The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-19
ulDee JACKSON SHOULD BE IMPEACHED.

The Chicago Chronicle, the ablest ad-
vocate of Palmer and Buckner in 1896,
suggests the Impeachment of Judge Jack
son as the method of putting an end
to usurpation by Federal judges. The
Springfield Republican, without commit
ting itself to the impeachment sugges-
ton. says 1.-The best thing that could hap
pen to the Federal judiciary at this
juncture would he to make a severe eX-
ample of some one of these now common
offences against the legitimate powers
of the court" and adds:
The acts of men like jackson are
doing more to bring the disconnected
into hot antagoniSm to the establish
ed order of affairs than most other
causes put together. They are doing
thcr best to force a radical crisis by
their blind zeal to bring lawless
powers to the aid of powerful petit
TONERS, and impeachment proceedings
are evidently not too serious to be
thought of in their cases"
The Chicago Inter-Ocean takes vir-
ludllN the Sdlllt views say ms
1T is unnecessary to so into any
hairspliting analysis of injunctions.
The very lawyers who got them is
sued advised against the service when
the test came. If the strikers or
their sympathizers interfere with the
property rights or personal liberties
of others the regularly constituted
authorities, with such supplement as
the law contemplat ties in an emergen-
cy, can afford protection without the
Intervention of chancery. AS a last
resort the militia can be called out
Courts in equity were not created
for any such purpose, nor is the
machinery of that branch of the jul
dietary suited to any such constabul-
airy purpose"
Government by injunction is an in
direct method not only of destroying the
of the State courts in order
to protect powerful corporations, but it
is also destruction of trial by jury. How
any man who loves his country can
calmly look on the "tyrannous and usur-
patory" actions of the Federal judiciary
is beyond our understanding. The truth
is that unless we can secure laws to
put an end to judge-made law we have
lost our liberties.
There is not a day that passes that
does not demonstrate the wisdom of the
Chicago platform, and the pressing need
for the reforms it promised to carry out.
The declaration against Federal control
in local affairs, rings like a bell, and
recent events have shown that it did
well to arouse the people to the stealthy
method that has been employed to SUBJ
vert the constitutional guarantee of local
self government and trial by jury. That
plank, which ought to be re-adopted in
every platform until government by in
junction" is at end is in these words:
1--WE denounce arbitrary interior
ence by Federal authorities in local
affairs as a violation of the Consti-
tuition of the United States and a
crime against free institutions, and
we especially object to government
by injunction as a new and highly
dangerous form of oppression by
which Federal judges, in contempt
of the laws of the States and rights
Of citizens, become at once legisla-
tors, judges and executioners; and
we approve the bill passed at the last
session of the United States Senate
and now pending in the House of
Representatives, relative to con-
tempts in Federal courts and provid-
ing for trials by jury in certain cases
of contempt"