure. The
principle in urlaws which secures
to every man the right to break his
contract when he will, taking the
consequences ST paying for it dam
ages, is the principle which has dis
tingnished the Anglo-Saxon in all
ages, and has made those parts of
the world that he inhabits the home
of freedom and the nursery of the
arts and sciences. We will part
with every other principle in our in
stitutions before we will give up that.
Its principle which corporated
capital and monopoly look>on as their
worst foe. and they justly SO regard
1t. yut ia the principle which will
prese We our raee,'sg4eng as ys & her
ish it, as a manfHi hea3-erect, oAe
that can look men in the face.
When wa consent to part with IL
we shall be ready for that industrial
slavery which incorporated capital
would willingly fix upon us.