The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-10-19

Declaring that the campaign Of 1911,
is as important as the campaign o
1896 and resembles that campaign IL
that the Democratic party and 1t
candidate are seeking a vote of power
for dishgenuous. unsound, but alIur
ing reason, William III. Taft, former
President Of the United States, deliv
cred the opening address Of the New
Jersey Republican state campaign a,
Trenton.
Mr.. Taft said, in part:
1.-THE great public advantage In or
ganization and combination Of cap
ital and of wage earners we all recog
nize. The power they acquire may
however, become SO great as to tempt
TO serious abuse and public injury
and they have done so. Hence, we
have had the antitrust law and the
Interstate commerce law, directed
chiefly against combinations of cap
ftal but effecting In some measure
combinations of labor. Labor leaders
have sought exemption from such
laws as privileged class, and in some
cases they have been successful.
While Mr.. Wilson in one of his me-
mOrandums attached to an appropria-
ton bill avowed his opposition to such
class legislation, he united with the
Democratic Congress in passing, at
the demand of the unions, the Clay
ton Act, which, the labor leaders
.l.,f.. f,I- Al
lions of the Trust Act.
"Unwise subseryiency to the de-
mands of leaders OF organized labor
finds its browning Instance however,
in Mr.. Wilson's dealing with the
threatened strike of the Railway Or
ders Of conductors, engineers, train
men and switchmen. The orders
claim to control 100000 men, who run
the freight and passenger trains of
the country, which constitute the
arterial circulation Of commerce, and
ere necessary not only to the bust
ness but to the health and life of the
people. Were these men able to tie
up the railways of the country, as
they said they could and would, it
ness and great deprivation and suffer
ing TO the public. 1t would mean that
many millions of other workmen
would he thrown out of employment
and lose the high wages they are
now receiving, because without COM
merce local industries cannot pro-
coed. The Railway unions said to
the railway president I'VE wish an
eight-hour day. with ten hours pay, |
and if we work more than eight hours, |
we demand 80 per cent more an hour
for the extra hours If you do not |
give us this, we will not only injure
you, but we will bring disaster to the
country" The railway managers re-
fused the demand, but offered to sub
NIT it to arbitration. They said it
would increase their cost of operation
$50, OO0,0 OO and that this. would have
to come out of the pockets of the rail-
way stockholders. by reduction OF
profits, or out of the shipping public
by an increase of rates. The labor
leaders said they had had arbitration
in the past and that il was not salts
factory that now unless their de-
msnds were fully granted, no power
under heaven could prevent the strike,
with its disastrous consequences.
Under the duress of the threat, the
President of the United States and
Congress of the United States sue
cumbed. 1t was one of the greatest
humiliations to which the
people of this country have ever been
subjected. 1t struck most blow at
the principle of arbitration for the
settlement of industrial disputes.
Mr.. Wilson as publicist, attacked
The enactment Of federal child labor
Jaw as an absurd extravaganza, and a
departure from constitutional limita-
lions, and now within the last sixty
days he has personally visited Con-
yress to urge the adoption of exactly
such Il measure.
For the purpose of evading RESPONSE
Diiity for present conditions it is adj
,anced in behalf of Mr. Wilson and
he Democratic Administration that
he conditions In Mexico were an in
leritance from the last Administra- l
Othing to cOmplicate Mr.. Wilson's q
Huerta had been twelve t
avs in power when Mr.. Wilson came t.
O. Up to that time nothing had been i
one committing the government to
ne policy or another. Had the Re-
ublican administration been cOntin-
ed, Huerta would have been recOg
lied, but with only twelve days be-
IRE the coming in of new Admins sr
.ation, 1t would have been entirely do
improper and inconsiderate for the ar
1tgoing Administration to commit the wi
coming to any policy on the subject. 10
r. Wilson cannot shift the blame ~,
Il his plumbers in Mexico. He had -
clean slate upon which to wzits az
ben he came In. IT, eV