The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-14

Mir Taft has heen attacked because of the lnjunctlons be delivered while on the bench. I am content to rest his case on these very injunctionsi maintain that they show why all our people should he grateful to him ana should feel 1t safe to entrust their dearest interests to him. Most as- suredly he never has yielded and neV- CT will yield to threat or pressure or any sort, as little if lt comes from la bor as if 1t comes from capital; he will no more tolerate the violence ol mob than the corruption and op- pressIon and arrogance Of a corpora ton or of wealthy man, He VIII not consent to limit the power of the courts to put stop to wrongdolng wherever found. This very fact should make the labor people feel a peculiar confidence in him. He has incurred the bitter hostility of foolish and higoted reactionaries by his frank criticism of the abuse of the power of injunction In labor disputes, and he Is pledged to do all he can to put stop to the abuses In the exercise of the power of injunction. He will never promise anything that he will not do all In his power to perform. He can always be trusted to do a little better than his word, and the fact that be- fore election he will not promise the impossible is in itself guaranty that after all that Is possible will be done
 His record as judge makes the whole country his debtor. His actions and decisions are part of the great traditions of the bench. They guar anteed and set forth In striking fash lon the rights of the general public as against the selfish interests of any class, whether of capitalists or of la- borers. They set forth and stand by the rights of the wage-w orkers to or ganize and to strike as unequivocally as they set forth and stand by the doctrine that no conduct will be tol- erated that would spell destruction to the nation as whole. As for the at- tack upon his iniunctIons in labor dis putes, made while he was on the bench, I ask that the injunctions be carefully examined ask that every responsible and falrmlnded labor lead CT. every responsible and fairmlnded member of labor organization, read these Injunctlons for himself, If he vii do SO, instead of condemning them he will heartily approve of them and will recognize thls further astonishing fact that the principles laid down by Judge Taft in these very injunctions, which laboring people are asked to condemn. are themselves the very principles which are now embodied in the laws or practices of every respon- sible labor organization. No respons'- ble organization would now hesitate to condemn the abuses against which Judge Tafts iniunctions were aimed. The principles which he therein so wisely and fearlessly laid down serve as a charter of liberty for all of us. for wage workers, for employers, for the general public: for they rest on the principles of fair dealing for all
 of even-handed justice for all. They
 mark the judge who rendered them az standing for the rights of the whole people: as far as daylight is from darkness so far is such q judge from the time-server, the truckler to the mob. or the cringlng tool of great, cor rupt and corrupting corporations. Judge Taft on the bench--as since. in the Philippines. In Panama. in Cuba. In the war derartment-sh showed him self to he wise. a fearless. and an upright servant of the whole people. whose services to the whole people were beyond all price. Moreover. let all good citizens remember that he rendered these services. not when it was easy to do so. but when lawless violence was threatened, when malice. domestic and civic disturbance theratened the whole fabric of our government and of civilizations his actions showed not only the highest kind Of moral courage but of physica courage as well, for his life was freely and violently threatened
 Let all far minded men. wage
 workers and capitalists alike. consider
 yet another fact Tn one of his decis- Ions unon the bench Judge Taft up- held in the strongest fashion, and for the first time gave full vitality to, the principle of the employers liability for injuries done workmen This was be- fore any national law on the subject
 was enacted Judge Taft's sense ot
 right, his indignation against oppres- sion in any form, against any attitude
 that is not fair and Just, drove him to take a position which was violently condemned by short-sighted capital ists and employers of labor, which was
 so far in advance of the time that fl
 was not generally upheld by the state courts but which we are now embody. ing in the law of the land Judge Taft was leader pioneer. while or the bench, in the effort to get justice for the wage. worker. In jealous cham. pionshlp of his rights; and all upright and farsiel)ed lshoring men should hold 1t to his credit that at the same l time ha fearlessly stood against the abuses of labor. just as he fesrlessly
 stood against the abuses of capital If elected, he has shown by his deeds that he will be president of no class
 but of the people as 8 whole. he car be trusted to stand stoutly agains the two real enemies of our democ.
 racy--against the man who to please one class would undermine the whole | foundation of orderly liberty, anc
 against the man who In the interest
 of another class would secure bust.
 ness prosperity by sacrificing every
 right of the working people,
 I have striven as president to cham.
 pion in every proper way the interests
 of the wage worker; for l regard the
 wage worker, excepting only the far
 mer the tiller of the soil, as the mar
 whose well being Is most essential tc