The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-20

TAFT STILL BUSY.
Fifteen Speeches on His Sched-
ule Today.
Devofing the Day to Campaign
in Maryland.
NOT WORDS AND WIND
Says Republican Is a Party Of
Deeds.
Explains His Position on the
NOT WORDS AND WIND
Explains His Position on the
Labor Question.

Cumberland. Md. Oct. 20.-Fifteen
speeches are on the itinerary of Can
didate Taft today. TIL but two of them
are to be delivered in West Virginia
on the line of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. The people of Martinsburg.
w. Va, were at the station an hour
before the train arrived at o'clock.
RMS fact Judge Taft told them made
their interest apparent and ne took it
as good augury- of Republican sue
cess in that state. Senator Smith of
Michigan. who has been Mr. Taft's
speaking assistant several days was
called by the national committee for
other work and left the Taft special
at Baltimore.
Senator Scott and State Chairman
Wise OF West Virginia, Joined the train
there and Representative Herrer of
Maryland came aboard at Martins
burg.
Today's tour will end with a night
meeting at Parkersburg. To an audi
ence which filed the theater here Judge
Taft delivered his speech on labor.
Not Words and Wind.
when it takes nothing but words
and wind he declared. "in asking the
question as to which party ought to re-
ceive the support of the labor vote,
the Democratic party has greatly the
advantage, but when it comes to things
accomplished and progress made, the
advantage is always with the Repub-
ican party"
Mr.. Taft explained that the Wash
ington administration and congress
were limited in their judiciary action
over labor and labor legislation to gov
eminent workmen, those engaged in
interstate commerce and to workmen
of the territories and of the District OF
Columbia. Nevertheless he said, there
had been a number of important laws
passed in the last seven years affecting
labor within the jurisdiction and for
the purpose of furnishing model laws
for the states to follow. After emu
| merating these laws and demanding
others. Mr.. Taft paid his respects to
Mr.. Gompers. saying that it was his
judgment that. the American laboring
man had intelligence and independence
enough to use his own judgment and
| not be delivered" by Mr.. Gompers to
any one. After reviewing at length the
cases he decided while on the bench
which have been made the subject of
attack upon him, Mr.. Taft concluded:
Sympathy for Laboring Men.
II only cite them to show that when
I am charged with being hostile to la
Dor organizations when 1 am charged
with being unfair to labor it does me
gross Injustice. / yield to no man in
my sympathy, for 5the men who earn
their livelihood bypthe sweat of their
| brow and 1 would join in any legal
method to encourage them in their
| hard struggle upward in this life of
| ours. But these combinations of labor
| that ought to be encouraged, that are
| necessary to enable labor to assert its
| right in its necessary controversy with
capital have an enormous power both
| for good and for evil just exactly the
same as the combinations of capital
have enormous power both for good
and for evil and no sympathy you may
| have with the prosperity of the coun-
| try and the necessity for combination
| of capital ought to make you sympa-
thize with the illegality and attempted
| and no sympathy that you have with
struggling labor on the other ought to
| make you sympathize with the unlaw-
| full methods.
I'm other words, you have got to
maintain the power of the courts in
| order that there may be Justice admin
| iStered with an even hand as to both
| these great influences in the country so
! that they may be kept within the law,
| and you can be sure If you weaken the
| power of your courts that both influ-
ences will attempt and enjoy illegality
which they ought not to have. That is
| human nature Then a man who sits
on the bench and administers law with
/ out favor because his blows happen to
hit labor on one hand or capital on the
other can not be charged If he admin
listers the law as it exists on the facts
as they are presented, with doing other
| than his duty and if he does not exert
| the authority of his court with all his
| power to bring to justice and refuses to
| do so because of fear of political inf1u-
ence or fear of any class, he does not
deserve to be the president of the Uni
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