The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-23
Candidate Addresses More Per-
sons Than in Any Other Day
of the Campaign.
MAKES LABOR QUESTION
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE
Recites History of Injunction,
and Declares 1t Is for Pro
lection of Oppressed.

| EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 22.-Dur-
ing this, the first o. the three days he
is to spend in Indiana, William II. Taft
has talked to more people than on any
previous day of the campaign. In each
OF his sixteen speeches the listeners and
applauders have numbered thousands.
Reiuvenated in voice. energy and enthu-
| siasm by his one day OF rest the can
didate handled the campaign with even
greater degree of positiveness than
/ heretofore In the very first speech he
made he ridicu!ed Mr.. Bryan's charge
! OF - bribery in connection with the
promises of employers TO their ent-
! ployees of more work with Republican
| 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.
Instructs Laboring Men
Judge Taft talked today 10 many Ia
! Dor audiences, and it was noticeable
that what he said was more educational
than heretofore. At Linton, where he
spoke to several thousand coal miners,
he gave them the history of the writ
! of injunction, something he has not
previously done.
At Terre Haute he made 9 clear dis
tinction between the Republican and
| Democratic platforms on the use of the
| injunction, and declared business TO be
property, There were two occasions
during the day when Candidate Debs
came in for attention. These were at
| Terre Haute. the home OF Debs, and ct
the two meetings at Evansville
The largest outdoor gathering Mr..
Taft said he bad ever addressed was
assembled at Terre Iiaute when the
Taft special arrived there this after
noon. Many present said IL was the
largest gathering in the history OF the
state.
The injunction was the subject OF the
speech at Terre Haute, and after ii had
been explained and the position of the
two parties set forth, the candidate de-
clared with great vebemence:
Sure of His Ground.
"That is where the Republican party
stands that is where / stand. and [
don't care what happens politically.
that is where / am going TO stand. I
! have issued inlunctions against lawless
laboring men, who were violating some
body else's rights, II | had not done
il l should not have the right to be
kind of Judge do YOU want; Do you
want q. judge that distinguishes be-
tween classes, decides in favor of one
class and against another! Is it not
the Judge who. under oath, with the law
as it IS laid down in the textbook aud
the statute, and with the evidence be-
| fore him, under his oath decides ac-
! cording TO the Justice of the case and
| then issues the order that the law re-
quires him to issue' What is an in
| functions An Injunction is merely sl
| order with reference to the prevention
of the abuse made before the fact oc-
ours which is TO inlure or not lnlure
| the party Where an injury has been
| done, man brings suit to recover dam
| ages for the injury, but where the In
| Jury Is of character recurring from
! time to time in small acts for which YOU
cannot recover damages that are ade
| quate, there equity says 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 I grow IN twenty years. 1t be-
| longs TO me. ii is on my place, and he
] is my tenant. He is going TO iniure IL
| by wasting that tree He goes into
| court and asks the Judge TO issue an
/ injunction TO prevent the cutting down
| of the tree.
Defends His Attitude.
Is not prevention better than cure
in such a case7 Why then should a
nudge reffuse: 10 issue, the inlqnetion'
That kind of remedy has been in force
for four hundred years, and is the most
remedial writ that we have, 1t arose
TO protect poor men, and not to oppress
them. For instance, the way 1T arose
was this: A man borrowed $500 on
his farm. He gave a, mortgage which
in form was au absolute conveyance,
subject to being made void by the pay
ment of $500, but the farm was worth
$4,000. He failed to pay the $500 on
the dot and IN law they brought a
suit in eicctment, and they put the man
off the $4,000 farm, for 5000. He
went to the king in the old davs and
he said This is q 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
chancellor: Here. you take over this
case and see whether it is Justice. THO
lord keep was then an ecclesiast. and
he sent for the officer who had enforced
that order. or was about to. and ne
said: This is unconstitutional. | am
Join YOU from prosecution in suit,
ftTbat is the way the injunction CAME
on. The lord chancellor said: Il am
going to enjoin you, and you have got
10 come into court and l will enJon
YOU until YOU see that the farm should
be sold, that $500 shall be applied on
the debt with interest, and that $1,000
shall 20 to this man who owns the
farm.
For Protection of Poor,
ssThat is the way the Injunction grew
ND. 1t grew up to protect the poor
against Injustice for which they could
not have adequate remedy at law. It
"a a remedy that should be enforced
against anyone who does a lawless act
who cannot have adequate remedy at
law. and to have it abolished merely
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