Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-09-17

merchandise is not fit for human beings.
The difference between the trusts and the
labor organizations is so great that one law
cannot prescribe for both. II you need q
law to control the labor Organizations lei
It he a law made for human beings. and
not for the products of human hands.
The Injunction Issue.
"Third. The Democratic party believes
that the industrial dispute should not in
itself be a ground for the issue of the
writ of injunction. and our platform says
that we are opposed to injunctions in labor
disputes, unless they are based upon con-
aitions that would justify the injunction
even If there were no labor dispute. Mr..
Taft says that this plank is loosely drawn,
and can be construed in two opposite di-
| rections, but l challenge him to miscon-
strue it if he can. II is so plain that
| even he cannot find two constructions.
'"The fourth point of difference relates
to the jury in cases of indirect contempt.
We say that in a case of indirect con-
tempt-that is, contempt that was not
committed in the presence of the court, a
contempt that must be established by
evidence brought before a court-we say
that such a proceeding is in its nature
a criminal prosecution. The punishment
is fine or Imprisonment, or both, and we
say that when a man is charged with in
direct contempt and is on trial he is en-
titled to a trial by jury. just like any
man who is under a criminal charge.
And there is even more reason in such a
case than in the ordinary criminal case,
for ordinarily the Judge in the criminal
court did not make the law that has been
violated and he is not the public prose-
cutor. Therefore, he has no personal in
tercst in conviction.
But in the case of indirect contempt
the Judge has issued the order and
therefore stands in the position of the
laWmaker, and he is prosecuting the case.
and Re is the Judge, too. He unites in
himself the qualities of legislator, of
prosecutor and of Judge, and if there is
any place where lAan is entitled to a
jury 1t IS in a case of indirect contempt
where the Judge IS every
But my friends want you TO understand
that the d DEMOCRATIC party in taking this pos
ton on the labor question is interested not
merely in the laboring man, but in the employe.
also, and In society at large for il we are going
Tor prose- erty in this country there must be CO.
operation between labor and capital, there must
be friendship between employer and employee
The Democratic party, in the interest of indus
trial peace and industrial progress SAYS to the
laboring man and to the employer: There must
be justice as the basis of your relat on, and we
have asked nothing for the laborsr that we
would not under similar circumstances ask for
the employer, the merchant, the farmer and the
professional man
But my friends, you are interested
also in the trust question And here, too,
there is difference between the parties.
Mr. Taft says that he wants regulation;
that he is not in favor of exterminating
the trusts. He wants to regulate the
trusts, but finds fault with me because 1
am IN favor of exterminating the princi
pal OF private monopoly. Well, he has
had chance to see what regulation will
DO and after nearly twelve years of Re-
publican rule and regulation that they
Drag about we have more trusts than we
mad when they commenced. Regulation
Why, Mr.. Roosevelt has been in Office
now about seven years, and yet he has
not succeeded in getting one trust mag
nate into the penitentiary in all that time.
Now, if man like Mr.. Roosevelt can
AASN ~ ttAeet Al Lie CtulSS VI SGSC1 years.
how long will it take man like Mr.
Taft to get one in2
Trusts Regulate the Party.
'rhey have had chance to try their
plans, and the trusts have regulated the
Republican party instead of being regu-
lated by the Republican party. We say:
Extefminate the principle Of private mon
opoly. We say that instead OF creating
a trust and then spending the rest of your
time trying to cage 1t, it is better to pre-
vent trust from coming into existence.
And we have plan that We believe 70 be-
effective.
I'VE say that just as long as an inter-
state commerce corporation carries on
legitimate business and regulates its pro-
nts by competition, let it so on undis
turbed, no matter how big It is; but when