The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-12

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declare that you may write into peace
able and lawful acts an unlawful in
tention, and send your sheriffs and
your deputies to murder men, as these
were murdered, because you suspect
that they are about to do something
illegal The crime in this case lies at
the door, not of the striking men,
who may have intended to commit lille
gal Violence, but did not; and not
either, primarily, at that of a hYster-
ical and half-crazed sheriff, who only
obeyed the orders handed down to
him, but at that of a court which has
shamed the records of American his
tory, and dared to stain the ermine Of
which our people are so justly proud,
by an order that should cover it for
ever with infamy.
The G l o has not hesitated to eX-
press from the outset it's deep indigna-
ton at the abuse of the power of in
junction. 1t has made it clearly I'M
derstood that it sympathizes with no
attack upon the courts of the country,
or the laws that they are set to en-
force. 1t does hold that those courts,
like the legislature and like the COM
mon citizen, are subject themselves to
the restraints that it has been found
wise and proper to put upon them. In
this instance they have cast modera-
ton to the winds; they have exceeded
their prerogative; they have denied
and defied the constitution, in order to
take a partisan side in the controver-
sy between employer and empIoye. We
say to every man, and there are many,
to every newspaper, and, thank God,
there are but few, that has dared to
uphold this bloody extension of the
power of injunction, that on their souls
rests a share of the guilt of the muir
der of these men at Hazleton They,
by their wicked clasping of hands with
wealth and power; they, by their will
ingness to see constitutional liberty de-
strOyed; they, by their refusal to dis
tinguish between the just exercise of
judicial power and its tyrannical abuse
have helped to bring above our heads
the black vortex of cloud out of which
has come the lightning bolt to smite
these men and leave their bodies prone
upon the earth, surrounded by their
terrified associates and by weeping
women and children.
There is no room for acts like this
in the United States. There is no place
in a republic of freemen for the punish
ment Of an unascertained intention,
which is the ultimate goal of governs
ment by injunction. In the name Of
the law itself, in the name of constitu-
tiOnal liberty, in the name of humanity,
we declare that the judges whose
names are signed 10 injunctions de-.
priving the people of the right to use
the public highway, and placing armed
deputies in their path to interpret their
intentions, and to slay them if their
Interpretation chance to be that those
intentions are unlawful, are guilty of
this frightful murder The G o b
has no sympathy with lawlessness. 1t
has no word to offer in eXtenuation of
the man who would limit the liberty Of
his fellow. 1t says that every strike in
which violence has a part ought to fail
utterly. 1t says that the attempt of
strikers to compel unwilling associates
to leave their work is a tyranny as
hideous as any ever dreamed of by cap
ital. But it says, also, that the mean
I.
before the law, is entitled to the protec-
ton OF our guarantees of liberty, as
much as his employer. We say that
the powers Of the courts are and must
sonable limits We say that the in
functions issued in this strike are an
insult to freemen, and we point to the
Hazleton horror as the natural and
necessary consequence of the issuance
of those extraordinary orders.
Not for long will the American
people tolerate such iniQuity 1t may
be that the men who died down there,
falling at the sharp crack of musketry
along the high road where they had a
right to De, tnOuSn Lnelr ultimate puT-
pose may not have been a worthy one,
will yet be considered martyrs by
whose death the people purchased re-
lief forever from government by in
junction. We direct those who have
apologiZed for this abominable misuse
of power, and subversion of the Amer
lean system of a careful and unaltera-
Bile division between the executive, the
legislative and the judicial, to the GRIM
son work of their hands. The respon-
sibility is plainly fixed Most fearfully
and at an awful cost have the remon-
strances and passionate appeals of
those who resist government by in
junction been justified.
THE MILITARY VIEW.
Commander A. 7. Mahon contributes
to Harpers, under the title of ga Twen-
tieth Century Outlook" an analysis of