Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-24

elected, he will endeavor to have this
proposal enacted into law This Is
asked honestly, in the interest Of that
voting public which believes sincerely
in the promotion Of every legitimate
right and interest of labor, but which
believes also that from the standpoint
of the best interest Of labor it neither
requires nor is entitled to more than
Justice, and that the right to destroy
business should not be formally recog-
nized in the law of the land
Pays Highest Tribute to Taft.
II feel that I have the right to
speak frankly in this matter, because
has been my constant object to do
everything in my power, both by ad-
ministrative action and by endeavor-
ing to secure legislative action. to ad
vance the cause Of labor, protect 1t
from unjust aggression and secure to
it its legitimate rights. I have ac-
complished something; I hope to ac-
leave office; and 1 have taken special
and peculiar interest in Mr.. Taft's can
didacy because l believe that of all
men in this country he Is the man best
qualified for continuing the work Of
securing to the wage workers Of the
country their full rights.
Il will do everything in my power
1ol IllC No5S "olhSlS I'll lHe country,
except to do what is wrong. I will do
no wrong for man, and with all the
force in my power I solemnly warn
the laboring men of this country that
any public man who advocates doing
wrong in their interest cannot be
trusted by them, and this whether his
promise to do wrong is given knowing
that 1t is wrong or because of a levity
and lack of consideration which make
him willing to promise anything, with
out counting the cost, if thereby sup
| port at the moment is to be purchased.
Would Curb Injunction Abuses.
Just as have fought hard and
shall continue to fight hard to bring
about in the fullest way the recognize
tion of the right Of the employee to be
amply compensated for injury received
in the, course of his duty, so I have
fought hard and shall continue to fight
hard to do away with all abuses in
the use of the power Of injunction. ]
will do everything l can to see that
the power Of injunction is not used to
Cypress laboring men. l will endeavor
to secure them full and equal justice.
| Therefore in the interest of all good
citizens. be they laboring men, business
| men, professional, farmers, or members
of any other occupation, so long as they
| have in their souls the principles of
sound American citizenship, T denounce
as wicked the proposition to secure a
law which. according to the explicit
statement of Mr.. Gompers. is to pre-
vent the courts from effectively inter-
fering with riotous violence when the
object is to destroy a business and
which will legalize the blacklist and
the secondary boycott, both of them
the apt instruments of unmanly per-
lsecution.
Calls Proposed Remedy a SHAM
| But there is another account against
Nessrs Bryan and Gompers in this
matter. Ephraim ieedeth on wind.
| Their proposed remedy is an empty
sham. They are seeking to delude their
followers by the promise of law
which would dana e this country sole
ly because of the vicious, immoral pur-
pose that would be shown by putting
| 1t upon the statute books, but which
would be utterly worthless to accomp-
fish it's avowed purpose. ] have not
the slightest doubt that such law as
| that proposed by Mr.. Bryan would, il
enacted by congress, be declared un-
constitutional by a unanimous supreme