The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-14
TAFT LOVES THE
\ LABORING MAN
Republican Candidate Appeals
for Support to Working
men of Chic.
PROMISES AS TO TARIFF
WILL SEE TO IT THAT POTTERY
SCHEDULES ARE RAISED.

East Liverpool. o., Oct 13.-In the mid
die of the steel and iron district of Cleve-
land William H. Taft today commanded
the closest attention of an immense audi
ence The details of the meeting were not
known to the candidate. but a half hour
before he reached the city the immense
tent in which it was held was reached by
a four-mile automobile ride through
Cleveland. and the audience patiently
waited the half hour delay caused by the
lateness of the candidates train. When
Mr.. Taft appeared he was warmly well
coined. He began at once to talk with an
earnestness which caused closest atten-
ton He showed from his view point why
American wOrkingmen needed the protec-
ton of the tariff and what had been the
result when they had not been given that
protection. Mr.. Taft followed this with
a detailed account of his own differences
with the labor world. He explained that
the decisions he had rendered while on
the bench and for which he was now con-
demned by Bryan and Gompers, were in
reality the legal basis of labor organiza-
tiOnS of the present day and upon that
basis they had grown and prospered until
today they were stronger than ever.
Ran off the Track.
The TAFT special ran INTO It's IlTSI his
hap today The front trucks of the can
didate's car and the rear trucks of the
Pullman preceding it went off the track
just as the train was coming TO matt on
a siding at Sterling shortly after 10
o'clock this morning. A half hours delay
was caused. No other damage was caused
except that the track was torn up. The
train moved ABOUT Il half car length after
the wheels were or the ground. Spread
ing of the rails on the siding was the
explanation made by the railroad people.
Fourteen audiences were addressed by the
candidate today. At Lorain cheer Tor
Debs when the candidate mentioned his
name in connection with libel cases he
had handled while on the bench, inspired
Mr.. Taft to pay his compliments 10 DeDs
as a presidential candidate.
Mr.. Debs is a Socialist he said. when
the applause died out Mr.. Debs is log
;cal He is opposed to the institutions of
this country as they have been established
by the constitution. He has a right to
be. if he chooses, provided he accom-
plshes his methods by legal and non
violent ways Therefore l am not going
to criticise Mr.. Debs.
Taft as a Labor Man.
In Cleveland, after Mr.. Taft had re-
viewed his labor record at length with an
illustration of what he had to do with
helping to build up labor organizations
in the Philippines, and his administration
in connection with the Panama canal,
where he had much to do with the unions,
he smilingly recalled the fact that he had
since been made a member of the union
He added:
Accordingly, / received an invitation
from a contracting firm up in Oregon,
saying that they would be glad to have
me, now that / was a regular member Of
the trades union. to go into the business
IaTld Work one of their steam shOvefs. but
! said that certainly until the third of
November I had a job and after that |
would communicate with them further. /
have had a good deal to do with labor as
a ny N -
to do. with the enforcement of the eight
hour law.
Has Keefe's Support.
"Mr. Gompers is one of the active cOun-
Gil of the American Federation of Labor
and ! get the impression that the whole
Federation of Labor was delivered body
and soul by Gompers to the Democratic
party and to Mr.. Bryan. but it seems
there are some left. Daniel Keefe, the
head of the LOngshoremen's union, with
whom perhaps a number of my audience
are acquainted. does not think that l am
port me for the presidency because he
says he has found in his dealings with
me land we have had a good many that
i was just and fair to the interests which
he represented as the head of the Long
shoremens union and one of the executive
council of the American Federation of
Labor / do not want to submit the let
tiers of recommendation for the presidency
but its discussion seems to involve
whether l am a tyrant. and OppressOr OF
labor and otherwise and l have got to
submit evidence that l do not eat a la
borer every morning for breakfast; that l
am not engaged in fighting that which is
the backbone and sinew of the nation
the laboring class.
Says He's Real Democrat.
Il am democratic in sympathy. 1 am a
real democrat 1 am referring to the
historical designation that does not mean
ANYTHING nv referring n |
pathiZe with the men that by manual la
Dor are building up this country and to
say that l am opposed to heir organiza-
tons and trades uniOnism IS TO say what
is false, for have studied the question.
/ have had to study il as a Judge / have
mad to study as an executive officer in
discharglng duties affecting labor and la
Dor organizations and l am in favor of
them. l believe they have done a service
TO labor in eleYating its wages, in enab-
ling them TO meet capital on a level and
secure justice for them, in enabling them
TO apply 70 congress and state legislatures
and secure legislation in their behalf and
] think il would be sorry day for this
country if labor organizations were not
encouraged, but while l am in favor of
combinations of labor as 1 am in favor
of combinations of capital which secure
economy in production. reduce the cost of
production for the benefit of the public
and ought to be encouraged, the permits
sion to combine labor and the permission
to combine capital puts most powerful in
StrurnenIS IN the nandS or a Few men and
with that immense power they have a cor
responding responsibility and therefore
must be most careful to see that power
is not extended across lines Of lawfulness
They must be most careful to see that
they do not violate the rights of an indi-
Vidual no matter how humble, and there
fore, while they are powerful, the courts
that are made to preserve the rights OF
the individual, to preserve the rights OF
those that the powerful may not infringe
those courts must have the power or our
whole civilization is doomed"
From Three States.
A tri-state rally was what the Taft
special train ran here tonight. Repub-
ncans and marching clubs from Pennsyl-
Vania, West Virginia and Ohio towns
thrOnged the city, filled the largest the
atre and compelled an open-air overflow
meeting In discussing the issues Mr.
Taft made a specific statement with ref
erence to revision on the pottery schedule
G. per cent of the table and toilet pottery
of the country being manufactured here
The trouble, Mr.. Taft explained. was with
the tariff administrative act under which
Il is asserted pottery is underValued in
Europe and comes in competition with
American merchandise, although there
was a 60 per cent ad valorem duty on
pottery
The tariff on pottery" he asserted