The daily sentinel., 1908-10-26
ROOSEVELT HAS
CHANGED ABOUT
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demagogism, tries to instill into the
employers and business men the fear
that their property and business are
in danger of a square deal implied
by equality before the law and hui
| man freedom are accorded to the
workers with all other citizens. 1t
is an exhibition of impotent rage and
disappointment and an awful descent
from the dignity of the high office
of the president of the United States.
No one but himself will be deceived
as to the purpose of Mr. Roosevelt
"The workers and liberty-loving
citizens are acursted as never before,
since 1881.
The battle cry for freedom is
again taken up. Then it was for the
union and abolition of black slavery:
today it is for the nation, equal rights
and freedom for all
MIR. Gompers insists that the pres
ident makes a direct and specific
attack upon labor" in his letter to
Senator Knox.
THE pretense that the attack is
upon me is too thinly veiled TO de-
ceive any one" he adds. He strikes
over my shoulder at the hearts of the
great rank and file of the workers
and other libertyloving citizens of
the country. So far as | am concern
ed, have neither the inclination nor
the desire to bask in the sunlight of
President Roosevelt's benevolent
assimilation by which he placates
some. by the big stick. beats
others. and by his sophistry hopes to
fool the masses into supporting In
junction Judge Taft.
president Roosevelt says that
Senator Knox has a peculiar right to
discuss the principles involved in
injunctions because he, as attorney
general prosecuted a civil suit for
damages to an injured workman.
That Senator Knox was the special
counsel of the Pennsylvania railroad
and of the United States Steel corpor-
alton would indeed qualify him to
discuss the injunction abuse, but GER
.ainly only from the view point of
the friends of corporations who profit
by the abuse of the injunction writ
as it brings advantage and profit to
corporate greed and power.
IF the courts have not invaded
human liberty, If they have not un-
dertaken to protect corporate inter-
ests to the detriment of the people.
why did President Roosevelt char
acterize Judge Grosscups reversal of
Judge Lands $29, 100000 fine upon
the Standard Oil trust as a gross
miscarriage of justice.
Declaring that the veriest tyro of
a layman in his widest dreams never
suggested the abolition of the in
junction process Mr. Gompers in
sists that labor desires to have the
injunction restored to the use from
which 1t has been ruthlessly diverted.
from the protection of property
rights to the invasion of personal
freedom" He quotes from the pres
ii 10.
clares that they show an utter con-
fusion of the entire matter of injunc-
tion in Mr.. Roosevelt's mind. He
claims that the decisions of the lower
/ courts i'm Great Britain, which, Were
reversed by the higher courts there,
have been accepted as the basis for
the issuance of injunctions in the
United States. Mr. Gompers alsp in
sists. that the provisions Of the
Pearre and Wilson bills, advocated
by the Federation OF Labor are not
as broad or as comprehensive in scope
as the British trades disputes act.
The mere fact continues Mr.
Gompers, that Mr.. Roosevelt de
uounces proposition as wicked. does
not so constitute it: time and circum-
stances are party obligation have per-
suaded him to modify his judgment
and his utterances. Surely, It must
| bring unction to him to find his un-
warranted attack on me so thorough
ly appreciated by the New York Sun,
which characteriZes him for his past
utterances in as severe language as
that with which he now attacks me. -
Referring to dissenting opiIfions
of Justice Harlan. Justice Moody and
many distinguished jurists and legal
| authorities on the abuse of the in
| junction he declares that MIR. Roose-
welt has placed me in good COM
panv."
"Of course" he says, every one
| knows that the president has strong
! ly urged every measure which he ad
vocated and then accepted what his
political opponents in his own party
chose to give him. II is general
knowledge that he had a more liberal
platform prepared for adoption by
the Republican convention at Chicago
and then accepted what they dealed
out. All know that the nomination
of Mr.. Sherman for the vice presi-
dency was concocted by Senator Bur
rows and Speaker Cannon as SLAP
in the face to Mr.. Roosevelt; but the
president, because his injunction
judge, Mr.. Taft has been nominated
Tor the presidency, now not only
swallows the whole potpourri but
must needs directly and indirectly
attack me in the fight which my fel
low workers and | are making in de
tense of equality before the law, O
the men of labor with all other cit
iZens, and for the establishment o
human freedom
Mr.. Gompers asserts that TIL,
"Pearre injunction bill, which Mr.
| Roosevelt attacks, has been befor,
several congresses without word o
criticism or comment from him." ant
| scouts the suggestion that Mr.