The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-10-10
BRYAN'S PIPE DREAM.

For the sake of comment we quote
from the Associated Press dispatches
William Jennins Bryan'g ideas of why
President Roosevelt should call an ex-
ira session of Congress. These laws
should be passed:
"a law establishing an American
board of arbitration, consisting of
three or five members, to consider
and report on all controversies be-
tween the coal operators and their
employees; a law abolishing govern
ment by Injunction; a law that will
discriminate between the natural man
created by the Almighty and the cor
poration giant, created by legislation;
law taking the tariff off coal; law
which will prevent railroads engaged
in interstate commerce from operating
coal mines except for the purpose of
supplying fuel for their engines"
If there is any need at all for an
American board of arbitration it would
be class legislation, if it did not pro-
tect every class and kind of industrial
strikes one and the same. To confine
its duties strictly to coal strikes
would, to say the least, be an expen-
S1Ve luxury. The passage of a law
by Congress abolishing Mr.. Bryan's
so called government by injunction
would simply be political buncom, leg
islative rot and Congressional idioc-
racy, for there is no such thing in this
country as a government by injunc-
ton" except in the distorted mind of
some man, who himself is revolution
airy inclined. In isolated cases, Judges
may sometimes hand down from the
bench a very arbitrary ruling, but
there is always way to appeal from
such a ruling, and even a William Jen-
nings Bryan will not dare to say: The
judges of this entire land are under
the corrupt influence of either money
or men.
One of the fundamental principles
of this government is that there shall
be no distinction between one man
and another, and therefore if Congress
should pass a law, as recommended by
Mr.. Bryan, to discriminate between
the natural man created by the AL
mighty and the corporation giant Gre
ated by legislation, it would be a
clear case of legal discrimination. AS
no one but the Almighty has any right
to create a human being and if any
of the legislatures have done SO or
is trying to do so, certainly the rank
and file of this country have not so
far forgotten their cradle of indepen-
dence as to not elect men who will
undo such vicious legislation at once,
if not sooner.
Now, as to the enactment of a law
taking the tariff off coal, that is part
of Mr.. Bryan's political stock in trade
oA1u uO 10 IuulI0CIIy dCIdChluS Iu0 Jar
if laws of this country. Under the
tariff laws made by the Republican
party foreign countries have been pre-
vented from flooding this country with
cheap coal and it has given thousands
of men employment. Whereas, if our
markets were being furnished with
foreign coal such men would have to
seek other employment, if such could
be found, which is very doubtful
A law to prevent railroad companies
from owning and operating coal mines
only to the extent of taking enough
coal out for the supplying Of their own
engines is another form of class leg
islation. Commercial companies are
formed for the express purpose of
dealing in every commodity which