The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-07
BRYAN REPLIES
TO VAN CLEAVE
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Manufacturer PiIIoried for At
tempt to Raise False Issue
Regarding Injunctions.
CONClSE STATEMENT MADE
DENVER PLATFORM ILLUS
TRATES POSITION.
CONCISE STATEMENT MADE

IAncoln, Aug. 6.-W. j. Bryan today
issued statement replying to a cir
cular issued some weeks ago by the
National Association of Manufacturers
and signed by James V. Van Cleave.
Mr.. Bryan declares that the PAM
phiet OF Mr.. Van Cleave raises two
questions. first, is there anything in
the labor plank of the Democratic plat
FORM 10 which business men can Justly
take exceptions, and, second, is the la
Dor question so important to business
men as to Justify them in ignoring all
other issues?
Mr. Bryan declares that the provi-
sion In the Democratic platform for the
creation OF labor department, with
CABINET ohicer at its head, cannot pos
sibly offend business men. He then
''l' Distinction Drawn.
The platform draws a distinction be-
tween associations Of wage earners or
sanized for the purpose of wages and
the improvement of labor conditions
and industrial corporations which act
In restraint of trade The difference
between labor organization and a
trust Is so apparent that no disinter-
ested person will deny that they should
be treated separately. To class the two
deal with them under one law is bound
10 do injustice to one or the other
surely the business men can have no
vital concern in including the labor or
CARNATIONS in the antitrust laws.
Right of Trial by Jury.
Mr.. Bryan then takes up the plank
providing for trial by jury in cases of
indirect contempt. He insists that this
cannot raise a question Of vital con-
Xern to business men, because every
man has right 10 a jury trial. He
then says:
AN attempt will be made 10 raise
false issue in regard to the courts and
10 make il appear that the demand for
trial by jury is an assault upon the
integrity of the courts. Those who
make this argument might as we'll in
sist on the abolition of the jury in all
cases, for the jury system itself is just
as much a reflection upon the bench
as is the demand for trial by jury in
these particular cases"
Van CIeave's idea.
But there is another plank that Nh.
Van Cleave probably has in mind. This
Is the plank that declares that parties
TO all judiciary proceedings should be
treated with rigid imparriality. and
that an injunction would not lie If no
Industrial dispute were involved. Do
the business men insist upon Partially
I'm judicial proceedings? Do they insist
that the mere fact that there is an in
dustrial dispute should Justify an in
junction? That plank does not attempt
TO interfere with the issue of an injunc-
ton where other conditions justify il,
but it does oppose the issue of an in
junction merely for the purpose OF
bdnging the court into the discussion
ofran industrial dispute.
Simply Untrue.
Mr.. Van Cleave asserts that this
plank arouses "a class spirit and de-
mands for elias favors.'
But this is not true. II is a declara-
ton that the writ of injunction should
not be used for the purpose of creating
class or favoring a class. The labor
ing men resent an attempt to discrim-
mate against them in favor of any
other class"
Mr.. Bryan, in conclusion, declares
that Mr.. Van Cleave does the business
man an injustice IN assuming that his
waking hours are filed with fears of
the wage Garner and that his nights
rest is broken by imaginary disputes
with those who toll