The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-09-16

| clothes are poor and whose stomachs are
1 empty. The fact that the bony and industri-
GUS hands of these men helped to create the
capital that is now setting Its heel on their
necks and crushing their families does not
help them.
Not content with the law as they found it,
serve the corporations, have usurped the
functions belonging to the legislative and ex-
ecutive branches OF the government and have
invented a new form of tyranny called gov
ernment by Injunction.
During the entire century In which this
continent was developed, when our railroads,
our factories and our cities were built no
government by injunction was heard of, nor
is 1t heard OF In any other country to-day.
The law of the land was ample for all pur-
poses. Life and property were protected,
order was maintained law was enforced and
our nation became the wonder of the earth.
And the law of the land as it existed for over
century Is ample for every purpose to-day
Age of Plunder.
But when the great leaders of industry be-
gan to pass away, then there came to the
front a class Of manipulatOrs who knew
nothing about the art of building. but who
had learned the art Of legalzed robbery, and
these manipulatOrs and plunderers demanded
new form of government. The former
leaders allowed the labOrer a little Of ths
bread he toiled for, but the new manpulators
wanted 1t all.
The laborers were entirely at the mercy
Of these men. They first got hungry and
contentment. and the Federal courts prompt
ly furnished 1t.
Government by Injunction operates this
way: When judge wants to do something
not authorized by law he simply makes
law to suit himself. That Is, he sits down in
his chambers and issues Il kind of ukase,
which he calls an Injunction. against the
people of an entire community or of whole
State. forbidding whatever he sees lit to for
bid. and which the law does not forbid, and
commanding whatever he sees fit to COM
mand, and which the law does not command
for when the law fOrbids or commands Il
thing no injunction Is necessary.
Having thus issued his ukase, the same
judge has men arrested, and sometimes drag
ged fifty or n hundred miles from their homes
to his court on charge Of violating the In
junctiOn-that is contempt Of court. And the
men. after lying In prisons a while, are tried,
not by a. jury, as Is required by the consti-
tuition when man Is charged with crime.
but they are tried by the same judge whose
dignity they are charged with having Offend
ed and they are sentenced to prison at the
mere pleasure Of this judge: who is at once
legislator judge and executioner.
When the czar Of Russia issues a ukase he
leaves 1t to other men to enforce, but not so
with these Judges.
Recently Judge In West Virginia issued
an injunction forbidding the exercise of free
speech and actually forbidding men from
marching on the highway, no matter how
peaceable they might be. There are few
refused to prostitute their courts at the bid
ding Of corrupt greed, but they will in time
have to follow precedents set by the others.
1t will be noticed that these injunctions are
simply whip with which to lash the back
OF labor. 1t Is also apparent that II they sue
coed they must ultimately destroy the inter-
ests in whose behalf they are now issued and
that they are therefore short-sighted.
For II the laborers Of this country are ever
reduced to the helpless condition of the Ia
boring classes in some European countries
a condition in which they will have no pur-
nho Ctn r,nu a AFt,a Loan
market must disappear and our great rail-
roads and Industrial properties will not be
worth so cents on the 81.
Glancing at this proceeding. we find that 1t
entirely supersedes government by law and
according to the forms Of law as guaranteed
by the constitution, and it substitutes gov
ernment according to the whims caprice or
prejudice Of an Individual and is therefore
a clear usurpatiOn of power and crime.
Shall the corporations of this land be per-
mltted not only to devOur our substance, but
also to destroy our liberties?
My friends, let us save our institutions;
government by injunction must be crushed.
If the government takes some Of the great
corporations, then there will not be SO many
the constitution has pointed out a way to end
these usurpati0ns without having the gov
ernment take the corporations, and that way
Is by impeachment Every one of these
judges, whether Of high or low degree, who
has been trampling on the constitution and
usurping power not given him is subject to
impeachment.
Consigned to Infamy.
The American people can remove every one
Of them and consign them to that infamy
which Is now embalmlng the memory Of
Jeffries.
But this cannot be done so long as Con.
gress Is made up largely Of men who are
mere corporation conveniences. 1t will be
necessary to send men to Congress who will
be true to the people. This may not happen
at the next election, nor yet at the next; but
it must come, and must come soon.
Providence has ordained that nothing shall
go on forever. Our fathers said that every
lane had a turn. We have been travelling
in lane that has run in the same direction
for thirty years. and are approaching turn.
Yea, my friends. do not despair. A turn in
the road is already In sight, and If the Amer
lean people are but true to their nObler in
stincts they will soon be restored to their
Inheritance, while justice and liberty, equal
rights and equal privileges will cover our
land with halo of glory and give our peo-
pie a new century Of prosperity and happi
ness.
But II they do not rise in their manhood
and stand for the principles of eternal jus
tice then all Is lost.
This Is Labor day throughout the United
States and many beautiful things will be said
about the dignity Of labor, but / want to say
to you that II our government is not rescued
from corruption and IL the snaky form of
government by injunction is not crushed,
dren II they had never been born.