The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-10-15
ALSO SHOWS UP
Mr.. GOMPERS.
Speaker Tells What Taft Did For La
Dor in the Philippines and DE-
clared That Mr.. Taft Gave Labor
It's First Bill of Rights Allowing
It to Combine to Get High Prices.

Congressman Edgar ID. Crumpacker
addressed comfortably filled house In
Brooks theater last night and made
one of the speeches. the irresistabIe
logic of which could not but hIep to
convince the hundreds who heard him
that the republican party is the best
one to be intrusted with the destiny
of this great country of ours.
The crowd was slow I'm arriving.
When the meeting called at 8
O'Clock there was mot. more than half
of a house, hut during the next quarter
of an hour the people crowded into
the hall and before MT. Crumpackcr
had got well started i'm his speech the
hall was completely filled.
The quartette of the Young Men's4
Republican club rendered a selection
entitled, "On the Billy, Billy Van and
where encored. Most of the county
candidates were seated on the stage
when the speaking began.
shows Up the Democrats.
Mr.. Crumpacker was at his best last
evening. He ripped up the democrats
as the alleged friends of labor and
showed that in the southern states
where that party is in control there
had been less done for labor than in
any other part of the United States.
He riddled the plan of the demo-
Gratis to guarantee bank DEPOSITS and
this issue. which the democrats them
selves are already hushing up. was
shown to be another of the foibles Of
Bryan's disordered brain
Mr.. Crumpacker summed up the an
tagonism of Mr.. Gompers for the re-
publican party in the following terse
which ro,51dIx- cbaara5
Mr.. Gomper's." said Mr.. Crumpacker,
seems to have more solicitudc for or
ganized democracy than he does for
organized labor
Considers Gompers An Ingratc
Mr.. Crumpacker then went on to
show that Mr.. Gompers was an migrate
considering all that the republican
party has done for labor. Mr.. Gompers
says that the injunction issue is the
paramount one and Mr. Crumpacker
quoted William Randolph Hearst as
| saying that the Industrial depression
which was brought on during the
| Cleveland administration. as result of
democratic tampering with the tariff.
has cost labor more hardship, more sor-
row, more starvation and more trouble
than all of the injunctions that have
ever been issued in this country.
He showed how foolish ws Mr. Comp
| er's attack on Mr.. Taft when leading
labor union officials all over the coun-
try admitted that Mr. Taft did only
what his oath of office required him to
do when he issued certain injunctions
/ for which has been criticised.
And in his opinion handed down at
that time. Mr.. Taft gave labor its first
bill of rights when he declared that
it had a right to combine and use
/ every lawful method to secure the
! highest market price for its product.
Tells What aIr. Taft Has Done.
Mr.. Crumpacker then told of what
| Mr.. Taft had done in the Philippines.
When he arrived on the islands he
| founds that the very fact that a man
| combined with his fellow TO secure
better wage conditions was cause suf-
j ficient to have him thrown into prison.
Mr.. Taft Immediately pardoned one
man who had been thrown into pris-
! on on such a charge and established
| the fact that labor in the Philippines
hs a right to organize. Following this
the wages of the Philippines was more
than doubled.
He then pointed out the abominable
labor conditions in the south. He
showed where the great cotton mills of
the south. one of which was owned
by the gvernor of Alabama. employed
children of tender ages and kept them
| working in the most unsanitary of
surroundings, denied them Gods sun
| shine and the educational advantages
which were free to the children in the
north
Pertinent Question.
All of this takes places under COM
pIete democratic rule and yet the dem
ocrats presume to come up north and
tell the people In republican states
| what labor laws they shall pass. Mr.
Crumpacker wanted to know why Mr..
Gompers did not spend his time in