The Prescott daily news., 1908-08-08
BRYAN MAKES ANSWER. Replies to Circular Issued by
 J. w. Van Cleave. TWO QUESTIONS RAISED.
Nebraskan Declare. the Provisions In the Democratic Platform Calling For Labor Cabinet Official Can Give No Offense to Business Men.

Lincoln, Neb., Aug 8.-W. J. Bryan has issued a statement replying to circular issued some weeks ago by the National Association of Manufac- turers, and signed by James w. Van Cleave. MT. Bryan declares that the pamphlet of MT. Van Cleave raises two questions. First Is there anything in the labor plank of the Democratic platform to wich business men can justly take exception? Second. Is the labor question so important to business men as to justify them in ig- noring all other issues?
 Mir Bryan declares that the provis- ion in the Democratic platform for the creation of labor department with cabinet officer at it's head cannot possibly offend business men. He | then says:
 The platform draws a distinction between acquisitions of wage earn CTS organized for the protection of wages and the improvement of labor conditions and industrial corporations which act in restraint of trade The | difference between a labor organiza- tion and a trust is so apparent that no disinterested person will deny that they should be treated separately. To class the two kinds of organizations together and deal with them under one law is bound to do injustice to one or the other. Surely the business men can have no vital concern in in- cluding labor organizations in the an- 1 thrust laws"
 MT. Brya then takes up the plank providing for trial by jury in cases Of direct contempt. He insists that this cannot raise a question of vital concern to business men, because every man has a right to jury trial He then says:
 An attempt has been made to raise a false issue in regard to the courts, and to make it appear that the de- mand for trial by jury is an assault upon the integrity of the courts. Those who make this argument might as well insist upon the abolition of the jury in all cases, for the jury system itself is just as much reflection upon the bench as is the demand for trial by jury in these particular cases.
 But there is another labor plank that Mir Van Cleave probably has in mind. This Is the plank which de. clares that parties to all judicial pro- ceedings should be treated with rigid impartiality. and that an injunction should not issue in any case in which an injunction would not lie If no indus. trial dispute were not involved. Do the business men insist upon par tiality in judicial proceedings? Do they insist that the mere fact that there is an industrial dispute should justify an injunction? That plank does not attempt to interfere with .the issue of an injunction where other csonditions justify 1t, but 1t does op- pose the issue of an injunction merely for the purpose of bringing the court into the discussion of an industrial dispute.
 MT. Van Cleave asserts that this plank rouses class spirit and con- stitutes demand for class favors. But this not true. It Is a declaration that the writ of injunction should not be used for the purpose of creating a class or favoring a class. The labor ing men resent an attempt to discrim- mate against them in favor of any other class"
 Mir. Bryan, in conclusion, declares that Van Cleave does business men an injustice in assuming that his walk. ing hours are filled with fears of the wage earner, and that his nights rest is broken by imaginary disputes with those who toil