The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-17
TAFT ESPOUSES
CAUSE'OF POOR
Says Courts Favor Rich
Litigant.
IS DISGRACE TO AMERICA

Administration Of Criminal Laws
and Recommend Congress to Carry
Out Platform Pledge In Reference
TO Granting Of Injunctions = sees
Chicago Nationals Lose to New
York Giants.
Chicago Sept 17.--Beginning with
an automobile trip in review of 1907
900 school children, four deep on
either side of the park boulevards,
President Taft's day was repleteswith
briefly at luncheon of the CONNER
cial club, viewed an exhibit OF ambi.
tious plans for tn Improvement and
Identification of Chicago - plans
which .he president said he hoped
would be realized by Chicago pluck
and energy; attended the regular Ma.
tional league ball game between the
Chicago champion Cubs and the
famous New York Chants" dined
Hui0Alg WIN NbO iiup ~ thV
Congress hotel; made a notable ad-
dress to a mass meeting In Orchestra
hall. and as a finale attended for a
few minutes the ball of the American
Bankers association at the Audi.
torium.
Speaking with great earnestness to
mass meeting I'm Orchestra hall,
President Taft declared. that no ques-
tion before the American people to
day is more Important than the i'm.
provement of the administration of
justice, and announced his intention
of recommending TO congress the ap.
pointment of commission TO take
up the question of the laws delay in
the federal courts. The president
said he hoped that the report of this
commission, when rendered, would
serve also as a guide to the states Of
the Union In effecting remedial legis-
lation.
The president, at the end of day
of sightseeing, of baseball of recep-
tions and dining. received an uproar-
ious greeting when he reached Or
shestra hall to make the only set
speech of his stay In Chicago. Re-
calling that II was In this same hall
during the campaign OF year ago
that he faced an audience OF more
than 1900 workingmen and made one
OF the crucial addresses OF his candi.
dacy, the president assured his hear
ers that he had not forgotten his
campaign promises and the platform
declarations of his party.
Mr. Taft devoted the entire first
part of his speech to the subject OF
labor, and said he intended to recon-
mend to congress in his first mes.
sage legislation to carry out the plat
form promise as to siunctions-that
no injunction or restraining order
should be issued without notice ex-
cept where irreparablo injury would
result from delay. In which case a
speedy hearing should be granted.
The president declared anew HIS
belief In organized labor, and con-
graduated the leaders OF the move
ment that "they have set their faces
like flint against the doctrines of So
cialism."
Taking up next the subject OF the
courts, the president asserted with
earnest emphasis that the administra-
tion of criminal law today is a dis.
grace to American civilization.
Ashamed of the fact as Americans
might we'll be, he declared that the
poor man has not now an equal op-
portunity with the rich lltigapt, and
said 1t was his purpose to do what he
could to place the poor man on
more equal footing. Tho president
frequently was interrupted with
cheers.
At the National league grounds the
president saw his biggest baseball
crowd. There were more than thirty
thousand persons packed iuto the
stands and bleachers and overlooking
into the playing field. The president
sat In one % the open sections of the
double-deckod stand and thoroughly
enjoyed a brilliant game In which the
two greatest pitchers of the league,
Mathewson of New York and Brown
OF Chicago, faced each other. New
York won, but the crowd had some
compensation In cheering the presi-
dent, who remained TO the end and
waited to wave a farewell to the
bleacher throngs that poured across
the field In a perfect cavalcade when
the last Cub" had strnck out.
The president when he first reached
the park went down on the field and
shook hands with the members of