The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 4, 1902, Page 9

eee ee t be of service to the peo- cial Legislation. sere congratulation rates are @ potent factor in rc he -Enited States and in order that these Mexic @ have been t h and smaller y be equalized to meet the vary- nmainn to coo ee ii His Annual Communi separated communities and ts, tory results in the @ase of a o unication Upon Questions the'recurrence of financial stringencies ®laim at Ise between us and our sister my f ly gn — Se that this first case will serve as a prece- v of Importance to tho Nation. it is necessary that there should b® ent ‘for others, in which not only the he maine canal United States, but foreign nations may i y “ d. For, vae or caiasean ta ieee Neue skeen be take advantage of the machinery al- into their careers and capacity, to P rious reasons there has been little intere placed, as far as practicable, the burden Te*4¥ in existence at The Hague. theta of the same high relative excel-erce ference with such inclosures in the past, of furnishing and maintaining a circu I commend to the favorable corsidera- throughout their careers. but ample notice has now been given i ~~ aining @ circu- tion of the congress the Hawaiian fire . mene WOE ee lation adequate to supply the needs of claims, which were the subject of care- The Nati Guard. the trespassers, and all the rm es at our_d-versified_industries-and-of our do- {| investigation during the last session, ‘The measure providing for the reorgani- the command of the government will mestic and foreign commerce; and the faves of thie should be so regulated that THE PANAMA CANAL. ing the highest eiiciency in the national trespassing. supply sheuld be always available for the business interests of | f Import Duties Would Not Remedy the ‘e country. Padeer panies ntion and ac should receive prompt atte ny Ofers a Good Title tion. It is of great importance that the able. The mere out.ine of any plan suffi- quire good titie from the French Panama wealth, in fisheries. ciently comprehensive to meet these re-| Canal company, Negotiations are now NEEDS OF THE NAVY. o in , Unions and Corporations—Many hig supply e legitimate demand of - | should be carried out asa continuing policy uncer the immediate comm, commercial freedom ento!"!ng restraint Santive ieadeinee and “et reomamate®s oe without regard to change of a@ministra- miral of the navy. Consta To She Benate and House of Representa- tives: nae still contin _ See < upon national commer ec the creature of Jaw, but undoubtedly g°Sise und feanonatie ey wena ing Courage permanent cred n@ that shich will make it a matter of the navy, but it is yet far from what it [0 the exp Bd fenaendibolie cena toon of circulation: and of making all kinds of | stances which w ake ye 0 At i No It would be both unwise and unneces- t wa acne aie dias lation of the national guard fo, the militia pene ee ee "a oa sary al time to attempt to recon- The congress has wisely provided a! an@ volunteer forces of the Unite tates Evils of Monopoly—Believes in a Tariff Com- struct our financial system, which has we shall build at once an Isthmian canal, shoulg be defined, and that in place of our been the growth of a century; but some if possible at Panama. The attorney gen- present obsolete laws a practical and ef jy, as is the mission—Much That Is Good in Labor additional legislation is, I think, desir- eral reports that We can undoubtedly ac- Holent system should be acopted. ag TI ession—in aamieie gation of the militia system ane for secur- hereafter be used to put a stop to such guard, which has already passed the house, Alaska Legislation Asked For. I especially urge upon the congress the for Alaska. It a nation that which has been ours for 3 years ld still have as poor a system of country furs, forests nd also in land available for certain kinds Alaska needs a i quirements would transgress the appro-| pending with Colombia to secure her assent ” ving ty | priate limite” ot ths communication... it fo our builing voy Bay RTA More Ships and Men Needed to Keep thertery at erect aise and ‘varied “ree re one of the greates' . Needs of the Nation. | gislation on the subject should be Wath | the twentieth century; a greater engineer- Pace with the Time pena ig ye gs support a large } the view of encouragin, ich | ing feat than has yet been accomplished For the first time in our history naval * 2 instrumentalities as will automatically during the history of mankind. The work maneuvers on a large scale ure being held cedibocon eh pn, Meg Soe settlement, we should be liber within the only in the amount, but in the character | tion; and it should be begun un¢er circum- attention is being paid to the gunnery of Should ett aah abendiclae ot = ride for all adminisirations to continue should be. I earnestly urge that the in- [erritory, but to the building up of homes Jaws under which we work have been sary and proper exercise Of CONFESSIONAL OE TRS Hees eee eae eee ee eee alley. Crease asked for by the secretary of the {herein. ‘The land law 1 the conditions authority to the end that such evils should The canal will be of great benefittoAmer- navy In the appropriation for improv in type, so as to hold out inducements J 4 : 1 la or improving ) “ wi ble, and by unwise le; be eradicated. , Maned gold standard tea, and of importance to all the world. It the marksma nsbip be granted, In battie %0 the actual settler whom we most des Th it would be easy enough to destroy believe that monopolies, unjust dis- | THE LA will be of advantage to us industrially and the only shots that count are the shots that Sire to see take possession of ihe \ouns ere will undoubtedly Be porte, of criminations, which prevent or cripple BOR PROBLEM. also as improving our military position, It hit. It is necessary to provide ample tty. The forests of Alaska should be esion. The wave willrecede; but the competition, fraudulent overeapitalization, i ——s will be of advantage to the countries of funes for practice with the great guns in , Protected, and, as a secondary but still will advance? This wation is seated on and other evils in trust organizations and ontem Contains Much That lv Good These funes must provice ‘important matter, the se of pro, lowances tor priges to e nd espect tropical America, t is earnestiy to be time of pea hoped that all of these countries will do as not only for the purcha some of them have alreacy done with sig- for a ai success, and will {te to their shores gun crews rn a Some Bad. ; low to secure fair treatment alike for eers, or in a sense, pioneers them- er of the congress to “regulate commerce, lavor and for capital, how to hold in q ; of men winnowed out from among with foreign nations and among the sev- check the unscrupulous man, whether continent flanked by two great oceans practices which injuriously affect inter-| ° is composed of men the descendants of state trade can be selvcntat Gadlonthe ner: | game also, and at ctiles, but the same time it is imperative that the courage the settlers. should be allowed to cut tim the gun pointers, be, Under proper regulations, for thelr nmerce and improve their material con- and for perfecting an inte system own use. Laws should be enacted ta nations of the olé world by the energy, eral states” through regulatiows and re-! employer or employe, without ‘weakening | ditions by recogt izing that stability and under which alone it is possible to get good — Protect Alaskat uumon ries ese, and love of adventure found in quirements operating directly upon such’ tndividual Initiative,’ without hampering | orcer are the prerequisites of successful practice. against & which woul stroy own eager hearts. Such a nation, #0 commerce, the instrumentalities thereof,; and cramping the industrial development | development No independent nation tn There should be no halt in the work of, then should be iced, will surely wrest success from for- and those engaged therein. of the country, is a problem fraught w.th | America need have the slightest fear of building up the navy, providing every year| permanent industry and ‘ l earnestly recommend this subject to the reat difficulties and one which it is of | aggression from the United States. It be- accditional fighting eratt, We are a very Pheir management and control f ws people we hatve played a large part consideration of the congress with a view) the highest importance to solve on lin hooves each one to maintain order within rich country, vast in extent of territory and| turned ever to the coma in the world, and we are bent upon making to the passage of a law reasonable in its! of sanity and far-sighted common sense | Its own borders and to discharge its Just’ great in population; a country, moreover, | and fisheries, Alaska should have a deles our future even larger than the past. In provisions and effective in its operations, | as well as of devotion to the right. This| obligations to foreigners, When this is Which has an army diminutiv ay gate in the co as, It w ell cular, the events of Che last four years upon which the questions car finally | is an era of federation and combination, | @one, they can rest assured that compared with that of any other first-cl if a congressional commitiee could visit ve Cefinitely decided that, for woe or acijudicated that now raise @oubts as to! Ex ctly as business men find they must | strong or aveak, they have nothing power, We have deliberately mace Alaska and Investigate needs on the the ye ad gare must be great among the necessity of constitutional amendment, | often work through corporations, and as | from outsice interference. More and more own certain foreign pole which dem: ground e may either fail greatly If it prove Impossible to. accomplish the| it is a constant tendency of these cor-| the increasing intercepencence and the possession of @ first The todians, lass navy succeed greatly; but we cannot avoid purposes above set forth by such.a law, . lexity of international political a isthmian canal will greatly increase the naling j as a the n@eavor from which either great fail- then, assuredly, we should not shrink from aerate Pat etocke shen” Ry woke homie eataalnt > render i Incumbes yn all efficiency of our navy if the navy | Pe i oh Pr nat th be ce ', Ure oF great success must come. Hiven if amending the constitution so as to secure’ federations, and these have become im-| clvillzed and orderly powers to insist on dae; but if aye wate] the body of our people, Rate in many Tf we should try. hot play a small part. beyond peradventure the power sought ortant factors of modern industrial life, | the proper polleing of the world n the butiding of the canal Would] casos this absorption must and should would be that we should play a large part SERIE: Both kinds of federation, capitalistic and The Pacitie Cable, + of euperior strength. ‘The Montes tcetting| be very slow, tn portions of che Idan ignobly and shamefully. THE TARIFF, labor, can do- much good, and as a ne During the fall of 1901 mmunication Should be treatec as the cardinal feature of | tertitery the mixture of blood has gone c f Prosperit sary corollary they can both do evil. | was addressed to the secretary of state, American foreign policy; but | td be OW At the same time with prog D ‘ auses oO! espernty. Opposition to each Kind of organization | asking whethe® permission would be ‘ips Peeseet Lt ar tony wad be) wealth and education, so that there are No country has ever occupied a higher Ht Te a Subject That Stands Apartfrom should take the form of opposition to] granted by the president to a corpora: {ended to buck I up. a ro ens We tes | plenty of men with ‘Varying degrees of of material well-being than ours the Trust whatever is bad in the conduct of any| tion to lay a cable from a paint on the (nded 0 back it up. an@it can be backed | purity of fnaian blood who are abso at the presen: moment. This well-being — Ono proposition advocated has b he| Elven corporation or union—not of at-| California coast to the Philippine islands thyy a thoroughly good navy. 9A good | futely indistinguishable In pont of social due to no sudden or accidental causes, peguetion of the tariff as a me jas ree M4 tacks upon corporations as such nor upon way of Hawail, MRLAINAHE GP C6R> ie * bear ative of war. This the} noiti@il and — econe al ability om it to the play of the economic forces asa means of reach-| unions as such; for some of the most | gj - Y ton ee H hae cree a ae ' their white assoc There are er 3 ; es sing the evils of the trusts which fall with- 7 - ‘ ditions or terms upon which such cor. Sach individual unit of our navy should , 1 . ‘ in this country for over a century: to “in*the category I have described, N far-reaching beneficent work for our peo-| poration would undertake to lay and be the most efficient of its king yee | tribes which have yet mode no pore , 1 our sustained and continuous ierely would this be Wholly ineffective | Ple_has been accomplished through both Operate a vas volunte ae both material and personnel thay eee] ceptible advance toward such al ty. My Cade a ‘et ne aan ip but the diversion of our efforts In such tral rae ty ge Each must re- Inasmuch 4 7 Ss was shortly found in the wor ‘. Teall at ate yl i) at ee era? sila l ae Nag \i be ; average of our citizenship. Great girec roul an the ey rain from arbitrary or tyrannous inter- ; Pacific cable ation i a how 7 peelal at-) prevent their going forward at a ree a fortunes have been won by those who Ail decalilpans ttenios te Ge neue wake ference win the rights of others, Or- | fO49 Poms one, lemrearon pedi A A ad providing for the! over, the tribes Hye under widely dhvers 4 eed tater ug lead in ve poebanens these evils, Many of the largest corpor ganised capita and prwanised tanor alike} theo or several years, it seemed threatens us if we cannot eut conditions. Where i tril ie , industrial development, and most of these » aa thane’ nie yee} Should remember that in the long run] to me defer action upo » AD- We § ow doing as regards considerable advance and ’ ¢ evil, but as an incident to action which ulation, would noi be affected In the | tO harmony with the Interest of ‘he | opportunity to act, The congress ad- est type of sallormen, of sea mecharics, | unis In seve much as te as benefited the community as a whole. siightest degree by a change in the tarif, | Seneral public; and the conduct of « journed without taking any. action, leav- ‘The Veteran seamen of our warships are| _ with the whit lors, There Never before has material well-being save as such change interfered with the | Must conform to the fundamental ries | ing the matter In exactly the same con- of as high a type as can be found in any | Ate, other wher me yee been so widely diffused among our peo- general prosperity of the country. Th. | Of Obedience to the law, of individual ion in which it stood when the con- navy which rides the waters of the w desirable je arid | ne ple. Great fortunes have been um- only relation of the tariff to big corpora-| freedom, and of justice and fair dealing 8 convened they are uw ¢ ring, dn resolu: | © Andree i ta . ulated, and yet in the aggregate these s a Whole is that the tariff makes | toward all. Each shonld remember that Meanwhge it appes at the Com- s. it veh knowled: wer 1ra fortunes are small indeed when anufactures profitable, and the tarif¢} {mn addition to power it must strive after | mercial Pacific Cable company had permit. them te ttle in pared to the wealth ous people remedy proposed would be in effect simpiy | the realization of healrhy, lofty and _gen- n > nooied wit toad " Add to eure thet late whole. The plain people are bette ‘ r - - - - ving its 1 t also m: t = ‘ . re ; the tariff as a punitiv ure} Wage worker, must be guaranteed his | ton to the ingnininn Wer ; large Indian seh situated remote insurance companies, which ‘i ainst trusts would inevitably re- | berty and his ht to do ons he likes of soundings taken by the U, § from any, Indian resery al tieally mutual benefit societies— re the Weaker competitors who | With his pro (oF his labor so long for the purpose of discovertr und pee ly helpful to men of moderate m are struggling inst them. Our aim| #* he does not infrine nthe teh acticable route fora trana-Pac VY, and to send har But, excr : Sgepresent accumulations of capital which shouid be not by unwise tariff changes to| Of others. Tt ts of the t impor-] cable, the company urging that with ac- matter how brave 5 @ among the largest in t country, give foreign products the advantage ov tance that employer and employe al'ke soundings {t could complete neon ther € ere are more deposits in the savings mestic products, but by proper regula- | Should endeavor to , and above all among ppreciate each the 8 ¢ much sooner than if it were banks, more owners of farms, more we!l- nd@ the sure dis- upon its own n to give domestic co: q ‘air | Viewpoint of the other id wage workers in this country now nee; ane this end canr 4 wster that wil! come upon both In the on of this When w uY i tirst and most tmport toward Phan ever before in ourhistory. Of course, any tariff chan long run if either grows to take as hab't- appear nt and We need a thousand adaitional officers in| the absorption of the Tndiin 0 teach when the conditions have favored the ably all ¢& fe comp ual an attitude of sour hostility and dis- | gira attach taln conditions to ofder to properly man the ships now pros; Bim to earn his figes sc.a8 DOL DeCem ‘owth of so much that was good, they and bad alike. The question of regulation} trust toward the other. people de- I on to examine and use the a ard winder construction, ‘The | s#tily to be as Pay ee ave also favored somewhat the growth of the trusts stands apart from the ques-| serve better of the country than those | soundings, if it should be granted ' the naval school at Annapr Indians must become ¢ of what was evil. Tt is eminently neces- ton of tariff revision representatives both of capital and labor | “Tn consequence of this solicitation of > greatly etar At the same OU Gr Bt Dane Fes nares ee gary that we should endeavor to cut out Stability of economic policy must always | —and pre are many such—who work] the cable company, certain conditions we tht ed the ¢ wher properly. be diversified, this evil, but let us keep a due sense of be the prime economic need of this countrg | continually to bring about a good under- | were formulated, unon which the pr 1 them, we should facilitate the WW special Cerire oF AGAD i let us not in fixing our e This stability should rot be fossilizatio® | standing of this_kind, based-aupen wisdom ig to allow accean to there t of those at the head of the Ii i rat or even comm: upon the lesser evi! forget the greater ‘The Country has acqulesced in the wi and upon ‘broad and kindly sympathy be- | and to consent to the landing usefulness has become Impaired, | should he enc uta wn The evils are real and some of of; the protective-tariff principle. It -| tween employers and employed. Above laying of the le, subject to any Promotion must be fostered if the serv- em are menacing, but they are the cee@ingly undesirable that this system] all, we need to remember that any kind Ae Looe ae gaditinne ‘daerete nposed | {°8,t8 to be kept efficient Saerywih. not of misery or decadence, should be destroyed or that there should be | of ‘class animosity in the political world | phy the congress, This was deemed prop-| , There is not a cloud on the horizon at Selentifie Aid aden g it of prosperity—of the progress of ovr Violent and radical nges therein, Our} is, 1f possible, even more wick even | er, expecially as tt was clear that a cable Present: There seems not the slightest 4 ae ce ntic industrial development. This past experience shows that great prosper-| more destructive to national welfare, | connection of some kind with China, a chance of trouble with a foreign power. ss than in that ry Industrial development must not be ity in this country has always come ynder| than sectional, race or religious animos-| foreign country, was a part of the com-| & most earnestly hope that this stats e farming populatl checked, but side by side with it should a protective tariff; and that the country | itv. We « get good government only | pany's plan. This course was, moreover, | 0! things may continue; and the way to t ame 5 0 such pragressive regulation as will Cannot prosper under fitful tariff changes upon condition that we keep true to t in accordance with a line of precedents, | Mure its continuance Is to provide for \ Giminish the evils. We should fail in at short intervals. Morcover, if the tariff] principles upon which this nation was f-tneluding President Grant's action in the ® thoroughly effi: vy. The refuss! » for th our duty if we did not trv to remedy the !aws as a whole work well, and if business | founded, and judge each man not as a] case of the first French cable, explained [0) Maintain such Y would invite) tarmer amental evils, but we shall succeed only if we has prospered uncer them and is prosper-| part of a class. but upon his individual] to the congress In his annual message of trouble, and if trouble came would insure | weltare public Proceed patiently, w'th practical common ing, It ls better to endure for a time slight All that we have a right to ask] December, 1 and the instance occur-| @8aster. Fatuous self-complacency or | dition to such Work as fense as well as resolution, separating ‘inconveniences ané@ inequalities in some man. rich or poor, whatever his} ring in 1879 of the second French cable | YaMity. or short-sightedness in refusing | animal and vesttable the good from the bad and holding on to Schedules than to upset business by too! creed, h's occupation, his birthplace, or the former while endeavoring to get rid ‘uick and too radical changes. [tis most] his residence. !s that he shall act well of the latter. earnestly to be wished that we could treat | and~honorably bv his neighbor and by | ‘These conditions prescribed, among | PA8t experience has shown that the tariff from the stan¢point solely of our} his country. We are ne'ther for the rich other things, a_maximum rate for com.} ittuity in refusing to reeognize or pre- THE TRUSTS. business reeds. Itis, perhaps, too muchto| man as such nor for the noor man as] mercial messages and that the company. Pare for any crisis in advance {s usually | peculiar co . hope that partisanship may be entirely ex-| euch; we ave for the upright man, rich | chould construct a line from the Philip- Succeeded by a mad panic of hysterical | portions of th They Can Be Controlled Only by Na- cluded from consideration of the subject.| ar poor. So far as the constitutio “pine islands to China, there being at, fF? once the crisis has actually arrived. | been establist . tional Action. the uu dnber intereben of tia Counare tant powers of the national government touch | present, is well kno’ a British line Rural Free Delivery. For i io Cane (Cod. wicked in such a nation as our specially fitted for cu to follow out each his own bent ly 4 p Itt ance, the practicabilit has pugh the ir Farmers, tment of governmental work recent yc ars has there been greater suce ntine against gues, and war- from Brest to St. Pierre, with a branch, ©, Prepare for danger, ts both foolish and ring against them when here introduced, much efficient help has been rendere farmer by the introduction sts of these matters of cenreral and vital mo-| from Manila to Hong-Kang—— —Phe—strikine—inerease—tn—thre_Tevenies T Ins, the best-tepesof-mmrenrart when ts IT a Pat Ain awe Se ELC CITT ‘4 to-the-rat tev —stromtt-te-exer= |The representatives of the cable com-| of the post office department shows clear. | Fesiots of an annual raintall Suortivn a ihe pequieton of htes will best be served if together 7) ceed ie fot ale with the principles] pany kept these conditions long under ly the prosperity of our people and the | eee oF Slerea sty ‘orporations commonly doing an in- of principle as rewards ihe tase Ot fixity | above set forth. consideration. continuing, in the mean- tnereasing activity of the business of the| [Y,Jemonstrated. Bhirowsh the in tate business, often with some ten- bine a system which will permit us from| Recommends Department of Com- time, to prepare for laying the cable.’ country. 7 , 4 “ ey have, however. at length acceded. The receipts of the post office depart. | {he Ph fon of rice in th to monopoly, which are popularly time to time to make the necessary reap- merce, | They have baie z , i been made to about equal the hom en as trusts, ‘The experience of the plication of the rinciple to the shitting nes * tts earnestly hoped that a secretary of | t©,,theme and an all-American line be-' ment for the uscal year ending June 30 mand. In the southwest the pe t year has emphasized, in my opin- tonal nee@s. %e must take scrupulous | commerce may be created, with a ti tween our Pa fie coaut iy ig Chinese last am nani te to $121,S48,047.26, an incre regrassing overstocked range. lanes in, the desirability of the steps I then care that the reapplication shall be made| the cabinet. The rapid m vir | empire, by way of Honolulu and the of w.S7 over the preceding tan Gelmcuateated: in the north maty new Proposed. A fundamental requisite of in such a way that {t will not amount to| questions affect.ng labor : ital ke | Philippine islands, is, thus provided for, the largest increase known in the h | forage erops have been introdnced } fal efficiency is a high standard of 4 dislocation of our system, the mere| growth and compiexity of the orgarizaiiong | 20418 expected within a few months to of the postal ser The magnitu in the east it has been shown that some ot vidual ener; and excellence; but threat of which (not to speak of the per- | through which both jabor and pital now be ready for business. this iner will best appear from the! our oicest fruits can be stored and le in no wise inconsistent with pow- formance) would produce paralysis in find expression, the steady tendency to- a ; fact that the entire postal receipts for the year 1860 amounted to but $ Rural free delivery service is n in the experimental stage; it has becor the = er to act in combination for aims which business energies of the community. The | ware the employment of capital in huge PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. cannot so well be ach:eved by the indi- first consideration in making these changes corporations, ane the wonderful strides of acting alone. A fundamental base Would. of course, be to preserve the prin-| this country toward leadership In the in- market abroad. The District of Columb shipped in such a way as to fine a profitable the only part ‘ Se ne | of our territory in whi e national goWs Of civilization is the inviolability of prop- ciple which underlies our whole tariff sys-| ternational business world justify an ur- = se oT Te Them Has a fixed policy. The results following its] ernment exercises local or munic!pal tunes but this is in no wise inconsistent tem—that is, the principle of putting Amer- | gent demand for the creation of such a po- |e Been Vindicated. introduction have fully justified the con-/ tions, and where in cobsrquence the goVe Sy Re right of society to regulate the ican business interests at least on a full| dition. Substantially all the leading com. | On July 4 last, on the one hundred and gress in the large appropriations made! ernment has a free hand in reference to exercise of the artificial powers which it equality with interests abroad, and of al- | mercial bodies in this country have united | twenty-sixth anniversary of the declara- [0F Its establishment and extension. The) certain types of social and economic legis fers upon the owners of pfoperty, un- Ways allowing a sufficlent rate of duty to| in requesting its creation. It is desirable | tion of our independence, peace and am- “Verage yearly increase in post office re-| lation which must be essential: local or Ger the name of corporate franchises, In More than cover the difference between The | that some such measure as that which k..: | nesty were promulgated’ in the Philip- C@Pts !n the rural districts of the coun- municipal in thelr character. The govern- such way as to prevent the misuse !bor cost here and abroad. The well-be-| already passed the senate be e {i pine islands. Some trouble” has since ‘TY shout two per cent. We are now| ment should sce to it, for iretar th @ } of these powers. Corporations, and espe- ‘tg of the wage-worker, like the well-be-| law. The création of such a department | from. time to time threatened with, *! by actual’ results, to show that ; @ sanitary legislision affec omeid combinations of corporations, ‘ng of the tiller of the soil, should be trea’ would in itself be an aévance toward deal- | the Mohammedan Moros, but with the! Where rural free delivery service has r a high character. Th |d be managed under public regula- €¢ 4s an essential in shaping our whole| ing with and exercising supervision over | late insurrectionary Filipinos the—war-been established to such an_extent_as—te—eviis—of—sitm—dweitings whether tr Experience has shown that underour *conomic policy. There must never be any | the whole subject of the great corporations s entirely ceased. Civil government: enable us to make comparisons the yearly | shape of crow enement+ — —Syetem ot government the necessary change which will jeopardize the standard | doing an interstate business; and with this | has now been introduced. Not only does {Merease has been upward of ten per house cistricts or of the back-alley type, Sopervieies geunot be obtained by state of comfort, the standard of wages of the | end In view. the congress should endow | each Filipino, enjoy such rights to lite, cent | should never be permitted to grow up in It must therefore be achieved by American wage-worker, the department with large powers, which | liberty and the pursuit of happiness as On November 1, 1902, 11,650 rural free} Washington, The-eity should be a model nati ion’ Our aim is not to do _One way in which the readjustment} could be increased as experience’ might | he has never before known during the ‘éllvery routes had been established and! in every respeet for ‘all the cities of the rt wit tions; on the contrary, Sought can be reached is by reciprocity | show the need. recorded history of the islands, but the. Were in operation, covering about sne-| country. The charitable and correctional thess ‘aggregations are an inevitable ‘reaties. It is greatly to be desired that gaa Ane ARE pedple taken as a whole now enjoy a| third of the territory of the United States | systems of the district should reccive con- eee modern industrialism, and ‘Such treaties may be adopted. They can CUBAN RECIPROCITY. measure of self-government greater than’ 4vailable for rural free delivery service, | sideration at the hands of the c TeSS to a the effort to destroy them would be futile be used to widen our markets and to that granted to any other orientals by There are now awaiting the action of the| the end that they may embody the results unless accom ul id ive a greater field for the activities of Boag pol ny aie ge MA ay pated our producers on the one hand. and on| Prestdent Insists the Is politic. We can do nothing of good ie oan bo ancise in practical shape the Have Consideration. their own governments, save the Japan- routes. This shows conclusively the want! a great industrial city, way of regulating and supervising lowering of duties wi damage done may be disregarded for the rmal 0 the limit that in the interest: h Rat eh ih thee We ave not hosts sake of the maximum of good 8 Turning Cube Raets tlnee ee Philippine people themselves it wise the practical benefits to our rural pop-| wise employer's-liabi the en they are no ese alone. We have not gone too far in which the establishment of the service | trialism here, amd our labor leg these corporations until we fix clearly in longer needed for protection among our reciprocity treaty soap on ae 2] granting the le Tights of Uberty and self. has met and the need of further exten. | while it would not be importart in its , own people, or when the minimum jut we have certa gone i= as rapidlv as possible. 3 justl- ea el for e rest 0! ) our minds that we are’ not attacking th of! iast the United States kept its promise to ve fled both by the financial results and by | nation. We should pa ; t any foreign power and greater than that d@partment petitions and applications for| of the most advanced thought !n these nd Should | ehjoyed by vany other’ orientals under the establishment. of 10,748 additional | fields. Moreover, while Wa: = same for instance, a y ‘act for the Dis- plished. If it prove impossible to or just to go. To hurry matters, to go ulation; it brings the men who live on| trict of Columbia, and we need@ such an act Ibe 00 (oe ip hye BS the pending ise age! and if there seem ae ge ped gee oe eee Sast OAL Sue than we are now going, would en- the soil into close relations with the ac-| in our navy-yards. Railroad companies in to be no warrant for the endeavor to execute others, or to amend the penne fects her for good or for ill affects ‘also.| lands. No policy ever entered into by in daily touch with the markets; it Is a| block their frogs. treaties so that they can be ratifi Cuba lies at our doo! nd whatever af- fa calamity on the people of the is- tive business world; it keeps the farmer | the district ought to be required by law te then] So much have our tae tile ‘th th the American people has vindicated it- potential educational force; it enhances Protection for Railway Employes. the same end—to aniee the Platt amendment we definitely took the self in more signal manner than the pol- the value of farm property, makes farm The safety-appliance law, for the better legis! Cuba which he wins should be met by direct jon. ‘ound that Cuba m KS Sloser political relations with us than with ump of our arms, above all the tri- 1e | } & welldoer, not a wronsdoer, Need of a Tariff Commissl: ony. ot Pee a favor ate Wherever the tariff conditions are such| has become a part of our international po- ie sooner than we had any right.to It is to be hoped hereafter have | tcy of holding the Philippines. The tri- life ~~ pleasanter and less isolated, and} protection of the lives and limbs of rail- will do much to check the undesirable | way employes, which was passed in 1893, r power. Thus in a sense Cuba] Umph of our laws and Poca has current from be ig? 4 to city. went into full effect on August 1, 191. It that the congress will! has resulted in averting thou: th to that a needed change cannot with ad-| litical system. This makes it necessary | €xpect. Too much praise cannot. be make liberal appropriations for the con-| casualties. Experience shows, ho er, the vantage be made by the application of| that in return she should be given some of pve to the army for what it has done tinuance of the service already estab-| necessity of additional legisiation to per- the reciprocity idea, then !t can be made| the benefits of becoming part of our eco- the Philippines, hoth in warfare and {shed and for its further extensio jonest corpora- outright by a lowering of duties on a} nomic system. It is, from our own stand-| from an administrative standpoint in Progress of Irrigatio gpot be overtanier given, product if posible, such change | point a zhort sighted and mischievous pot. | Breparing the way (or let ovum m: onl . - " ny porpreliot: consideration by practical ‘experts, “who | over. it is unworthy of amights and gen. | authorities for the way in which they been taken up by the congress in recent ercine Care. should ap) h the pas § ting the bina- Scanieence ea 4 estat ublic in history, to refuse to | Ment in the ground thus made ready for tem of nationally aided Irrigation for the apltal-which are-or may become "ess, standpoint, having | Bon clin 'spebeme gue helpline hand tha youne enc | ¢ we must be careful otal well-being. a| weak sister Tepublle jus! ferent enterprises which Mercia ee ag Ot to pee aitgnuch | career of Independense ‘Wee kind-heartedness and. that this policy of national irrigation has ould and the genera fect this law. A bill to provide for this passed the senate at the last session. It le Few subjects of more importance have NOP ka tant ieee Greneate ey x Gratifying progress has been made dure t from a busi-| erous nation, itself the greatest ‘and most | have planted the seeds of self-govern- years than the inauguration of the sys-| ing the year in the extensign of the merit system of making appoint hem, The courage, the unflinching en-, arid regions of the far west. A good be-| in the Goverkineat pone spon t t entering upon its} durance, the high soldierly efficiency,’ ginning therein has been made. Now! extended by law to the District of Co- lumbia. It ts much to be desired that ly reduced the cost of pro- careful investigation can readily be ways fearlessly insist upon our rights in| humanity of our troops have been strik-| been adopted, the need of thorough| our consular system be established b: PPS AY the pitee which plied. ‘The executive department has sic | the face of the strong, ane we should with | Ingly manifested. There now remain Oy ad ae TAIG iat Cer heen shout the | 12% on a basis providing for ‘appointment Sipe me ine ioecerenip of ngrudging han. ur generous duty by | Some 15,000 troops in the islands, All tol industrial world, no! pH AE y ieewenk ewe thes acon ‘on of rect} roelty over 1000 have been sent there. Of Ls “eiteT Ky able for agri-| PFoved fitness, With the result of c! nal with Cuba not only because it Is eminently | course, there have been individual in ev are available for agri- ! is ibject by | for our own interests to control the Cuban | stances of wrongdoing among _ them, to whatever extent and promotion only in consequence of The New White House. market and by every means to foster our| They warred under fearful difficulties of may be reclaimed under the national Through a wise provision of the con- ion business ppoin 7 climate and surroundings; and under the figation law, the remaining pubiic lands| gress at its last se: Son duty fous et od jbeeeise sot Por un Se tee eh aes ag rant strain of the terrible provocations which should be held rigidly for the home| which has_ beco: ion the white house, disfigured by incon- m action by the congress a’ a deliberate nt. republic of the north, should make| they continually receive from their foes, builder, the settler who lives on his land, a additions and changes. has now nd ee jg nd scientific examination of the vari all our sister nations of the American cor-| occasional instances of cruel retaliation and for no one else. In thelr actual use ‘the the desert-land | ae dames oat atone ao restored to hog it was planned ta tem te whatlt schedules ag they are affected by the| finent feel that whenever they will permit | Occurred. Every effort, has been made lesert-land law, sto Wartasee is wane Coe syste ‘ery - | @ tt such cruelties, and finally law, and the commutation clause of the| ations the utmost care has been exer- temptat betterment, changed and changing conditions. The Sy ee ae eee eyes isinterest- | toate efforts t ve been completely suc: homestead law have been 0 perverted | clsed to come as neat as possible to th e historic truth that. W! Pato lh bo ge oo Py ai . cessful. Every effort has also been made from the intention with which they were| early plans and to supplement these plans commingion would how, What ¢ ig detect and pinch ihe. wipagdgern. foucted aa to germit ihe acqusion, ot} $7 X Saretul sd oF rac britney 3e : LFIOUS_#C! As eivilization-grows- warfare” After making all allowance for these large areas of the public domain for oth-| that of the University of Virginia, whick and how fat these changes cou! “normal ~ Ht remains trae that few. in-—er than actual settlers amt the conse-| wax DUIIC BY Jefferson. The white house h h without “ato foreign rel h been the instances in which quent prevention of settlement. More-| is the property of the nation. and so far te busine his country ig! which this country is now bag ad is ng ag be- oar bar been waged by a civilized power over, the approaching exhaustion of the is compatible with living therein ‘4 it supine on the plea that Ing, or upsetting tq fixed economic po wars with unciv.| against’ semi-civilized and barbarous public ranges has of late led to, much] should be kept as it originally wiv. ‘or m of govern a 8 ps in which the tartft can pro-| illised rs are largely mere matters of | forces where there has been so little discussion as to the best manner of using} the same reasons that we keep Mount ie presence of the n je with them duce a monopoly are so few as to : world islands. On the other hand, the suitable chiefly or only for grazing. T*e| ly simplicity of its Withas arisen in stitute Inconsiderable factor in’ Sibi y Amount of diffi 3 important, and_be-. sound and f the of course if in F h been done it west depends tpon the bnildine it work whic does promote a whic es sed | Taking the work of the army and the as @ nation has been due to the onera-| serve. It ts a good ill, no protectionist object reduction of the duty:as, wou eivil authorities together, it 4 competition. : > ° ies the world has seen a better exam- in the zing region the man who cor- Tn my judgment, the tarift 4 : The | ple of real constructive “statesmanship Feaponds to. the homesteader may ve Nn. elite coal should be removed, a our people have given in the Phil- able to settle permanently if only allowed put actually, Tir ah now for ippine islands. Ban praise should 0 use the same amount of pasture t ly, on the free list. is would have be given those pinos, in the aggre. that his brother, the homestender, Is al- ffect at all save in crives; but io Y invoke such pA numerous, who have accepted lowed to use of arable land. One hun- } . \ ’ gress with thi tn which it was built, a well-nigh incalculab ; homes therein. Much of our prosperity} with the purposes it w wrongdoing by the victors as in the Phil- these public lands in the west which »re| Vernon as it originally was. The state. architecture (s may be ques- tion of the homestead law. On the other] such buildings as historic monumen tioned whether anywhere else in modern hand, we should recognize the fact that| which keep alive our sense of contine til ulty with the nation’s past. The reports of the several executive departments are submitted ‘o the cone communication. THEODORE White House, December 1" ° an steady development of the} expression ofthe character of the por'od ‘mn arcard designed to nt to preser VELT, RE Se ede