The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1908-10-14
TAFT's LABOR DECISIONS.
Senator, eorah Addresses Cripple
Creek Audience on this Subject.

Creek Audience on this Subject.
Cripple Creek, Oct. limited
States Senator William E. Borah of
Idaho arrived tonight and addressed
one of the largest political meetings
ever held in the district. Long be-
fore the time for the speakers to ap-
pear the hall was packed and several
hundred people were turned away.
The Cripple Creek band escorted the
senator from the hotel to the hall
and promptly at 8 O'Clock Chairman
Thomas introduced the speaker. After
several sentences in response to the
ovation rendered him, Senator Borah
said in part:
Il wish to take for one Of my prin-
cipaI subjects tonight one which has
much to do with the men who toll
in the ground and take from the
rock-ribbed mountains their treasure
of precious gold-that is, the stand
taken by Judge Taft regarding the
Iaboring men in this country.
1.-The Taft labor decisions form one
of the general charges made by our
opponents, the Democrats, who say
that Taft is the father of injunctions.
1t is a little difficult to understand
precisely what Bryan and his friends
mean by the father Of injunctions.
It is well known to all that the
principles which Judge Taft stood
for while on the bench are as old as
the court OF chancery in England
Judge Taft, as is well known BY
those who have taken the trouble to
look into the charges made by the
friends OF Bryan. laid down no law
no new principles and established
no new presidents. He simply ap
piled equitable laws which are as
old and as firm as the constitution
itself
Let us see just what he did say.
because this appeal to the laboring
mea of the country is being made
with the hope of prejudicing the man
Who earns his bread by the sweat OF
his brow dn this campaign. l will
venture to say that there is not a
law Loving, loyal laboring man in the
country, and the major part of the
honest sops OF toll are found in this
class, will find fault with Judge Taft
when he read the decisions that he
has made and understands them. I
will quote an excerpt from one of his
decisions which the Democrats have
taken as q target in the present cam
paign:
1.-The employees had a right to or
ganize into. or join a labor union
which would take action as to the
hours of their employment. 1t is
benefit to them and to the public tina
laborers should unite forthe common
interests and for lawful purposes.
They have labor to sell. II they
stand together they are often able.
all of them. to attain better prices
for their labor than in dealing singly.
They have rig 1t - appoint officers
The officers they appoint may ad-
aase them al 10 TIE cOIrse to pursue,
or VI they chose, may order them, on
peacefslly to leave the employ OF
their employer because the terms of
their employment are unsatisfactory
I'm other words he held that they
should organize. do everything in
their power for their own welfare
and the dignity of labor. but he also
held that they could not destroy pro
perty or endanger human life, and
that the courts of the state and OF
the federal government would pro
teot property and Life. These are
the principles which Taft advocated
and these are the decisions which he
upheld. Now let US get away from
the glittering generalities in which
our opponents deal and 1 ask you, in
all sincerity, If there is any man who
will dare to find fault with the prin-
ciples or decisions laid down by the
man who is now a candidate for the
highest office within the gift Of the
people.