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Because of all those restraints on freedom a conscientious Executive will regard martial law as only a last resort. If the civil courts are open, state officials can ordinarlly obtain there abundant help in the maintenance of order, for instance, an injunction at the suit of the Attorney-General against the public nuisance caused by the assemblage of a large number of disorderly persons in connection with a prize fight or horse race...
...legislature has vested in an administrative tribunal the control and regulation of a particular business, respect for law and order normally requires the subject to cross-examination. When a governor attempts to settled a controversy by martial law, he is acting as the prosecutor, judge, and jury all by himself, and employing methods for the maintenance of order which may be even more dangerous to private citizens than the activities of the persons whom the governor is attempting to suppress...
...Martial Law Sometimes Warranted
Emergencies arise, nevertheless, when such drastic curtailments of liberty are warranted. The freedom of a few must sometimes be sacrificed in order to preserve freedom of all. Martial law is surely proper in a territory invaded by foreign troops, so that the ordinary courts can no longer sit and the army must be left free to take every available means to maintain the defense of the Nation...
Even during peace, martial law has sometimes been established in regions terrorized by violence. Whole counties in Colorado, Idaho, and Montana have been placed under martial law during large mining strikes. In the East, reglina in Pennsylvania were under martial law during the Homestead Strike of 1877 and the Anthracite Strike of 1902. Disastrous floods last spring made it necessary for the Army to take complete charge in Cincinnati, Louisville, and other cities along the Ohio River...