The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-10-22
BRYAN SEEKS TO DELUDE
LABOR BY SHAM
Says President-Demands to Know
Stand of Leader on
Subject.

Washington, Oct. %. = President
Roosevelt yesterday addressed letter
to United States Senator Philander C.
Knox Of Pennsylvania, in which Mr..
Roosevelt pays his respects to Samuel
Gcmpers, spresident of the Federation
Of Labor. Speaking at Philadelphia on
Tuesday, Senator Knox took issue with
Mr. Gompers on the question of the at
titude Of organized labor in the present
campaign, and the presidents letter is
in support Of Mr.. Knox's views. Mr.
Roosevelt says in part:
Further on in the same page of the
hearings, Mr.. Gompers states:
Il viii say this, that / think | will
try to make my position clear that
the American Federation of Labor has
SO declared itself that it must insist
upon the principles involved in the
Pearre bill and that | explained as best
| could, the position of labor-that we
would rather be compelled to hea the
wrongs which we have for a longer
period than to give our assent to the
establishment of wrong principle, be-
lieving and knowing that time would
give the justice and relief to which
labor--the working people are entit-
led"
This bill, then, and none other, repre-
sents exactly the relief that Mr. Com.
pers demands in the way of anti-injunc-
tion legislation; and if the statement
in his letter is correct, this bill repra-
scnts what Mr.. Bryan and his party
are pledged to in the matter of anti-in-
junction legislation.
The injunction plank in the Bryanite
platform may sound vague and hazy,'
but there is nothing vague OF hazy
about this bill.
1t is more than bill, it is pro-
gram Of the most fixed and definite Kind
and if Mr.. Gompers is correct, this bill
becomes, as it were, an authorized
appendix to Mr.. Bryan's platform, or
foot-note explaining in detail the brief.
er and vague injunction plank in that
platform
Does Mr.. Bryan accept is as sucn2
Mr.. Bryan should state publicly
he in fact accepts the principle
Of this bill which is the official program
of Mr.. Gompers and those who stand
with him.
Mr.. Gompers announces publicly
that Mr.. Bryan's party has made this
program its own. Is Mr.. Gompers cor
rect in this statement?
feel that | have the right to speak |
frankly in this matter, because through |
out my term as president is has been |
my constant object to do everything in |
my power, both by administrative ac-
tion and by endeayoring to secure leg |
islatiye action, to advance the cause OF |
labor, protect it from unjust aggression |
and secure to it its legitimate rights. |
have accomplished something; | hope |
to accomplish something more before
leave office; and | have taken special
and peculiar interest in Mr.. Taft's can
iidacy because believe that of all the
men in this country he is the man best |
lualifed for continuing the work of Sc.
,uring to the wage workers of the coun-
Try their full rights. / will do every
hing in my power for the wage work
rs Of the country except what is wrong
will do wrong to no man; and with
III the force in my power | solemly
warn the laboring man of this country
han any public interest who advocates
ioing wrong in their interest can not
,e trusted by them; and this whether
lis promise to do wrong is given know
ng that it is wrong or because of
evity and lack of consideration which
make him willing to promise anything
without counting the cost If thereby
support at the moment is to be purchas
d. just as I have fought hard, and
hall continue to fight hard. bringing
bout in the fullest way tne recogni-
Jon of the right of the employe to be
IMPLY compensated for injury received
II the course of his duty, so / have
ought hard and shall continue to fight
lard to do away with all abuses in the
lse of power Of injunction will do
verything can to see that the power
f injunction is not used TO oppress
aboring men. l viii endeavor to secure
hem full and equal justice.
Therefore, in the interest of all good
itizens, be they laboring men, business
aen, professional men. farmers. or mem.
ers Of any other occupation, SO long as
hey have in their souls the principles of
eNhu hhttiNaA NittGcuauiFs L aCHVuutt
5 wicked the proposition to secure
NV, which, according to the explicit
Of Mr.. Gompers, is to prevent
be courts from effectively interfering
nth riotous violence when the object is ]
0 destroy a business, and which will
.galize the blacklist and the secondary
oycott, both Of them the apt instru- {
tents of unmanly persecution.