The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-03
TAFT TALKS ON
LAW AND ORDER
Burden of the SeCretary's
Song Is Elect the Repub-
leans to Office.
GOV. COOLING is BEPRAlSED
NO SYMPATHY FOR THE MINERS
IN JAIL.

Pocatello, Nov. 2.-Before crowd
that packed the largest hall III this
city tonight Secretary of War Taft de-
livered an address on the subject of
law and order in Idaho. He said he
had come to Idaho at the request Oh
President Roosevelt, not as president,
but as a citizen and lover OF right ana
justice and law. He spoke of the Ell
forts that have been put forth Dy the
president in the interests OF LABOR ana
then took up national questions
Secretary Taft opened his address
with the statement that the national
issue was whether President Roose-
welt and the Republican congress had
done anything, or failed to do any
thing, which entitled them TO con-
tinuation of the confidence OF the peo-
pie so strongly expressed IN the cleo
ton of 1904.
Claims All the Credit.
He took UP the acts of congress, dis
cuSsed the antitrust law and the aux
iliary acts passed for the purpose of
facilitating prosecutions under it; de-
scribed the prosecutions which had
been begun. showed their useful effect
upon the trusts themselves; described
the rate bill and pointed out what a
powerful influence that was IN sup
pressing the evils of which the trusts
had been guilty by cOercing the rail
roads into giving them rebates. He also
described the meat inspection bill, the
pure food law, the denatured alcohol
bill and other important statutes
passed by congress, and did not hest
tate to say that nc congress since the
war congress had done such effective
work for the public as the congress
which was now in office. He insisted
that if the people of this country de-
sired the work of Roosevelt to con-
tinue. they must send a Republican
congress Of two houses to uphold his
hands. and ridiculed the proposition of
Mr.. Bryan and others that the way to
support Roosevelt was to send a Demo-
cratic house.
Complaints of Labor.
It is said that this congress has
acted injuriously to labor in regard TO
the Panama canal and the employment
Of Chinese labor. The eight-hour law
applies to work done directly under,
the government. The attorney general,
therefore. held that it applies To the
day labOrers on the IsthmuS. The
Isthmus of Panama is in the tropics. 1t
is impossible for the American iabOrer
to work there except under cover, and
all the American labor possible for us
to get we use. But it is all skilled la
Dor. engineers, machihists and other
skilled mechanics. The common labor
the Americans find il impossible to do
because of the terror of the tropical
sun and the tropical torrents Of rain
that fall during the rainy season. We
must build that canal, and to allow
conditions that really have
no Televance at all to work under such
conditions to increase the difficulties
that we have found in getting the nee
essary labor is to fly in the face of
reason.
Taking up the Idaho situation, the
secretary said:
RooseVeIt's Request.
"And now we come TO another sub
iect. the consideration OF which largely
induced Theodore Roosevelt, not as
president but as fellow citizen OF
yours and as a lover of his country
and her fair name, to request that
come out here to speak in this cam
paign. The cause of labor, as l have
a already said. always awakens the deep
est sVmpathieS on the part OF Mr..
Roosevelt. and in the controversies be-
tween labor and capital he has always
that labor shall have
SQUARE deal. but that which he desires
with all his power is that labor must
observe the law as well as the capital
lists, and that recourse to violence,
a disturbance of the peace and I'M
lawful injury to another's rights in the
cause of labor is no more TO be upheld
than the unlawful greed and the mach
nations of lawless capitalists to op-
press their employees or to subject the
at large to the unjust eX-
actions Of their combinations.
1.-THE issue in. Idaho is whether a
governor who has simply done his duty
in taking the legal steps to bring to
trial men charged with heinOuS crime
is TO be marked by defeat when he
stands for reelection, as the injudicious
and over-zealous friends of the men
charged. Tie question is whether no.
tice is to be served to the world that
tbe peopIe of Idaho do not welcome in
their chief executive officer the bring
ing to the bar of justice of men charged
with crime. if the men charged are
thought to be able by reason of con-
nectiOn with large associations, to
visit defeat upon the courageous and
active official.
Only Partially Stated.
Continuing, Secretary Taft said:
Numerous attacks have been made
upon Governor Gooding by charging
that some sort of q star chamber pro-
ceeding is to be instituted to railroad
these men to the gallows, and that no
chance is to be given them on their
trial The laws of the state of Idaho
provide how a trial shall be had, be-
fore a jury. and then if any injustice
arises in the trial court, opportunity is
given to appeal to the supreme court of
Idaho. and thence if their rights under
the constitution of the United States
are violated, TO the supreme court of
the United States. Indeed. these men
are now in the supreme court of the
United States testing the validity of