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LETTERS TO "GREENBOY"
Government by Injunction.
VII.
One of the phantoms conjured up by
the democrats party is 'government by
injunction." Their national platform
has this to say: "We denounce arbi
trary interference by.federal authorities
in local affairs as a violation of the con
stitution of the United States and a
crime against free institutions. We
especially object to government by in
junction as a new and highly dangerous
form' of oppression, by which federal
judges in contempt of the laws and the
rights otcitizenB, become, at once legis
lators, judges and executioners."
At first blush this proclamation would
appear to be as self-evident as one of
the conventional phrases in the consti
tution referring to "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness," three things that
do party on earth has ever sought to de
prive any citizen of,
What is it that is objected to as "gov
ernment by injunction?" It 1b directed
against all temporary and permanent In
junctions issued by judges of the United
States courts securely bulwarked as they
are and have bein for so many years by
the confidence of the people, not unmin
gled with veneration. The sight of a
federal judge fulminating novel and, in
tbe majority of cases, unnecessary in
junctions from the bench, as an evident
preliminary to the substitution of sum
mary "contempt" proceedings for the
usual and orderly processes of the law,
does not have a soothing effect on the
public mind. It tends to exasperate
and irritate. It is a sight disquieting
and odious to the people. Better a hun
dred local trespasses and turbulences of
occasional happening than a shaking of
a people's belief in their form of govern
ment. The question, as you will remember,
was more particularly bi ought to the
surface by the famous Chicago strike,
when President Cleveland felt called
upon to aid the state authorities in pre
serving order. Contempt of court, so
called, was at the bottom of it all.
Now the less courts monkey with
questions between capital end labor,
between the employers and those em
ployed by them, the better it will be all
around. The platform of the republi
can party contains a plank favoring the
creation of a national board of arbitra
tion to adjust differences which may
arise between employes and employed
engaged in interstate commerce. The
democratic platform contains a plank in
favor of the arbitration nf differences
and recommends such legislation as
may be necessary to carry out this
principle.
Quite a number of states have laws
providing for the settlement of labor
disputes by conciliation and arbitration.
Congress regulates interstate commerce.
The'act creating boaids of arbitration is
an ill .digested measure. It provides tor
the taking of testimony, but the duties
of the board are not ended there. Their
verdict givea only moral support to one
or the other of the parties. Neither
party is in any, wise bound by the decis
ion. One vital principle, however, is
recognized the desirability of avoiding,
by conciliatory methods, any open rup
ture which may have to bo settled by
arbitration. Conciliation is always in
order from the start and arbitration only
when the conflict is really on.
How would it do to make the inter
state commerce commission a final re
sort (with "final" underscored) in decid
ing all questions, permitting . no appeal?
You will have to trust some one for im
partiality. It la ridiculous to take it for
Krantbd that high-minded men compos
i"R a commission are open to bribery
aud corruption. Their short and de
cisive verdict, within a few weeka at
moBt, would do away with the fixed
forms of court and the inevitable "law's
delay' features that are alone respon
sible for all the irritation and distrust
produced. Simplifying matters is what
is needed, not cumbersome methods
long drawn out.
In this connection I desire youjto hold
fast to a few fundamental truths re
garding demagogues, persons in politics
who are th,BUceeeeQrs of P. T. Brn.um
and although quite unique and pictur
esque are void of sincerity times.
A few words quoted in the New York
Sun of July 10th, are timely here. The
article says in part:
"There is too much demagogism
abroad in the land; there is too much
false doctrine taught pertaining. to gov
ernmental functions.
"There is too much toleration of dis
respect for courts and constituted au
thority. "There is too much clamor for class
legislation. There is too much incul
cation of the idea that men can become
rich without effort, by the mere flat of
the government, instead of earning
wealth in the good old-fashioned way;
and there is too much attention paid to
cranks, blatherskites and political ad
venturers, entitled to no consideration,
but who seem to have obtained the pub
lic ear, and are seeking to pull down the
pillars of society,"
J. II. Tyndale.
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"School City" Elections.
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sale for Christmas, December 23, 21 and
25. Dates of sale for New Year's, De
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Wherever the School City is tried the
periodical election of officers awakens
more intense interest than the moat ex
citing ball game. A part of this inter
est undoubtedly is due to the pleasure
children get from playing at the pursuits
of their elders. But no less important
as an element in the intense interest the
children take in tbe matter is the pal
pable fact that the officers to be elected
have a very real part to perform in the
ordering of the everyday affairs of the
school community. There are always
numerous candidates for appointment
on the school police force; and this is
owing doubtless to the normal instinct
that impels children to play at being
policemen, firemen, or other familiar
functionaries. But the larger interest
in the matter doubtless grows out of
the fact that the school policemen make
real arrests for real offenses. The trials
of the arrested offenders involve the en
forcement of real rules and regulations
that the school community haa adopted
for its own well-being. The sentences
that are pronounced by the court mean
real punishment of some kind that is no
more a part of a children's game than
are the punishments meted out under
the municipal government to disorderly
t persons arraigned before the police mag
istrates. From "The School City-A
Method: of Pupil . Self-Government," by
Albert Shaw, in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews for December.
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THE HOLIDAY RATES WILL BE
ONE FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP
To all Burlington points west of the Missouri river within 200
miles. Tickets for Christmas will be on sale December 23, 24
and 25. For New Tear will be on aale December 30 and 31; also
January 1. All tickets will be good for return until January
4, 1900. To points east of the river the rate will be one fare
to the river and fare and one-third beyond,
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