The advocate., 1897-10-06

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market. The Russians SEEM to have the
ability to plan great enterprises and to
carry them out. Witness the trans-Si-
berian railway.
Topeka State Journal: Is it not about
time that something were done to pre-
vent the recurrence of such affairs? The
coal miners strike seems to have about
reached the end, but there will be 9TH
ers. Shall the legislative branches OF
the government serenely fold their
hands and await another great uprising
of labor and then leave the settlement
Of 1t to the judiciary and the military?
II is twenty years since the first great
strike, entaillng destruction of much
! property and human life, took place.
Since then there have been three others
Of magnitude, to say nothing Of many
smaller ones Isn't 1t about time for
Congress and the State Legislatures to
do something? The whole people are
interested in the establishment of some
just and equitable way of adjusting
such controversies. They have voice
through their representatives in Con-
gress and the Legislatures.
Judge Grosscup, United States court,
Chicago: No lawyer has ever disputed
the right and duty OF courts, where the
impending wrong would be irTeparable,
to restrain, for instance, illegal en-
croachments upon land; the commission
Of waste; the creation or maintenance
Of nuisance official oppression of all
kinds committed by public officers under
the color Of their office; or, under some
circumstances, the collection Of judg-
ments at law obtained by a creditor
against his debtor. None Of these in
functions make any new law--they sim
ply declare the existing law applicable
to the particular situation, and tnen pro-
ceed to enforce 1t in the only way that
would do the aggrieVed person any
good. The injunction, therefore, Is old
AN Indispensable power of judicial
usefulness-but its application to labor
troubles Is much newer. New condi-
tions have arisen to which the law
has been applying old remedies, and this
misleads some very good people, and
some very bad ones, too, into Mysteries
over government by injunction.
GlObe-Democrat assassination has
never changed history" said Disraeli, in
speaking Of the murder Of Lincoln. There
Is some truth in this expression, but it
Is not all truth. In Lincoln's case assas-
slnatiOn probably did alter history in
some degree for IL he had lived recon-
struction might have come little
earlier than it did, and possibly have
taken little less drastic shape for the
South, though this, Of course, is largely
conjecture. Garfield's murder had two
effects, neither of which was intended
or designed by the murderer. It has
tened the passage Of the civil service act,
which has taken half Of all the appoint
i've Offices out of politics, and it intensl-
fed the feud in the Republican party
which defeated the party in the Con-
gressional election Of 1882 and the Pres
idential election of 1884. However, the
Lincoln and Garfield cases have very
little bearing one way or the other on
the question Of the futility Of political
assassinatiOns, for the murders here
were merely freak Of mentally unbal-
anced men, who did not really expect to
aid any cause.
Buffalo Commercial: The Commercial |
never knew a man thoroughly familiar
with the conditions of lake and canal
navigation that regarded the long-cher-
ished project Of ship canal connecting
the great lakes with tide water as worthy |
of serious consideration. Such meH will |
hold varying opinions as to the engineer
ing conditions, water supply, ETC., but |
will agree on one point, that such ship |
canal would not do the work expected |
Of it; that big lake steamers and barges |
could not be prOftably employed in