Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-10-24
POSITION OF A. +. OF |. ON
iNjUNCTION QUESTION As
SET FORTH BY WALKER

StanilN At work in our body polite.
which are slowly but surely SApping
The virus Of independence from cur
institutions and are creating an
autecraey equal In power and author
ity 10 tina, exercised BY The most
tyrannieal deSpot ever known 10
human history,
Our nation is founded On the prin.
ciple that every citizen is A sovereign
unto himself and that the powers of
government extend enls to that tie.
gtee 10 which the consent Of the gav-
cfned has been freely. fully and
fairly obtained. The governmental
authority Of cur nation has been 50
divided and designed 10 prevent the
uSurping Of authority and power BY
any one department Of government
not fairly and freely delegated TO /,
by the expressed will Of the people,
Despite all these precautions Go safe.
guard individual liberty and freedom
Of action, despite the fact that the
early constitutional conventions denied
the right of our courts To pass on The
eonstiiutlonality Of laws enacted by
Congress, cur courts and judges have
been slowly and surely disregarding
these restrictions and limitations and
now freely and unintefruptedly ever
else powers which even the monaNhs
and kaisers dared not exercise with
all their claims TO power by inherent
divinity,
The power Of our courts TO declare
Legislation enacted unconstitutional
and void is a most nagrant usurpa.
ton of power and authority by our
courts and In resudaiion and de
niHl of the principle of selt.govern-
ment recognized now ~ a world doe
trine. The continued exercise Of this
.unwaffanied power Is a blasphemy on
the rights and claims of free men
Of America.
This usurpation of power by our
courts 10 subordinate the Legislative
and executive departments to their
will and compel the activities of free
people To their whims and dictates Ia
paraleled and equaled only by the
further nsurpation Of authority bv our
courts TO leglslate and punish people
In direct defiance of constitutional
safeguards 10 personal liberty and
freedom of action.
BY the issuance OF injunctive de-
crees by our courts, BY the restraint
they place on the normal and right
ful activities Of free men In the exef.
else of their constitutional rights
without opportunity TO n trial by jury,
by the removal of safeguards thrown
around the individual against extreme
and excessive punishments and the
denial OF AN opportunity Of eNeeu.
tive elemency, ouf c9af,s have vegsed
themselves with a power greater than
any despot ever heretofore possessed.
The fate Of the sovereignty OF
American people again hangs In the
balance. II Is inconcelvable that such
an autoerat, despotie and tyrannlcal
power can long remain In demo.
ctaey. One or the other must ulti-
mately give way, and your committee
believes that this convention should
declare that, as geeafners, citizens
of free and democratic republic,
we shall stand firmly and eonscien.
tiously on our rights as free men and
treat all injunctiye decrees that In
wade our personal liberties as un-
warranted In fact, unjnstified In law
and Illegal as being in violation Of our
constitutional safeguards. and accept
whatever consequences may follow.
Your committee further recon-
mcnds that Immediate steps be taken
by the Executive Council and by all
State Organizations for the early en-
actment of adequate laws TO deny the
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