The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-23
TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE
EXPECTED TO HEAR TAFT
EVERYTHING IN READINESS FOR THE RECEPTION TO BE
EXTENDED TO THE REPUBLICAN PRESI DENTIAL
CANDIDATE IN RICHMOND SATURDAY MORNING.
SPECIAL TRAIN ARRIVES IN THIS CITY AT $50 A. M.


at Terre Haute he referred to Debs as
representing doctrine. America is not
ready to accept. Also he answered
Bryan's charge of bribery in connec-
tion with the promises of employers to
their employees of more work with Re-
business men for goods, said to be
made contingent on the same result
These were not bribes, he said, but
business. They did not represent false
conditions, but facts.
Mr.. Taft made clear distinction be-
tween the Republican and Democratic
platforms on the use of the injunction,
and declared business to be property.
Says Crowd Breaks Records.
The largest outdoor gathering Taft
said he ever had addressed was assem-
bled at Terre Haute when the Taft spe-
cial arrived there Thursday afternoon.
There were many in the carload of
local politicians which escorted the
candidate to the city that said it was
the largest gathering the state had
ever had.
The Injunction was the feature of
this speech, and after it had been ex-
planned and the possible of the two
parties clearly set forth, the candidate
declared with great vehemence:
THAT is where the Republican party
stands, that is where l stand, and
don't care what happens politically
that is where I am going to stand, and
haveissued injunctions against law
less laboring men who were violating
somebody else's rights. If / had not
done it should not have the right to
be here asking for your suffrages. What
kind of judge do you want? Do you
want judge that distinguishes be-
tween classes, decides in favor OF one
class and against another? Is that the
character of a judge you want in free
country? Is it not the judge who, un-
der his oath, with the law as it is laid
down in the text book and the statute,
and with the evidence before him, un-
der his oath decides according to the
Justice Of the case and then issues the
order that the law requires him to
issue?
Writ Of Prevention Not Cure.
What is an injunction? An injunc-
ton is merely an order with reference
to the prevention of the abuse made
before the fact occurs which is to in.
jure or not iniure the party. Where
an injury has been done man brings
suit to recover damages for the injury,
but where the injury is of a character
recurring from time to time in small
acts for which you can't recover dam
ages that are adequate, there equity
says that a man may have prevention
rather than cure. Then he may go to
court and say:
This man is going to cut down
my tree. That tree won't grow in
twenty years. It belongs to me, it is
on my place and he is my tenant. He
is going to injure it by wasting that
tree He goes into court and asks
the Judge to issue an injunction to
prevent the cutting down of the tree
Is prevention better than cure in such
case? Why, then, should a judge
refuse to issue the Injunction? That
kind of remedy has been in force for
400 years and is the most rene dial
writ that we have. 1t arose to protect
poor men, not to oppress them. For
instance, the way it arose was this:
Made to Protect Poor Man.
"A man borrowed $500 on his farm
He gave a mortgage which in form
was an absolute conveyance. subject
to being made void by the payment OF
$500, but the farm was worth $4,000
He failed to pay the $500 On the dot
and in law they brought suit in
ejectment, and they put the man off OF
the $4,000 farm for $500. He went to
the king, in the old days, and he said
This is fine kind of justice that
you are giving me. You allow this
man to take my $4,000 farm for $500.
"The king said to his lord keep, who
subsequently became the lord chancel
lor:
Here you take over this case and
see whether there is Justice
"The lord keep was then an eccles
last, and he sent for the officer who
had enforced that order, or was about
to, and he said:
This is unconstitutional I am
not going to permit you to do it. I am
going to enjoin you and you have go,
to come into court that 1 am going
to create and I will enjoin you until
you see that the farm should be sold
that $500 shall be applied on the de BIT
with interest, and that $500 shall &c
to this man who owns the farm
THAT is the way the Injunction
grew up. 1t grew up to protect the
poor against injuries for which they
could not have adequate remedy al
law"
Taft made three speeches here last
night to great crowds of Iaboring men
despite the fact that Debs was here
at meeting advertised for two
months.