The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-14
A Daniel in Judgment Seat.

His record a judge makes the whole
country his debtor. His actions and deci-
sions are part of the great traditions
of the bench. They guaranteed and set
forth in striking fashion the rights of
the general public as against the selfish
interests of any class, whether of capital
lists or of laborers. They set forth and
stand by the rights of the wage-workers
to organize and to strike, as unequivocal-
| ly as they set forth and stand by the
doctrine that no conduct will be toler-
ated that would spell destruction to the
nation as whole. AS for the attack
upon his injunctions in labor disputes.
made while ne was on the bench, / ask
that the injunctions be carefully exam
ined. l ask that every responsible and
fairminded labor leader, every responsible
and fairminded member of a labor or
gganization, read these injunctions for
himself. If he will do So instead of con-
demning them, he will heartily approve
of them and will recognize this further
astounding fact that the principles laid
down by Judge Taft in these very in
functions, which laboring people are asked
TO condemn. are themselves the very prin-
ciples which are now embodied in the
laws or practices of every responsible la
Dor organization. No responsible organ
ization would now hesitate to condemn
the abuses against which Judge Taft's
inJunctions were aimed. The principles
which he therein so wisely and fearless
ly laid down serve as a charter of lib-
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employers, for the general public; for
they rest on the principles of fair dealing
for all. of even-handed justice for all
They mark the Judge who rendered them
as standing for the rights of the whole
people: as far as daylight is from dark
ness, so far is such a Judge from the
time-server, the trucker to the mob, or
the cringing tool of great, corrupt and
corrupting corporations
Combines All the Virtues.
Judge Taft on the bench-as since in
the Philippines. in Panama, in Cuba, in
the war Observation-Disclosures himself to
be a wise. a fearless and an upright sery-
ant of the whole people. whose serv-
ices to the whole people were beyond all
price. Moreover, let all good citizens re-
member that he rendered these services
not when ii was easy to do so. but when
malice. domestic and civic disturbance
threatened the whole fabric of our gov
eminent and of civilization; his actions
showed not only the highest kind of moral
courage but Of physical courage as we'll,
for his life was freely and violently
threatened.
Let all fairminded men, wage-workers
and capitalists alike, consider yet an
the bench Judge Taft upheld in the
fashion, and for the first time
gave full vitality to, the principle of the
employers liability for injuries done
WOTklIcn- lulS WAS DSIOTe any natlOnal
law on the subject was enacted. Judge |
Taft's sense of right, his indignation |
against oppression in any FORM against |
any attitude that is not fair and Just. |
drove, him TO take a position which was |
condemned by shortsighted cap
italists and employers of labor, which |
was so far in advance of the time that |
it was not generally upheld by the state |
courts, but which we are now embody-
ing in the law of the land. Judge Taft |
was a leader, a pioneer, while on the |
bench, in the effort to get justice for |
the wageworker. in jealous championship |
OF his rights; and all upright and far
sighted laboring men should hold 1t to |
his credit that at the same time he |
stood against the abuses of la
Dor, just as he fearlessly stood against /
the abuses Of capital. If elected. he has
shown by his deeds that he will be presi-
dent of no class. but of the people as
a whole; he can be trusted to stand |
stoutly against the two real enemies of |
our democracy-against the man who to /
please one class would undermine the |
whole foundation of orderly liberty, and /
against the man who In the interest of /
another class would secure business pros
perity by sacrificing every right Of the
working people.
I have striven as president to champion