The National tribune., 1908-06-25

| from breakfast to going to bed, ant
| would look unnatural in anything else
ambassador Bryce was much i'm
pressed with the National Republican
! Convention. He was the guest of the
Hamilton Club at a banquet, and speak
ing of Convention. said:
| This machinery of conventions, a:
| you have it in this country, is the mos
complete, full recognition of the right:
| of the people to which any country ha:
attained, because people not only a
elections say who shall be their officers
but, in these party conventions, they
! determine on the man who ought to be
put forward as the representative OF
parties
Postmaster-General Meyer and EN-
| bassador Jusserand, Nof France, have
signed a convention providing for par
GELS post exchange between this coun-
| try and France. Under its terms, which
are effective Aug. Is next packages VI
to four pounds and six ounces will be
carried at the rate of II cents a pound
Later the maximum weight of packages
which can be sent by mail to France
at the rate of II cents a pound VIII be
increased to IL pounds.
PostmaSter-General Meyer has also
concluded a postal convention with
Italy, whereby, beginning on Aug. 1,
merchandise may be sent by parcels
post between the United States and
Italy at the rate of II cents a pound up
to II pounds.
Senator Thomas P. Gore, of Okla
homa, who has been undergoing treat
ment at the Episcopal Eye. Ear and
Throat Hospital in this city, in the hope
that he might regain the partial use of
one eye. left the city last week, accom-
panied by Mrs. Gore. Before going to
his home in Oklahoma he will pay a
brief visit to his mother in Oxford, Miss.
Senator Gore had expected to attend
the Republican Convention at Chicago,
and participate in the Democratic Con-
yentiOn at Denver, but rumored opposi-
ton to his return to the Senate has
caused him to change his plan. NJ. l..
Turner, a former rival for the seat in
the Senate, will, it is said, make the
race again. While Senator Gore thinks
he will have no trouble in being re-
elected, he is not taking chances.
His treatment at the hospital has not
succeeded as well as the most optimistic
of his friends had hoped. but the Sen
ator believeS-he has been benefited.
Should specialists decide to perform an
operation, it will be undertaken when
the Senator returns for the next session
of Congress- s-''t"s ii-'eaa
Associate Justice. Brewer. of the
United States Supreme Cotirt, was de-
livering an address at the commence
ment exercises of Clark College, Wor-
cester Mass, on the very day and just
about the hour when the near-what-
Roosevelt-wanted-in junctien-clause was
being placed in the platform in Chi
cage. The eminent jurist took issue
with the President as to the courts.
THE Injunction said Justice Brew
er. has become political question and
a topic for heated denunciation. There
never was time in the history of the
Nation when the full restraining power
of the Equity Court was of so much
importance to the Nation. AS the popu-
Iation becomes more and more dense
and activities increase. the restraining
power of the Equity Court is worth
vastly more than the Furnishing power
of the Criminal Court.
at is in line with the highest thought
of the day. We aim to stay the epidemic
and not to cure the raYageS of the dis
ease after it has gained Roadway. We
strive to stamp out vice in the Sums,
not by driving out the residents, but by
letting in light and air and the COM
straining power of the court is a step
backward toward barbarism, intsead Of
a step forward TO higher civilization.
Courts make mistakes in the grant
ing of injunctions: so do they in other
judicial action. l know that labor or
CARNATIONS are especially energetic in
claiming that the power of the injunc-
ton is used mainly against them. OF
course, this is not true. Injunctions are
granted against all sorts of persons and
organizations every day in the year.
Look at the acts of violeDce and
strife which have been checked or pre-
vented by this restraining power. IT
does not follow that the power ought
to be used against capital or corpora
tons, and not against labor.
"The restraining power of the Court
of Equity should be enlarged, and not
diminished. and the judiciary improved.
until all people will be assured that the
power is only used when necessity re-
quires and restraint imposed only when
justice demands
Postmaster General Meyer has pro-
mulgated the order intended TO bar
from the mails publications containing
anarchistic matter and matter that
tends to incite arson, murder, or as
sassination.
The order is based on the recent
amendment by Congress of Section
1898 of the Revised Statutes, prohibit-
ing the carrying of indecent publica-
tions, the amendment providing that
the term indecent within the intend
ment of this act shall include matter
of a character tending TO incite arson,
murder. or assassination"
Postmasters are instructed that when
any issue of a publication printed in
whole or in part in language other
than English is offered for mailing, and
the postmaster has reason to believe
that it contains matter that is forbid
den by Section 1893, he is to require
the publisher to furnish true transla-
ton OF the matter under suspicion.
Pending the filing of the translation
and its review, the publication cannot
be accepted.
The postmaster is given authority to
decide whether, in his opinion, the
matter is of such n character that 1t
falls within the prohibition, and If he
is in doubt he is instructed to refer
the matter 10 the Assistant Attorney
General for the Postoffice Department
This order applies To third-class mat
ter also. thus barring anarchistic books
Postmasters are cautioned that the or
der is not to be used to irritate, annoy,
or intimidate publishers.
Judge De Lacy. of the Juvenile
Court, had some colored boys before
him the other day who had so i'm
proved since they were confined in the
Reform School that he let them out on
probation. He talked TO them quite
awhile, and this is part of what he
said:
when you were here before. you
didn't have much of an idea as to what