The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-22
DAUGHERTY DEFENDS
HIS ADMINISTRATION
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United States and the laws of the
United States and in tho opinion of
you. There Is no quarrel between
labor and the government.
"A few irreconcible railroad exec
utives who insist upon calling them
selves hard boiled might also, with
considerable benefit to the country
be dispensed with. The fault Is not
ali on ono side, but at a time when
strife that was almost civil war was
ragged in this country. the govern
ment. having the right to do SO, in
sisted upon the railroads perform
ing their necessary functions to serve
the people. Those liz conflict with
the railroads interfered with the per-
formance of this service and it was
to protect the rights of all the peo-
pie, strikers and employers and every
man, woman and child in the country
that the government in it's rishtful
capacity took hand"
Reconciliation of Law
The Attorney General characterized
the strike call as complete renun-
citation of the Esch- Cummins law"
and continued:
when bold challenge to constitu-
tional government. the strike leaders
to all apparent purposes, renounced
the protection of governmental au-
thority when they mutinied against
a decision which they declared was
construed to be uufaVorable 10 their
case.
1.-THE nation was in the grip OF civil
war We had reached a point where
loyal, Intelligent Americans wondered
II organized government actually ex-
listed.
Then, when all eencilstory efforts
on the part of trusted government
emlssaries had failed when men were
willing and anxious to work II per-
mitted to do so, when the heads OF
the strikers had called upon the men
who had deserted their tools and
shops at their dictation TO do their
damnest and then some, the time had
arrived when national security no
longer made it possible for govern
ment to stay its hand
could government be expected to
remain supineiy Indifferent whom its
authority was challenged and threat
ened by chaos as deadly as armed
strife itself. l say no. and every
I thinking man with love for his coun-
try and his fellow men will say no
as vehemently as ! do.
what is an Injunction Radicals
! and other ohsequious syciphants, sup
ported by that infinitely small por-
| ton of the press which depends for
| its circulation upon sensation and So
/ cialism. would have us believe that
II is modern device, recent discoV-
ery The Injunction is tho most
humane, the most charitable, and the
most prompt and effective civil pro
ceeding known by law. Violation OF
an injunction may be punished ny
the court issuing the Injunction, but
the violator has right TO stahu De-
fore the court, assert HIS right, de-
fend his act, and pe judged guilty or
xuiltless as the court may determine.
Injunction Necessary
"If the injunction we're not re-
sorted to what was the next thing tne
government could do after all efforts
nj voluntary or peaceful persuasion
had failed9 Step aside and let vio-
lence continue; let the mob grow in
fury and in numbers; let the leaders
with torch and bomb and dagger
continue destruction of life and
property?
rs it not better to prevent man
from committing crime than TO
encourage him 10 become criminal?
Is It not better to have men again
at work as they now are than con-
fined in jails a. many of them would
be had this Injunction not been is
sued?
Another step the government
could have taken was to have called
out federal troops. That would have
been a sorry day. but 1t would have
been done had necessity comeplled.
Appeal after appeal had come to
Washington, but they were withheld.
The fact of the matter is, that I'M
der the circumstances and evidence
existing and proved in the case at
Chicago, had the Attorney General
not complied with the provisions OF
the law by taking the action he did.
he could have been impeached, and
any Attorney General failing or re-
fusing under similar circumstances to
do precisely what was done, should
be impeached.
| Il would, under the same circum-
/ stances, do the same thing again or
! feel incapable to speak for an i'm :
portant branch of the government
and unworthy of the confidence and
trust imposed in me by the President
| of the United States"