The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-28

made of the power of Injunction In
labor disputes. These in whose Judg.
ment we have most right to trust arr
of the opinion that which much of the
complaint against the use of the IN
Junction is unwarranted, yet that 1t
Is unqre estionably true tnat in mum
ber of cases this power has been usE d
TO the grave injury of the rights of
l9boring men. | ask that it he linl-
tied in some such way as that have
already pointed out in my previous
messages, for the very reason that |
DO not wish to see an embittered Of
fort made tn destro" IL. II is unwisa
subbornly to refuse 10 provide against
repetition of the abuses which have
caused the present unrest In a
democracy like ours 1t is idle to cX-
pect permanently to thwart the dc
termination of the great body of our
citizens. 1t may he and often is the
highest duty of a court, legislature,
or an executive, to resist and defy
gust of popular passion: aud M st
certainly no public servant, whatever
may be the consequences to himself,
should yield tn what he thinks wrong
But in a question which is emphatic
which the public demands is sure in
the end to ho adopted; and persist
ent refusal to grant TO large poI
ton of our people what Is right Is
only too apt in the end to result in
causing such irritation that when the
right is obtained it is obtained in the
course of q movement so i'll consid
cred and violent as to be accompanied
by mrch that is wrong. Tho process 8
of injunction in labor disputes, as
well as where the state laws are in-
volycd, should be rscd sparlngly, and
only when there is the cearest neccs
sity for it, hrt It is one so necessary
to the efficient performance of duty
by the court on behalf of the nation
that il is in tho highest degree to be
regretted that it should be liable toI
reckless rse: for this reckless use
tends to mako honest men desire so
to hamper its execution as to destroy
It's usefulness.
Evil of Glass Consciousness,
Every farsightcd patriot should
protest first of all against the growth
in this country of that evil thing
which is called Glass consciousness.
The demagogue, the sinister or fool
ish socialist visionary who strives t.
arouse this feeling of class conscious.
ness in orr working people, does a
foul and evil thing; for he Is no true
Aploricsp, he is no self RESPECTING
citizen of this Republic, he forfeits
his right to stand with manly self
reliance on a footing of entire equal
ity with all other citizen. who bows
to envy and greed, who crects the
doctrine of class hatred into shib-
bolcth, who substitute loyalty toI
men of a particular status, whether
rich or poor, for loyalty to those
eternal and immutahcl principles of
righteousness which bid us treat each
nan on his worth as man without |
regard to his wealth or poverty. But |
evil though the influence of these |
dcmagogues and Missionaries Is, it Is |
no worse in its consequences than |
the influence exercised by the man |
of great wealth or the man of power |
and position i'm the industrial word, |
who by the lack of his sympathy with |
and lack of understanding OF, still |
more by any exhibition of Uncompro- |
missing hostility to. the millions of our
working people tends to unite them |
against their fellow-Americans who |
are better off in this worlds goods. |
It Is a bad thing to teach our working |
people that men of means, that men
who have the largest proportion of
the substantial comforts of life, are
necessarily greedy, grasping, and
oldheartcd, and that they unjustly |
demand an appropriate more than
their share Of the substance of the |
many. Stern condemnation should |
be visited upon demagogue and Wis
ionary who teach the untruth, and |
even sterner upon those capitalists
who are IN truth grasping aud greedy |
and hrutally 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 therefore class re
sentiment.
Antitrust Law.
The strengthening of the antitrust |
law IS demanded upon both moral and |
economic grounds. Our purpose in |
Strengthening IL is to secure more. of |
fective control by the national gov
ernment over the business use of the |
vast masses of individual. and cs
pecially of corporate wealth. which |
at the present time monopolizes most |
of the interstate business of the |
country: and we believe the control |
can best he exercised by preventing |
the growth of abuses. rather than |
merely by trying TO destroy them |
when they have already grown. In |
the highest sense of the word this |
for thorough control of |
business use of this great wealth is |
We are trying to steeri
a safe middle course. which alone |
can save us from a plutoc ratio class |
government on the ofe hand, or a !