Arizona republican., 1908-07-10

| labor unions advocated a measure that
 the democratic party acting in behalf | of the correct administration of public I justice, has been demanding for twelve
 years. If the president was in earnest
 when he sent his message to congress
 he was to that extent democratic. | We are authorized to conclude that
 in framing. revising or dictating the
 Chicago platform he suffered from a | lapse of memory or abandoned the
 policy he had so vigorously urged in
 his official capacity. for he said in a
 message to congress:
 | T also urge that action be taken
 along the line of recommendations I
 have already made concerning injunc-
 tions in labor disputes. No temporary
 restraining order should be issued by l any court with out notice, and the pe | ution for a permanent injunction upon
 which such temporary restraining or
 der has been issued should be heard | by the court issuing the same within
 a reasonable time-say not to exceed a week or thereabouts-from the date | when the order was issued It is
 worth considering whether it would not give greater popular confidence in the l limpartiality of sentences for contempt if it was required that the issue should
 be decided by another judge than the
 one issuing the injunctions, except where the contempt is committed in
 the presence of the court or other cases
 of urgency"
 Surely he and his party eulogists forget that he had but a few months before advised congress that it 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- 1 tion."
 There has not been a session of con- gress in twelve years at which the re-
 publican party could not have passed law prescribing, defining and regu- lating the issuance of injunctions and
 providing for fair trials in contempt cases. Yet nothing has been done to give the wage earner fair treatment
 and less than nothing is offered to him in the Chicago deliverance. The
 meaningless generalities of its injunc- tion plank are an insult to the intelli- gence of those who demand reasonable
 
 the admitted abuse of this judicial ! process.
 Again the president said to congress: '"Twenty-two years ago, by act of June 29, 1886, trades unions were rec egnized by law. and the right of la
 boring people to combine for lawful purposes was formally recognized, this right including combination for mutual
 protection of the individual rights of the workmen in the prosecution of their trade ortrades; and in act of June l, 1898, strikes were recognized as legal in the same provision that forbade participation in or instigation of force or violence against persons or property, or 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 the wage worker, and as regards all alike, the rights of peaceful combi- nation for all lawful purposes should be expliciteIy recognized"
 An in still another message he said:
 Tt must be remembered that pre- liminary injunction in a labor case, if granted without adequate proof may often settle the dispute between the parties and therefore if improperly granted may do irreparable wrong. Yet there are many judges who assume a matter of course granting of a pre- liminary injunction to be the ordinary and proper judicial disposition of such cases. and there have undoubtedly been fragrant wrongs committed by judges in connection with labor even within the last few years"
 It is important to note that the act of June 29. 1896. was passed at the first session of the first congress that met under the first democratic administration after the civil war and there labor received it's first recogni- tion from the government. One re- publican administration had succeed ed another for twenty-four years and not one act was passed in the in terest of labor or in acknowledge ment of it's right to fair and equal treatment. The republicans enacted Ia tariff which enhanced the price of products that labor has made and cap ital owned, and they pretend to do this with view of securing for labor higher wages. What they gave, how lever was to the capitalist and they trusted him to divide. That the in creased profits of protected employers have made them able to pay the labor ing man higher wages no one can doubt, but it remains for the saving grace of Almighty God so to touch ltheir hearts as to make them willing Ito pay the higher wages. Among the lcontributions that went to make up lthe monument that this great man, Grover Cleveland. builded in the re- lspect and affection of his countrymen, few are more striking than his almost instant recognition, as evidenced by this act of 1886, of the sane and just demands of labor on the law-making bower Under him democracy blazed the way and now remains the unflinch- ling champion of every sound reform lin this direction. Immunity from law I've promise nobody; immunity from oppression; from it's very infancy the democratic party has been dedicated to establish and secure.
 '-+ The Tariff.
 The president and his party declare that pre- election revision of the tar Tiff would be unwise.
 This assertion has been repeated in advance of every election since the en-