The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-23
WorkeB Form Greater Pat Of The Audiences That Hear
 The Candidate
INJUlCTIONS DEFENDED
 AND FULLY EXPLAINED
Taft Pays Respects to Bryan and Ridi- cules Charge That Employers Are Trying to coerce Employees In
 Effort to Control Votes.

Evansville, Ind October 22.-During this, the first of the three days he is to speal in Indiana, William H. Taft has talked to more people than on any pre- vious day of this campaign. At each of his II speeches the listeners and applaud CTS lave numbered thousands. Jn his first speech MT. Taft ridiculed MT. Bryan's charge of bribery" in con- reetlon with the promises of employers to their employees of more work with repub- lcaa success. and the orders of business menlfor goods, said to be made contingent on the same result. These were not briles, he said, but business. They aid not represent false conditions. but facts.
 Judge Taft talked today to many labor audiences.
 At Linton, where he spoke to several thousand coal miners, he gave them the I history of she writ of injunction. some thing he has not previously done. At I'elre HaLte he made a dear distinction between the republican and dcanocratic platforms in the use of injunction, and ;ie- clared business to be property. While MT. I,ryan has not been overlooked during the day, there were two occasions when Can didate Debs came in for attention These were at Terre Haute, the home of Debs, sld at the two meetings at Evansville addressed by Judge Taft tonight. In bath instances MT. pebs was chased as ;. socialist E doctrine regarding which the calsiidate expressed the belief that the Amtitran people were not prepared yet to accept.
 The laI est outdoor gathering MT. Taft said he had ever addressed was assem- blei at Terre Haute when the Taft sre- cial arrived there this afternoon. There were many in the carload of local poli- ticians. which escorted the candidate to the city, who said it was the largest gath esirg the state had ever had
 The inlunction was the feature of this speech. and after it had been explained and the position of the two parties clear ly set forth, the candidate declared with great vehemence:
 Injunctions Defended.
 That is where the republican party stands. that is where I stand and don't care what happens politically that is where l am going to stand; and I have Issued intunctions against lawless laboring men who were violating somebody's rights. If I had not done it should not have the right to be here asking for suffrage. What kind of a judge do you want? Do you want judge that dis tnguisheS between classes, decides in favor of one class and against another? Is that the character of a judge you want in a free country? Is it not tile judge who, with the law as it is laid down in the text book, and the statute, and with the evidence before him under his oath decides according to the justice of the case and then issues the order that the law requires him to issue? What is an injunction? An injunction is merely an order with reference to the prevention of the abuse made before the fact occurs, which is to injure or not injure the party. Where injury has been done man brings suit to recover damages for the injury. but where the injury is of a char acter recurring from time to time in small acts for which you can't recover damages, that equity says that a man have prevention rather than cure, and he may go to court and say: This man is going to cut down my tree. An other tree equal to that won't grow in % years. It belongs to me; 1t is on my place and he is my tenant. He is going to injure it by wasting that tree He goes into court and asks the judge to issue an injunction to prevent the cutting down of the tree. Is not prevention bet ter than cure in such a case? Why, then, should a judge refuse to issue the injunc- ton? That kind of remedy has heen in force for 400 years and Is the most reme- dial writ that we have. It arose to pro- tect poor men, not to oppress them. For nuisance, the way it arose was this: A man borrowed $500 on his farm; he gave a mortgage which in form was an abso- lute conveyance subject to being made void by the payment of $500, but the farm was worth $10,000 He failed to pay the $500 on the dot and in law they brought a suit in ejectment and they put the man off of the $10,0OO farm for $500, He went to the King in old days and he said:
 Fine Kind of Justice.
 This is fine kind of justice that you are giving me. You allow this man to take my $10,000 farm for $500.'
 The king said to his lord keeper. who subsequently, became the lord chancellor. Here you take over this case and see whether this Is justice. The lord keeper was then an eccesiajt and sent for the officer who had enforced the order, or was abut to, and he said: This is un- constitutional and I am not going to per- init you to do it. I enjoin you from prose cution in suit
 That is the way the injunction came on.
 "The lord chancellor said: I am going to enjoin you and you have got to come into a court that I am going to create, and I will enjoin you until you see that the farm shall be sold, that $500 shall be applied on the debt with interest, and s9500 shall go to this man who owns the farm.
 How Injunction Grew
 That is the way the injunction grew up. It grew up to protect the people against injustice which they could not have adequate remedy for at law It is remedy that ought to be enforced against any one who does lawess act , that cannot have adequate Temedy at law, and to have 1t abolished merely because It has sometimes been abused and some