The Advocate and news., 1898-09-07
Clemens Talks of Williams Order.
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him with head-ducking respect, let 9TH
ers do as they will. | am going to de-
fend him against the unreasonable at
tacks of my own crowd. Suppose the
constitution of the United States does
forbid him to entertain a suit against
the Attorney General Of a State Sup
pose an act of Congress does expressly
forbid him to enjoin proceedings in a
State court. Are such technical object
ions entitled to a moments consideration
when nothing but his interference can
prevent a corporation being subjected
to the humiliation Of yielding servile
obedience to State law and the orders
of a mere State court? In the presence
Of great emergency like this who can
ask a self-respecting federal judge to
hesitate, and waste precious time exam
lining ancient constitutional provisions
and acts of Congress to see whether he
has a lawful right to interfere?
What If five judges had sustained these
laws, and courtesy would ordinarily have
demanded that a hearing should be
granted before declaring all these judges
fools or traitors to the constitution Of
their country. There was no time for
any such well-bred foolishness. Think
Of the emergency. A State court had al
ready issued an injunction and it had
been served; and unless federal judge
interfered Immediately the coal mine Op-
orators of Kansas would have been
obliged to give up swindling their miners
by using unlawful screens, the beneficent
"pluCk-me" store system must have been
abandoned and the wages Of miners must
have been paid in cash. or the operators
would have been punished for contempt
Think of officers of a great corporation
being threatened with Imprisonment by
a court Of a mere sovereign State! The
indignity was not to be thought Of.
Besides, Judge Williams is an injunc-
tion expert. He thoroughly understands
just how the thing should be done. And
the case presented to him was that of
an upstart State judiciary trespassing
upon his judicial preserves. What can
miserable little State court know about
iniunctions? 1t Is liable to get these
things all mixed up, and it could not be
allowed to go on and botch up the job.
l see nothing for Judge Williams to do
under such circumstances but to take i'm
mediate steps to protect his patent. 1t
was manifestly his duty to make the
pFesumptious State court quit and let
the great federal expert attend to the
matter in an artistic manner so that
awkward handling Of the injunction ma
chine might not knock the veneering off
the companys Office furniture.
think the coal company ought to send
the gentleman from Arkansas a testi-
monial. 1t might read something like
this: This is to certify that was griev-
ously afflicted and entirely up against
it. 1 would have been compelled to use
honest screens, besides paying my Sc
ditiOus miners in cash and permitting
them to buy bacon and calico where they
pleased and l was given up; my case
was deemed hopeless, when, in my ex-
tremity, friend told me of the virtues
of DR.. Williams injunction remedy. l
sent special delivery request to the pro-
prietOr, who, learned, was then So
journing at Manitou, and by return mail
received supply of his wonderful pam
acea. have taken two bottles and feel
better; at least I hope | do; and If
can only keep down the noise about the
house so the medicine can have a fair
chance I hope to be fully restored to
health and return to my business Of
paying in high-priced cheap goods for
mining all chunks Of coal that won't fit
into Lake Michigan without defacing the
edges.