The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-01
SAT ON US.
Judge Williams Bottles Up Poor
Little Kansas Again.
From His Olympian Retreat
Near Pixies Peak
HE THUNDERS FORTH
Another Edict in Favor of the
Corporations.
u. G. Clemens Starts a Laugh
at His Expense.
HE THUNDERS FORTH

When G. @. Clemens, supreme court
reporter, read the dispatch announcing
that United States Judge Williams had
enJo1ned the enforcement of the miners
scrip and screen law he seemed greatly
amused and spoke at length. A re-
porter gathered up his remarks as fol-
lows:
That thoughtful guardian of Kansas,
Judge Williams, of Arkansas and the
universe, having arrived at ManitOu,
the executive and judicial branches of
the state government can now take a
much needed vacation. The judge will
kindly take the state of Kansas to his
rooms at his Manitou hotel and wisely
care Tor It there, and see that the reck-
less little orphan keeps out of mischief
and breaks no valuable corporation
br1c-a- brac during the heated spell.
Seriously, there can be no doubt about
Judge Williams right and power to do
what he has done for a Kansas coal
company. He has just as much juris-
dlctOn to enJOin the attorney general
of Kansas from going after rebeIlious
coal mine operators as the probate
judge of Shawnee county would have to
enJoin Dewey from trying to make
AguinaldO be good; and I hope the at
tOrney general will treat this injunction
with all the respect that the supposed
injunction by Judge DOlman would I'M
dOubtedly be treated by Dewey. There
can be no doubt that if Sheriff Cook
should sail across the seas and, clam
bering to the deck of the rear admiraPs
flagship, should present to that officer
a certified copy of an injunction by
Judge DOlman telling the cOnQuerOr of
Manila to cease interfering with the
insurgent chiefs philanthrOpic en-
deaVOrs to hold up everybody in sight
as the Kansas operators hold up their
miners, Dewey would send some kind
of word back to Dolman before proceed
ing to mop up the earth with AguinaldO.
think Boyle owes Judge Williams sim
liar courtesy.
4 protested against a previous Man
itOu Injunction by the judicial gentle
man from Arkansas, and firmly in
sisted that he had no power to do such
a thing. I wish it understood that
have recanted the heretical opinion then
heedlessly expressed. am not protest
ing this time. There is absolutely moth
ing Judge Williams can not do with
his miraculous judicial wand-except,
perhaps, to refuse a corporation an in
junction against Kansas law or a
Kansas court. I know him as a man
and would warm up to him and ike
him, for he is a good fellow off the
bench; but his awful, jOvelike power
scares the life out of me and 1 am al
most terrified when find myself laugh
ing at one of his jokes; it is as if one
were to be surprised into an indecOrOus
guffaW right in the presence of the
great white throne. On the other hand,
1 am afraid not to laugh.
You can't enjoy a mans society I'M
der such depressing circumstances; and
if Judge Williams feels deprived of
what he is entitled to of my company,
as I fear he sometimes does, he must
attribute the deprivation to the awe OF
him which his judicial mightiness in
spires.
"A man who is a mere Arkansas dis
trict judge, and yet can sit in Colo
RADIO and by his mighty fiat f1atten out
the entire executive, legislative and Ju-
dicial branches of the state govern
ment of an adjoining state, is not
n no fooled with and L at least,
am going to treat him with head-duck-
ing respect, let others do as they Will.
I am even going to defend him aaglnst
the unreasonable attacks of my own
crowd. Suppose the constitution OF the
United States does forbid him to enter
tain a suit against the attorney general
of a state. Suppose an act of congress
does expressly forbid him to enJoin
proceedings in a state court. Are such
technical objections entitled to a mo-
ment's consideration when nothing but
his interference can prevent corpora
ton being subjected to the humiliation
of yielding servile obedience to a state
law and the orders of mere state
court? In the presence of great ener-
eency like this who can ask self
respecting federal judge to hesitate,
and waste precious time examining
ancient constitutional provisions and
acts of congress to see WheLher ne mas
a lawful right to interfere?
What if five judges had sustained
these laws, and courtesy would ordl-
nariIy have demanded that nearing
should be granted before declaring all
these iudees fools or traitors to the
constitution of their country. There
was no time for any such weIl-bred
foOlishness. Think OF the emergency
A state court had already issued an in
junction and it had been served; ana
unless a federal judge interfered I'M
mediately, the coal mine operators OF
kansas would have been obliged to
give up swindling their miners by using
unlawful screens, the benefcent
''DIuc-ne'' store system must have
been abandoned and the wages OF min
ers must have been paid in cash, or the
ODerators would have been punished
for contempt Think of officers OF a
great corporation being threatened
with Imprisonment by court OF mere
sovereign state! The indignity was not
to be thought of.
Besides Judge Williams is an injunc-
ton expert. He thoroughly understands
lust how the thing should be done. And
the case presented to him was that OF
an upstart state judiciary trespasslng
1IDou his judicial preserves. What can
a miserable little state court know about
injunctions? 1t is liable to get things
all mixed up, and 1t could not De al
lowed to go on and botch the job. 1
see nothing for Judge Williams to do
under such circumstances but to take
immediate steps to protect his patent
1t was manifestly his duty to make
the presumptious state court quit, and
let the great federal expert attend to
the matter in an artistic manner so that
awkward handling of the injunction
machine might not knock the veneering
off the company's office furniture.
Il think the coal company ought to
send the gentleman from Arkansas
testimonial. 1t might read like this:
This is to certify that was grievously
afflicted and entirely UP against it. I
would have been compelled to use hon
est screens, besides paying my seditious
miners in cash and permitting them to
buy bacon and calico where they pleas
ed; and was given up; my case was
deemed hopeless, when, in my extrem-
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