The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-02
The Pulse of the Nation

Not Impressive In Role Of Giant Killer
When Attorney General Daugherty
| flied his brief in defense of the conduct
of his Office as one writer calls his re.
cent campaign speech in Ohio, he ex-
posed himself to a fire Of criticism from
papers all over the country. The pic
| ture he draws of "a nation in the grir
of civil war" by reason of the railroad
! strike is not taken seriously by the
press, while his 'single-handed suppress
sion Of the instruction by means CT an
| injunction calls forth distinct caustic
/ comment on his method of 'giant-ki!l-
ing"
The Philadelphia Public Ledger (Ind
believes that sound opinion in this
country approved" the issuance OF the
injunction against the striking shopmen,
but that sit will not approve the rea-
su1s the attorney general offers in de-
Tense of it,"
Evidently, however. Mr.. Dausherty
feels. with some reason, that he is en-
trial at the bar of public opinion as
the Newark News Qnd.) puts it, and. the
Waterbury Republican (Rep.) goes on
t. say, "he was laboring hard to justify
himself" IN the opinion of this paper,
the fact that he feels called upon to
justify his injunction is pretty good
proof that there was something radically
wrong with it. What the trouble was
Mr.. Daughery pretty clearly defined in
his words to labor: You make a mistake
when you set up rules in conflict with
the rules, laws and constitution o. our
common country 1t is just as much a
mistake when an attorney general gets
an Injunction that offends in the same
way"
AS matter of fact, the Adrian (Mich.)
Telegram Qnd.) says, the injunction
could not have been directed against
"mutiny," and the real fault" as the
Baltimore Sun Qnd. Dem.) sees 1t, is
that 1.-The injunction policy finally adopt
ed ATTEMPTED to outlaw and to smash
strike chiefly on the ground that IL had
been fairly successful in it's main pur-
poses For two previous months the
right of the shopmen to maintain the
strike had not been contested by the de-
partment Of justice. but the right OF the
shopmen to conduct successful StfIKe
suddenly was challenged in the court.
III Mr.. paugherty had read the trans
portatior act he would know" the New
York World (Denl.) thinks. that me
railway unions have under its terms the
legal right to strike against the ooafds
decisions" and "if he had read the con-
stltution he would know that labor eau
EG, be conscripted in the United states
at least not yet-not even raHroa1
LABOR. IN THIS LOAuOSNAStA SAAS
phia Public Ledger is inclined to believe
that surely, in whatever law school he
attended, there must have been some
lecture on the constitution; and he must
have heard that instrument mentioned
occasionally as he journeyed through
life, for he is not young man..
If you concede the existence OF me
civil war which he points OUT the
Newark News concludes that you aa-
NIT that Mr.. Daugherty became Sec
ond Lincoln overnight by the simple ex-
pedient of obtaining a court order so
sweeping as to leave much question as
to its constitutionalIty.' The Akron
Beacon Journal (Rep.), however, lis IN
debted to the learned attorney general
for new idea"
Heretofore even fair lawyers have
assumed that the injunction was alto
gether civil remedy" it says. NOW
we learn that is the one sovereign rcme-
dy for civil war. Had this been generally
known the world would have been saved
IHfliite trouble and expense. InstsAd of
Ferry To capture John Brown and turn
him over to the civil authorities Gf Vir-
sinia the attorney general should have
got out an injunction against him. In
deed one wonders why Abraham Lincoln |
did not get out an injunction against |
Jeff Davis and why Beauresard and |
jackson were not enjoined from mishe- |
having themselves at Bull Run
Taken seriously, however, the Detroit !