The Forrest City times., 1909-12-10

The platform Of the successful party in the last election contained the following.
 The Republican party will uphold at all times the authority and integrity of tine courts. state and federal. and will ever insist that their powers to enforce their process and protect life liberty and property shall be preserved inviolate We believe. however. that the rules of procedure in the federal courts with re- spcct to the issuance of the writ of in junction should be more accurately de- fined hy statute and that no injunction ar temporary restraining ortler should be lssued without notice, except where ir- reparahle injury would result from delay n which case a speedy hearing there after should be granted"
 recommend that in compliance with the promise thus made appropriate legis- lation be adopted. The ends Of justice will best be met and the chief cause of complaint against ill-eonsidered iniunc- tons without notice wilt be removed by the enactment of a statute forbiddng hereafter the issuing of any injunction or restraining order whether temporary or permanent by any federal court without previous notice and a reasonable opportunity to be heard on behalf of the parties to be enjoined unless 1t shall ap- pear to the satisfaction of the court that the delay necessary to give such notice and hearing would result in irreparabIe
 
 the court shall from the evidence make d written finding, which shall be spread upon the court minutes, that immediate and irreparable injury is likely to ensue to the complainant, and shall define the injury, state why 1t is irreparabe and shall also indorse on the order issued the date and the hour of the issuance of the order. Moreover, every such injunction or restraining order issued without pre- vious notice and opportunity by the de- fendant to be heard should by force of the statute to expire and be of no effect after seven days from the issuance there of or within any time less than that pe- riod which the court may fix, unless within the injunction or order is ex- tended or renewed after previous notice and opportunity to be heard
 Second-Class Mail Matter.
 The deficit every year in the post office department is largely caused by the low rate of postage Of one cent a pound charged on second-class mail matter which includes not only newspapers but magazines and miscellaneous periodicals The actual loss growing out of the trans- mission of this seeond-elass uail matter at one cent a pound amounts to about s63,0u00o0 a year. The average cost of the transportation of this matter Is more than nine cents pound.
 II appears that the average distance ov-
 
 | their customers Is 29i miles, while the | average haul of magazines is 1049 and | of miscellaneous periodicals ,12S miles. 1 Thus, the average haul of the magazine | Is three and one-half times and that of l the miscellaneous periodical nearly four | times the haul of the daily newspaper yet | all of them pay the same postage rate of l one cent a pound. The statistics of 1907 | show that second-class mail matter con | stituted 639l per cent of the weight of all the mail. and yielded only 5.19 per cent l of the revenue
 | The figures given are startling and | show the payment by the government of 1 an enormous subsidy to the newspapers | magazines and periodicals. and congress | may well consider whether radical steps l should not be taken to reduce the deficit l in the postoftice department caused by this discrepancy between the actual cost | of transportation and the compensation | eXacted therefor.
 great saving might be made, amount | ing to much more than half of the loss | by imposing upon magazines and peri 1 odicals higher rate of postage They | are much heavier than newspapers and 1 contain much higher proportion of ad- Vertising to reading matter and the aver age distance of their transportation is | three and half times as great
 Postal Savings Banks. l mention | in the postoffice department is the real necessity and entire practicabllity of es- 1 tablishing postal savings banks The sue ! cessful party at the last election declared 1 in favor of postal savings banks. and al ! though the proposition finds opponents in | many parts of the country. I am con Yincad that the people desire such banks. and am sure that when the banks are fur nished they will be productive of the ut. most good
 Favors Ship Subsidy.
 Following the course of my distin- 1 guished predecessor. 1 earnestly recom- | mend to congress the consideration and passage of q ship subsidy bill looking to 1 the establishment of lines between our Atlantic seaboard and the eastern coast i of South America, as well as lines from the west coast of the United States to | south America. China. Japan and the | Philippines. The profits on foreign mails | are perhaps a sufficient measure of the | expenditures which might first be tenta- | lively applied 10 this method of inducing American capital 10 undertake the estab- lshment of American lines of steamships l in those directions in which we now feel l II most important that we should have | means of transportation controlled in tho 1 interest of the expansion of our trade A 1 bill of this character has once passed the l house and more than once passed the
 
 | bill framed on the same lines and with the same purposes may become fl law.
 Conserving National Resources.
 In several departments there is present. t, cd the necessity for legislation looking 10 tle further conservation of our national ! resources. and the subject Is one of such 1ru'i nee as fo require more detailed and extended discussion than can be en- terc1 upon in fais communication. For that reason l shall ta'ge an early oppor- t"ntH to send q special mcssage to con- Erezs on the subject of the improvement af a'2r waterways upon the reclamation and .-rieation of arid, seui=ar,d. and aFaHu hands, upon tar pre- rTation of aGr lafests and the rerorestiug of suit able arras. upon the recl8ssjGcation of ! tIe public domain win a view of sep ] arat ting from agricufuraI settlement min eraI eaai, and phosphate lands and sites Balons5ng ta the government bordering on streams suitable fer the utilization of i water power
 Political Contribution. ! urgently recommend to congress that a law be passed requiring that candl- dates in elections of members of the house Of representatives and committees In charge of their candidacy and cam