The record-union., 1897-09-02

being the first day of the next term
thereof. But a motion to dissolve this
Injunction will be considered at Char
lesion on September 7th next, upon ten
days' notice of such motion to the
plaintiff. This injunction is not to take
effect until the plaintiff, or some re-
sponsible person on its behalf, shall en-
ter into bond in the sum Of S5,OOO, con"
ditioned to pay all such costs and dam
ages that may accrue to the defendants
by reason of the plaintiffs suing out
this injunction, should the same De
hereafter dissolved
PLAIN TALK ON A SERIOUS SUB
JECT.'
what earthly legitimate business or
errand had that West Virginia coal
company in a Federal court? What
Federal question is involved in these
disputes, except as one Of the construct
i've and sleazy variety is manufactured
to order by the device of putting for
ward a stockholder residing in some
other State to file the bill of complaint?
Take the case of the Monongah Com
pany. If trespass upon their property
had been committed or was threatened
The only peace in any possible danger
Of being broken was the peace OF West
Virginia. Interstate commerce was not
assailed Nobody was stopping the
United States mails, or menacing United
States property. or melting rebellion
against the Government of the United
States. The Governor had not even
dreamed of certifying to President NC
Kinley the existence of insurrection or
domestic violence beyond the States
power to suppress. How does Judge
jackson of the Circuit Court of the Uni
ted States come to be meddling and
making in the domestic affairs of West
Virginia?
His apologists now say that he did
nothing but forbid acts that are unlaw-
full. The laws themselves had done that
long before the public ever heard of him.
That is what the laws are for. What
Judges are for is to eXpound and ap-
ply the laws and to do their part in
normal and orderly ways toward max
ing them terrible to actual law-break-
ers.
"It is in the interest of the courts
themselves, of the Federal judiciary as
we'll as of the country, that we protest
against even the appearance of an
abuse of their powers. There has been
toe much of it already, and the results
came to the surface last year in the
Chicago Convention and the campaign
that followed. The typical Bryan Dem
ocrats We're as bitter against the Fed
eral Judges as against the Wallstree
bankers. We do not want to see any
more such campaigns in this country.
We want to see the courts of the United
States securely bulwarked on every
side (as they have been for so many
years. by the confidence and veneration
of the people We do not believe that
the sight of Federal Judge Illuminating
novel and unnecessary injunctions from
the bench, as an apparent preliminary
to the substitution of summary con-
tempt proceedings for the ordinary, or
derly processes of the law, tends to in
sure this result. We believe it is
sight disturbing and odious to the peo-
pie. And we hope to see no more of it.
Better a thousand occasional local
trespasses and turbulences than a sap
ping of the peoples belief in their Gov
ernment When that goes, the founda-
tions go."-The Courant Rep.), Hart
ford, Conn
LAW IN DEFENSE OF INDIVIDUAL
FREEDOM.
"It can hardly be denied that the
camping about a mine the constant
marching and remarching, the daily re-
iteration Of appeals which, when made
by large and organized bodies, neces-