Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-26
ROOSEVELT, ONCE FRIEND.
NOW LABOR'S ANTAGONIST
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country. So far as | am concerned. |
have neither the inclination nor the
desire to bask in the sunlight of Presi-
| dent Roosevelt's benevolent assimila-
| tion,' by which he placates some, by
the big stick. brow-beats others, and
| by his sophistry hopes to fool the
masses into supporting Injunction
Judge Taft.
| Qualified on Other Side.
| President Roosevelt says that Sen
ator Knox has peculiar right to dis
cuss the principles involved in in
functions because he, as attorney gen.
eral prosecuted civil suit for dam
lagos to an injured workman. That
Senator Knox was the special counsel
of the Pennsylvania railroad and of
the United States Steel corporation
would indeed qualify him to discuss
the injunction abuse, but certainly
only from the viewpoint of the friends
of corporations who profit by the
abuse of the injunction writ as it
brings advantage and profit to cor
iporare greed and power.
IF the courts have not invaded
human liberty, if they have not under
taken to protect corporate interests to
the detriment of the people. why did
President Roosevelt characterize Judge
Grosscup's reversal of Judge Lands
S29. 100000 fine upon the Standard Oil
trust as "a gross miscarriage of jus
: tice?'''
Abolition Not SuEgested.
Declaring that 1.-THE veriest type OF
layman in his widest dreams never
suggested the abolition of the injunc
{ ton process Mr.. Gompers insists
that labor desires TO have the injunc
, ton restored to the use from which
I | it has been ruthlessly diverted from
f the protection of property rights tt
, the invasion of personal freedom HI
quotes from the presidents message
. to congress and declares that the.
SHOW an utter confusion of the en-
+. tire matter of injunction in Mr.. Roose
velt's mind" He claims that the de
: cisions of the lower courts in Grea
O Britain, which were reversed by tn
ed as the basis for the issuance of tn
p injunctions in the United States. Nj
Gompers also insists that the prov
:, sions of the Pearre and Wilson bills
advocated by the Federation of Labor
are not as broad or as COMPREHENSIVE
in scope as the British trades dispute
s act.
Limit to His Fiat.
=, "The mere fact" continues Mr.. Con
pers. that Mr. Roosevelt denomces
:. proposition as wicked does not so COZ
stitute it; time and circumstances an
= party obligation have persuaded hil
-. to modify his judgment and his ute
M ances. Surely. it must bring unctio
rs to him to find his unwarranted attaC
x on me so thoroughly appreciated /
81 the New York Sun, which characteriz.
X him for his past utterances in as S
IVA we're language as that with which
WInow attacks me-
Wt Referring to dissenting opinions
W Justice Harlan, Justice Moody al
N many distinguished jurists and leg
W authorities on the abuses of the
W junction, he declares that Mr.. Roos
W welt has placed me in good company
HI "Of course" he says, every OF
W knows that the president strongly III
W ed every measure which he advocate
~ and then accepted what his polite
W opponents in his own party chose
q give him. 1t is general knowledge tn
U he had a more liberal platform pl
W pared for adoption by the republic;
w convention at Chicago, and then {
W cepted what they doled out. All kne
w that the nomination of Mr.. Sherm
* for the vice presidency was concoct
~ by Senator Burrows and genial Unt
W joe Cannon as a slap in the face
IN Mr.. Roosevelt: but the president,
W cause his injunction Judge, Mr.. Ia
TX has been nominated for the presiden.
= now not only swallows the whole 2
. pourri, but must now directly and
= ldirectly attack me in the fight viii
n my fellow-workers and |. are making
X defense of equality before the law,
W the men of labor with all other ci
X zens, and for the establishment
WIhuman freedom"
Ml Mr.. Gompers asserts that the "Pear
III linjunction bill, which Mr.. Roosev
~ attacks, has been before several CT
Wgresses without a word of criticism
~ comment from him." and scouts
X suggestion that "Mr. Mitchell and otf
NJ labor leaders" are not in sympat
W with him in his advocacy of the Pear
III and Wilson injunction bills.
~ Is,I NIitoInll