The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-11-13

the officials Of the union might decide
not to obey the order of the court:
Il don't care anything about that;
I'll make them obey it,"
And to reply to the complaint that
It would take time to notify defend
ants who lived a long distance from
indianapolis where the conference to
consider the order of the court was
to be called:
use the telegraph. Get them here
Monday Work Sunday. Get the order
ready and have it printed, so that you
can mail it Tuesday night"
Also to proclaim:
There cannot be an imperium n
imperio in this country, as counsel
for the government has said. The
government is supreme-even over a
labor union, and superior to it.
al think this strike is about the most
lawless thing | have seen in this coun-
try If it goes on, | think it is re.
bellion. That is what | think it is
If the laws delay, and the casu-
istry of attorneys attempting to gum
the machinery of the law with maizes
of words and fne-spun doubts ever re-
Ceived a fitting rebuke it was in the
action of Judge Anderson at Indian
apolis Saturday by which he swep,
aside technicalities, commanded the
highest speed consistent with reason
and justice and defied the whole in
stitution of political intimidation which
has been set up in this country by
thoroughly organized minorities.
Those who still cling to the idea
that such intimidation can be effective
against American officials who stand
militantly for law and order are due,
we are convinced, for disillusion-
ment. They have already had one
such awakening in the results of the
Massachusetts election which wrote
a definite and emphatic veto to the
propaganda of lawless force in that
state. And when leaders of labor de-
clare, as they declared at Indianapo-
lis Saturday, that Judge Anderson S
action means "the overthrow of the
conservatives in the American FEEDER
alton of Labor and their replacement
by radical and destructive leaders >
they are simply whistling to keep up
their courage. 1t is through "radcal
and destructive" leadership that or
ganized labor in America has been
brought to the present crisis, and these
particular leaders very we'll know it.
The American people in the
vast preponderance, are right-minded
American working men, union and non
union, in the vast preponderance, are
right-mnded. Those who are not, or
who are deceived by false leadership
may create trouble in the unions but
they are not, as suggested, going to
precpitate the nation into a state OF
confusion and chaos not for the un
reasonable demands of leaders who
"do not work with their hands" but
who engineer strikes for mine work
ers, many of whom have been living
on the fat of thes land at $50 to $10O
week, buying automobiles and pay
ing S12 month rent for company
houses, as described by our cores
pondent, Mr.. Krappen.
| Judge A. B. Anderson, as spokesman
for the American people and for law
and order at a critical moment in
the career of the republic, has made
place for himself in the history oi
the nation. He islands in rank and
fame with Governor Coolidge.
/ 1t is not that this plot actually was
dangerous. II Is not that it had the
remotest hope of success in our wide
and free democracy. But ii is that
such poison may become deadly and
cannot be trifled with.
There can be no trfiing with these
several hundred poisoners. There car
be on the part of the government ne
slowing up Of the netting of this yer
min and no hesitation in the inal dis
position of it. II deportation is the
best and only course, let 1t be prompt