Show INJUNCTION EXTRAORDINARY A street railroad war is In progress in Wauwatosa a western suburb of Milwaukee Mil-waukee and out of It has come action by a court commissioner which suggests sug-gests fresh possibilities In the use of injunctions The street car company demanded to fares where citizens believed it to be entitled to only one fare Some citizens citi-zens refused to pay the extra nickel and v ere ejected from the cars by the employees em-ployees of time road The aggrieved citizens cit-izens brought suits civil and criminal against the company and Its employees because of the ejectments Thereupon the company applied to Court Commissioner Commis-sioner John F Harper and obtained from him an Injunction restraining twehe of the leading citizens from bringing any new suits or prosecuting the suits which had been begun against the company and its employees from refusing to pay two fares in the town of Wauwatoaa and from resisting any of the employees of the company In cac they attempt to eject them from time cars for refusal to pay two fares This granting of an Injunction restraining re-straining citizens from applying to the courts for redress of wrongs Is suggestive sugges-tive It was supposed before these fine Imperial days that courts were an instrumentality in-strumentality for tIme redress of wrongs and that citizens had a right to apply to them In the manner prescribed bylaw by-law Commissioner Harper it appears holds that this supposition Is erroneous The common council oC Wuuwatosa WHO to have met yesterday to take steps to annul the franchise of the company com-pany If It does not comply with time terms on which the franchise Aas granted It does not appear at this writing whether a representative of the company appeared at the meeting of the council armed with an injunction restraining that body from proceeding to annul the franchise But that Is likely enough In view of what has already al-ready happened An injunction restraining re-straining the Legislature of a State from passing a law would seem to be In harmony with the spirit of this injunction injunc-tion age Lot us repeat that the action of Commissioner Com-missioner Harper Is suggestive It suggests sug-gests among other things that the strike leaders can get In ahead of their employers against whom they strike If they arc lively about It If they have reason lo think the employers aro going to apply to a court for an injunction restraining re-straining them from Interfering with the opciallon of plants Inllmldallng employees destroying properly and doIng do-Ing other little timings Ihoy are prone to do they have only to rush Into court and get out un Injunction restraining the employers from applying for an Injunction In-junction and restraining time court itself S from granting one The action taken in the Wauwalosa matter suggests a variety of possibilities possibili-ties whlrh need not be enunciated here The professional lawyer may see nothing noth-ing like a new departure In this action of a court commissioner but lo time lay mind it looks as though there was somelhhig new in an Injunction restraining re-straining people from applying to the courts In the manner prescribed by law for redress of what they believe to be wrongs It I seems to some laymen that It such an Injunction can stand almost anything can be done by injunction and that citizens may be wholly deprhed of legal remedies lo which they have sup poMud themselves lo be entitled under the Conslllution Tl Is title that prosecutions may bc malklttus or frivolous It is title that Innocent parlies have a right to protection protec-tion against such prosecutions It is true that time genemiii course of Justice should not be Inlorruplod or delayed by such prosffullons But laymen have nol supposed that Injunctions were necessary nec-essary to protect Innocent parties courts and the public against tImes who bring stilts for no cauais or for evil purposes pur-poses Therefore they will regard the WauwiitoNii case with Interest Ihlca go Chronlrle |