The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-12-31

Texas sympathizo with you, Mitchell
and Morrison. Advise us how to aid
you. D. J. NELL, President
Washington, Dec. 2G.--There is
not much likelihood that Gompers,
Mitchell and Morrison will ever 80
to jail, even II the court should sus-
tain the judgment pronounced this
afternoon by Judge Wright Of the
District supreme court.
or course, no announcement Is to
be expected from the White House,
but nevertheless, II Is very well UNI
derstood that II these labor leaders
should lose an appeal a pardon Will
be very quickly forthcoming from tho
White House, whether at that time
the president should be Roosevelt or
Taft.
The dicision OF Justice Wright,
which consumed two hours and twen-
ty minutes In reading, was one Of the
most scathlng arraignments that ever
came from the bench in this city.
Everywhere" the court said, "all
over, within the court and out, Mt
ter, rampant, insolent defiance is
heralded and proclaimed; .unrefined
insult, coarse aifront, vulgar, indig-
nant measures, the litigants' concop-
ton of the tribunals due, wherein
his cause still Ponds"
The laws command" he said, "to
stand hands off until justice in the
matter can be asserted But there
has been a studied, determined, de-
fiant conflict precipitated in the light
of open day between the DEGREES Of
tribunal ordained by the govern
ment Of the federal union and of the
federation grown up in the land.
zone or the other" he declared,
must succumb for those who would
unlaw the land are public enemies"
Conspiracy Restraining Trade.
Following an exhaustive discus
sion OF conspiracies in restraint Of
trade, Judge Wright said:
From the foregoing It ought to
seem apparent to the thoughtful men
that the defendants to the bill, each
and all of them, have combined TO-
gether for the purposes.
81. or bringing about the breach
Of plaintiffs existing contracts with
others.
"2. Depriving plaintiff Of proper
ty, the value OF the good will of its
business without due process Of law.
"3. Restraining trade among sew
eral states.
-. Restraining the commerce
among the several states"
The ultimate purpose of the de-
PENDANTS, the court said in this con-
nection, was unlawful, their con
certed project an offense against the
law, and it added they are guilty
Of crime.
Coming to the question OF the vi
olation of the courts injunction JUS
tice Wright said that Gompers and
Others had in advance OF the in
| junction determined to violate IT, II
issued, and had, in advance OF the
injunction counseled all members Of
labor unions and of the American
Federation of Labor and the public
generally to violate It in case 1t
should be issued, which points out
also the general policies and mutual
understanding Of the organizations.
Gompers Replies.
Asked IL he had anything 10 say
why sentence should not be pro-
nouncd, President Gompers declared
that he had not consciously violated
any law. There was much no would
like to say, he said, but he could
not do it at that time. He added,
however, that this is a struggle OF
the working people for the right.
1t is a struggle of the ages--a strug-
gle of men of labor to throw off some
of the burdens which have been heap
ed upon them, to abolish some Of
the wrongs and to secure some of
the rights too long denied"
Mitchell and Morrison confined
themselves to an Endorsement of
what Gompers had said.
The various labor organizations in
protesting to President Roosevelt
against the sentences urge him to
prevent the incarceration Of the la
Dor leaders.