Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-11

tuleS ol tue SiiIIle. III III. war utpuIC ment we have Cuba, Alaska, the Phil Ippines, the isthmian canal and the army, but We don't have immigration. I have never studied it. Mir Bennett here is an authority, and anything he says about it I'll subscribe to. To an involved question as to the tariff Mr. Taft answered.: If we abolish the tariff at the pres ness at all But I don't want to go into that. It would take too long, and my subject didn't touch upon the tariff. Besides, my views are well known" In answer to a question about in functions and the boycott MT. Taft told of case in Ohio of firm-Moore x Co.-who were boycotted by brick layers union and sued the union and got q verdict of S2,500 damages. ''They have been working fifteen years to collect it," he said ''but have not got cent.'
 Five minutes later some one within the audience handed up this question: which Secretary Taft could with diffi- culty read between bursts of laugh ter:
 MT. Taft, if it took the Moores if teen years to collect $2,5O0 and then didn't get it, how long will it take the United States government to collect the $29,0O0OO0 fine from the Standard Oil company"
 Answer-That question requires a pe- culiar application of arithmetical rules | which I am not able to make. QuestiOn-What do you advise a | workingman who is out of work with his family starving to do? | Answer-God knows. If man can't I"get work, of course there are charita- ble institutions, but it is an awful thing to ask a man willing to work to seek charity.
 | Question-If injunctions safeguard capital, why should they not also issue l for labor unions when their industrial rights are threatened?
 | Answer Men with capital are able to go into court. Those without are afraid of it. Labor unions do not go into court as much as 1 wish they would. It would be a pleasure to dem- onstrate the impartiality of our courts.
 Question-Do you think government ownership of the mines and railroads would obviate controversies between labor and capital?
 Answer-I do not Think what would l happen if all those vast powers which would go with government ownership were put in the hands of a few men in Washington. The Lord knows the pow CTS are sufficiently concentrated there now. Put all these others in the hands 1 of one man or small group of men and you might well tremble for the safety of the republic.
 Question-Do you think the Sherman law adequately restricts the trusts?
 Answer-I think it is working ont all right The trouble was it was drawn when the question was not fully un- derstood, and the courts have had to construe it. think substitute should now be drawn SO that business men might clearly know the line be- tween legality and illegallty.
 Question-What are your thoughts on socialism, Mir. Taft? 1 Answer-I an not Socialist. i wouldn't care to change from the pres. ent system unless 1 was on the com mittee that would fix the new one and i the value of the services of the men In | my community.
 Questlon-Is anything being done by the administration to better conditions between labor and capital? | Answer-I have been associated with President Roosevelt several years. and know that question is constantly in his mind. He is continually discussing ! that question.
 Questlon-w What is the present status of the federal liability act? l Answer-lt is dead.
 1 Mir. Taft described the act in detail and told why the United States su- preme court recently adjudged it un- constitutional.