New-York tribune., 1908-12-08
SPOONER ON UN[ONISM
Says at st. Nicholas Society Dinner
That Judiciary Is in Danger.

Ex-senator John c. Spooner, Of wisconsin. speak
ing last night the toast Our Country" at the
sixtythird anniversary dinner OF the st. Nicholas
Society, at Delmonicos, severely arraigned the
labor union element for efforts 10 legalize by act
| OF Congress the boycott and blacklist. which ne
said twin sisters and both desptcable ana
tyrannicaL He denounced the making Of promises
by political parties for the labor vote, which he
said, obligation that could be paid only by
striking down the freedom Of the judiciary, which
must protect our human rights and civil liberties
The United States Supreme Court, said the Sena-
tor had often held that every man had the right
to work for whom he pleased and at wages thsI
satisfied him Senator Spooner was intensely
earnest he argued Cor the independence OF the
Judiciary, and his points aroused much enthusl-
asEn- He paid a tribute TO William H Taft and
another 10 Governor Hughes. He also paid his re-
speets to William J. Bryan, saying: 'OurReopie
have followed eloquent leaders to whom. II they
suffered, nobody would have listened moment
Recently the people seemed to have recovered ana
while I don't 10 talk politics, will say tnat
William H. Taft while not an orator with q great
vocabulary, is great, honest and manly speaker
Senator Spooner expressed the opinion that MI
Bryan might come again. but he expressed also
the hope that the Democratic party Woud set
back to its traditions The former Senator said
he had greater hopes for the people than in many
years, and that mary of them who had been away
from home had returned.
Mr. Spooner said:
If anything ever happens to this land it will be
cannot be otherwise than a government of parties
But there is something that should never enter inLo
politics. 1t is when political parties bid against
each other in convention for the labor vote, # you
And yet in the last campaign national party
Jbey could only arrange TO carry out by tread
ing rOughshod over the judiciary There was, IN
deed, danger point. 1t come to be under
stood that capital and labor dependent on eacn
other, and that the man who seeks TO cause Irlc-
tion between the two is an enemy OF the nation
There are endless arguments offered by the sides
question Of liberty. and the thought that any body
UoIf l ~ P 'lIt9 @ a nrf JoI1 ~ s1V 53nesf
citizen. The blacklist and the boycott are quite
Capital and labor depend on each other: The man
n4 5 does most & to euitiyate o this principle II n
| interests is an enemy Of the nag the government
Not long ago the United States Supreme Court
antitrust act to boycott The ca Sc was Of bust
union men who were non-menberS, but had worked
for it long time and who had right to sell their
The boycott is the twin sister, Of the blacklist
lies is The numbers banded together to DO harm
about T6er rs Is No Ht5 Gge n s de coW6fR
the laws equally administered.
The proposition Of a law TO destroy the property
OF another IS to me abhorrent.
I long for the day again when we shall have in
prosperity Of the land but it is certain that until
ton the country viii not be in its best health.
Another speaker was Colonel George Harvey
VINO answered 10 lne toast Our CITY ana Ea4ds
Why has this greatest city become the most
maigned? Has New York really ceased to be? Is
there only Wall Street? And is Wall Street itself
naUght else than den OF tniquity, the abode OF
thieves and scoundrels insensible 70 the impellng
selfish and criminal motives? So thousands
and hundreds OF thousands OF naturally honest
minds have been led to belieVe-aye, this and more
no less, in fact, than that the country itself is
all virtuOUs and that the city is all vicious, The
picture has been painted by ruthless hands guided
al times by wilfUl ignorance, but too often by keen
intelligence
We know-and why should we not say-that the
picture is lie We know that Wall Street is the
equal if not the superior in integrity, in fair deal
ing, in honesty Of purpose, of any financial centre
in the world; that the bases Of the success of
great banking houses intelligence, training
courage and the American spirit OF Industry, borne
meath all upholding the entire fabric of our great
financial institutions. unsurpassed throughout the
world, is character.
Chicanery. cunning and fraud exist here else
wherein the speculations Of the city less than
at the auction blocks Of the country. But how
the punishment visited upon the offenders. It 81
not too much to with certainty and with truth
that bank or banker continue to do bust
in this city for a single day after suspicion
has been grounded that his word is not good
his bond. Then what is the Of the malE
nifty manifested against city7 Is 1t truth or Is
It politics? If the former. God save US! II the
shame.
Other speakers were Jonkherr DR.. J. Loudon.
Minister from the Netherlands; w. A Prendergast
Register OF Brooklyn and the Rev. II. c. Robbins