Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23

JlOnS, cdn carry every ward Ill the city if the men will work together. 1t is a conceded fact that there is money ill the field for other candidates and should some other candidate suc- ceed ill securing the bulk of the Wa terbury delegation it could be charged, and with reason, that money went far ther than principle with the Water bury branch of the Economic league and Waterbury trade unions. There is one thing that should be borne in mind by all of the working class fn Waterbury-that no matter whether their candidate secures the nomination or does secure 1t and is defeated, if the league and unions of Waterbury do their duty no charge can be laid at their door and their influence will be greatly enhanced In the future, and thereby the remedying of certain obnoxious systems made more possi- ble.
 man of eighty years may be for given for a certain amount of petu- lance, especially if he has spent the greater part of his life on the Feder- al bench. But something more than the crossness of old age crept into the decision of Judge Jackson of West Virginia in the case of certain labor leaders who were up before him for the peculiar kind of contempt of court that has become national party is- sue. He sent the men to jail for long terms and he heavily denounced them and labor leaders in general as "vam- pires" living on the proceeds of hon. est toll. With due respect for Judge Jackson, and all other judges, old and young, we must say that this nF cyf1S na1, k ,x,l.N is grating on the nerves of the pub- lie. Where is the .cold neutrality of the impartial judge" in a furious attack On helpless. prisoners and sweeping denunciation Of whole class of taxpaying citizens who have committed no offence against the law? If the prisoners were guilty of an abuse of the right of free speech how much more fragrant is the offence of the judge! The case has aroused indignant protests from quarters to which we have been wont to look for vigorous defence of the judicial prerogative. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, is among the statesmen and lawyers who have voiced the feelings that the time has arrived to check by legislative enact ment the amazing extensions of the power to grant injunctions and pun ish contempts created by the Feder- al judiciary in the last ten years.- Golfers Weekly.
 The following from the Boston Her. aid, a very conservative paper, in re- | gard to the coal strike is pertinent: Coal has never been on the aver age, so high, year in and year out, as since it became monopoly. The economics" that were contem- l plated have been carried out, it may be presumed but the people have not profited thereby. The monopoly has enhanced the profits from both pro- duction and consumption and pocket ed them all. And now the audacity of the owners eliminates in the most impudentg imposition on the l American people of which conscience
 less rapacity was ever guilty, some thing that would hardly have been
 conceivable five years ago. Having
 constituted themselves a union of capitalists of the most rigorous sort
 they are resolved to crush union of la
 Dor. Practically, they declare that
 they will mine no. more coal until
 they have accomplished this tyran-
 nous and cruel purpose. They intend ! to make labor helpless and absolute ly dependent. They can obtain other
 men to operate their mines. but they
 make no effort to do it, and they an
 nounce that they will not resume un- til their former workmen are starved
 into submission. Meanwhile, coal is sold at $S ton, and will soon be S1O, and winter is approaching. They can take this stand under present laws,
 because they have no competition.
 And because they have no competi-
 tion they are in no danger of losses.
 Every dollar they are not making I now they will recuperate themselves for <in the future. If the strike
 should last six months or year, they
 do not care. They can and will make
 the people who must buy coal from
 them pay them as large a profit for
 the months of idleness as for the
 months when the mines are worked
 The people are absolutely at tho mer. cy of the coal mOnoDOIy1 y