The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-06-30
REPUBLICANS DECEIVING LABOR.

The anti-injunctlOn plank of the re-
publican platform, as finally adopted
is Transparent fraud, says the Com
moner. 1t is possible that the mem
berS of the committee were buncOed
by some trust lawyer-that is the
only charitable view that can be taken
of it, Those who advocated the plank
claimed 30 be doing it, as a cOnces-
sion to the wage earners, and yet il
one will read the plank he will see
that it is in fact an announcement that
the republican party is unalterably
opposed to the laboring mans posi-
ton. The plank reads as follows: THE
republican party will uphold at all
times the authority and integrity OF
the courts, state and federal and will
ever insist that their powers to en-
force their processes and to protect
life, liberty and property shall be pre-
served inviolate. We believe. how
ever, that the rules of procedure in
federal court, with respect to the is
suance of writ of injunction, should
be more accurately defined by the
statute; that no injunction or temper
without notice, except wsere irrepar-
able injury would result from delay,
in which case a speedy hearing there
after should be granted
1t will be seen that the plank be-
gins with an unnecessary eulogy of
the courts. Nobody is opposed to up
holding at all times the authority and
integrity of the courts. Nobody is OBJ
jecting to the enforcement of their
processes o. to their exercise of their
powers to protect life, liberty and
property. The plank assumes that
somebody is attacking the courts and
that the courts are in danger of los
ing support or of having their pow
erS weakened There is no attack on
the courts and there is no thought
anywhere of interfering with any
legitimate function of the court The
republican convention puts up man
of straw and chen proceeds to de-
mOlish it; it suspects an unholy as
sault upon the judiciary and its right
eous Indignation at once finds express
sion in a boastful assertion of its in
nOcence of participation in any such
suspected assault. This part of the
plank was writ zen to give assurance
to the people who are opposed to
the labOring mans plea And now
let us proceed to that part of tse
plank which was intended as sop
to the laboring man. 1t says: I'VE
believe. however, that the rules of
procedure in Ihe federal court with
respect to the issuance of a writ of
injunction should be more accurately
defined by statute" (Just what that
definition shall be is not stately
That no injunction or temporary re-
out notice. EXCEPT WHERE ID
REPARABLE INJURY WOULD RE
SUIT FROM DELAY in which case
speedy hearing thereafter should be
granted" Note the words, EXCEPT
WHERE IRREPARABLE INJURY
WOULD RESULT FROM DELAY.
and compare this exception with the
federal stature on the subject and you
will find that under the law AS IT
NOW EXISTS the court is not en-
powered to grant temporary re-
OTueI fACEH1 ii EIftE
APPEARS TO BE DANGER OF IR-
REPARABLE INJURY FROM DE-
lay 1t will be seen that the man
who wrote the injunction plank cop
led 1he statement almost word for
word and made the exception as broad
as the statute. If the convention had
been frank in the statement of its pO-
CT Con it would
ent statute and said that it was in ia
vor of enforcing the law JUST AS 1T
IS. 1t would have said. whereas. at
present. court or judge may grant
a temporary restraining order if there
appears to be danger of irreparable
injury from delay therefore be it
resolved ,hat we are opposed to chang
ing it,
The men who are responsible for the
language of the injunction plank may
have fooled the rest of the commit
tee and they may have fooled the con
vention, but they can not fool the la
boring men or the voters in general
TIE injunction plank has not even the
value of a gold plated brick for the
plating is brass, as we'll as the interior
of the brick
The plank as prepared in advance of
The convention by Mn. Taft's friends
and given out on Tuesday reads as
follows: We declare for such amend
mentS of the statutes of procedure in
the federal courts with respecs to the
use of the writ of injunction as will.
on the one hand prevent the summary
issue or such orders without proper
consideration, and on the other. will
preserve undiminished the power of
ne courts to enforce their process
20 the end that justice may be done
at all times and to all parties"
1t will be noticed that in this plank
the declaration in favor of amend
ments comes first and the declaration
In FAVOR of preserving undiminished
the power of the courts to enforce
'he'r processes comes afterwa IDS. In