Little Falls herald., 1900-09-14

vast bulk Of the people nothing is left
but wages. The element of profits
is concentrated in the possession of a
handful of proprietors.
This is a change as revolutionary as
the transition from feudalism to the
factory system. The party that advo-
Gates it is the revolutionary party, and
the one that opposes it is the conserva.
tive party.
Again, the Republican organs would
have US believe that the Democracy is
taking new and dangerous ground in
opposing government by injunction.
The fact is that government by in
junction is a noxious novelty. It was
not known in this country ten years ago;
it is not known in England now. The
writ of injunction is old. 1t originated
in England. where the lord chancellor,
as Keeper of the kings conscience" :"
used it to grant relief in civil cases that
could not be reached by the rigid proc
esses of the common law. In. the
English equity courts it is still used in
the old way. No employer in England
can get an injunction restraining a
labor union from disbursing strike
benefits, or can make a writ of injunc-
ton a. means of abolishing the right of
trial by jury in criminal cases.
The courts in this country followed
the old rules until few years ago,
when ingenious corporation lawyers
devised the scheme of procuring in
or xryho
warning them against the commission
Of crimes, and so putting them Under
a species Of judicial martial law.
The old criminal law, built up by our
race in thousand years Of struggle
against oppression, says: 'You shall
not commit crime. If you do, you
will be indicted, tried before a jury,
and, If convicted, subjected to such
penalties as the law provides"
Government by injunction says:
"You shall not commit crime. If you
do, or If a Judge chooses to say you do,
you will be arrested for contempt of
court and subjected, without trial, to
such punishment as the judge may
direct"
Through this system reign Of ter
ror may be established over whole dis
tricts and the liberty of the entire
population subjected to the arbitrary
will of one man.
This revolutionary usurpation was
fire new when the Democratic conven-
ton at Chicago protested against it in
1896. 1t Is four years older now, but
still new enough to stamp the party
that would substitute it for the system
that has come down from the time Of
King Alfred as the party Of reckless
innovation.
In the matter Of the income tax, too,
it is the Republican party that is root
ing up the ancient landmarks. From
the foundation Of our government
down to the year 1895 the power Of
congress to impose an income tax had
been sustained by an unbroken line Of
decisions. The Republican party It,
self before it had become the instru-
ment of constituencies wealth repeat
edly made ues of that power. But un-
der it's new proprietorship it dragoon-
ed the supreme court into reversing it's
whole record and depriving the nation
Of a resource that may prove vital in
some future emergency.
1t is the Republican party, too, which
has abandoned Washington's rule
against entangling alliances and Mon
roe's prohibition Of European expan-
sion on the American continent and
has made the United States the tail to
the kite of British diplomacy.
Manifestly the voter who breads rash
experiments has only one recourse. 1t
is to vote for the conservative candi-
date-the upholder of American tradi-
tions- William Jennings Bryan.-New
York Journal.