The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-22
THE UTILITY or INJUNcTIoNs.

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The use of the injunction as a pre-
yentive remedy, desperately assailed
by the corruptionists of labor and OF
capital. has greatly extended and has
worked out most beneficial results. Its
advantages We're broadly established in
the litigation against monopolistic
combinations, pressed to success in so
mastery a manner by Attorney-Gen
eral Knox, with the warm approval of
President Roosevelt. In San Francisco
and elsewhere, it has checked the coer-
Give and Illegal methods of labor
unions, without impafring their just
and useful eatures. Within a month,
Isaac Platt, Chicago druggist, was
boycotted by the National A ssocia-
ton of Retail Druggists" because he
refused to join that bodyl He was
blackHsted and refused the supplies
necessary in his business. A Circuit
Court in Chicago issued an injunction
for his protection, which was deliber-
ately violated, when $500 retail drug
gists in the United States were declar-
ed guilty Of contempt and fined two
thousand dollars. Mr. Plat has been
restored to his rights, by the ordin-
airy application of the law.
In san Francisco lately, one of those
swindIing operations. of which there
have been recent examples in Honolu-
N, and which depend upon the coyet-
BUSINESS and the gambling prorensi-
ties OF men and women who are 9TH
eryTise intelligent and moral, proved
uncommonly successful The Republic
Securities Company became the sue
cessor of the Pacific States Mercantile
Company, and fifteen thousand con-
tracts were sold, in each of which the
fatuous victim undertook to pay one
dollar per week and was to receive
profit on his investment of fifty per
cent. The sum of $4,000 is claimed to
have been actually paid in on account
of these contracts. When the fraud
had become sufficiently apparent, the
remedy of the injunction was invoked
for TIE benefit of the credulous persons
who had not already been duped.
Under different conditions. as when
the Court of Star Chamber had reach
ed its Ubiquitous height, the injunction
was favorite instrument OF tyranny.
In this age, it has become safeguard
TO property and to personal rights,
and, applied prudently and discrimin-
atingly, the most effective remedy
against violence and fraud the law can
supply. Its practical achievements
have been occasionally mentioned in
the Advertiser, and they have been
peculiarly noticeable in the controver-
sizes between capital and labor, which
are rapidly diminishing in number and
in depravity. Adequately secured
against lawIessness, communities now
intelligently intervene and public OPP
inion has resumed the control, of which
it should never have been even tenn
porari1y deprived. Arbitration now
disposes of most of the struggles be-
tween employers and wage-earners.
SlTihSS are 1fO lOuSST Ire
quent. The Butchers strike at Chica-
go and the Hack Drivers strike in San
Francisco were settled. Law and or
der are more and more respected. The
necessities of civiliza ton are suspend
ing the brutal episodes, to which, two
or three years ago, and even more re-
Gently, the industrial and producing
world appeared to be tending.
The office and functions of the in
junction, legitimately recognized and
applied, eliminate violence and lead to
the substantial acknowledgment of the
inherent rights of men and to the pro-
lection of property.