Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-25

pdTaDle injury WOuld result rom ue- lay. in which case a speedy hearing thereafter should be granted. Note the words, except where irreparable injury would result from delay and compare this exception with the fed erai statute on the subject, and you will find that under the law, as it now exists, the court is not empow- cred to grant a temporary restrain ing order except there appears to be danger of irreparable injury from de lay.
 Copied Statute Verbatim.
 Tt will be seen that the man who wrote the injunction plank copied the statute almost word for word and made the exception as broad as the statute. If the convention had been frank in the statement of it's position it would have quoted the present stat ute and said that it was in favor of enforcing the law just as it is. Ii would have said: Whereas. at pres lent court or judge may grant temporary restraining order if there appears to be danger or irreparable injury from delay, therefore. be it re solved, that We are opposed to chang ing it.
 Cannot Fool the People.
 "The men wAo are responsible for the language of the injunction plank may have fooled the rest of the com mittee and they may have fooled the convention, but they cannot fool the. laboring men or the voters in gen eral. The injunction plank has nog even the value of gold-plated brick, for the planting is brass, as well as the interior of the brick.
 'The plank as prepared in advance of the convention by Mir. Taft's friends and given out on Tuesday reads as follows:
 "'We declare for such amendments of the statutes of procedure in the federal courts with respect to the use of the writ of injunction as will on the one hand prevent the summary issueAof such orders without proper consideration, and on the other will preserve undiminished the power of the courts to enforce their process, to the end that justice may be done at all times to all parties
 Courts Come First.
 Tt will be noticed in this plank the declaration in favor of amendments
 
 vor of preserving undiminished the power of the courts to enforce their processes comes afterward. In the plank which was adopted by the con vention the declaration in favor of the courts comes first and the dis cussion of a change in the law comes afterwaTd.
 Tt will also be noticed that in the first draft of the platform the pledge is that the power of the courts to enforce their process shall be pre- l served. In the plank adopted by the convention this promise is enlarged and elaborated. In the original plat form amendments are favored In the platform adopted by the conyen- | ton there is no suggestion of an 1 amendment; they only ask for more accurate definition of the rules of procedure. In the original plank the ! aim of the party was to prevent the summary issue of such orders without | proper consideration, whereas, in 'c~e plank adopted in the convention an exception is irserted that nullifies tht promise, beca-se the exception leaves the subject just as 1t found it.
 Way Resort to Deception.
 If tle demand of the laboring men is unreasonable. why did not the con vention say so? Why did it resort to deception? The Republican party will find that an honest course would have been safer than the dishonest course pursued.
 The fruad which the convention lattempted will not mislCad. because lthere is time enough between now and election for every one to find ou the facts.
 Taft Father of Injunction" Secretary Taft is known as the father of government by injunction. and his speeches in Oklahoma las year gave conclusive proof of his ad herence to the position taken by hin on the bench. He is still in favor o
 the use of the writ of injunction il
 labor cases and he is opposed to tria by jury.
 Tn a speech delivered in New Yorl
 last winter he said. in response tt questions, that the law ought to bt s1 so amended as to give hearing be , fore the injunction was granted ant } even consented that the hearing fol contempt should be before differen luuSe ITOil lne one V AlO SldnlSu LII
 injunction but when he came to pre- pare plank for the convention ht did not go so far as he went in hi 5 speech.
 .. Amounts to Nothing. The plank that went before ta' convention as his plank was so veal I that it amounted to nothing, but i
 was even then too strong for the COT | vention, and the convention adoptet 1 plank which not only does not gran
 any cocessions to the laboTilg man
 but really emphasizes the position taken by large corporation employer | 1 by hurling anathema at those who ar
 suspected of a desire to modify tn
 law relating to injunctions. This i ! the treatment received by the wag l earners from the national convention of the Republicans. If this is the pc i lsidon of the party before election
 what reason has the laboring man t