Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-09-09
Government by Injunction.

emphasized theimpOrtanCe and time.
illness Of the declaration in the Chi
CagO platform against government
by injunction. Mr.. Jefferson warned
the people against the federal courts,
which he feared would sap the con.
stitution by cunning constructions.
Can ii be that the men Of this gen.
Crat:On are to witness phenomenon
new in the worlds history Il rrpuh-
lie PROSTATE at the feet of Judges ap.
pointed to administer its laws:
At recent convention Of labor
leaders in st. Louis a manifesto was
issued, from which we take the fol-
lowing declarations:
Under the cunning form of in.
functions, courts have assumed To-
enact criminal laws, and, after thus
drawing to themselves the power of
legislation, have repealed the bill of
rights, and, for violations of those
cOurt-madC laws, have denied the az.
cused the right Of trial by jury.
I The exercise of the COmm0ncSt
rights of trCCmCn-thC right Of aS.
Sembly, the right of free speech, the
right Of travelling the public high.
way-havc by legislation, under the
form of injunctions, been made a
crime, and armed forces dispense, as
mobs, people daring in company to
exercise these rights.
Having drawn to themselves all
the powers of the federal govern
ment until Congress and Presidents
may act only by judicial permission,
the federal judges have begun the
SubjugatiOn of sovereign States, so
that, unless Il check is soon put upon
the progress of usurpatiOn, in a short
time no government but the absolute
despotism of federal judges will en-
lst anywhere over any portion of
| American soil.
The pending strike of coal miners,
starved to teebleneSs by their scant
wages by arduous and dangerous toll,
the pending strike for the right To be
fed enough to make labor possible.
has been prolific of judicial dcspotS
TO resort TO the most shameless def.
ance of dccenCy as well rs of law
and humanity in order to enable
heartlesS avarice to drive its hungry
serfS back to the mines to faint and
die at their drudgery and there re-
mains to-day not one guaranteed
right of American citizens the eXer-
else Of which an injunction has not
somewhere made a crime by these |
subVersions of constitutional lib.
erty."
These are grave charges for which |
the action of our federal courts in re.
cent years, and moro especially dur
ing the pending strikes, afford ample
foundation 1t behOovcs the people
to see that the vital principles of lib.
erty and free government shall not
be nulliticd by the courts in the effort
to sustain the cause Of capital in its
conteS: with labor.
SAYS MIR. BRYAN: Wheat has
risen because the foreign crop has
been exceedingly short. The fact
that silver and wheat have parted
company should cause no dismay 10
those who understand that the law of
supply and demand regulates the
price Of both.
Nothing can better disclose the
weakness Of the Republican position
than the JOY manifested 10y the Re-
publicans over events for which their
and their policies are
in nowiSe responsible. If the Re-
publicans desire to claim credit for
the high price of wheat, they must
also assume the responsibility for the
famine in India.
y general rise in prices should be
followed by rise in wages"
Mr.. Bryan says the joy over the
increase of money from wheat is
evidence that we have too little
money; if the farmers are benefited
by the rise in one Of their products,
how much better would it be if the
rise were universal ; that the price
Va w hStt Will ldll when the foreign
demand becomes normal, and that
the present spasmodic rise will aid
rather than injure the cause Of hi.
GOV ERNOR ATKINSON has an.
pointed delegates to tho National
Parliament, to be held in Nashville.
Tenn, September 10th and continu-
ing till the 18th. The names of the
delegatef are: A. b. White, of Par
kersburg; Brice w. Cattlett, of
Berkeley Spring; Jno. A. McCaus-
land, Of Grimm's Landing, Mason
county; II. =. Chew, of Charles
Town; p. f. Eastman, of Point
Pleasant; John J. Jacobs, Of Gin.
ton; John G.. Ballard, of Salt Sui.
phur Springs Henry Robinson, of
Franktord Gwin Minter, of West
Milford, and II. q. Meador, of
Athens.
THE end of the great miners strike
is in sight. The National Executive
Board of the National Mime Work.
ers agreed to make TO the miners a