Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13
He and PoWderIy See Taft and
Talk of Labor's Attitude.
'SECRETARYWILL CAMPAIGN
Proud He Was Cleveland Democrat
But Bryan-No.
HELP FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Powderly Commended and Says
Labor Won All It Has by Non
Partisan Effort.

CINCINNATI Ohio. September H.
After conference with Judge Taft to-
day Secretary Oscar s. Straus of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor said
he would take the stump for the republi-
can ticket. He is to speak in New York.
Chicago and other western cities. and
will dwell particularly on the labor issue.
With Secretary Straus was T. V. Pow
DERBY. at the head of the bureau of in
formation and distribution of the immi-
grafton service. who IS here to establish
a receiving center for the application of
farmers for agricultural laborers. Secre-
tary Straus said:
For Happiness of the Millions.
81 was once a Cleveland democrat. and
am proud of it. l believed then, and
until my dying day shall advocate that
the highest aim of popular government
is not to multiply millonaires but to
promote the welfare and happiness of
the millions And when the party to
which | belonged was misled by Organism
became an advocate and follower of
Mckinley. Roosevelt and Taft"
Mr.. Straus enumerated what he con-
sidered the Bryan fallacies.
Government ownership of railroads..
he said. would mean adding a thousand
million dollars to the country's debt and
increasing the number of government Of
ficials by one and one-half million. Is
this democratic? No 1t is the Russian
form of government.
AS to the guarantee of bank deposits.
Mr.. Straus said ii as equivalent to the
government guaranteeing the loans OF
the banks.
1T would he said, result in the gov
ernments support of the most reckless
schemes of the most reckless banker,
who would know that in the event of his
failure the loss would fall upon the con-
servative banker and ultimately upon the
government.
Taft's Attitude Toward Labor.
The real attitude of Judge Taft toward
labor. Mr.. Straus said, was shown when
the candidate was governor of the Philip
pines. He pardoned Reys. who feder-
ated the islands for union labor" con-
tinued Mr. Straus. Under an old Span
ish law Reys was convicted of con-
spiracy to raise wages and sentenced to
serve four years in prison. In pardOning
Reys Judge Taft said: L do not think the
statute as construed is in accordance with
American practice. ! shall pardon Reys
and remit what remains of his sem
tenCe.
Secretary Straus. in regrettng the loss
by death of Frank p Sargent, commits
soner general of immigration. commended
the work of Mr.. Powderly and remarked:
Il have d son of Mr.. GomDers in the dt-
vision OF printing, and he is there purely
on his merit.
Mr.. Powderly said: Labor never was
better organized. better paid, more in
dependent or more respected than it is to-
day. Never was it more assured of the
esteem of the community or the good will
and confidence of employers.
All this is due to the efforts of non-par-
tisan, welI-officered unions. What labor
organizations now enjoy-and they enjoy
more than they ever enjoyed in the civil
lied world before-came as the result of
intelligent, cooperative effort eXerted IN
a non-partisan way through their unions -
Mrs Martin Egan of Manila, who has
recently arrived in the United States as
the accredited agent of the public Organi-
cations of the Philippine Islands. laid be-
fore Judge Taft today a plan for cam
paign of education which the Fil1pinos
have commissioned her to carry forward
in this country. and of which President
Roosevelt has just written:
The plan is the most comprehensive
and the most important of anything of
the kind | have ever yet seen during the
time | have been President"
Endorsement From Philippines.
The plan explained Mrs. Egan, lis
to bring to the personal attention of the
people of this country the great work
that has been done in the Philippines
under Judge Taft, and that is still con-
tinuing: to let it be known from the Fill
pinos themselves that they realize that
self-gOvernment now would mean the de-
struction of the public confidence neces-
sary to a continuation of the splendid
development which the islands have en-
joyed since American intervention"
Mrs Egan will visit the editors of the
country and furnish abundant reading
matter prepared by Flipinos.
Judge Taft" said Mrs. Egan, after her
interview with the candidate. declared
that if elected President he would enjoy
nothing much to work for the enact
ment of laws as suggested in his letter
of acceptance which would remove the
barriers between the United States and
the Philippines. These he believed would
greatly stimulate the commerce of each
country, well as the material prosper
ity of each"
Mrs. Taft Coming East
Mrs w. II. Taft will shortly make a
trip east to put her daughter, Miss Helen
Taft, in school at Bryn MaWr, near Phila-
delphia. Master Charles will be placed in
the preparatory school conducted by
Horace Taft. a brother of the candidate
at WATERFOWL Conn. Mrs. Taft will re-
pany her husband on one or more OF his
speaking tours
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