The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11

inferior Federal judge was enjoined. How every child over 5ix years of age was enjoined: every indy dual was en- joined; every court officer; every grand jury, every process of court was en- joined. That the State was bound hand and foot when 1t came to act in the enforcement of the law looking to decrease of freight rates; absolutely bound hand and foot. And yet the raflroaus without any restraint what ever, are advancing interstate rates and increasing charges on living and the products of the people. I told them that 1t was wrong. and 1t Is wrong, and the people should have some remedy and relief from this kind of business.
 Under the law, we have to await the hearing before the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission be- fore any restraining order can be made. Tn other words the wrong. II wrong 1t be- Is first executed and then tried afterwards. If this Is tried in
 life. the lawlessness and injustice, of such transactions can be easily seen. 1 know of no system of government 1 where 1t would be wise to allow the wrong done, and try 1t afterwards. am doing my best and will continue to do my best to have the trial be- fore and not after the execution of the transaction. As regards the trust combine of the railroads. nothing is surer on earth than the trust; nothing is sur CT on earth than the combining to raise rates. They are meeting every part of the proposition except ille- | gal violation of the law, which the president of the association said was I a gentlemanly agreement.
 | Now as to the proposition that have gone back on my love of State rights. nothing Is more wrongfully l stated. I believe the very genus of l our government is the sovereignty of | the States. and nothing is more de- I structive than the inferior Federal Court having supreme power. and | making our chancery courts, our cir | cult courts, our law and equity courts 1 and our supreme courts inferior when ] it comes to protecting the rights of a | State.
 l In the Minnesota decision, sustaining | the injunction of State authority, Jus | tice Harlan of the Supreme Court of | the United States, Republican, stat | ed that it was the most pernicious de- | cision ever rendered and converted the | sovereignty of States into provinces. | I, for one expect to be for State rights | and Democracy. and had I the power
 would go before Congress and try to
 secure a law restraining the unsuitable
 greed of the inferior Federal Courts
 from preying on the rights of the peo-
 Dle. Nothing can be more dangerous. In going before the Federal au- | thorities at Washington 1t was not
 because I loved States rights and | States authority less, but the States
 officials being enjoined, In the interest | of the people, I went to whatever l power I could approach and asked for I some means to protect the people of
 Alabama from this increased tax on
 the necessities of life, the increased I freight rates the people have to pay
 on cotton to the Eastern mills, and
 the increased freight rates on meat
 and bread stuffs which the people | have to pay with no restraining pow
 CT anywhere except after trial.
 This statement of the case shows
 that under our present system of gov | ernment the large properties have all
 people and small properties are prac- | tically defenseless. This, I have al-
 ways contended, unless corrected, will
 tend to produce socialism and revolu- | ton.
 Again my contention everywhere
 stated. Is the large corporation zen . | vironed men should not become our
 legislators or our judges. The danger
 of this is amply shown In our pres
 ent national campaign. Mir. Foraker
 United States Senator, is a corpora
 tion lawyer. Mir. Dupont, manager ot
 the Republican campaign Is a trust
 magnate. Even Mir. Taft Is being crit
 icised for recommending MT. Doyle to
 be a Federal judge Mir. Doyle being a
 Standard OH attorney and representing
 other corporations In fact the justice
 and contention of every law made by
 our Legislature Is amply exemplifed
 by the present national campaign and | State developments.
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