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When judges administer - the law,
their decrees, though manifestly erron-1
cou8, should be respectfully obeyed.
This is necessary to good order. But
if judges usurp authority, their law
let's edicts should be ignored. This
Is necessary ! to the preservation of
liberty.
For that reason Samuel Gompers,
John Mitchell and Frank Morrison
executive officers of the American
Federation of Labor, and editors of
The American Federationist" are
worthy of all commendation for hav
ing ignored a judge's injunction which
..assumed to control their public utter
ances. They stand in this respect, not ss
labor leaders merely, but as editors
and American citizens jealous of their
fundamental rights of editorship and
citizenship. By Ignoring an injunction
destructive of their constitutional
right to print and publish upon respon
sibility only for abuse of the right,
and solely to a jury, they have been
vindicating constitutional guarantees
of the first importance. The fact that
it is a judge instead of an executive
whom they have; thereby disobeyed,
makes no difference. Judges may be
tyrants, too; and it is as true of them
when the usurp power, as it is of
every other kind of tyrant, that dls-
obedience to a tyrant is obedience to
the law.
The same thought holds good of all
local labor unions and their publica
tions throughout the country which
t ave followed Ufa example of those
latrlotlc and courageous labor leaders
Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison. It
may be that the boycott of organized
labor upon the goods of the Buck's
Range and Stove Company is unlaw
ful; but that is a point we shall not
here discuss, for it is irrelevant. It.
ii ay be that publicatfon of the fact
f this boycott, with a suggestion ex
press or implied that it be encour
aged, ir unlawful; but neither shall
we discuss that point here, for it also
Is Irrelevant. The relevant point is
the despotic and unlawful method of
irosecntlon.' If these publications
lave been unlawful, there is on,e way
and only one wr.y, known to the fun
damental laws of our country, of pun
ishing the offenders; and that is upon
the verdict of a jury, after a regular
trial in which not only the fact of the
publication itself but its excuse or
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justification may be passed upon. Our
fundamental law authorizes no other
abuse of freedom of speech or of the
press. Punishment by means of an
injunction, and through proceedings
for contempt such as the proceedings
against Gompers and his associates
and at a hearing in which the only
c.uestion considered is the mere fact
of publication, and at which there is
no right of trial by jury, is not au
thorized by our system of law.
Around that point no notices of
legal interpretation or construction
legitimately cluster. Acute lawyers
and astute judges are not needed to
decide it. It is a broad political as
Distinguished from a technical' legal
question. Every one who knows his
American history knows that a judge
made prohibition of ' freedom of
speech or press can issue only in de
fiance of fundamental American law.
Not even the legislature, not even
congress, can make such prohibition.
And may judges, raised above the con
trol of the people, command what the
legislative authority is powerless to
enact?
These labor unions and labor lead
i era and labor editors, if they abused
their rights of free speech and free
press by proclaiming the fact of a
labor boycott upon the Buck stovets,
or even by advising this boycott,
should have been prosecuted in the
regular, the orderly, the only lawful
way. They should have been sued
for damages or been indicted for
crime and been tried by a jury. That
is what the law demands, if they were
to be tried at all. That is what peace
and order require. That is what
good citizenship stands for. And why
is it that this was not done if these
men had really offended against the
law? Only the disorderly and lawless
or the ignorant rmoug our citizenship
would demand, and only the despotic
among our judges would defend, any
other course. For any other course
Involves usurpation, and usurpation is
the worst of crimes. By ignoring and
thereby defying the lawless injunc
tion of that Washington judge, an
injunction well calculated if not de
liberately designed to deprive them of
lawful rights and a regular trial for
alleged abuse o those rights, they
have defied no law of this land. It
is the judge that defies the law when
his injunctions are usurpations of
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power, and not the citizens who re
fuse obedience to such despotic man
dates. The other Washington judge he
who, without a jury trial and lawful
conviction but with unjudicial invec
tive, has sentenced Gompers, Mitchell
and Morrison to prison for their as
sertion of their constitutional rights
of free speech and free press against
!, lawless and revolutionary mandate
this judge evades in his reasons for
uis action, the viial issue in the case.
Whether in .ignorance of - long estab
lished and generally familiar politico
legal i principles, or with deliberate
intent to assist fn surreptitiously un
dermining those principles by judi
cial usurpation, he explains that this
injunction did not prohibit freedom of
speech or press, except incidentally.
Except incidentally! It was only in
cidental, he say:, to the restraint of
a conspiracy to Injure the good will
cf a business. But the right to speak
and publish without obstruction or dic
tation, subject only to responsibility
for its abuse, and. then to a jury and
not to a judge, cannot be even inci
dentally disregarded by judges, with
out judicial usurpation. Unless this
right is secure against incidental, as
well as direct invasion, it is not se
cure at all.
If injunctions forbidding freedom of
speech or press may be issued as an
incident to injunctions for protecting
the value of the good will of a busi
ness, or other property rights, there
is no limit beyond which they may
not go in destroying freedom of speech
and of press. The whole field of pros
ecutions for libel would thereby be
brought within the jurisdiction of in
junction judges, and our . press be
comes like that of Russia.
Thoughtful citizens will not be be
trayed, we trust, into misapprehend
ing the real issue in this case, by
any appeal to class prejudices based
upon the fact that the case originated
in labor union methods, which they
dislike.
Whatever it may have been in the
beginning, the Gompers-Mitchell-Mor-rison
case is no longer at bottom a
labor union controversy. It has raised
the immeasurably higher question of
whether one of the great traditions
and guarantees of American liberty
shall be wiped out. This case is to
determine not whether a labor boycott
is legal, ut whether the right to
speak and publish freely shall remain
in full force in our country, subject
to responsibility . to a jury ..for its
?buse.
For- purposes of restraint upon free
dom of speech and press, the process
of prohibition by injunction, of trial
l.y a judge without a jury, and of
punishment by penalties for contempt,
is manifestly no part of the law of this
land. And that is none the less true
and none the leap vital because the
alleged abusers of their constitutional
right happen to be workingmen. It
is none the less true because they
happen to be workingmen organized
5n unions. It id none the less 'true
because they happen to be poor in
stead of rich.
The Washington injunctionist which
assumed to censor "The American
Federationist" and to subject its ed
itors t3 processes and penalties un
known for that purpose to the law of
the land, was not a court decision to
be respected by good citizens.. It
was a wanton and dangerous usurpa
tion of power to be unflinchingly op
posed, both in court and out of court
by ballot and public appeal, as well
as through the judicial machinery. As
such, it was rightly and lawfully as
well as commendably ignored by the
men whose constitutional rights it as
sailed. Louis F. Post i'Th'e Chicago
Public. ' '
"PROTECTED" LABOR.
Senator LaFollette Punctures a Moss
Grown Old Theory.
If there were anything needed to
clinch the argument for a tariff com
mission of experts, it is the contro
versy between Andrew Carnegie, the
bondholder, and Judge Gary, the chair
man of, the steel corporation. , ,
Gary gave the tariff committee care
fully prepared figures of the cost of
production of pig iron and steel in
this counti-y and in Europe, and Car
negie laughed his figures to scorn.
What we want is to take Gary at
his. word and open up his books to
experts so that Congress and the
people can decide between Gary and
Carnegie. '
Gary pictures the steel corporation
as a big, fond brother, throwing its
loving arms about its weak competi
tors, who would be ruined by. reduc
tion of the tariff. Neither Gary nor
Carnegie calls attention to the condi
tions of labor in their powerful com
bination, for whose protection against
the pauper labor of Europe the tariff
is supported. First under Carnegie
and afterwards under Gary, trade
unionism was smashed, and then the
hours were lengthened, Sunday work
was extended, and speeding up to the
limit of exertion was reduced to a
system, until men are working twelve
hours a day, seven days a week and
twenty-four hours at a stretch every
other Sunday.
If this is the necessary fruit of pro
tection, it might be better to admit
free of duty the pig iron of England
whose "pauper" labor works only
eight hours a day. If the steel cor
poration worked its thousands of em
ployees under the humane conditions
of its British competitors, it might
possibly need a tariff to protect it
against the increased cost. s
,. A tariff commission would enlighten
us on this important side of the ques
tion, and might suggest some way by
which "protection to American labor"
would cease to be a mockery in the
steel business, and the blessings of
the tariff would be passed along from
Carnegie and Gary to their dear work
men. LaFqJlette's Weekly Magazine.
THIRTEEN YEARS OLD.
The Minnesota Union . Advocate,
published at St. Paul by Cornelius
Guiney, has entered upon its thir
teenth year without a sign that it is
afraid of the J.oodoo number. The
Advocate is one of the livest of the
live labor papers of the country and
is wielding a great influence in trades
union circles of the northwest. Here's
hoping that it v.rill live long enough
to add a hundred years to the thirteen,
viJi Con Guiney doing the heavy edi
torial work every year of it.
SOCIALISM AND THE CHURCH.
First of a Series of 'Articles by Rev.
Charies Stelzle.
Socialists insiss that because the
Church does not; advocate their pecu
liar economic system, therefore the
Church ..is untrue to the teachings, -.if
Jesus Christ. They declare that So
cialism is merely the practical ex
pression of Christian ethics and the
evangel of Jesus, and that Jesus came
into the world primarily to establish
a co-operative commonwealth which is
to be fully realized in Socialism. They
insist that Carl Marx, the founder of
('modern Socialism, and a hater of
Christianity, more nearly, presents, the
true ideals of Jesus than does any
other man who is not. a socialist no
matter what else he may. believe.
But did Jesus actually advocate the
"co-operative commonwealth" as the
ultimate ideul of Christianity? One J
of the principal scripture passages
employed to prove this statement is
that found in the Revelation:-" '
"I saw a near heaven and a new
earth! for the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away; and
there was no more sea:' And I, John,
saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband And God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes; and
there shall be no more death, neither
shall there be aiiy more pain; for the
former things are passed away." .
A noted "Christian Socialist", re
cently said that "it should be clearly
recognized that the ideal which gave
such power to the pen of this un
known writer, is precisely that of
Rousseau and Mazzini," and he adds
that "most people seem td imagine it
to be a conception of the glories of
some other world in the regions be
yond death." "'"
This sentence in this prophetic ut
terance that "there shall be no more
death" does not seem to trouble the
socialists ' or does Socialism
promise to abolish death? The words
"and the city had no need of the
sun neither of the moon to shine in it.
for the glory of God did lighten it"
did they' mean that Social
ism will supersede the sun and . the
moon ? ' -.17.
Then Paul expressed a desire to de
part and be with Christ, did he have
a vision of the Marxian co-operative
commonwealth? What did he mean
when he said: "The Kingdom of God
is not meat and drink, but righteous
ness and peace and joy in the. Holy
Ghost." Was it not when Peter was
pleading for an earthly paradise or
kingdom that Je-us said to him: "Get
thee behind me, Satan; thou art an
offense unto me, for thou savoresfe not
the things that be of God, but those
that be of men." Jesus, Himself, said:
"My kingdom is not of this world."
Therefore the statement of the social
ists that the economic paradise on
earth is the kingdom which Jesus
came to preach, is, scarcely, reconcil
able with the specific declaration of
Jesus, Himself, I would not place too
literal an interpretation upon the
prophecies, for much Of the language
used was figurative, as was the cus
tom of the Oriental but to insist that
all of the teachings concerning the fc
ture had to do simply with the king
dom of - Christ upon earth, is absurd.
and cannot be reconciled ' with other
definite and specific teachings of
Jesus, Himself, with reference to His
coming again.
Nor yet am I saying that Jeisus was
not concerned with the social prob
lems that confront us.' He was, and in
a very important , sense. . But the
method ct Jesus as a social reformer
will be discussed later. .
REMEMBERED RYQER.
Popular Deputy Labor Commissioner
Gets Handsome Gift. .
The newspaper boys who work the
state house 'assignment will hold Col.
"Jack" Ryder, former deputy commissioner-
of labor, in loving remem
brance, and before he left Col. Ryder
was given evidence of the regard felt
for him by the newspaper boys. A lit
tle bunch of them surprised him in
the commissioner's office just after
he had surrendered possession and
compelled him to accept a handsome
silver-handled silk umbrellai suitably
inscribed. There was no speechmak
ing, for the donors couldn't say much
and Col. Ryder -wouldn't for fear he'd
spring a leak. 1 . " .'
During his incumbency of the office
Col. Ryder was a fine source of news
because he is a newspaper man him
self and knows the gamer He helped
the boys out many a time, and they
wanted him to know how much they
appreciated it. ' .
Col. Ryder has gone back to news
paper work and will occupy a seat
on the Omaha Bee as editor of the
Sunday edition. And the - Bee is to
be congratulated upon -securing his
services.
EAGLES DEMAND LABEL.
Big' Fraternal Order Will Stand for
Organized Labor.
The Fraternal Order of Eagles has
taken a determined stand on the label
question, and by order of the "Big
Birds" hereafter all printing for the
supreme Aerie, including the order's
official journal, will have to carry the
"little joker'.' of the Allied Printing
Trades. . This was determined upon
at the last session. x
The Fraternal Order of Eagles is
one of the largest fraternal orders in
the country and is growing at a won
derful rate. Its action in regard to
the label will have a splendid effect
on other organizations with a like pur
pose. -,
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