In his speech in Chicago, President Taft expressed his sympathy with labor, and with organized labor, but he was also brave enough to state just what his position was regarding the rights of those who were outside of organized labor. He said, as reported in “The Independent” of September 23: “Nothing I have said or shall say should be construed into an attitude of criticism against, or unfriendliness to, those working men who for any reason do not join unions. Their right to labor for such wages as they choose to accept is sacred, and any lawless invasion of that right can not be too severely condemned. All advantages of trades unionism, great as they are, can not weigh a feather in the scale against the right of any man lawfully seeking employment to work for whom and at what price he will. “Of course when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods, with breaches of the law, with boycotts, and other methods of undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.”