The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-28

or issuing reStralnlng orderS against labor unions in the event of strikes. The proposed law, it is believed, will be constructed so that the courts will not be permitted to anticipate injury to the property and business of em- ployers and it will make peaceaible picketing a legal act Should the plan go through it is figured out by friends of the administration that the present executive officials of the government will reap the harvest of gratitude of the trades unions.
 In these days when presidential candidates are striving to outdo each other in the struggle for popularity 1t is a strange sight to see and hear two candidates at the same public function Such was the feature, however. of the annual banquet of the National Board of Trade, which was held in this city Wednesday night
 Speaker Cannon and Vice President Fairbanks were the guests of honor at the banquet and the representatives from mercantile bodies throughout the United States had rare oppor- tunity to size up the calibre of the two men. It would be impossible to bring together at the same table two men so different in everything under the sun except their affiliations with a common political party.
 The Vice President came early and remained late He was frigidly dig nified despite his effort to be jolly good fellow When he delivered his address his attitude was that of a man conscious of his position. He l took occasion, however, to deal kind i ly with his audience He praised the delegates; he applauded the work they were engaged upon and he assured them that the senate appreciated the importance of their efforts. Not once did he differ with a multitude of prop ositions which the board is so fond of advocating.
 Then Uncle Joe" entered the ban quet hall, puffing on an immense black cigar, which is absent from his lips only when he wields the gavel and while he sleeps and eats, The people who talk about the speakers | age probably never saw him, On the night in question he looked seventy years young. He sat in his chair on the platform, fixed his cigar at an an- gle of about sixty five degrees, and ! digested the remarks of speakers who demanded $500,000, 900 for harbor | improvements, who demanded an American merchant marine, tariff re- vision, unrestricted entry of the Jap anese into America, etc. Then it was his turn to speak.
 If took the speaker but a minute to launch out into that style of ora tory which is homely but peculiarly his own. He pounded the table with his closed fists as a blacksmith pounds the anvil, he beloved out his words | like miniature peals of thunder. and l then he lowered his voice until it was pleading and almost wet with tears as he coaxed the merchants around to 1 his point of view. Epigrams flowed from his bewhiskered lips as naturally 1 as water flows from a spring. And then. in his enthusiasm he fired a perfect volley of sentences, thrashing the air first with one arm. then with the other, now standing on his toes, again dropping back on to his heels | with a thud that was as emphatic as l the thump of his fist upon the table, | And throughout the entire course of his remarks he spoke frankly, fear lesslv. sarcastically and, frequently, l brutally. He tore the remarks of the previous speakers to shreds. Not even the Italian ambassador was eX- empt He told the delegates they were but very small proportion of l the ninety three millions of people of this country, all of whom had individ- ual peep holes into the congress of the l United States and he 'reckoned that 1 the majority of that ninety three mil | lions will come pretty nearly getting what they want. regardless of the pe- | titions of the select few" Only one remark did he make which might be construed as an indication that he had political ambitions beyond his present honors, and that was embodied in the statement that he hoped to be buri- ed at the expense of the government of the United States"
 When Joe" Cannon sat down he was accorded volume of applause
 that has never been equalled in the banquet halls of the New Willard ho- tel The entire assembly jumped to
 it's feet. waved napkins and cheered
 itself hoarse And the demonstration
 was in spite of the fact that the speaker had hit hard at the pet hob
 bies of nearly every man present.