Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-07
FROM THE
REPUBLICANS DEcElvINe LABOR
MIR. BRYAN'S PAPER

is transparent fraud. 1t is pOSSlDle
that the members of the committee |
were buncoed by some trust lawyer
that is the only charitable view that |
oan be taken of 1t. Those who advo-
GATED the plank claimed to be doing |
1t as a concession to the wage earn
ers, and yet If one will read the plank
he will see that 1t is in fact an an
nouncement that the Republican party
Is unalterably opposed to the laboring
mans position. The plank reads as
follows: "The Republican party will
uphold at all times the authority and
integrity Of the courts, state and fed
eral, and will ever insist that their
powers to enforce their processes and
to protect life, liberty and property
shall be preserved inviolate. We be-
lieve, however, that the rules of pro-
cedurs in federal court, with respect
to the issuance of a. writ of injunction,
should be more accurately defined by
the statute; that no Injunction or tenn
porary restraining order should be is
reparable injury would result from de-
lay, in which case a speedy hearing
thereafter should be granted"
It will he seen that the plank begins
with an unnecessary eulogy of the
courts. Nobody is opposed to uphold
ing at all times the authority and in,
tegrity Of the courts. Nobody is OBJ
jecting to the enforcement of their
processes or 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 losing
support or Of having their powers
weakened. There is no attack upon
the courts and there is no thought any
where of interfering with any legiti-
mate function of the court. The Re-
publican convention puts up man of
straw and then proceeds to demolish
1t; 1T suspects an unholy assault upon
| the judiciary and it's righteous indigna-
ton at once finds expression in a
| boastful assertion of it's innocence of
participation in any such suspected
| assault. This part of the plank was
| written to give assurance to the peo-
pie who are opposed to the laboring
mans plea. And now let us proceed
to that part of the plank which was
intended as sop to the laboring man.
1t says: I'VE believe, however that
| the rules of procedure In the federal
| court with respect to the issuance of a
writ of Injunction should be more &C
curately defined by the statute" Gust
/ hot "a l.
stately That no Injunction or tenn
porary restraining order should be
issued without notice, EXCEPT
| WHERE IRREPARABLE INJURY
WOULD RESULT FROM DELAY, in
which case a speedy hearing there
after should be granted" Note the
words in capitals except WHERE
IRREPARABLE INJURY WOULD
RESULT FROM DELAY, and COM
pare this exception with the federal
statute on the subject and you will
/ find that under the law AS 1T NOW
EXISTS the court is not empowered
(, to grant temporary restraining or
der EXCEPT THERE APPEARS TO
! BE DANGER OF IRREPARABLE IN
JURY FROM DELAY" 1t will be
seen that the man who wrote the in
junction plank copied the statute al
most word for word and made the ex-
ception as broad as the statute. If
the convention had been frank in the
| statement of Its position it would have
quoted the present statute and said
that it was in favor of enforcing the
( law JUST AS IT is. 1t would have
i said, whereas, at present, court or
| judge may grant temporary re-
straining order If there appears to be
danger of irreparable injury from de-
lay therefore be it resolved that we
are opposed to changing It,"
The men who are responsible for the
language of the Injunction plank may
have fooled the rest Of the committee
and they may have fooled the con-
vention, but they cannot fool the la
boring men or the voters in general
The injunction plank has not even
the value of gold-plated brick for
the plating is brass, as we'll as the in
terror Of the brick.
The fraud which the convention at
tempted will not mislead anyone be-
cause there is time enough between
now and election for everyone to find
out the facts.
Secretary Taft is known as the IA
Their OF government by injunction and
his speeches in Oklahoma last year
gave conclusive proof of his adherence
to the position taken by him on the
bench. He is still in favor of the use
OF the writ of injunction in labor cases
and he is opposed to trial by jury.
In speech delivered in New York
last winter he said, in response to
questions. that the law ought to be so
amended as to give hearing before
the Injunction was granted and even
consented that the hearing for con.
tempt should be before a different
Judge from the one who granted the
Injunction, but when he came to pre-
pare plank for the convention he did
I not go as far as he went in his
speech. The plank that went before
the convention as his plank was so
weak that 1t amounted to nothing.
but 1t was even then too strong for
the convention and the convention
: adopted plank which not only does
not grant any concessions to the labor.
! ing man but really emphasizes the
position taken by large corporate en-
) ployers by hurting anathema at those
, who are suspected Of desire to
] modify the law relating to injunctions
) This Is the treatment received by the
wage earners from the national con
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