The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-11
THE INJUNCTION AGAIN.

the corporations rs against the people.
Milwaukee was the scene of this last
outrage, and the occasion for it was the
action OF that city in attempting to bring
about reduction of street car fares to
four cents. When this purpose was
made public the Central Trust Company,
of New York, which holds mortgages on
portions of the Milwaukee system, asked
for an injunction to restrain the city from
enforcing the proposed reduction, and it
was given. This is no more than should
have been expected from II judge who was
Il corporation attorney before his eleva-
ton to the bench, and is III perfect keep
ing with Il long list of decisions upon
kindred subjects.
There is still another case of injustice
by injunction which is worthy of more
than passing thought by the people gem
orally, and that is the case of the Mid
land Mechanic, published at Kansas
City, Mo. At the time of the boycott
against athe Armour Packing Company
last May, an injunction was sued out
against the Mechanic restraining it
from publishing any of the acts of the
strikers i'll connection Herewith All
the efforts of the publishers ofthat paper
TO have the injunction raised have failed,
and hearing in the matter has been
persistently denied the temporary writ
having been allowed to stand ever since
its first issuance. We have seen no COPY
of the writ, but from the showing made
of it by the Mechanic, it is one of the
regular omnibus affairs, common to such
occasions, and it's strict application
would make that paper open.to sentence
for the publication of anything which
did not happen to please the court. Such
n proceeding is an outrage on common
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be allowed to continue for single day.
The people of Kansas City, and indeed,
of all the country, are directly interested
i'll the suppression of such tyranny, and
they should make common cause with
the Mechanic until it has been given n
fair and impartial hearing.
So long rs the corporations have the
injunction at command they need not fear
being able to keep the people within their
clutches and they will not be deprived of
its aid and comfort so long az the prac-
tice continues of giving to corporation
attorneys so great n majority of the posi-
tions on the federal bench. A few of
these ermined gentlemen have been found
who were just enough to recognize that
the people have some rights, but where is
the one who would care to issue an in
junction against the coal combine when
it proposes to raise the price of coal to all
the consumers.in the union, and that for
no other reason than to increase it's pro-
fits? Where is the judge who has the
nerve to attempt to restrain 1.-The window
glass trust, which is even now in the pro-
cess of formation, and has no other pur-
pose avowedly than to increase the price
of its products without increasing the
cost of its production? The same is true
of the steel, sugar, oil, and half hun
dred other similar combines, all of which
are openly organized, with no other aim
but the robbery of the common people, all
of which are organized directly contrary
to the law and in braZen disregard of its
mandates. No judge was found to pre-
vent Rockefeller and his associates from
robbing the nation. of 100000 with
one turn of the Standard Oil screws. but
no difficulty is found in securing Il Judge
sufficiently plant TO aid in preventing
the city of Milwaukee from forcing one
of its corporations to give over to the peo-
pie small portion of its unearned sur
plus, and another who does not hesitate
TO rob Il labor paper of it's constitutional
rights in the name of the law. The courts
are working the injunction overtime, and
If they do not moderate their devotion to
this latest discover in the science of
legalized tyranny they may be made to
suffer from somc..portion, at least, of the
crimes they have committed in its name.
The Railway Conductor for September.