Show 2 An Independent Sovereignty Within Our oUr v a Borders Amenable to No Law By Dy KARL C. C SCHUYLER Address at Freeport Ill HI We must now meet this question Are our interstate railroads their I e. e executives cs and their employees privileged at their own pleasure and by their own whim and caprice to inconvenience dislocate bully domineer disable and harass the people of the States who have no direct interest in their controversies Do they con constitute constitute constitute an an independent sovereignty within our borders amenable to no law amenable to no persuasion except their own unbridled desires Let those who are arc eager for ent destruction of this unified nation answer in the affirmative I believe unless Lincoln's martyrdom and the scattered monuments monument of Union and Confederate dead areto represent but an nn illusory anc and wasted sacrifice that if would this the we preserve country upon principles principles prin prin- which have heretofore been sacred to us the time has bas come whet we must by law and if necessary by constitutional amendment deny the right to strike or lock out in essential national industries charged with witha a public interest declare that they shall be operated without interruption tion and substitute for present methods a tribunal for industrial peace and justice representative of ot all the people which people which shall shaH have jurisdiction of all necessary parties which shall have power to investigate all facto fact and make binding inding decisions when such disputes cannot be settled peaceably peaceably peace peace- peaceably ably without t strike or lockout by the parties to them |