The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-01-08
THAT INJUNCTION CASE.
DECISION CLEARLY VIOLATES RIGHTS OF TRIAL
BY JURY and OF FREE SPEECH

becloud the stake against
labor will succeed the right
dom Of speech and Of press and there other The Public the
ab review of the times gives this vigorous and straightforward
and convincing statement of the proposition:
When judges administer the law their decrees though mani
festy should be respectfully obeyed This necessary
good order But judges urp authority their lawess edcts
should be ignored This the preservation of liberty
Samuel Gompers John Mitchell Frank
officers of the Federation of Labor and
of The Federationist worthy Of all
mendaton for having ignored judges injunction which assumed
control their public ueanceS They stand this not
merely Jealous
of their fundamental rights of editorshp and citizenship By g
nong injunction destructive of their Constitutional right to
print publish upon responsibility only for abuse of the right
and solely jury they have been vindang Constitutional guar
importance The Judge of
executive whom they have thereby dsobeyed makes difference
Judges may be tyrants and of them when they
surp power every other kind of yant that disoedenc
tyfant is obedience to the law
The thought good all labor and
their publications throughout the country which have followed the
example those patriotic and courageous labor adersGompers
Mitchell Morrison may be that the boycott of organized
labor upon goods of the Bucks Range and Stove Company
unlawful point shall here discuss
reveant may publication boycott with
suggestion expressed implied be encouraged is unlawful
but neither shall discuss that point here for also is evean
The point the depotc and unlawful method of
If these publications have been unlawful there
and known the fundamental laws OF country OF
Furnishing offenders upon of jury and
after regular trial in which only the fact of the publication
itself but its justification be passed Our funda-
mental law authorizes other method for the punish
abuse of freedom of speech of the Punish
by injunction through proceedings for
tepsuch the proceedings against Gompers and his assocates
hearing in which the only question considered the
fact of publication and which there right of trial by
is not authorized by system of law.
Around that point no nicetes legal Interpretation
egmatey cluster Acute lawyers and judges not
needed decide 1t broad political distinguished from
technical legal question Every who knows his American history
ugeade prohibition of freedom of speech
only defiance of fundamental American law Not
the legislature Congress- make such prohibition
may Judges raised above the control of the people command
what the legislative authority is powerless to enact?
fff
These labor unions and labor editors they
rights speech and free by pocamng the
of labor boycott upon the Buck stoves by advising
boycott should been prosecuted the regular the order
H only They should have been sued for damages
indicted for crime and been tried by That what good
citizenship stands for And why that this not done if these
really offended against the aw Only the dordey and
aess or the ignorant among citizenship would demand and
only the depoc among judges would defend other course
any involves uurpaon and urpaon the worst
of ignoring and thereby deing the awless injunction
Washington judge injunction well calculated if not deb
eatey designed deprive them of lawful rights and regular
alleged rights they have deed law Of
this land It the judge that dies the law when his inunction
usupaion power and the citizens who refuse obedience
to such despotic mandates.
The other Washington judge-he who without jury trial
lawful conviction unuicial nvece has
Gompers Mitchell and Morrison prison for their assertion
Constitutional rights of free speech and free against
awes revolutionary mandateh judge evades IN his rea
the Whether in gnor
and