Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1908 — TAFT’S INJUNCTIONS. [ARTICLE]

TAFT’S INJUNCTIONS.

I ask that every responsible and fair-minded labor leader, every responsible and fair-minded' member of a labor organization, read these (Taft’s) Injunctions for himself, j If he will do so, instead of condemning them he will heartily approve of them and will recognize this further astonishing fact that the principles laid down by Judge Taft in these very injunctions, which laboring people are asked to condemn, are themselves tbe very principles which are now embodied in the laws or practices of every responsible labor organization. The principles which he therein so wisely and fearlessly laid down serve as a charter of liberty for all of us, for wage workers, for employers, or the general public; for they rest on the principles of fair dealing for all, of even-hand-ed 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 a judge from the time-server, the truckler to the mob, or the cringing tool of great, corrupt and corrupting corporations.—. President Roosevelt.