The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-06-27
REPUBLICANS DEcEIvINe LABOR
Mr.. Bryan's Views of the Republican
Injunction Plank

Injunction Plank.
In this weeks Commoner William J.
Bryan pays his respects TO the III
junction plank of the republican ma
ional platform in the following words
The antiinjunction plank of the re-
publican platform as finally adopted
/ is transparent fraud II is possible
that the members OF the committee
were buncOed by some trust lawyer
that is the only charitable view that
can be taken of it Those who advo-
Gated the plank claimed to be doing
it as concession TO the wage earners.
and yet if one Will read the plank he
will see that il is in fact an announce
ment that the republican party is un-
alterably opposed to the Iaborinx
mans position The plank reads as
| follows: The republican party VIII
uphold at all times the authority and
integrity of the courts. state and fed
eral, and viii ever insist that their
powers to enforce their processes and
to protect life, liberty and property
shall be preserved inyiolate We be-
lieve, however, that the rules Of pro-
cedure in federal court. with respect
to the issuance of writ of Injunction
should be more accurately defined by
the statute; that no injunction or tenn
porary restraining order should be is
sued without notice, except where in
reparable injury would result from de-
lay. in which case speedy hearing
thereafter should be granted
1t will be seen that the plank begins
with an unnecessary eulogy of the
courts Nobody is opposed to uphold
ing at all times the authority and in
tegrity of the courts Nobody is OBJ
jecting to the enforcement of their
processes or to their exercise of their
powers to protect life. liberty and
property The plank assumes that
somebody is attacking the courts and
that the courts are in danger of losing
support or of having their powers
weakened There is no attack upon
the courts and there is no thought
/ any +" A2CAS OA AAtCftSAAAS Win any
itimate function of the court The re-
publican convention puts up man Of
straw and then proceeds to demolish
it; it suspects an unhoIy assault upon
the judiciary and its righteous indig-
nation at once finds expression IN a
boastful assertion of its innonence OF
participation in any such suspected
assault This part of the plank was
written to give assurance TO the peo-
pie who are opposed to the Iaborins
to that part of the plank which was
intended as sop to the laboring man
1t says: We believe however, that
the rules of procedure in the federal
writ of Injunction should be more
accurately defined by the statute
(Just what that definition shall be Is
not stately That no Injunction OF
temporary restraining order should be
issued without notice, EXCEPT
WHERE IRREPARABLE INJURY
WOULD RESULT FROM DELAY. II
which case a speedy hearing there
! after should DE granted Note the
words in capitals except WHERE
IRREPARABLE INJURY WOULD RE
SUIT FROM DELAY1. and compars
this exception with the federal statute
on the subject and you VIII find tina
under the law AS 1T NOW ExISTs
the the court is not empowered Il
grant a temporary restraining ordei
EXCEPT THERE APPEARS TO b
DANGER OF IRREPARABLE N
JURY FROM DELAY II vIu De seez
that the man who wrote the injunction
plank copied the statute almost wors
for word and made the exception 4:
broad as the statute II the convez
ton had been frank In the sSz1eme1
of its position 1t would have quotes
the present statute and said that ]
was In favor OF enforcing the kv
JUST As IT IS II would have saz1;
Where's al present court or j1E<'
may grant = temporary restraining %
der If there appears To De danger G
irreparable injury from delay there
fore be il resolved that We are o.
posed TO changing II
The men who are responsible 70
the language of the Injunct5ou pEznl
may have fooled the rest oE the CON
mIt1ee and they may have fcozed IN
convention but they cznnoe food In
! laborIng men or the voters m general
The Injunction plank has not even IN
value of q gold-plzred brick for IN
plating is brass. as well As the inter5o
of the brick
The plank as prepared in advance o
the convention by Mr. Tafr5s fr5ezd
and given out on Tuesday reads =
\ follows We declare for Such arenE
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