New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-08-18
Ideas of Others

Inc chicago I'ls pdCCA teAAS q Ao" LAWS
about silver and wheat in the following
There is a concerted attack all along
the line on silver by the goldite press,
and the assault is assisted by Director
Preston of the United States mint bu-
reau.
The rise in the price of wheat, pro-
duced by short crop in South America
and famine in India, combined with
a wheat pool at St. Louis, controlling
one-half of the September product, is
quoted as proof CT the great benefits OF
a gold standard. The fact is, wheat has
appreciated because of an appreciated
demand, and in spite of an appreciated
currency.
But it is the fall in the price of silver
that gives the goldites the greatest joy.
Calamity bowling is their long suit now.
Even the officers of the government can
not conceal their JOY over the calamity
of falling prices for an American pro.
duct. "Hurrah p they cry, 'silver is go
ing down. TO be sure, it's a product
Of our peoples labor, but, oh joy! it's
gone off a point on the market, and be-
fore the year is out it will go off point
or two more. A lot of silver miners
will be ruined; thousands of men will
be thrown out of employment; great
industry will be destroyed, but silver
has fallen in the market. Did you ever
hear such good news?"
An esteemed Republican contempora-
~ quotes Director Preston as saying:
''The present decline in the price of sill
yer is the natural result of a production
far in excess of the demand" If Pres
ton said that he wilfully misstated facts,
for Preston knows better. He knows
that the fall of silver is primarily owing
to the legislation against it as a money
metal. The reason Preston gives for the
fall in silver is an effect, not cause,
and Preston knows it. Falsifying facts
is an old trick with advocates of the
gold standard. They dare not tell the
truth, for the truth is against them.
The Chicago Record, a paper of emf
nent fairness. rebukes the abuse of the
injunction power in the following edi-
torial:
1t is wholesome sign of the indepen-
dence of public opinion in this country
that the sweeping injunction granted by
Judge Jackson Of West Virginia is ev-
erywhere calling forth decided and en-
phatic protests.
One of the greatest dangers threaten
ing the integrity of the courts in recent
years has been the reproach aroused by
the misuse of the injunction power.
There have been many instances of such
abuse, but Judge Jackson's order re-
straining men from publicly speaking
on the strike issues or endeavoring to en-
list sympathy ind support for the min
ers goes to the limit. An injunction
against an effort to trespass upon an
employers property or to drive his men
from their work might be understood,
but this injunction is in restraint of the
very constitutional principles which
guarantee to citizens the rights of free
assembly and free speech. It is difficult
to see how the injunction power could
be stretched any further or made DIN
fringe more deeply upon the rights and
privileges belonging to citizens under
the national constitution and the state
constitution of West Virginia.
The injustice which such injunctions
do to the persons at whom they are.
aimed IS only part of the mischief they
entail. An even more serious injury
comes in the loss of respect for the
courts, the popular contempt 1ol Judlc-
ial proceedings and the angry convic-
lions that the agents of justice, so far
from fulfilling their part, are becoming
merely the agents of greedy wealth in
its oppression of poverty. 1t would not
require many more orders like that Of
Judge Jackson to create popular feel
ing which in the end would undermine
the courts of law and destroy their eff
fectiveness for either good or i'll. In the
circumstances it is gratifying to see that
so many observers on both sides of the
mining contest are disposed to recognize
the excessive and unreasonable nature
Of Judge JacksoD's order and condemn
it heartily. s..s
Washington GLADDEN. has written an
article for s.'The Outlook" on the. resig-
nation Of President Andrews. In it he
gives his notion OF the ideal university