The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-07-10
HOW DO YOU LIKE 1T?


Mr.. Nebraska Farmer. you didn't
take much interest in the government
by Injunction matter when it affect
ed organized labor only. But, Mr.. Ne
braska Farmer. how do you like it
now? The Injunction against putting
the bank guarantee law into effect
comes right home to you. doesn't it?
Last November an overwhelming ma
jority of Nebraska voters signified by
their ballots that they wanted a bank
guaranty law. The legislature obeyed
the mandate and gave the people the
law. they demanded 1t was a law
governing the deposit of money made
by Nebraskans in Nebraska in banks
chartered by the state of Nebraska and
dependent upon Nebraskans for their
patronage. That law affected no one
but Nebraskans. 1t was for the bene-
fit of Nebraskans, and had absolutely
no injurious effect upon the citizens
of other states. 1t was intended to
protect you; to afford you the pro-
lection that you demanded and which
is your right But along comes a
couple of United States judges. neither
one of whom you had any voice in Sc
lecting and neither one of whom is
responsible to any other authority than
his own opinion. These judges listen
to arguments for and against a law
that a majority of you demanded. and
then they enjoin the enforcement of
solutely nullify the action of the leg
islature, thwart the will of the peo-
pie, and stop one of the machines
that the state operates for its own ben
eft If these federal judges can stop
the enforcement of the bank guaranty
law by Injunction, temporarily, they
can stop the enforcement of any
other law. In other words, a federal
judge, appointed for life, responsible
to no one and impossible to remove
except by impeachment rendered prac-
tically impossible, can stop the ma
chinery of sovereign state at his own
sweet will He is bigger than the
legislature. bigger than the governor.
bigger than the state constitution
There is not a department of state
that federal judge can not temper
arily put out of business In short,
federal judges have grabbed authority
until today there is nothing one of
them can not do save. perhaps. sus-
pend the laws of nature We daily
expect one of them even try that and
threatening to Jail the Almighty for
contempt of court in case He refuses
to obey.
But how do you like it. MIR. Nebras-
ka Farmer? Government by inJnnc-
ton is coming home to you pretty
rapidly The first thing you know
your cooperative creameries and ele-
vators will be enjoined on the ground
that they are '.conspiracies in restraint
of trade" and their managers-select-
ed by you-will be sent to jail
Some of these days, maybe, you'll
awaken TO a realization of the fact
that the wage earners' fight against
government by Injunction is your fight.
too Some of these days you, too, viii
bump up against full grown realiza-
ton of the fact that your liberties and
your rights as a citizen are likely at
any time to be dependent upon fed
eral judges digestive apparatus.
When that time comes We have
hopes that you will join hands with
the 100000 wage earners who have
been making a consistent and persist
ent fight againts the usurpation of
power by federal judges. And that
time must soon come, or republican in
situations in this country are doomed.
A republican form of government can
not last long in country that quietly
submits to the exercise by federal
judges of power that not even a
car or a sultan would dare to exer-
| else.
Mr. Nebraska Farmer. isn't it time
you started to thinking this matter
over?