The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-10-26

normally republican and quite a num-
Der in other trades who will not vote
for Taft. They have been Influenced
by the fact that Samuel Gompers and
John Mitchell were both active at the
democratic convention. In many cases
these men have received personal let
ters from the heads of their organiza-
tions adjuring them to vote against
Taft because of his injunction deci-
sions.
Other men have been affected by the
absurd campaign SANDER that Judge
Taft said at some mysterious time ana
place that dollar a day was enough
for any laboring man. l have heard
that same remark attributed to public
men of one party or the other ever
since my boyhood. Judge Taft went
out of his way to deny this silly story.
plainly saying that the man who made
the statement was liar, and the man
who believed it was a fool.
HIS ONLY THORN.
II am satisfied that the injunction
business is the only thing in fact which
is hurting Judge Taft among the rail-
road men. He explains it clearly from
a lawyers standpoint, but the trouble
is the men do not understand the tech
nicalities involved. All they know is
that Judge Taft when on the bench en-
Joined 7. M. Arthur, the much loved
head of the locomotive engineers Or
nor iznffnr
airy boycott.
Judge Taft explains in his speeches
patiently and with manifest earnest
ness that he never issued an injunction
which the law did not compel him to
issue, and that he himself in all OF
his decisions carefully guarded the
right of the laboring man to strike, to
induce others to strike, to raise mo-
ney to support a strike and to COM
bine for their own interests in any
way which did not involve injury to
persons or property, and which did
not undertake to punish an innocent
third party.
Listening to these explanations of
Judge Taft, it is hard to understand
that any intelligent workingman would
fail to see the truth of his position,
especially in view of the splendid rec
ord of the Roosevelt administration,
of which Judge Taft was such an i'm
portant part, in the passage of labor
legislation. In spite of this fact, and in
spite of everything the political man
ayers can do, many republican labor
ing men, especially on the railroad
lines, are blindly following Com
pers into the democratic camp.
They are the class of men who are
honest enough, but who take their
facts secondhand and never take the
trouble to investigate.
AFRAID TO TAKE CHANCES.
Wherever there is an important
railroad center, therefore, and, gen.
orally speaking, wherever the trade
union influence is strong, the republic
cans will lose votes. This means the
majority in the cities will be cut down.
This detection, which is perhaps not
as serious as some of the managers
feel, is almost certain to be made up
in the country districts. The farmers
of Nebraska are peculiarly prosperous.
They have had a long succession OF
bumper crops with sky prices. The
bank deposits have increased in every
little financial center of the whole
state. There is money to burn every
where.
The farmer class is living better,
eating better, dressing better than ever
before. The country postofiices are
more active, and the rural delivery
routes have been bringing in newspa-
pers and magazines, and costly auto
mobiles may be found at the front