Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-26
FOR STATE CONTROL new LODGE Of EIKS
HOW NORTH CAROLINA ENFORCES
The LAWS As They EXIST.
Judge prifChard is Not the Law of
The State OF North Carolina, at
Least so Thinks Governor Glenn,
Law is Law in That State. Even
Railroads knOw IT,

When Governor Altgeld invented the
now familiar phrase, government by
lnJunctlon,' the immediate allusion of
the term was to labor cases. In order to
punish labor leaders for crime without
Jury trial, railroad lawyers, promoted to
the bench, trampled upon precedent and
principle to issue injunctions against
criminal acts in connection with strikes.
This enabled them to try alleged Offend
ers for contempt OF court, before them.
selves without jury, and upon mere
affidavits without opportunity for cross
examination. Since that time govern.
ment by injunction" has thrived and
grown, especially in the federal courts
where 1t originated, until now we find
federal judges governing municipalities,
and even essaying the government OF
states, by means OF injunctions, and in
the interest, of course, Of franchise.
grabbing corporations. A striking ex.
ample of city government by federal in
junction may be studied at this time in
Detroit. while North Carolina furnishes
an example OF state government by fed
eral injunction. In the one case free
city is, and in the other sovereign state
would be but for it's competent governor,
enjoned from performing it's functions,
by the mandate of single Judge, ap.
pointed by centralized authority and not
elected by the people, and holding office
for life. Government by corporation
lawyers, raised by their soulless patrons
to the federal bench, is what ''govern.
ment by Injunction" is bringing up to.
Notwithstanding the release by the
federal judge, Pritchard, of Southern
Railway employees convicted OF selling
railroad tickets for more than "a cents a
mile in defiance of a law of North Caro-
lima. Judge Lyon charged the state grand
jury at Asheville on the 24th of July
to return further indictments against the
Southern Railway company and it's
agents. The grand jury compiled. On
the same day Governor Glenn announced
that he would not consider any offer
from the railway, or the federal Judge, or
the federal government, until the rail.
road complied with the law" He
added:
"Ii Judge Pritchard had shown the
slightest disposition to recognize the
validity OF the rate law and the right OF
the state to institute and prosecute cases
arising under it in the criminal courts, |
would have been entirely satisfied to
allow prosecutions to be suspended until
the supreme court of the United States
could decide. | feel in the present cir
cumstances that | cannot for one mo-
ment permit this law OF the state, any
more than any other law, to be ignored
and trampled under foot by the railway
company or by any one else."
The railroads still defying the law.
warrants were issued on the 27th of July
for President Finley, of the Southern
Railroad. While he was on his way to
the criminal court, writ OF habeas COR
pus from the federal Judge was served
and he was taken to the federal court at
Asheville. The habeas corpus proceed
ings were still pending when, in the
evening OF the 9th, an agreement was
reached by the railroads and the govern
ment. 1t provides for speedy court pro-
ceedings, and observance, meanwhile, of
the new law by the railroads.