The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-07-02

dearest interests to him. Most as
suredly he never has yielded and new
er will yield to threat or pressure of
any sort, as little II II comes from la.
Dor as IL 1t comes from capital; he
will no more tolerate the violence
a mob than the corruption and oppres-
sion and arrogance Of corporation or
OF a wealthy man. He will not con
sent to limit the power Of the courts
to put stop to wfongdoing wherever
found. This very fact should MAXI
the labor people feel peculiar conf.
dence In him. He has incurred tt
bitter hostility of foolish and bigoted
reactionaries by his frank criticism
of the abuse of the power of injunc.
ton in labor disputes, and he is
pledged to do all he can to put stop
to the abuses in the exercise Of the
power of injunction.
He will never promise anything
that he will not do all In his power
to perform. He can always be trust
ed to do a little better than his word
and the fact that before election he
will not promise the impossible 10 In
itself a guaranty that after election
all that is possible will be done.
His record as a judge makes the
whole country his debtor. His actions
and decisions are part of the great
traditions of the bench. They guaran.
teed and set forth in striking fashion
the rights of the general public as
against the selfish interests of any
laborers. They set forth and stand by
the rights of the wageworkers to or
ganize and to strike as unequivoca,
as they set forth and stand by the
doctrine that no conduct will be to
Grated that would spell destruction
the Nation as whole. AS for the
attack upon his injunctions in labor
disputes. made while he was on the
bench, | ask that the injunctions !
carefully examined. | ask that every
responsible and fair-minded labor
leader, every responsible and fair.
minded member of a labor organiza-
ton, read these injunctions for HIM
self. II he will do so instead of con.
demning them he will heartily ap-
prove of them and will recognize this
further astonishing fact that the prin.
ciples laid down by judge Taft In
these very injunctions which laboring
people are asked to condemn, are
themselves the very principles which
are now embodied in the laws or
practices of every responsible labt
organization. No responsible organ
ization would now hesitate to con-
denim the abuses against which Judge
Taft's injunctions were aimed. Til
principles which he therein so wisely
and fearlessly laid down serve as a
charter of liberty for all of us, 10
wage workers, for employers, for tn
general public; for they rest on tn,
principles of fair dealing for all, OF
even-handed justice for all. They
mark the Judge who rendered them
as standing for the rights of the
whole people; as far as daylight Is
from darkness, so far is such judge
from the time server, the trucker to
the mob, or the .cringling tool of great
corrupt, and corrupting corporations
Judge Taft on the bench--as since,
in the Philippines, in Panama, in Gu
ba, in the War Department-showed
himself to be a wise, a fearless, ana
an upright servant of the whole peo-
pie, whose services to the whole peo-
pie were beyond all price. Moreover,
let all good citizens remember that
he rendered these services, not when
1t was easy to do so, but when lawless
violence was threatened when malice
domestic and civic disturbance threat
ened the whole fabric Of our Govern.
ment and of civilization; his action
showed not only the highest kind
moral courage but Of physical courage
as WELL for his life was freely and
violently threatened.
Let all fair-minded men, wage work
ers and capitalists alike, consider yet
another fact In one of his decisions
upon the bench Judge Taft upheld ii
the strongest fashion and for the first
time gave full validity to the principle
OF the employers liability for injuri
done workmen. This was before an.
national law on the subject was enact
ed Judge Taft's sense of right his in
dignation against oppression in an.
form, against any attitude that is NJ
fair and just, drove him to take q
position which was violently condemn
ed by short-sighted capitalists and