The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-10-07

/ swayed from the path of duty by any
argument. by any consideration, who will
wage relentless war on the successful
wrongdoer among railroad men as among
all other men. who will do all that can be
done to secure legitimately low rates to
shippers and absolute evenness among
the rates thus secured, but who Will nei-
Their promise nor attempt to secure rates
80 low that the wage Garner would lose
his earnings and the shareholder, whose
money built the road, his profits He
will not favor a runous experiment like
government ownership Of railways. He
will stand against any kind Of confisca-
ton of honestly acquired property, but
he will work effectively for the most eff
! fcient type of government supervision
and control OF railways, so as to secure
just and fair treatment Of the people as
a whole.
What is here said as to his attitude on
! the railway question applies to the whole
question of the trusts. He will promise
nothing on this subject unless he firmly
believes he can make his promise good
He will go into no chimerical movement
to destroy all great business combinations
for this can only be done by destroying
all modern business, but he Will in prac-
teal fashion do everything possible TO Sc
cure such efficient control on behalf Of
the people as a whole over these great
. combinations as will deprive them Of the
power to work evil Mr. Taft's decision
in the Addystone pipe line case while on
the bench is proof by deeds. not by words
of the farsishted wisdom with which he
serves the interests of the whole people
even when those of the most powerful
corporations are hostile thereto
! If there is one body of men more than
I another whose support I feel 1 have
right to challenge on behalf of Secretary
Taft IL is the body of wageworkers Of
the country. A stancher friend, fairer
I and trucr representative, they cannot
find within the borders of the United
States. lie will do everything i'm his pow
err for them except to do that which is
wrong. He viii do wrong for no man
and therefore can be trusted 10y all men.
During the ten years of my intimate ac-
quaintance with him, since l have myself
as governor and president been obliged to
deal practically with labor problems, he
has been one Of the men upon whose Judg-
ment and aid l could always rely in do
ing everything possible for the cause Of
the wageworker 81 the man who works
with his hands or with both hands and
head.
Mr.. Taft has been attacked because Of
the injunctions he delivered while on the
bench. l am content to rest his case on
these very injunctions. 1 maintain that
they show why all our people should be
grateful to him and should feel II safe TO
lntrust their dearest interests to him. Most
assuredly he never has yielded and never
will yield &c threat or pressure of any
sort, as little IL It comes from labor as II
II comes from capital. He will no more
tolerate the violence of a mob than the
| corruption and oppression and arrogance
of a corporation or OF wealthy man. He
will not consent to limit the power of tho
courts to put a stop to wrongdoing wher-
ever found. This very fact should make
the labor people feel a peculiar confidence
in him He has incurred the bitter hostil-
ity Of foolish and bigoted 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 prom
Use anything that he will not do all In his
power to perform. He can always be
trusted to do little better than his word,
and the fact that before election he will
not promise the impossible is in itself
guaranty that after election all that is
possible will be done.
His record as a Judge makes the whole
country his debtor. His actions and de-
cisions are part OF the great traditions of
the bench. They guaranteed and set forth
in striking fashion the rights Of the gen.
eral public as against the selfish interests
Of any class whether Of capitalists or Of
laborers. They set forth and stand by the
rights of the wageworkers to organize and
| to strike as unequivocally as they set
forth and stand by the doctrine that no
conduct will be tolerated that would spell
| destruction 10 the nation as a whole AS
for the attack upon his inJunctions in la
Dor disputes made while he was on the
bench, l ask that the injunctions be care
fully examined. I ask that every respon-
sible and fair minded labor leader every
| responsible and fair minded member of
labor organization, read these injunctions
for himself If he will do so, instead of
condemning them he will heartily approve
Of them and will recognize this further
astonishing fact that the principles laid
down by Judge Taft in these very intunc-
tons which laboring people are asked to
condemn, are themselves the very princi-
pies which are now embodied I'm the laws
or practices Of every responsible labor or
ganizatiOn No responsible organization
would now hesitate to condemn the
abuses against which Judge Tafrs injunc-
tions were aimed. The principles which
ne therein so wisely and fearlcssly laid
down serve as a charter OF liberty for all
of us. for wageworkers, for employers,
for the general public, for they rest or the
principles of fair dealing for all, of even
handed just e for all. They mark the
Judge who re ldered them as standing for
the rights of the whole people. AS far as
daylight is from darkness so far is such
Judge from the time server. the trucker
to the mob or the cringing tool of great.
corrupt and corrupting corporations.
Judge Taft on the bench-as since In the
Philippines. in Panama. in Cuba, in the
war department-showed himself TO be a
wise. fearless and an upright servant OF
the whole people. whose services to the
whole people we're beyond all price, More
over, let all good citizens remember that
be rendered these services net when, a
| Was easy "a do 80. but when lawiess vlc-
j Isnse was threatened, when malice DE-
lsestic and cfvis disturbAacs throAtsne4
ths whole fNksis % eur govssumsnt sa1