The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-10-28

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sunlight of President Roosevelts
benevolent assimilation by which he
placates some, by the big stick brow
beats others and by his sophistry
hopes to fool the masses into sup
porting injunction Judge Tart
President Roosevelt says that
Senator Knox has a peculiar right to
discuss the principles involved in II.
! functions because he as attorney gen
cral prosecuted a civil suit for dam.
ages to an injured workman. That
Senator Knox was the special coun-
sci of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and OF the United States Steel Cor
poration would indeed qualify hin.
to discuss the Injunction abuse. bb.
certainly only from the viewpoints
Of thief riends of corporations who
profit by the abuse OF the injunction
writ as II brings advantage and
profit to corporate greed and power.
IF the courts have not invaded
human liberty; II they have not
undertaken to protect corporate in
terests to the detriment Of the peo-
pie, why does President Roosevelt
characterize Judge Grosscup's re.
versal of Judge Landis' $4,000 900
fine upon. the Standard Oil Trust
as a gross miscarriage of justice?'
Declaring that the veriest tyro
of layman in his widest dreams
never suggested the abolition OF
the Injunction process" Mr.. Com.
pers insists that labor desires to
have the injunction restored to the
use from which its has been ruth
lessly diverted from the protection
of property rights to the invasion of
personal freedom"
lie quotes from the presidents
messages to congress and declares
that they "show an utter confusion
of the entire matter of injunction
in Mr. Roosevelts mind"
He claims the decisions of the
lower courts in Great Britain. which
were reversed by the higher courts
there, have been accepted as the
basis for the issuance of the injunc.
tion in the United States. Mr. Com.
pers also insists that the provisions
of the Pearre and Wilson bills ad-
vocated by the Federation of Labor,
are not as broad and comprehensive
in scope as the British trades dis.
putes act.
The mere fact continues Mr..
Gompers, that Mr.. Roosevelt de-
nounces a proposition as wicked
does not so constitute It; time and
circumstances and party obligations
have persuaded him to modify his
judgment and his utterances. Sure
ly 1t must bring unction to him to
! find his unwarranted attack on mo
so thoroughly appreciated by the
New York Sun, which criticises him
for his last utterance in as severe
language as that which he now
attacks me-"
Referring to dissenting opinions o,
Judge Harlan, Justice Moody and
many distinguished jurists and legal
authorities on the abuse of the in.
junction, he declares that Mr.. Roose-
welt has placed me in good com
pany.'
"Of course" he says, every one
knows that the president. strongly
urged every measure which he ad.
vocated, and then accepted what
his political opponents in his own
party chose to give him. 1t is
general knowledge that he had
more liberal platform prepared for
adoption by the republican conven-
tion at Chicago and then accepted
what they doled out All know that
| the nomination of Sherman for the
vice presidency was concocted by
Senator Burrows and Genial Uncle
Joe Cannon as slap in the face
OF Mr.. Roosevelt: but the president,
because Injunction Judge Taft had
been nominated for the presidency,
now not only swallows the whole
| pot pori, but must needs directly
and indirectly attack me in the fgh,
| which my fellow-workers and Al.
making in defense of equality be-
fore the law of the men of labor
with all other citizens and for the
establishment Of human freedom"
Mr.. Gompers asserts that the
Pearre injunction bill which Mr..
Roosevelt attacks has been before
several congresses without word
OF criticism or comment from him."
and scouts the suggestion that MI
/ Mitchell and other labor leaders