Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-05-02

estimated at over S3.UO.COo. IL IL as
sessed at only St360Sl. and pays taxes
on this sum. While we welcome every
honest enterprise ana industry. we can.
not allow our state to become merely u
foragir. ground for wollish greed. We
want 10 more enterprises of this char.
actc:.
Government BY Injunction.
During the last two or three years the
| usurpation of power on the part of the
Federal judiciary. which had been
steadily going on for long time. has
assumed a form where 1t Is destroying
| the very founda tons of republican
| government. The Constitution divides
| tho powers of government into the leg
islative. judiciary and executive. and
| contemplates that no two Of these shall
he lodged in the same person. but dur.
ing the last two years the people Of this
country have repeatedly witnessed the
operation of an entirely new form Of
| government which was never before
heard of among men I'm either mon
archy or republic: that Is. government
by injunction. whereby Federal
judge not content with deciding con-
troversies brought into his count. not
cor.ent with exercising the judicial
functions Of government. proceeds to
legislatc and then admlnistratc. He
issues u ukasc which he calls an In
Junction. forbidding whatever he
pieases and what the law does not for
bid and thus lcgislates for himself
without limitation and makes things
penal which the law does not make
penal. makes other things punishable
by imprisonment which at law are
punishable only by fine. and he dc.
prives men of the right of trial by Jury
when the law guarantees this right.
and he then cnfOrccs this ukasc In a
summary and arbitrary manner by I'M
prisonmpnt throwing men into prison
not for violating Il law. but for being
guilty Of a contempt Of court In disre-
gnr,ling one of these intunctiOns. Dur
ing the last two years some Of these
judges actually enjOined men from
quitting the employment Of a railroad.
These injunctions are u very great con.
veniencc to corporations when they
can he had fOrthe asking by n corpora
ton lawyer. and these were the process sos
of the court to enforce which the Pres
ident sent the Federal troops to Chi.
cago.
During the coal and milrOnd strikes
last summer the United States Marshal
for the Southern District Of llllno,'
sworc ia altogether over 800 deputies,
chiefly for the purpose Of enforcing IN.
functions of this character issued 10y
the United States Court AMI directed
to the Marshal to enforce. ana about
101 men were arrested ut Cairo AMI
: other points In the State and brOugh,
to Springfield In charge Of officers. Il
distance of from 100 to 200 miles. nn,l
lodged In jail. Nearly all were charged
with contempt of court AMI were tried
not by Il jury but by the court who's,
dignity they were said to have offend
cd: 12I were convicted. and most Ol
them sent to jail for from thirty t.
Elncty days. Many had tn be set fro,
WREN It came TO hearing because Il
did not appear that they had even via
lated an injunction. let alone commit
ted Il crime. and nearly nll when 81
! free found themselves Oh the streets
from 100 to 900 miles from their home,
without money and without friends
In very many cases the United State:
Marshal. prompted by the instincts "
humanity. gave them something to en-
AMI secured transportation for thei
return, while some Of the corporation
agents who were responsible for II nj
? appeared to regard the proceedings n
Z o good lesson for the men. During tn
l rliirOnd strike the Marshal for til
J. Northern District Of Illinois. who In,
y already the necessary deputies to serv
I the regular and legitimate processe
u OF III" courts, swOre In 4.iG2 dcput
r marshnls almost for the sole purpos
Of enforcing some Of these injunctiO,ls
J. Some OF these injunctlOns were al
}. talncd ~ early rs June 10 AMI 30. The
u were issued without notice, they IN
u against all Of the inha bitnnts of In
l. three States comprising the judicinr
y circuit. ana were not served PERSONAL,
! but In some cases were simply postr
j. on some wall and In others attempt
: were made to read them to vast mo
f! under circumstances that made I'll
y whole proceeding look farciCal AMI il
D. dicnted that the mob was not cXpectu
l. to obey them. but that these prOcec,
" lngs were had simply to lay the foui
!" latiOn for another step. After the'
y injInctlons Ind been issued the Unite
= States Mars!mls, according to the
" own statements, arrested about 4
" men. nearly all on the mere charge I
" being guilty of contempt Of court, ~
!" 50 far rs can be learned not twen
Us men lave been convicted on III
~ charge. These injunctiOns served .
w. q sort OF slde-tloOr convenience, NJ
~ were used In some instances to terrO
~ iac the men. At different times N,
o' who cOull have been found ut any hO
OF the day We're arrested toward eve
!" Ing, In some cases on Il Saturday eve
w. ing. when the officers who could adm
~ 10 bail had gone home, 50 ~ to comp
III the men to spend night or n SuItl;
W. in Jail George LOycjOy, II tralnmas st
W at I.nSaile, was Il member of the \.
III l.. ana when the strike began he sil
re ply quit work, hut did nothing mol
w. \ warrant was sworn out for his 4
ny rest. He was taken 100 miles to O.
~ cn 20 I'm charge of officers and remain