The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-09-23
PRESIDENT WILL
LEND LABOR aid
TAFT, IN CHICAGO ADDRESS, RE-
News PLEDGES ON THE IN
JUNCTION ISSUE.
TOUCHES LIGHTLY ON TARIFF
Reserves Important Question for DIS
cussion at Some Later Date on
His $4,000 Mile Trip.
SPEAKER CANNON A LISTENER

CHICAGO, H., Sept. lion the
near anniversary of his speech one year
ago TO the organized labor interests OF
the national time, which, as the
President admitted, was critical to MN
in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Taft relter-
ated his promise to the laboring men cI
the nation. that he will so TO the limit OF
his presidential power in looking to thc
rights of the labor classes of the ma
ton.
He had nothing to take back. compar'
ing his Orchestra hall speech Of Thurs
day night with his Orchestra hall ad-
dress Of year ago. Just on the eve
of the national election Of 1908, MI
Taft made certain promises to the IaDor
interests of the nation, as represented
In his audience of that time Of organized
railroad employees.
No Mincing; No Hedging.
In what the President said Thursday
he took precisely the same ground. re
checked up the progress Of affairs, ana
he measured the condition of affairs
without miucing Of language.
President Taft reasserted his loyalty
TO the principle Of labor unonism, put
deprecated the idea Of union lawlessness'
The executive went so far as 10 say
that were he a laboring man the chances
are that he would be affiliated with some
organized body of laboring men. lie had
no excuses to offer for union labor run
ming amuck.
His appeal TO the laboring element who
prefer to continue MS non-union men was
not the less weakened, after what he had
to say, because his address, from labor
standpoint by the verdict of those VINO
listened to him, could be considered as
nothing but a free, open handed, and al
most fraternal appeal to the men who
compose the working classes OF the ma
ton.
at Remains to Be Done
President Taft reiterated that the per.
sonal promises which he had made in the
late presidential campaign, and as ne
understood the Republican national plat
form. still hold good lie was most fiat
footed in the statement that the promises
have not yet been made good and that
It is his duty, after the failure of the
Democratic attempt TO arralgn the labor,
ing classes against the Republican candl-
dates, to make good upon the programme
as had been mapped out, politically, from
Republican standpoint, in the fall OF
1908
There were cheers for this statement
from the President, more cheers, IN fact,
than might have been expected from
such an audience as was assembled in
Orchestra hall. 1t wasn't such body
of auditors to whom the President APP
peaed as was assembled when he made
what he admitted was a critical point III
his campaign for the presidency.
The Hamilton club, in charge of the
meeting, was present in force. There
were many women in the audience-per-
haps One-half of the persons who Jammed
the auditorium of Orchestra hall to the
roof were women.
1t is quite probable that many who
heard the executive had ditliculty in un'
Outstanding the most pertinent illusions
which Mr.. Taft made
Hits from the Shoulder.
It was different however, when the
President arrived at his burning crit
icism of the judicial practice and proce-
dure in the United States. Behind him
were grouped substantial part Of the
dominating and effective organization of
the national House Of Representatives,
headed 10y Speaker Cannon himself.
Ranged bckind the distinguished mem
bors Of Congress were most of the senn-
tors and representatives. who hold their
seats in the Illinois Legislature as Re
puhlicans.
Justices Of the Illinois supreme court
the most of thcm-ncarly the solid bench
of the Cook county superior and circuit
courts and the municipal court of Chi
cage 10 Il man, sat upon the rostrum
To these President Taft. in caustic
words of criticism, not for the men but
for the system, declared that the judicial
system of the United States is a dis
grace 10 the nation, The President told
the audience. followed by "A tumult of ap-
plauSc. that it is his idea to name n ma
tiopai commission which will formulate
n system IF Fastening justice. lie de-
cried the idea that the poor man is
helped by the dragging delay in prose
cutting appeals.
Taft Applies Strong Terms
"Shame" and disgrace" were terms
the President used in describing what h.
said he had found himself in the process
Of securing and administering civil and
criminal justice in the courts of the ia
ton. He promised that the federal com
mission which he will name will be able
not only 10 remedy the federal code of
justice. but viii furnish a map which the
Legislatures Of the various states might
follow with considerable satisfaction 10
the nation.
Ia the home stretch of his address
President Taft suggested that it is quite
necessary 10 the nation that certain pol
icj"s Of President Roosevelt be main
taiuod The mention Of the name Of his
predecessor MS President sigualed genn-
inc applause. The President did not
specify the particular Rooscycltian pol
icics which should be followed and which
are worthy IF specific endorsements lie
sand plainly that this feature viii be left
t. later spc-hcs which he will make in
his trip through the nation.
Touches Lightly on Tariff
The President touched lightly upon the
tariff aud the currency. There was no
expression which he made which might
be taken rs cX cuthedra. Specifically
President Taft reserved his remarks upon
these two points TO some other platform
upon his 1900 milo trip through the
national domain.