Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-16
ARIZONA STATEHOOD
 URGED BY PRESIDENT
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 tnr principle ut that h.'i or nothing. . Thct ih .t,d ou rIlvi.ipu that in ! a luuor di.Ju.r uu injunction should ! i@,uc c.rru. tu protect property right and specifically provided that . tnc right 10 carr, nn business should 7 upi hr construed t~ property rght. aud W -cprd provision their bill made legal ,u labor dispute any act or agreement by or between two or more persons tlat wo. not have been unlawful ' done n, uglc person. In other words. t# piil lcgalilcd hiaekh>'iug and lnN,,ulng in every form. lcgJil.ug. for instance, those forms of thc secondary boycott which the anthracite coal strike commission SO unrrscrvcdiy condemned; while thc right to carry on a business was eX plicitly taken out from under that ptutectiuu which the law throws over property. Tac demand was made that there should hc trial by jury in con. tempt eases. thereby most seriously impairing thc authority of inc courts. All this represented a course of policy which. if carried out. would mean the enthroncmcui of class privilege in it's crudcst and most brutal form and The destruction of one ot the most essen tal functions of thc judiciary in all civilized lands.
 The violence of the crusade for this legislation. and its complete failure, illustrate two truths which it Is cs scutial pur people should learn. In thc Grsi place. they ought Co teach the workiugmau. tt, iahurer, thc w1ge worker. that hy demanding what k iupiopcs and impossible he plays into Inc hand. of hi. foes. Such n crude and siciou. attack Ipon the courts, ctcu if 10 were temporarily success ful. would inevitably iu ttc end cause % violent reaction Iuu would band The great ma,- uf citizens together fore ing them Co stand by al the judges. rnmpcjnr' tud incompetent alikc. Tata,G tsaG g. sc, .ac "h""is ot i"s' tice stopped. \ movement ot this kind can ultimately result in nothing but damage Co tnpsc in whose behalf it is nomiualy undertaken. This is e most healthy truth. which it is wise for all our people to learn. Any move ment based on that class hatred which at times assumes the name of "class consciousness k certain ultimately to fail, and if it temporarily succeeds, to do reaching damage. 'Class consciousness, where it K merely an other name for the OdiOus vice of class selhshness, is equally noxious whether in an employers association ar in a workingmau's association. The move ment in question was one in which the appeal was made to all workingmen to vote primarily, not as American citi' zens. but ss individuals of A certain class in society. Such an appeal in the first place revOts the more high-mind. cd and far-sighted among the persons to whom 1t K addressed, and in the second place tends to arouse a strong an,agonism among all other classes of citizens, whom t therefore tends to unite against the very organization on whose behalf it is issued. The result is therefore unfortunate from every standpoint. This healthy truth, by the way. will be learned by the social. ists if they ever succeed m establish. ing in this country an important na- tional party based on such class con sciousncs, and selfish class interest
 The wageworkcrs. the worklngmcn, the laboring men 0f the country by the way in which they ropudiated the effort Co get them to east their votes in response to an appeal tO class hat red, have emphasized their sound pat. riotism and Americanism The whole country has cause to feel pride in this attitude of sturdy independence, in this uncompromising insistence upon acting simply as good citizens, as good Americans, without regard to faneed, and improper class interests. Such an attitude is an obicct.lesson in good citizenship to the entire nation,
 But the extreme reactiona ries, the persons who blind themselves to the wrongs now and then committed by the courts on laboring men, should also think seriously as to what such q movement as this portends. The judges who have shown themselves able and willing effectively to check the dis honest activity of the very rich man who works iniquity by the mismanage' ment of corporations, wac have shown themselves alert to do justice to the wageworkor, and sympathetic with the needs of the mass of our people, SO that the dweller in the tenement houses, the man who practices n dan. gerous trade, the man who is crushed by excessive hours of labor, feel that their needs are understood by tao courts-these judges are the real bull wark of the courts; these judges. tho judges of the stamp of the President elect, who have been fearless in op- posing labor when it has gone wrong, but fearless also in holding to strict account corporations that work ini. quity, and farsighted in seeing that the ,workingman gets his rights, are the men of all others to whom we owe it that the appeal for such violent and mistaken legislation has fallen on deaf ears, that the agitation for it's pass age proved to be without substantial basis. The courts are jeoparded pri marily of these Federal and State judges who show inability or unwill ing ness Co put a stop to the wrong doing of very rich men under modern industrial conditions, and inability oi unwllingncss to give relief to men oi small means or wageworkers who arc crushed down by these modern indus trial conditions; who. in other words