Arizona republican., 1908-02-01
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 faith as to the terms of their employ ment.
 Tt is all wrong to use the injunction to prevent the entirely proper and legitimate actions of labor organiZa- tions in their struggle for industrial betterment, or under the guiSe of pro- tecting property rights unwarrantably to avoid the fundamental rights of the individual. IL is futile to concede, as We all do, the right and the necessity Of organized effort on the part of the wage earners, and yet by injunctive process to forbid peaceable action to accomplish the lawful object for which they are organized and upon which their success depends. The fact that the punishment for the violation of an injunction must, to make the order ef- fective necessarily be summary and without the intervention of a jury. makes it's issuance in doubtful cases dangerous proctice, and in itself fur nishes a reason why the process should be surrounded with safeguards to pro- tect individuals against being enjoined from exercising their proper rights. Reasonable notice should be given the adverse party.
 This matter is daily becoming of grave importance, and I cannot too urgently recommend that congress give careful consideration to the subject If some way of remedying the abuses is not found, the feeling of indignation against them among large numbers of our citizens will tend to grow so ex- treme as to produce a revolt against the whole use of the process of injunc- ton. The tFa-conservatiYes who ob- ject to cutting off the abuses will do well to remember that if popular feel ing does become strong against any of those upon whom they rely, to defend therI they will be the first to turn against them. Men of property cannot af ford to trust to anything save the spirit of justice and fair play; for these very public men who, while it is to their interest to defend all the abuses com mitted by capital and pose as the champions of conservatism, will, in the momenS they think their interest changes, take the lead in just such a matter as this and pander to what they esteem popular feeling by endeavoring. for instance, effectively to destroy the power of the courts in matters of in junction: and will even seek to render nugatory the power to punish for con- tempt upon which power the very ex- istence of the orderly administration of justice depends"
 The president recurs to the question of control of interstate corporation.
 Not only should there be action on certain laws. affecting wage earners: there should also be such action on laws better to secure control over the great business concerns engaged in in- terS tate commerce and especially over the great common carriers The inter- state commerce commission should be empowered to pass upon any rate or practice on its own initiative. More over 1t should be provided that when ever the commission has reason to be- lieve that a proposed advance in rate ought not 10 be made without investi- gation. it should have authority to is- sue an order prohibiting the advance pending examination by the commits sion.
 T would not be understood as eX- pressing an opinion that any or even q majority of these advances are inn proper Many of the rates in this coun try have been abnormally low. The operating expenses of our railroads,