The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-13
.STRAUS WILL TAKE
 STUMP FUR TAFT
Secretary Announces Kind of
 Speeches He Will Make
A CLEVELAND DEMOCRAT
Highest Aim of Popular Government, According to MT. Straus, Is to Pro- mote Welfare of the Mil
 lions of People.

Cincinnati September 12-After an ex- tended conference with Judge Taft today, Secretary Oscar s. Straus of the depart ment of commerce and labor, said he should take the stump for the republican ticket and make as many speeches as the duties Of his office would permit He is to speak in New York, Chicago and perhaps other cities. and will dwell par ticularly on the labor issue in the cam paign.
 With Secretary Straus was T V Pow derIy 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. the sup ply of which Mir Powderly will arrange for from the incoming immigrants. After the conference Secret9ry Stra US gave an intiuation as to the character of the speech he will make by slying: T was once a Cleveland democrat, and l 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 millionarss pu. to pro- mote the welfare and happiness of the millions. And when the party to which l belonged was misled by Bryanism l be- came an advocate and follower of McKin- ley. Roosevelt ard Taft.
 Shall the people rule,' MT. Straus de- clared to be the most dangerous of Bryan's fallacies, flor every of his leading doctrines is a denial of that rule
 Attitude Toward Labor.
 The real attitude of Judge Taft toward labor, said Mir Straus, was shown when the candidate was governor of the Phil ippine Islands
 He pardoned Reyes, who federated the islands for union labor" continued MT. Straus. Under an old Spanish law Reyes was convicted of a nspiracy to raise wages and sntenced to serve four years in prison. In pardoning Reyes, Judge Taft said I do not think the statute as construed is in accordance with Amer | ican practice l shall pardon Reyes and remit what remains of his sentence l Secretary Straus, in regretting the loss l by death of Frank F. Sargent, commis- | sioner of immigration, commended the l work of MT Powderly and remarked: "l | have a son of MT. Gompers in the division l of printing, and he is there purely on his merits.
 MT. Powderly .deplored the projecting 1 of labor organizations into politics. lie ! said
 Labor was never better organized, bet ter paid more independent or more re- spected than it is today. Never was IL more secure in the esteem of the com muntty or the good will and confidence of employers All this is due to the eHort of non-partisan, weH-officered unions. What labor organizations now enjoy and they enjoy more than they ever en- loved in the civilized world before-came { as the result of intelligent, cooperative i effort exerted in noE-partlsan way 1 through their unions.'
 ! Plan of Education. 1 Mrs. Martin Egan of Manila, who has 1 recently arrived in the United States as l the accredited agent of the publicity or ganizations of the Philippine islands, laid before Judge Taft today plan for campaign of education which the Ftli- pinos 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 or the kind I have yet seen during the time I have been President"
 .'The plan is," explained Mrs Egan, "to bring to the personal attention or the people of this country the great work that has been done in the Philippines nnder Judge Taft and that is still con- tinuing; to let it be known from the Filipinos themselves with the present plan of gradual development and that they realize that self-government now would mean the destruction of the pub lie confidence so necessary to contin- uance of the splendid development which the islands have enjoyed since American intervention. I am here to make 1t clear to the American people that not only IS this true public sentiment in the Philip pines, but also to convey the feeling or gratitude which the Filipinos entertain toward the people of this country
 In carrying out her commission Mrs. Egan will visit the editors of the princi- pal publications of the country and fur nish abundant reading matter prepared before she left the islands a few weeks ago, by many of the leading Filipinos of Manila. These articles, she says. take up different phases of the economic and political development of the islands and reflect the exact viewpoint of the na- tives with respect to their future.
 Great Warehouse Planned.
 Now Orleans SeDtember 12-Tenta.