The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-22

frankly in this matter because through
out my term as President it has been
my constant object to do everything in
my power, both by administration &C
ton and by endeavoring to secure leg
islative action, to advance the cause of
labor, protect it from unjrst aggres-
sion, and secure to it the legitimate
rights. | have accomplished some
thing, l hope to accomplish something
more before leave office, and l have
taken special and peculiar interest in
Mr.. Taft's candidacy because believe
that of all the men in this country ne
is the man best qualified for continuing
the work Of securing to the wage work
ers of their country their full rights.
l will do everything in my power for
the wage workers of the country, ex-
cept to do what is wrong. | will do no
wrong for man, and with all the force
in my power l solemnly warn the la
boring man Of t.lis country that any
public man who advocates doing wrong
in their interest can not be trusted by
them, and this whether his promise
to do wrong is given knowing that 1t
is wrong or because of a Levitt and
lack of consideration which make him
willing to promise anything without
counting the cost, if thereby support
at the present movement is to be pur-
chased. Just as l have fought hard
and shall continue to fight hard, to
bring about in the fullest way the rec
ognition of the right of the employee
to be amply compensated for injury
received in the course of his duty. SO
have fought hard and shall continue
to fight hard to do away all abuses in
the use of the power of Injunction. |
will do everything | can to see that the
power of injunction is not used to OBJ
press laboring man. | will endeavor
to secure them full and equal justice.
therefore in the interest of all good
citizens, be they laboring man or bust
ness man, professional men, farmers
or members of any other occupation
SO long as they have in their souls
the principles of sound American cit
izenship, | denounce as wicked the
proposition to secure a law which. ac-
cording to the explicit statement of
Mr. Gompers, is to prevent the courts
from effectually interferin with riot
Gus violence when the object is to des-
troy business, and which will legalize
the black list and the secondary boy
colt, both of them the apt Instruments
of unmanly persecution.
But there is another account against
MessFs. Bryan and Gompers in this
matter. Ephraim feedeth on wind.
Their proposed remedy is an empty
sham. They are seeking to 6olude
their followers by the promise of a
law, which would damage this country
solely because of the vicious, moral
purpose that would be shown by put.
ting it upon the state books, but which
would be utterly worthless to accom-
plisl its avowed purpose | have not
the slightest doubt that such law as
that proposed by Mr.. Bryan would. IL
enacted by congress, be declared nm
constitutional by unanimous supreme
court, unless, indeed, Mr. Bryan were
able to pack his court with men an
pointed for the special purpose of de-
claring such a law constitutional. I
happen to know that certain great
trust magnates have announced with
in the past few weeks, in answer to the
question as to why they were openly
or secretly favoring the election of Mr..
Bryan, that the laws that Mr.. Bryan
proposed, including especially this law,
would be wholly ineffective because
the court would undoubtedly throw
them out, and that the promises to