Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-01-10 | Page 4 | Freedom of Speech

FREEDOM OF SPEECH Organized labors position that no appeal for pardon should be made In InI I behalf of or Mitchell and Mor Morrison It rison Is dignified and wise wio says sas tho the Denver Denser News The sentence of oC Judge Wright should be he allowed to stand as asan asan an nn element of ot the rne final determination of ot a tremendous Issue at stake It need not be he contended that the court had no power or right to make mako this order I of or Imprisonment to protect Its I pro process cess cees Tho The real Is IB whether the court had bad power to issue this In Injunction tl J junction which abridges the tae freedom of at speech and the liberty to print I That question comes up on appeal and andu u we w mako make no doubt that the th Injunction will VoHl be bo dissolved by the higher courts I To believe Is to assume that the courts have power to enact laws that arc are expressly forbidden by b byi i tho the constitution In the case of con congress gross gress Tho The national constitution pre ire prescribes scribes that congress con s shall not notI I abridge the freedom of speech or tho the liberty of the t press The Tho Injunction from the tho District of Columbia court sly violates that prohibition prohibition tion lion Similar prohibitions arc are con contained tamed In 10 all nil or nearly nearl all of or tho the state constitutions Jf it 1 a l man prints a libel he is 10 responsible in damages or to a criminal prosecution pro but thoro thor IB Is no not t law anywhere to restrain tho the publication publiCation cation of ot libels and arni anI no means by which their Issue might bo bt enjoined In tho case cate of ot Gompers and his associates no pretense Is la made mado that libels were pub published l i It Is IB a simple case caso of or to an order which the labor t V t leaders icadora maintain was ultra vireo and contrary to law Ii J Tho The raised IB is one of 01 far wider k 1 application than any Individual or I class It goes gOOS to tho root of oC American I institutions It If the tho courts can cnn forbid J I the tho printing of one ono description of or mat mattor j I t tor r thoy they can prohibit the publication of or anything that may mav ma d ious bus to tho the man on the thc bench Tho The doc doe trine on which this Injunction was based baaed makes the courts c superior to tho the law la It assumes the tho t 10 right to mako a law a that congress Is expressly forbid forbidden forbidden den to enact and it strikes at nt tho the root of popular Institutions and liberty Tho liberty of or the tho press pross is the rhe very ery cornerstone of or American Institutions It is the tho great groat safeguard of popular rights It Is often abused perhaps tout but 1 ut that abuse abusO quickly works Its own cure Its Itis fundamental to our liber liberties ties tics bo ho preserved at all haz hazards hazards hazards ards