The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-18
BEARERS OF FALSE WITNESS.
President Taft Refutes CaIumniafOr
of Republicans.

M l. all was NCly pIOD6IlE mus
nant at the effrontery of one of the
takers at the reception in Albuquer-
cue, who said that If the Republi-
cans, in the convention of 1908, had
refused to promise to admit New Mex
leo and Arizona to Statehood the Com
pers anti-injunction plank would have
forced itself into the Republican plat
FORM" He added, Now that the Re
publicans have entered into contract
on the subject, possibly they may let
the territories in" Mr.. Taft's response
was prompt and pointed: Lest it may
so on without contradiction l want to
say right here that there never was
any chance of the passage of what Mr..
Gompers requested in the Republican
convention. The resolution that l
wanted the convention to pass on the
subject of injunctions was defeated,
and a resolution milder in form was
put In the platform. That is history,
and / don't want history to be record
ed other than as we understand it 10
be-"
Every Republican in the country will
applaud the President for his rebuke
to this prevaricator. The time to ex-
pose a falsehood is at the moment
when it is uttered. So far as We are
aware, this was the first appearance
OF this particular piece of mendaci.F.
When Mr.. Gompers and his Democrat
ic associates appeared in the Chicago
convention and attempted to brighten
the Republicans into committing their
.-arty and candidate to the class prop
uganda which they had advocated in
Washington, the same patriotic and
rublic-spirited business men were
there to combat them. And, as in
Washington, the advocates of class IA
vors were defeated Mr.. Taft had these
facts in his mind when he refuted the
calumpiator at Albuquerque. AS the
President said, his own resolution,
which, of course, was of an entirely
different character from that of Con-
pers. was also defeated, and the con-
vention adopted a milder expression.
The question of the admission or
the nonadmission of Arizona and New
Mexico did not enter into the discus
sion of the Gompers anti-injunction
and proboycott propositions. Those
demands were defeated because they
were monarchial and autocratic- In
Mr.. Gompers' native land, where the
boycott was invented, it had certain
standing which has saved it from Oh
loqny. But the boycott is alien to he
ideas of equality and even-handed JUS
tice on which republic is based.
American statesmen, educators. clergy
men and good citizens in general have
denounced it. In American courts,
State and national, it has been outlaw.
ed In the Danbury hat case the Uni
TED States Supreme Court decided that
the boycott against goods WI ch enter
ed into trade between the States comes
under the penalties prescribed by the
Sherman antitrust act against inter
ference with interstate commerce.
well remembered by the country. the
party which was founded on the prin-
ciple of equal privileges before the law
for all men, poor and rich, low and
high, black and white, could give 70
quarter to demands for the creation of
a favored order of lawbreakers in the
country. Mr.. Gompers was told IN
Chicago to take his plank to Denver,
and ne did it. Denver gave it hospit-
able reception. 1t obtained a promi-
nent place in the Denver platform.
The Denver candidate advocated it On
the stump. If Bryan and Bryanite
Congress had been elected in 1908 the
Gompers monarchial program might De
placed in the statutes. AS the Amer
can people in 1908 gave the Repubi-
can party a commission to retain con-
troll of the government a Republican
and an American policy will continue
to prevail Mr.. Taft is a good-temper-
ed man, but his Indignation at the
New Mexican attempt to salsify his
tory will crafty every philosophical
American, Democrat as well as Repub-
lican.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.