Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-10
JUDICIAL UsURPS EGISBAT1Vt
FUNCTIONS OF GOyERNMENT.
Labor Les ders Say the writ Of IN
Junction Has Subverted the
Liberties of America.

At 10 o'clock the Committee on
II solutions fled into the hall,
and the delegates were called to
hear its report. Mr.. Bergen, pre-
senting the resolutions, spoke of
the great task the committee had
before it. He said the report
about to be submitted was the best
the committee could do under the
circums stances. Whether 1t would
suit was the question. The plat
form as presented reads:
"rhe fear of the more watchfnl
fathers of the Republic hUs been
justified. The judiciary has be
come supreme. We witness
political phenomenon absolutely
new in the history OF the world;
a republic PROSTATE at the feet of
judges appointed to administer
the laws. They acknowledge no
superior on earth, and their des-
potic deeds recall Milton's warn
ing to his countrymen: who
bids a man rule over him above
law, may bid as well as savage
beast Under the cunning form
of injunctions courts have assum-
ed to enact criminal laws, and,
after thus drawing to themselves
the power of legislation, have re-
pealed the bill of rights and re.
volutionist court made laws have
denied the accused the right of
trial by jury.
"The exercise of the commonest
rights of freemen, the right of as
sembly, the right of free speech,
the right OF travelling public high.
ways-have, by legislation under
the form of injunctions, been
made crime, and armed forces
disperse as mobs people daring,
in company, to exercise these
rights. At its last term the
Supreme Court of the United
States decided that the thirteenth
amendment forbidding 'involun-
tsry servitude' is not violated by
arresting seaman, imprisoning
him till his vessel is ready to
leave port and then forcibly put
ting him on board to serve out the
term Of his contract; a decision
under which the old fugitive slave
laws may yet be revived and
striking laborers be seized and re-
turned to the service of their
masters.
"Having drawn to themselves
all the powers of the Federal
Government, until Congresses and
Presidents may act only by judi
cial permission, the Federal
Judges have begun the subjuga-
ton of sovereign States, SO that,
unless a check is soon put upon
the progress of usurpation, in
short time no Government but the
absolute despotism of Federal
Judges will exist anywhere over
any portion of American soil.
The pending strike of coal miners,
starved to feebleness by their
scant wages for arduous and
dangerous tolls; the pending
strike for the right to be fed
enough to make labor possible,
has been prolific of judicial usur-
patton, showing the willingness
of Judicial despots to resort to the
most shameless defiance of de-
cency, as we'll as of laws and
humanity, in order to enable
heartless avarice to drive its
hungry serfs back to the mine to
faint and die at their drudgery,
and there remains today not one
guaranteed right of American
citizens the exercise of which an
injunction has not somewhere
made crime, started by these
subversions of constitutional lib
erty. We have met to counsel
together, and have come to the
following conclusions, that:
"Whereas, The present strike
of the coal miners has again de-
monstrated the fact that our So
called freedom is but stupend-
Gus sham, under which millions
ale degeneraiiug, willie hundreds
OF thousands = men, women and
children - are starving in novels
and on the public highway:
"Whereas, The condition has
become permanent for large and
ever increasing number of our
population, as long as we permit a
comparatively small class of leg
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