The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-28
PRESIDENTS
 MESSAGE
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cicnt and permanent basis. II Is much to be wished that one feature of the financial legislation of thls session should be the establishment of postal savings banks. Ample appropriation should be made to enable the interstate commerce commission to carry out the very important feature of the Hepburn law which gives to the commission su- pervlsion and control over the account ing systems of the railways. Failure to provide means which will enable the commission to examine the books of the railways would amount to an at tack on the law at its most vital point, and would benefit. as nothing else could benefit. those railways which are cor ruptly or lncompetcntly managed. For est reserves should be established throughout the Appalachian mountain region wherever it can be shown that they will have direct and real con nection with the conservation and lm- provement of navigable rivers.
 Power of Injunction and Control of
 Corporations,
 There seems. however. much douht about two of the measures I have re- commended the measure to do away with abuse of the power of injunction and the measure or group of measures to strengthen and render both more efficient and more wise the control by the national government over the great corporations doing an interstate busi- ness.
 Power of Injunction Considered
 First, as to the power Of injunction and of punishment for contempt Tn contempt eases, save here ,mmeGiata ac,ion is inpetatue the trial should oe boiorA anothsr rudge 'ts reeagos iniunctuns, some such legislation as that ] have previously recommended should be enacted. They are blind who fail to realize the extreme bitterness caused among large bodies of worthy citizens by the use that has been re- peatedly made of the power of injunc. ton In labor disputes. Those in whose judgment we have most right to trust are of the oplnlon that while much of the complaint against the use of the injunction is unwarranted, yet that |, is unqucstionably true that in A nun. Der of cases thls power has been asked to the grave injury of the rights of Ia. boring men. I ask that it he limited in some such way as that l have already pointed out In my previous messages for the very reason that 1 do not wisf to see an emblttorad effort made to de. stroy it, It is unwise stubbornly tt refuse to provide against a repetition of the abuses which have caused tho present unrest In a democracy lkt ours If is idle to expect permanent, to thwart the determination of the great body of our citizens. It may b, and often s the highest duty of court legislature, or an executive, {, resist and defy a gust of popular pas sion and most certainly no public ser want, whatever may be the conse quences to himself should yield {,  what he thinks wrong But in a uues ton which is ernphatically one of pub lie policy, the policy which the publi demands is sure in the end to be adopt cd; and a persistent refusal to gran to a large portion of our people wha Is right Is only too apt in the end {, result in causing such irritation tha when the right Is obtained 1t is obtain cd in the course of movement so il considered and violent as to be accom- panied by much that Is wrong. Tn process of injunction in labor disputes as well as where state laws are in Volved, should be used sparlngly, ant only when there is the dearest neces sity for it but 1t is one so necessar, to the efficient performance of dut, by the court on behalf of the natlo, that 1t Is in the highest degree to b regretted that 1t should re liable L reckless use for this reckless ase tond to make honest men desire so to ham ror its execution as to destroy its use fitness
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