Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-01-20
Hon. Judson Harmon n delegate to the


Of sending David Il. Hill. Doubtless
in other states. the political gossip Of
which has not yet come to my ears,
there are suggestions that other emil
nent reactionaries whose names are
much more distinguished today than
their services have been to the Demo
cratic party in the last twelve years
should be thus honOred. There Is no
reason to discuss suggestions of this
sort. If the Democratic voters of New
Jersey and Delaware, of Ohio and New
York, wish to send these gentlemen to
the Democratic convention they have
right to do so; otherwise that We a no.
be a Democratic convention. The gen
tlemen will be received with courtesy
and heard with respect, two things
which have not always been accorded
to representatives of that element in
the party to which they have been
malevolent so long There is no reason
why they should not go, yet l hazard
the opinion that no one of the four will
care to be a delegate this time.
New Trouble For Taft.
Secretary Taft reached the United
States just in time to find his famous
injunction decision, rendered when he
was a circuit judge in Ohio, cited by
Republican judge in the District Of Co
lumbia to destroy the last remaining
weapon of organized labor-namey,
the silent boycott.
The case grew out of the publication
in the American Federationist and
some other labor publications of lists
Of what are called unfair shops"
The publication of these lists means
merely that wOrkngmen are urged
by indirection not to buy goods at the
places named. There are other organ
izations trying to influence public SEN
timent In the same way-fOr example,
the Consumers league, not at all made
up of organized labor, but of people
who are trying to influence public sell
timent against stores that employ chill
dren under age or subject women
clerks to intolerable conditions and ex-
act hours of labor always repugnant
to any true ethical sense and often in
flat violation of the state law. The Ia
Dor papers, being more militant. print
what might be called a "black list"
The Consumers league more cautious
ly prints a white list" giving the
names of the stores that are fair 1t
might be a nice question to determine
whether, three men being present, a
fourth should select one and say, you
at least are not thief. and l pick you
out as the only one who is not" 1t
would not be quite as much of an at
tack on the two others as if he had
charged them with stealing.
Re that as it may, the supreme Judge
Of the District of Columbia has issued
an injunction against the American
Federationst restraining it from pub
fishing unfair lists. His whole de-
cision is based upon one rendered by
Judge William II. Taft when circuit
judge in Ohio. Judge Taft then issued
an injunction prohibiting the mere adj
vice by one member of an Organizat ton
to others that they should not deal
with certain hostile corporations. Mr..
Taft found in this a scanualous viola
ton of the law. From this decision OF
his has proceeded the sweeping injunc-
ton issued by Justice Gould of the Dis
trict of Columbia supreme court. Those
who have read both cases can readily
understand why it is that Secretary
Taft went way down into Oklahoma in
order to argue in favor of the system
of government by injunction. His ar
guments there were not very satisfac
tory to the people of the territory, for
they promptly overturned them by
some 10000 votes. He seems, how
ever. to have his admirers still in the
District of Columbia, who are willing
to take up the cause which he first
champoned and to carry it to success
even though 1t mean the end of organ
izations of labor or of purchasers.
Crusades and Crusaders.
On the wall of my Office is pasted a