Arizona republican., 1908-09-08
MIR. BRYAN AT CHICAGO.


 Mir. Bryan's Labor Day speech wa not a wild appeal to class-feeling bu was rather a gentle stirring of thu fire which more blatant demagogue. had kindled and have kept burning He insidiously mingled with many universally accepted truths regarding the rights of labor, untruths calcu- lated to impress upon his hearers that the republican party and MT. Taft were withholding certain indefinite but valuable rights and were un- friendly to labor The speech at the close drifted toward socialism, which by the way is the rock upon which unionism itself has so often drifted to its peril and sometimes to its un- doing.
 It was inevitable that the subjects of contempt and revision of judicial procedure in labor disputes should become themes for discussion by MT. Bryan yesterday. The more ignorant of his hearers were led to believe that organized labor had suffered much at the hands of courts, the creatures of capital, the natural ene- my of labor as MT. Bryan and agita- tors before him have so industriously pointed out.
 Yet in all the years in which Amer ican courts have been called upon to intervene in labor disputes, cases of injustice to the employe have been found to be very few and in all such cases the wrong has been righted
 That there is a possibility of in justice under the law has been stated by MT Taft who also favors a re- form which shall not deprive the courts of the power to protect alike the rights of employer and employed but he compliments the judiciary of the land by recommending that the procedure of the courts for years in this class of litigation be made the law, in order that there may not in the future be even such few and iso- lated cases of injustice as have been complained of in the past. What more can labor fairly demand? And what more can MT. Bryan honestly ask for?
 In the beginning of his speech MT. RrK-2n u1aanc cfH hr- do fence now and then of employees in times of strikes and the unfair meth ods of employers in securing more than their share of the joint product of capital and labor What has this to do with the matter? It must be admitted that lawless violence must be prevented and it must be admit | ted that unfair methods by employers, 1 if they are illegal methods must be | punished. If they are unfair and con- trary to public policy and constitute ! an infringement upon the rights of | the employed, and yet not illegal | would it not be better to make them so by legislation-to give the courts greater power to punish the employer. rather than to curtail the power of the courts for the prevention of un- lawful violence?
 Capital and labor can not be al lowed to settle their disputes in such a way as to disturb the peace of so- ciety. MT. Bryan avoids entirely the Iegis- lation by the republican party within the last seventeen years, much of it within the last nine years for the pro- lection of the employe against the unfair methods of the employer. It may be added that none of this leg C station was enacted during the period T when the government was under dem iss ,cratic control h That, however, was not on his side i If the question. That would have c 'een a wet blanket calculated to sti- |. le the flames of the burning class question and that was not the bust less of Mir. Bryan at Chicago yester- lay.