Fifty years ago Texas was not annexed to the Union. Kansas was a wilderness. and there were but few white men in the Indian Territory. and therefore there were but few cases to be tried by the district court of Arkansas. The same conditions remained up to the establishment of the western judicial district of Arkansas. but by the advent of railroads. and by the system the Indians have of permitting white men to come into their country as farmers and mechanics. the number of white men has been very largely increased. and correspondingly crime has increased there. and in addition to those two causes of increase of white population there are refugees from justice from all portions of the country. who flee there as a harbor of refuge. The result is that the district court for the western district of Arkansas is so burdened with business that men can not obtain the trial contemplated by the Constitutiona speedy and impartial trial by a jury. They stay there week after week.
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