The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-01-02
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.

1t is difficult for one who has more
than a passing interest in the matter
to write dispassionately of the deci-
sion of Justice Wright in the matter
of the Gompers- Mitchell-Morrison de-
cision 1t is easy enough for those
who have no interests at stake to
say that the decision is well founded,
but it is different when one believes
that very principle of liberty and
equality before the law has been vio-
lated by the monstrous decision of
Justice Wright.
There is this much about tiff the
decision of Justice Wright is good
law, evenhanded justice and equity,
then there is no further use for legis-
latures, for congresses, for bills of
rights and for juries. That decision,
IL it shall Stand, marks the downfall
of personal rights, and gives into the
hands of federal judge the authority
to make and remake the rules which
shall govern this republic.
The sentence OF Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison shows very clearly that
organized labor stands no show be-
fore the courts as at present consti-
tuted. This may sound contemptu-
Gus, but the facts bear out the state
ment. 1t is quite evident that the
courts are prepared to quickly locate
the respoTn party when that party
is unto but unable to locate
the response party when that party
is trust mashate. 1t will strike the
unprejudicedsp observer that is is queer
that in all Il prosecutions under the
Sherman antitrust law the only men
who have been adjudged guilty and
sentenced to Jail have been members
of organized labor, while others who
are men of great wealth and promin-
ent in the management of trust affairs
have merely been warned not to do
1t again.
Justice Wright's decision is hailed
by every union hater as a great de-
cision; it ought to be hailed by every
unionism If it be not overruled. One
has but to read the decision as
handed down by Justice Wright to
see the animus OF the man who wrote
it, Regardless of whether the find
ings are we'll founded in law. the
fact remains that the decision reads
like report of the speech of the
prosecution. 1t is full of denuncia-
ton, OF abuse and of ill-tempered Ian
guage. Its verbiage is such as to
give ample excuse for the growing
feeling of contempt for the courts.
In it one can plainly see the man
who is venting his hatred of unionism.
We have no feeling of sympathy
for the three defendants who have
Oh court. We have only a feeling of
envy. To be guilty of contempt of
such a court and of such a finding
is something to be proud of, not some.
thing to be ashamed Of Gompers,
Mitchell and Morrison in Jail would
be worth more TO the cause of indi-
yidual liberty than all the editorials
and all the stump speeches that could
be delivered in a generation.
The case will now go to a higher
court for settlement. Pending that
settlement organized labor should be
at work in its own interests. If that
decision stands every union man
might as we'll quit paying dues, for
!: means the end of practical union-
ism. But until final adjudication this
ha;iiois ffiitt..lie-aaaner- will continue to
assert it's right to speak it's mind,
subject only to duly enacted law, and
regardless of the within or the preju-
dice Of judge.
We do not patronize Buck stoves
and ranges. The product of the Buck
Stove and Range Co. is on our I'M
fair list No true blue union man will
spend dollar with the VanCleave
outfit. The friends and patrons of
the Buck Stove and Range Co. are
unfriendly to toilers who have banded
together for mutual help and pro-
lection.
We hereby declare in the most EN-