The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-10

all cases Of constructive ContemDts.
The Republican party have been
avoiding the question So the presl-
dent. in taking it up. and Mr.. Taft IN
his. letter 10 the labor unions. advO-
Gated a measure that the Democrat
ic party, acting in behalf ofz the cor
rect administration Of public justice,
has been demanding for twelve years
If the president was in earnest when
he sent his message to congress he
was 10 that extent Democratic.
We are authorized to- conclude thar
in framing revising or detailing the
Chicago platform he suffered from a
lapse Of memory or abandoned the pol
icy be had so vigorously urged in his
official capacity, for he said in mes
sage to congress
I also urge that action be taken
along the line of the recommends
tons I have already made concerning
injunctions in labor disputes No tenn
pOTaTy restraining order should be is
sued bv any court without notice and
the petition for a permanent injUnc-
ton upon which such temporary re-
straining order has been issued should
be heard BY the court issuing the same
within a reasonable time-say not to
exceed a week or Decentralization
the date when the order was issued.
1t is worth considering whether il
would not give greater popular con
fidence in the impaTtiaiity of sen
fences for contempt if it was required
that the issue should be decided by
another Judge than the one Issuing the
iniunCtiOns, except where the con-
tempt is committed in the presence
of the court or in other case of urg-
ency."
Surely he and his party eulOgists
forget that he had but a few months
before advised congress that 1t is
worth considering whether it would
not give greater popular confidence in
the impartiality of sentences for con-
tempt if it was required that the is
sues should be decided by. another
judge than the one issuing the injUnc-
tioR."
There has not been a session of
congress in twelve years at which the
Republican party could not have pass
ed a law prescribing, defining and reg
uIating the issuance of injunctions
and providing for fair trials in con-
tempt cases. Yet nothing has been
done to give the wage Garner fair
treatment and less than nothing is Of
feTed TO him in the Chicago deliver
ance. The meaningless generalities
of its injunction plank are an insult
to the intelligence of those who de-
mand reasonable and substantial leg
isIatiOn to prevent the admitted abuse
of this judicial process.
Again the president said to con-
gTess:
twenty-five years ago, by act of
June %. 1856, trades unions were rec
ogniZed by law, and the right of labor
ing people to combine for lawful puT-
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right including combination for mu-
tUal protection of the individual rights
of the wOrkmen in the prosecution of
their trade or trades; and in act of
June 1. 1898. strikes were recognized
as legal in the same provision that
forbade participation in or 'instigation
of force Or violence against persons or
property, ST the attempt to prevent
others from working, by violence,
threat or intimidation The business
man must be protected in person and
property, and so must the farmer and
wage Garner, and as regards all alike,
the rights of peaceful combination for
all lawful purposes should be expIic-
| lily recognized
And in still another message he
said:
1T must be remembered that a pre-
| liminarv Injunction in a labor case, if
granted without adequate proof
may often settle the dispute between
the parties, and therefore if improper
" granted may do irreparable wrong.
Yet there are many judges who as
sumo a matteT-Of-cOUTSe granting of
preliminary injunction to be the ordi-
nary and proper judicial disposition OF
such cases, and there have undoubted-
Iy been fragrant wrongs committed by
&
within the past few years.
1t is important to note that the Act
of June %, 1896, was passed at the
! first session of the first congress that
met under the first Democratic ad-
ministration after the civil war and
there labor received its first Tecogni-
ton from the government. One Re
publican administration had succeed
ed another for twenty-fOur years and
not one act was passed in the interest
of labor or in acknowledgment of its
right to fair and equal treatment. 7 he
Republicans enacted a tariff which en-
HANGED the price of products that la
| Dor has made and capital owned and
| they pretended TO do this with view
/ OF securing for labor higher wages.
What they gave, however, was to the
capitalist and they trusted him TO di-
vide. That the increased profits of
protected employers have made them
able to pay the labOring man higher
wages no, one can doubt, but it re-
mains for the saving grace of Al
mighty God to touch their hearts so
as TO make them willing TO pay the
higher wages Among the COntriOu-
tons that went to make up the monU-
ment to this great man. Grover Cleve-
| land, bUilded in the respect and affec-
ton of his country. few are more
striking than his almost instant rec
ognitiun, as evidenced by this act Of
1856 of the. sane and Just demands OF
labor on the laW-makinC power. IN
der him Democracy bIaZed the way
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