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minded judges, no less than those of
narrower mind and more restricted
outlook. 1t was the kind of attack
admirably fitted to prevent any suc>
the judiciary, because 1t gave the
champions of the unjust judge their
eagerly desired opportunity to shift
their ground into a championship of
Just judges who were unjustly assail-
ed Last year, before the house COM
mittee on the Judiciary, the same
labor leaders formulated their de-
mands, specifying the bill that con-
tained them, refusing all compromise,
stating they wished the pdincipal of
that bill or nothing. They insisted on
provision that in a labor dispute
no injunction should issue except to
protect a proerty right, and specifi-
cally provided that the right to carry
on business should mt be constructed
as a property right; and in second
provision their bill made legal in A
labor dispute any act or agreement
! by or between two or more persons
that would not have been unlawfm
II done by a single person. In other
words, this bill legalized blacklist
ing and boycotting in every form, Leg
alizing, for instance, those forms OF
the secondary boycott which the an
thracite coal strike commission so
unreservedly condemned; while the
right to carry on a business was eX-
plicitly taken out from under that por-
lection which the law throws over
property The demand was made
that there should be trial by jury In
contempt cases, thereby most seriously
impairing the authority of the courts
All this represented a course of poll
CIV which. if carried out would mean
the enthronement of class privilege In
its crudest and most brutal form, and
the destruction of one of the most es-
sential functions of the judiciary in all
civilized lands.
Indian Service.
1t has been my purpose from the
beginning of my administration to
take the Indian service completely out
of the atmosphere of political activity,
and there has been steady progress
toward that end The last remaining
stronghold of politics in that service
was the agency system, which had
seen its best days and was gradually
falling to pieces from natural or pure
ly evolutinary causes. but like all
such survivals, was decaying slowly
in it's later stakes. II seems clear
that its extinction had better be made
final now so that the ground can be
on behalf of the Indians, preparatory
to their induction into the full meas
ure of responsible citizenship On
November only IS agencies were left
on the roster; with two exceptions.
where some legal questions seemed
to stand temporarily in the way. these
have been changed to superintendent
cles, and their heads brought into the
classified civil service.
Postal savings Banks.
dEdil ltutN MY
for postal savings banks, for deposit
ing savings with the security of the
government behind them. The OBJ
ject Is to encourage thrift and econ
omy in the wage-earner and person
of moderate means.
Parcel Post.
In my last annual message / COM |
mended the generals rec
for an extension of the |
parcel post on the rural routes. The
of local parcel post
on rural routes would be to the mu-
tual benefit of the farmer and the
country storekeeper, and it is 1esir-
able that the routes, serving more
than 100000 people, should be util-
lied to the fullest practicable extent.
Panama Canal.
The work on the Panama canal is
being done with a speed, efficiency
and devotion to duty which make It
l model for all work of the kind No
task of such magnitude has ever be-
lore been performed The men on the
from Colonel Goethals and
MS fellow commissioners through the
,ntire list of employees who are faith
,ully doing their duty. have won their