Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-08-11
GROSS UsuRpAT1oN OF POWER.

The order of injunction, has been repeat
eddy pointed out is a most dangerous instru-
ment in the hands of the courts to strike down
the liberties Of the people. The courts are day
by day assuming more and more authority and
unless they are checked America will be
absolutely in the control Of a judicial oligarchy?
There is no divinity that doth hedge about
court The old fiction that courts should be
spoken Of in reverence and regarded i'll awe
was born Of the same superstitous ignorance that
placed an aureole on the brow of the murderOus
king and proclaimed him Gods Amounted vice
gcrent earth. But the fiction has served, if
possible, a more harmful purpose than its proto-
type, the divine attribute of kings.
Courts, through the superstitious reverence
in which they have been held, have been prac-
tically immune from criticism. Time was when
to criticise court for an infamous decision
would be to bring down upon the head of the
hardy critic the anathema maranatha of all who
laid claim to responsibility and conservatism
and love of country. That time has passed The
people no longer regard judge as being di-
vested Of human frailties They have learned
that a man who vena and corrupt before
ascending the bench not changed in charac-
ter by the change in position When supreme
court Justice changed his mind over night on a
decision that vitality affected the entire country
the people had a right to form their own opinion
as to the cause of the change and to give eX-
preston to that opinion.
This they did in no uncertain terms and
the name Of that justice is no longer mentioned
with the wonted reverence that attached to his
exalted position. lie rendered splendid service.
however for he broke down the barriers against
criticism of courts
Fortunately the vast majority of our judges
have been clean, upright honorable men, and
profund lawyers. and have interpreted the law
as they found it, without fear favor. As
Judges they have, in the MAN. been all right,
but as rulers they are all wrong and the people
will not long stand for them such.
Yesterdays press dispatches announced that
an Iowa Judge had issued an injunction order
ing a street ear company to operate its lines
and the striking employees to return to work.
Could the Gar of Russia exercise more arbitrary
power? If this Judge had authority to issue
such an order and enforce it with threats of i'm
prisonmcnt for contempt, he had the same power
to order an institution that is losing money to
continue in operation while its stockholders and
directors wish to close it down. He can, in fact
make any order he sees fit and compel obedience
by sentencing to prison those who disobey. Ht
is the Judge. jury and eXecutioner in all con
tempt cases. and while his illegel orders will no
be sustained by the highest court he can har
rass his victims to death before they &c
their cases heard before the supreme court anc
decision rendered thereon.
Samuel Gompers president of the American
Federation of Labor not far wrong whel
he declared that the latest move of the court
was in effect. the ensaving of the American
~people-Ely EXpostor.