New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
Daugherty
Defies Critics,
Upllolls Acts !
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then, al they thought. disorganize US
and compel us TO produce thr evidence
prematurely and thus dissipate the
governments effort TO bring and try
the cases in dignifed, orderly way.s
Summing up the record OF the de-
partment under his administration. the
Attorney General said more than 400
cases are undergoing liquidation, that
f50 dealings with wartime frauds were
in the hands of United States attor~
neys throughout the country and that
thirteen fraud indictments already had
been returned. In the last year, he
civil and 10000 criminal prosecutions.
while adjudications and penalties coll
Iected since he came into Office totaled
nearly s8.000,oo0.
No Enemy OF Labor
Mr.. Dangherty prefaced his discus
sion OF the rail strike with an assnr-
ance that ne was no enemy of honestly
organized labor.
II am your sincere friend and will
not deceive YOU" he said, addressing
the laborer directly, "but you make
a mistake when you get up rules in
conflict with the rules, laws and Con-
stitution of our common country.
"Your principal trouble lies, and
your greatest danger Is in the radical
Ism and character of some Of your
most prominent leaders. Your secur-
ity lies In the Constitution of the
United States and in the laws of the
United States, and in the good opinion,
by you deserved, of all the American
people. There Is no quarrel between
labor and the government.
"A few irreconciliable railroad execu-
tives, who insist upon calling them
selves hard boiled,' might also, with
considerable benefit to the country, be
dispensed with. The fault is not all
on one side, but at time when strife
that was almost civil war ragged in
this country, the government, having
the right to do so, insisted upon the
railroads performing their necessary
functions to serve the people. Those
In conflict with the railroads inter-
fered with the performance of this
service, and 1t was 60 protect the
rights Of all the people, strikers and
employers: and every man, woman and
child in the country, that the govern
ment in its rightful capacity took
O hand
State Like Civil War
The Attorney General characterized
the strike call as Complete renuncia-
tion of the Esch-Cummins law and
continued:
with one bold challenge to consti-
ers, to all apparent purposes, re-
nounced the protection Of governme entail
authority when they mutinied against
a decision which they declared was con-
strued to be unfavorable to their case.
"The nation was in the grip of civil
war. We had reached point where
loyal, intelligent Americans wondered
it organized government actually ex-
listed.
"Then, when all conciliatory efforts
on the part of trusted government
emissaries had failed, when men were
willing and anxious to work if per-
strikers had called upon the men who
had deserted their tools and shops at
their dietation to do THAR damndest
and then some,' the time had arrived
when rational security no longer made
it possible for government to stay its
hand.
"Could government be expected to
remain supinely indifferent when ita
authority was challenged and threat
ened by chaos as deadly as armed
strife itself? say no, and every
try and his fellow men will say no as
vehemantly as do.
"What is an Injunction? Radicals
and other obsequious sycophants, snp-
ported by that infinitely small portion
Of the press which depends for its cir
culation upon sensation and Socialism
would have US believe that it is mod
ern device, recent discovery. The
Injunction is the most humane, the
most charitable and the most prompt
and effective civil proceeding anown
to law. Violation of an injunction
may be punished by the court issuing
the injunction, but the violator has n
right to stand before the court, assert
his right. defend his act and be judged
guilty or guiltless as the court may de-
termine.
"If the injunction were not resorted
to, what is the next thing the gov