The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-04-29
HIS FACE HAS GROWN
HARD AND CRUEL AND
HIS BODY IS SOFT.

OIL the power OF the injunction II
labor disputes. Those whose judg.
rent we have most right to trls:
are of the opinion that while most of
the complaint against the use of the
injunction is unwarranted yet thai
1t is unquestionably true that in a
number of cases this power has been
used to the grave injury of the rights
of laboring men. I ask that it be
limited in some such way as that
have pointed out in my previous mes
sages. l do not wish to see an en-
Uttered effort made to destroy it.
1t is unwise stubbornly to refuse to
provide against a repetition of The
abuses which have caused this I'm
rest. In a democracy like ours it Is
unwise to expect permanently to
thwart the determination of the great
body of our citizens. Ii may be and
often is the duty of court a legis-
lature or an executive to resist and
defy a gust OF popular passion. and
most certainly no public servant.
whatever may be the consequences
10 himself should yield to what he
thinks wrong. But in question
which is emphatically one of public
policy. the policy which the public
demands is sure to be adopted in the
end and persistent refusal to grant
10 a large portion of our people what
is right is only too apt in the end to
result in causing so much irritation
thai when the right is obtained It
is obtained in a movement so ill-con-
sidered and violent as to be accom-
panied by much that is wrong The
tot t,f,r
bcs rs we'll as where state Laws are
involved, should be used sparingiy
aud only when here IS the clearest
necessity for it; but it is one so neces-
saly to the efficient perfo. nance Of
he duty Of the court in behalf of
the nation THAT is in the highest. de-
gree to be regretted that ii should
be liable 10 reckless USE for this
reckless use tends to make honest
men % desire to SO hamper is exc
cution as TO destroy its usefalness.
Every farsighted patriot should
protest first Of an against the growth
III this country OF that evil thing
which is called class consciousness"
The demagogue. the sinister or social
list visionary who strives to arouse
this feeling Of class consciousness in
our working people, does a foul and
evil thing; for he is no true Ameri-
cam he is no self-respecting citizen
Of this republics he forfeits his right
20 stand with manly self reliance on
a footing of entire equality with all
other citizens, who bows to envy and
greed, who erects this doctrine OF
class hatred into shibboleth, who
substitu ,es loyalty to men of par
ticular status. whether rich or poor.
for loyalty to the eternal and immu-
Liable principles of righteousness
which bid us treat each man on his
worth as a man without regard to his
wealth or his poverty. But evil
though the influence of this dema-
gogues and Missionaries it is no diff
ferent than that of the rich man still
more by an exhibition of uncompro-
missing histility to the millions of our
working people, tends to unite them
against their fellow Americans who
are better off in this worlds goods.
II IS bad ming to teach our work
ing people that men of means who
have the largest proportion of the
substantial comforts of life are ne
cessarily greedy. grasping and cold
hearted and that they unjnstly de-
mand and appropriate more than
} their share of the substance of the
many. Stern condemnation should
be visited upon demagogue and WIS.,
J ionary who teach untruth and even
sterner upon those capitalists who
! are intruth grasping and greedy and
brutally disregardful of the rights of
others, and who by their actions
teach the dreadful lesson far more
effectively than any mere preacher
of unrest. A "class grievance" left
too long without remedy breeds
class consciousness" and then class
resentment. the strengthening of the
antitrust law is demanded on both
moral and economic grounds. Our
purpose in Strengthening it is to Sc
cure more effective control by the
national government over the bust
} ness use of the vast masses of indi-
vidual and especially of corporate
wealth, which at the present time
monopolizes most Of the interstate
business of the country; and we be-
lieve the control can best be exer-
; cised by preventing the growth OF
abuses, rather than merely trying
to destroy them when they have al
: ready grown. In the higher sense OF
: the word this movement for thorough
, control of the business use of this
great wealth is conservative. We are
trying to steer a safe middle course
which alone can save US from a plu-
tocratic class government on the one
! hand or a socialistic class govern
} ment on the other, either of which
would be fraught with disaster &c
} our free institutions. state and ma
tional We are trying to avoid alike
the. evils which would flow from gov
: eminent ownership of railroads, by
which interstate commerce is carried
on, and the evils from which flow the
unrestful individualism. There is
great danger to our free institutions
by the corruption of great wealth
suddenly concentrated in the hands
of the few. We In a sane manner
! try to remedy this danger. In spite
OF the sullen opposition OF these men
land with the full purpose to protect
them In all their rights at the same