The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-09-24
TAFT TALKS
SOME
SPEECHES BY PRESIDENT
EN- ROUTE TO THE
WEST.
At Chicago He Promises to Ask
Congress to Limit Injunction
Powers of COurts-At WinOna
He Praises Payne Tariff Bill as
Best One Yet.

President Taft, in an address at Chi
cago, praised labor unions and stated
that he would ask congress to, enact
liw limiting the power of injunc-
tons. He insisted, however, that the
rights of the non-union laborer be
fully protected, saying nobody should
be allowed to force him into unions
against his desires.
During his speech, which was many
times interrupted by applause, he
made the following pointed state
ments:
"rhe administration of criminal law
in this country is a disgrace to our
civilization, and the prevalence of
crime and fraud is due largely to the
failure of the law and it's administra-
tors to bring criminals to justice.
Give Judges More Power
"The tendency of legislation is to
throw the reins on the back of the
jury and to let them follow their own
sweet will, Influenced by all the arts
of counsel for the defendant in lead
ing them away from the real points
at ISSUE.
Give judges more power in the trial
of criminal cases and enable them to
aid the jury in securing facts and to
exercise more control over the argu-
ments of counsel.
| frio in in
which the advantage is with the Grim
inal, and if he wins he seems to have
the sympathy of the public.
What the poor man needs is a
prompt decision, and by limiting ap-
peals an opportunity is given the poor
litigant to secure a judgment in time
to enjoy it.
Il am lawyer and admire my pro-
fession, but l must admit that we
have too many lawyers engaged in
litigating on legal procedure, and they
have been prone to think that litigants
were made for the purpose of furnish
ing business to courts and lawyers,
and not courts and lawyers for the
| UcucuC VI Tic pcOplc. !.
New Injunction Law I,
II propose in the next session of
congress to recommend the legisla-
ton on the subject of injunctions
which was promised in the republican
platform.
81 know there is an element among
employers and investors which is op.
posed to the organization of labor.
cannot sympathize with these elements
in the slightest degree.
"All advantages of trade unionism,
great as they are, cannot weigh a
feather in the scale against the right
of any man lawfully seeking employ
ment to work for whom and at what
price he will
Milwaukee, Sept. 1S.-fresident
Taft devoted his principal address in
Milwaukee at the state fair grounds
to the subject of postal savings banks,
which he strongly Endorsed, before a
large and enthusiastic gathering that
overlooked the grandstand.
The president said he did not want
to antagonize the bankers, but he did
not believe their opposition to pos tai
banks was we'll founded. In some
parts of the country, especially New
England, where for every two citizens
there was one savings bank account,
Mr.. Taft said, the need of postal banks
was not felt. In other sections, where
the savings accounts amounted to only
one in IT'S citizens, the need of en-
couragement to thrift was acute.
In the most important utterances
he has made since his occupancy of
the White House, Pres ident Taft at
WinOna, Mimi, in a state which is the
hot-bed of the Republican ''insurgent"
movement, defended the Payne tariff
bill as the best tariff measure ever
PASSED by Republican congress, and
Lence the best tariff bill the people
ever have known.
The president boldly sserted that
the insurgents who voted against the
bill had abandoned the Republican
party.
"Was it the duty of the members of
congress who believed that the bill
did not accomplish everything that it
ought to accomplish, to vote against
it," asked the president.
81 am here to justify those who an
swer this question in the negative. 1
am not here to defend those who vot-
ed for the Payne bill, but to support
them"
| To this statement the crowd re-
sponded with hearty cheer. It was
shouted by the adherents of Repre-
sentative James A. Tawney, of this
district, chairman of the committee on
appropriations, who has been on the
defensive ever since the adjournment
of congress because he had not voted
with the other members of the dele.
cation from Minnesota, both in the
house and senate, against the bill.
1t had been reported that the presi-