The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-06-09
usurpaiioas Of the
Federal judiciary, Etc.


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criminal courts for the violation OF
the antitrust laws Of that state |
These laws DO not violate the Cors'i- |
tuition OF the United Ststes. IL they
do, then the remedy 10 by proceed
ings in the nature Of an appeal from
the ultimate court Of the State. This
federal Judge. without the authority
OF any act OF Congress. Issues his
writ. discharges the criminal. and
says to the state OF Texas. "I ou shall
not enforce your criminal laws"
In the state Of Virginia, . bill in
equity Is brought in the federal
court by non resident compliments
seeking to . quester the assets OF .
domestic corporation upon allega-
tons Of insolvency and TO hold It's
officers IN PERsoNAM liable for its
debts because of fraudulent CONVEX
sions of its property. The court has
Jurisdiction because of the diversity
Of citiz enshIp of the parties. 1t prop
erly entertains the bill, appoints .
receiver, and ma kes reference to .
master for an account. While this
suit in equity is pending, tho State
of Virginia through . grand jury.
makes declaration against one OF
these corporation officers for q VIOLA
ton of its criminal laws. The SOW.
ereign State indicts him for embt Z
cling the funds Of the corporation.
Thereupon . federal judge discharg-
Is him On . habeas corpus, on the
ground that his court has obtained
jurisdiction Of the party in the equity
suit. Thus he undertakes to xercise
his dispensing power and thereby
veto the criminal laws of Virginia.
Within the last year or Two, two
great railway systems, operating
through many Southern States, en-
gagged in . fierce competition for
frelghts. They went into rate war
with each other. The mortgage bond
holders of these systems applied to .
Federal Court and obtained an in
junction against their own and the
other competing system to prohibit
them from cutting rates on freight
traffic. The complainants allege that
their bonded railroads will not be
able to earn the interest on their
bonds watered and unwatered If rate
reductions are permitted. That is ia
say, that these Federal Courts are
not to permit legitimate competition
among these common carriers who
are governing the country by owning
its highways. The farmers, the man.
ufacturers, the toilers, and all the
. producers of the country must bS
. left to the cold and cruel and relent
less competition of the markets Of
the world, but the combinations o.
concentrated capital, the princes o.
mammon. the idle consumers of tn,
: wealth produced by the toilers, mus
t not be subject to competition in thei
domain. If they fight each o'her. tn,
:. federal courts must stop it. The ben
: efits of competition among the car
riers of the products Of the countr,
: must be denied to the toilers VII,
, make those products. No more mon.
$ strous arrogation of the right to rol
and run over the masses of mankin,
j h as ever been set up by the despot
( Ct the earth, from the period of Sull,
t and Crassus and Pontius PLATE an,
g Caligula. down to the days of tn
t Rothschilds and Havemeyer and Shi
. ras and Pierpont Morgan. True
- is that this particular Injunction di
not issue. The monarchs of tn
highways got together and put u
y the rates. But, be it remembers
y that the federal court seriously or
tertained the bill for the Injunction
q And this was done by federal judg
: who is Justly entitled to the reputs
, ton Of having more heart and sym
"a patty with the struggling million
2 than almost any other of the Who'll
e layout.
s. The trainers of the Constitutio
|. m ade q magnificent structure q
\ government. The genius of the gres
le Chief Justice, John Marshall, col
'e strued, explained, and amplife
these delegations of power SO as I
st make them Ineligible and usef,
10 and adapted to the growth of til
great republic. But the reserve
70 rights of the States none knew bette
A. than he, and none were more SINGER
s. in protecting and preserving then
,e We're he living today he would stan
aghast and indignant at the judici,
usurpation which is REVOLUTIONARY
N the republic from . union of fire.
,e States into an imperial moneyed oil
e. garchy, run by the financial mai
ic eaters of New York and Londol
o. sustained by the idle rich who stan
If in with their class, and supported
10 their grand army of hirelin1
y throughout the land.