Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-23

and should not overturn the rule: for the
rule, being the best attainable by finite
man. holds better results for the social
fabric, more promotes the general welfare
than would any other rule: for any other
rule would be not the best rule, but some
what worse.
1T is to the end tina. errors falling
may be minimized by possible correction
that tribunals for review are established
for the advantage of a party who has
such claim to make: but meanwhile the
decree fixes the laws seal upon the mat
ter. there to remain until removed. If at
all. in the manner of order: not by riot
Gus hands.
When. with the parties To This cause
in attendance. their dispute heard. and
the status of the subject of the contro-
versy examined into. the iuhibtory process
of this tribunal issued forth, ii was the
laws command to stand Hands off un-
til justice for this matter can be ascer
tained.'
is not law wide enough. and its shield
broad enough to avert from humiliation
that which its tribunals have taken in
hand for the very sake of decreeing
whether it shall not be saved? =
Open Defiance Of Order.
Before the injunction was granted
these men announced that neither they
nor the American Federation OF Labor
would obey it; since it issued they
have refused 10 obey it: and. through the
American Federation Of Labor. disopedi-
ence has been successfully achieved and
the law has been made to fall; not only
has the law failed in its effort to arrest
widespread wrong. but the injury has
grown more destructive since the In
junction than it was before $50
'On the sociological aspect OF the sit
uation. some faith in the ultimate right
ness Of American men, whether in labor
unions or out. Is to be entertained: >
1t stands In the nature of things that the
unlettered be most sensible of that au-
thority which most often show itself In
their modest affairs. although a higher
may exist to which their attention is
not every moment directed by some inter-
ference with them, but to which they
stand ready to adhere upon the moment
that shows them that the lesser author
ity was in mistake, or leading them
wrong
1T is written in this record that the
labor unions and its officers NEEDLE into
a members daily affairs deeper than
does the law: restrict him in matter that
the law leaves free: and then SO contin-
ually crowd their authority upon his at
tention that insensibly he comes to re-
gard them as of control in his affairs;
the fact that he regards them as
thority leads hm to heed them because
of his readiness to yield to authority; his
very respect for authority assumes that
all authority is respectable: and SO upon
them he relies, by them he is led.
No Interest in Issue.
What knows the worker in Texas,
Florida, Maine and Oregon Of the merits
of the original controversy of thirty-six
metal polishers in Missouri? What knows
he Of the refined distinctions about boy
colt conspiracy injunction and the
'voidness for want Of Jurisdiction of ju-
dicial DEGREES? In respect of each of
these and of the original controversies he
has been betrayed app. AZ, hoodwinked
into the stand Of an enemy of law and
of social order.
Announcing freedom to purchase what
and where one will. they deny that right
TO him himself: proclaiming the right of
all men to labor. they restrict 1t to the
holders Of union card; declaring the
right to enjoy full earning capacity, they
limit his daily earnings to a stated sum.
Says the authority of law. I lead you
by the truth. Says the other. I lead you
by lie.' Says one. I stand for the obli-
cations of contracts, including yours:
the other. I throw down contracts. even
though yours Says one. I am for law;
the other, I unlaw.'
All Must Yield to Law.
THAT the universal recognition the de-
STABILITY OF associations Of craftsmen for
the ascertainment and advancement Of
the welfare OF their kind is so retarded
is to be much. deplored: yet it Is in the
history of man that some lessons must
be unlearned; that systems which pro-
coed in antagonism to rule shatter them
selves at length against the resiStlesS
barrier of public law.
1T would seem not Inappropriate for
such a penalty as will serve to deter
others from following after such outla wed
examples; will serve physically to impose
obedience even though late; will serve to
vindicate the orderly power of judicial
tribunals. and establish over this litiga-
ton the supremacy of law"
Extracts from the testimony are made
the subject of two additions to the opn-
ion which comprised seventy five type
written pages