The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-22
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those to whom Mr.. Gompers makes his
appeal. These statements warrant all
you have said in your speech and they
would warrant you in asking Mr..
Bryan to say publicly whether Mr..
Gompers states correctly the attitude
of his party and himself on subject
that is of vital concern to every citizen,
including every business man as well
as every farmer and every laboring
man who looks to the courts for the
protection of his rights.
Quotes Gompers on Injunction.
Mr. Gompers in his letter asserts that
the judiciary of this country is destroy
ing Democratic government and SUBJ
shutting therefor an irresponsible and
corrupt depotism in the interest of cor
porate power, and he further max es
clear that the means by which he be-
1ieyes this allied despotism has been
set up in the place of democracy is by
the process of injunction In the courts
of equity.
Mr. Gompers in his Letter states that
his appeal to the Republican conven-
ton at Chicago for remedy against the
Injunction was denied, and he then
goes on to state not only that the Dem
ocratic party promised remedy, but
promised him the particular remedy
that he had already asked of congress.
His words are:
'Labor's representatives then went
to the Democratic party. That party
pledged its candidates for every Office
to those remedies which labor had al
ready submitted to congress"
The last sentence in this quotation
indicates very definitely the specific
remedies to which Mr.. Gompers under
stands Mr.. Bryan's party has pledged
itself.
His statement now makes perfectly
clear an important plank in the Bryan
lite platform which has heretofore
seemed puzzling to a vast number of
earnest-minded, thinking people who
are sincerely interested in the steady
advance and the legitimate aspirations
of labor, and who carefully read both
platforms to know precisely what hopes
each hold out for the improvement OIL
conditions for the wage earners. That
plank reads as follows:
Questions of judicial practice have
arisen, especially in connection with
industrial disputes. We deem that the
parties to all judicial proceedings
should be treated with rigid impartial
fly and that injunctions should not be
issued in any cases IN which injunc-
lions would not issue If no industrial
dispute were involved"
Plank Which Promises "Remedy."
This is the plank which promises the
remedy against injunctions which
Mr.. Gompers asked of Mr.. Bryan's
party. In actual fact it means abso-
lutely nothing; no change or the law
could be based on it; no man without
inside knowledge could foretell what
: its meaning would turn out to be. for
no man could foretell how any judge
would decide in any given case, as the
plank apparently leaves each judge
free to say when he issues an injunc
ton in a labor case whether or not il
is a case in which an injunction would
issue II labor were not involved.
Yet this plank is apparently perfect
ly clear to Mr.. Gompers, and in his
letter to his followers he indicates be
yond question just what he under
stands it to mean. He asserts that he
has the requisite inside knowledge
His statement that Mr.. Bryan's party
for it. was Mr. Bryan who dictated the
PLATFORM pledged itself ito those rem.