The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-09-01
DELIVERS
MANY SPEECHES
REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATE rALks
TO THE PEOPLE OF OHIO.
DENOUNCED 4 BIG LIE
He Believes in Labor Organizations,
Their Right to strike and to Dele
gate Leaders to Manage Their
Campaigns.

Columbus, Ohio, Aug. William
H. Taft today went through the stats
Of Ohio, leading behind him a trail of
speeches that doubtless will surprise
his campaign managers who planned
that his trip from Virginia Hot
Springs to the Middle Bass island fish.
ing club would be devoid Of politics,
but at Athens, after delivering the
speech he had prepared for the yeter.
ans and which had no politics in it,
Mr.. Taft was whisked away to the
Taft club, where following an intro
duction by Arthur vorys, he spoke for
forty minutes.
There is one brief way to deal with
the story which has circulated that /
have said that a dollar q day was
enough for any laboring man" de,
clared Judge Tariff, it's a lie" The
speaker came down on both heels en-
phatically.
Judge Taft then defended his judi.
cial decisions in labor s with the
statement that when acting as a Judge
he endeavored to render judgment in
accordance with the law and the facts,
"and l have no apology to make"
In this connection Mr.. Taft said he
would be willing to receive the judg-
ment of any man who would read the
records in these cases and the recent
decisions he had rendered.
He expressed his approval Of labor
organizations and dissected the labor
plank Of the Democratic platform,
with the conclusion that, il enforced,
1t would be a weak ending Of the pow
ers Of the courts and result in loss to
the rights of labor.
Under the Dingley bill Of 1897" he
said, 1--WE" went ahead to a prosperity
never before known in this country,
indeed, never before known in the
world. But we found in the business
world that we had expanded ourselves
a little too far, and now we have had
a halt in that prosperity.
"In this great development Of wealth
there crept in abuses growing out of
the INSCRIPTIONS character of some OF
the prominent men in business. They
violated the antitrust laws, and they
violated the rebate laws and the rail.
roads extended to the largest ship.
pers, the so-called trusts secret re-
bates. All this was revealed early in
the administration and Mr.. Roosevelt
and the Republican party took hold
with a determination to stamp 1t out.
"Take the employers liability act.
Congress has passed a law now by
which railroad men engaged in inter.
state work shall be put on a level
with the corporation dealing with It
in respect to the damages that they
sustain growing out Of their employ
ment. This measure, which for 9
technicality vas thrown out by the SUI
preme court has been repassed in. law
full form by the present congress.
"Now, I come to the question Of in
functions. I understand that my at
titude toward labor has been repre-
scented as q man who thinks and says
that a dollar a day is enough for any
many. Well, there is one short way
Of answering that statement, and that
is that it is a lie. I never said so.
"They say / am the father OF in
functions in labor cases. / have issued
injunctions in labor cases. and I have
done 1t because the rights Of the plain
tiff entitled him to an injunction.
When / am a Judge on the bench, in
so far as I can, ! decide cases accord
ing to the law and the facts no mat
ter, whom 1t hurts. because ! believe
that to be my sworn duty.
Labor has the right to unite in or
%ganizations for the purpose Of looking
after the allied interests Of labor in
its controversy with capital. Il did not
unite and was not permitted to
unite. 1t would lie helpless. Laborers
have the right not only to unite, but