River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-08-08

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to protect a lawful business against
the destructive effect OF a secondary
boycott and by interposing jury In
contempt proceedings brought to en-
| force Its order and DEGREES. These
PROVISIONS are really class Legislation
| designed to secure immunity for law
isssness In labor disputes on the part
OF the laborers, but operating mucn
more widely to paralyze the arm OF
the court in cases which do not IN
voiVe labor disputes at all. The hos
tiiity to the judiciary and the meas
ures to take away its power and Its
| independence constitute the chief defi-
mite policy that can be fairly attribut-
ca TO that class OF statesmen and re-
formers whose absorption and control
the Republican party escaped at Chi
cago and the Democratic party yield
ed to at Baltimore.
Such Innovations Rejected.
The Republican party, Mr.. Taft con-
| tinued, stands for none Of these In
novations. It refuses to make changes
simply for the purpose Of making a
change, and cultivating popular hope
that in the change something benefi-
clal. underlined, will take place. The
Republican party believes in progress
along the lines upon which we have at
tanned progress already.
The president then devoted some
time to review Of what has been &C.
complished during his administration,
including warm defense of the Payne
tariff bill. In conclusion he said:
can not think that the American
people, after the scrutiny and educa-
ton OF three-months' campaign, dur
ing which they will be able to see
through the fog OF Misrepresentation
and denagoguery, will fall to recog-
nize that the two great issues which
are here presented to them are, first,
whether we shall retain, on a sound
and permanent basis, our popular cca-
stitutional representative form of gov
eminent, with the independence of
the judiciary as a necessary key to the
preservation of those liberties that
are the Inheritance Of 1000 years, and.
second, whether we shall welcome
prosperity which is Just at our door by
maintaining our present economic
business basis and by the encourage
ment Of business expansion and prog
ress through legitimate use OF cap
ital.
Appeal to All Conservatives.
/ know that in this wide country
there are many who call themselves
Democrats, who view, with the same
aversion that we Republicans do, the
radical propositions of change in our
form OF government that are reckless
ly advanced to satisfy what is sup
posed to be popular clamor. They are
men who revere the constitution and
the institutions of their government
with all the love and respect that we
could possibly have, men who depre-
cate disturbance in business condi-
tons, and are yearning for that quiet
from demagogic agitation which is
essential to the enjoyment by the
whole people of the great prosperity
which the good crops and the present
conditions ought to bring to us. To
them / appeal, as to all Republicans,
to join us in an earnest effort to
avert the political and economic rev.
olution and business paralysis which
Republican defeat will bring about.
May we not hope that the great ma
jority Of voters will be able to dis
tinguish between the substance OF
performance and the fustian Of prom
Use; that they may be able to see that
those who would deliberately stir up
discomfort and create hostility toward
these who are conducting legitimate
| business enterprises, and who repre-
sent the business progress Of the coun-
try, are sowing dragons teeth? Who
are the people? They are not alone
the unfortunate and the weak; they
are the weak and the strong, the poor
and the rich, and the many who are
neither, the wage Garner and the cap
| italist, the farmer and the professional
man. the merchant and the manufac-
turer, the storekeeper and the clerk,
the railroad manager and the employe
they all make up the people and
they all contribute to the running of
the government, and they have not
any of them given into the hands OF
anyone the mandate to speak for them
as peculiarly the peoples representa-
tive. Especially does not he represent
them who, assuming that the people
are the unfortunate and discontinued,
would stir them up against the re-
mainder of those whose government
alike this is. In other campaigns be-
fore this. the American people have
been confused and misled and diverted
from the truth and from a clear per-
ception Of thei2 welfare by specious
appeals to their prejudices and their
misunderstanding but the clarifying
effect of campaign of education, the
nricking of the bubble of demogogic
promise which the discussions of a
campaign made possible. have brought
the people to a clear perception of
their own interests and to rejection
| of the Injurious nostrullS that In the
beginning of the campaign, it was
then feared, they might embrace and
adopt, So may we not expect in the
issues which are now before us that
the ballots cast In November shall
show q prevailing majority in favor of
sound progress, great prosperity upon
a protective basis, and under true cor
stitutional and representative rule by
the people?
In all this byplay Of cooked hat and
black cap is preserved the ancient
| fro di%iov ~ @ba o.1nrpmacV Of the