The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-14
FRUITS OF GOVERNMENT By
INJUNCTION.

The shooting OF the Polish and Hun
garian miners by the deputy sberiffs
at Hazelton, Pa, was bound to bring
incendiary threats from many organi-
cations whose object is of a more or
less revolutionary nature. This was
particularly the case at the meetings
of the Social Democracy in Chicago,
Sunday Some of the resolutions passed
were anarchdstic to the last degree.
Thus one was to the effect that the
blood of an idle and useless aristoeracy
is the most convenient medium for
nouTishing the tree of liberty" the
president of the branch OF the Social
Democracy which passed the resolution
from which the above quotation is
made. stated that he would Kill TWEEN
ty mdllionaires today" while Leroy NJ
Goodwin. Debs' right hand man and
director of the national board of the
Social Democracy, said: u would at
tack property with q torch; 1 would
destroy their fine palaces Let US rebel
when men are shot down as they are
III Pennsylvania"
Such talk can do no good at this time
but rather tends to aggravate and in
tensify an already serious and depior-
able situation; it is a direct counsel to
tawlessress. and if followed could only
make bad matters worse.
The shooting of the miners appears
to have been wholly uniustifable, but
those who were guilty Of it are known,
and if not already in the custody Of
the officers Of the law can be placed in
their custody at any moment. This
being the case there is no necessity to
resort to lawIessness. Nor it it at all
certain that the wild anarchistic talk
ers of the Social Democracy are so
much actuated by sympathy for the
dead Poles and Hungarians as by a
consuming hatred of the existing order
Of things.
The killing Of the miners by the dep
uty sheriffs is directly traceaibIe to the
pernicious system Of government by in
junction that has been set up in this
country within the past three or four
years. During the present strike the
injunction has been used as never be-
fore. used as an instrument of tyranny.
Not only have men been forbidden to
| march along the public highways, but
| they have been forbidden to peacefully
assemble and discuss their grievances,
While the injunction has even been used
| against ministers Of Christ's gospel.
Such condition of things soon be-
| comes intoleTable in a free land and
makes the most conservative and law
abiding citizens rebel in their feelings
against it. It is high time that the
arbitrary and tyrannical use of the
! injunction by the courts ceased and
that the law Of the land, with the safe
guards of writs of habeas corpus and
the right of trial by jury, be allowed
to pursue the even tenor Of its way.
There is a strong tendency on the part
Of the judiciary in some parts of the
country to usurp the functions of both
legislative and executive. In national
and state governments the judiciary is
| only a coordinate branch and not a
predominant one. But its tendency to
usurpation does not warrant the talk
of the Social Democracy leaders or
others who preach the doctrines Of an
archy. Its power should be curtailed
| through legislative action. This the
people can do through their action at
the polls