The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-22

counting the cost If thereby support at the moment can, be purchased. | Just as have fought hard and shall continue tin to ight hard to SrinF a6oo, o, compensated for inj1ry received in the course of his duty, so have fought to do away with all abuses in the use of the power of injunction. I will do everything I can to see that the power the IaSosinS man n0I % sisd eaeSPor S e secure them full and equal justice. Denounced as Wicked.
 Therefore, In the interest of all good citizens be they laboring men CTS or members of any other occupa- ton. so long as they have in tneir souls the principles Of sound Ameri. the proposItion to % secure a law which, according to the explicit statement of MT Gompers, Is to prevent the courts ons violence when the object Is to de- stroy business and which will legal ize the black list and the secondary boycott. both of them the ant instru-
 But thsre is another account against Messrs. Bryan. and Gompers in this matter: EphraIm feedeth on wind. sham. They are seeking to deiude their which would damn this country solely pose that H would @ e'HSS; be shown y by putting ph 1t upon. the statute books. but which would be utterly worthless to accom- pnsh It's ayowed purpose.
 T have not the slightest doubt that such law as that proposed by MT. i. Bryan would, if enacted by Congress. be declared unconstitutional by a deed MT. Bryan I We're able to pack pack this eial purpose of declaring such law unconstitutional.
 T happen to know that certain great trust magnates have announced within the past few weeks. In answer to the question as to why they were openly % 'isr SrysR shsp ie ths laws esist7 tSat MI Bryan proposed, including this law. especially. would be wholly ineffective throw them out and that the promises to enact them could, therefore. be safely disregarded.
 On July B. last. the special counsel to the Central Association Of Buiiding Tradess of New York. MT. Edward J. Gavegan. submitted to that association an opinion on the matter of injunction. and approved the same day by the Central Association of Building Trades of New York. In this opinion. h dis the power of Issuing injunetions if, industrial disputes Mir. Gavegau said that the proposal to favor defendants would be class legisiation and in the nature of special privilege. and special privilege is the bane of the working
 Special privilege is what creates wage-earner wants, and all he wants, Is equality before the law 1t is play ests,' to enact laws which are certain Of annulment by the courts, even when they arc intended in good faith for the special interests would rather see a thousand favorable but unenfoIcibIe new laws enacted for the wage-earner than to have him learn the full power remedies so far suggested and made public cannot in the very nature of our system furnish any needed relief. trate and use their influence for the enactment of general measures cal- cculated te protect and not to destroy
 SThis Is admiralty sound common sense the opinion of the counsel to . great labor body. endorsed and adopted as its own by that labor body It is a sals, both vicious and cliimericaI, to which Messrs. Bryan and GnmperE are committed. They promise what would to the interests of the general public if 1t could be performed and what as formed,
 "I belive both in the patriotism and intelligence of the working gmen, the laboring men of America Therefore do not believe that they can be- mis- led to their own deep hurt as MessRss Bryan and Gompers seek to nisfead thcm; do not believe that fhe-. will permit Mir: GompeFs to deliver them, like chattels, to MT. Bryan in exchange for sham. sincerely yours.
 (Slgned) ''Theopdre Roosevelt" ."ss "P. c. Knox. United States Senator.
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