Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — DECISION AGAINST DEBS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DECISION AGAINST DEBS.

tncle Bam Is Sovereign Over Every Individual and Every Foot of Hoff, The United State* Supreme Court has denied the application of Eugene V. DelHt the atrike leader, for a writ of ha be corpus. This is a victory for the Government. No more important question, with the single exception of the income tax, has come before the Supreme Court during the past year than the attempt of Eugene V. Debs and the other officers of the American Railway Union to secure a reversal of the sentences to jail by Judge Woods for interfering with interstate commerce and the running of the mails in the railway strike of last summer. The history of the ease is still fresh in the public Memory, but it has importance beyond the question of imprisonment of the American Railway Union officers because there is largely involved the principle of the right of judges having jurisdiction of large interests by virtue of receiverships created by them to prevent labor troubles through the instrumentality of injunctions. The Supreme Court takes the ground that the relations of the Federal Government toward interstate commerce and the mails are those of "direct supervision, control and management,” and that the Federal arm has sovereign power to do. « - ni " -•#

fend and protect interstate traffic without resorting to the intermediate agency of nuy given State. Following this declaration is an explicit and forcible statement of the right of the Federal Government, to exercise its power in any State, the expression being ono which will serve nb « new definition of the doctrine of State's rights. The supremacy of nntionhl authbrity over local authority is maintained and the statement is accompanied by a significant hint Hint the Federal Government will not hesilnte to interpose and send troops in the defense of its constitutional privilege* whenever it may consider that those privileges are tlirentQUCd.

EUGENE V. DEBS.