Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1906 — THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.

Following, in brief, are the recommendations of the president’s message to congress. As usual the message is very voluminous and oontains some 930,000 words: A law prohibiting corporations from contributing to campaign funds. Revision of the statutes to give the Government the right of appeal in both civil and criminal actions against trusts. Capital punishment for rape. Rigid enforcement of the eighthour law where practicable. Shorter hours for railway employes. Investigation of the oondition of the labor of children and women. A more stringent employers* liability act. Provision for federal investigation of controversies between capital and labor. Withdrawal of pnblic coal landß from sale or entry. Amendment to meat inspection law providing for placing dates on cans.

Some method whereby at an early date the Federal Government may exercise a more complete control over corporations. "A graduated inheritance tax, and, if possible, a graduated income tax,” to be accomplished “when next our system of taxation is revised.” National laws on divorce and polygamy. Subsidies for the development of American shipping. Revision of the currency laws. Lower tariff or absolute free trade for the Pbillipines. Citizenship for the Porto Rioans.

An act providing* for the naturalization of Japanese. The amendment of the statutes so that we can enforce the rights of aliens under our treaties, That the nhvy be maintained at its present strength by replacing obsolete ships with new ones. A new principle of selection in both the army and navy, “which will briqg into th6“lSlgfier ranks fewer men, and these at an earlier age.” Of race suicide the President says it is “a sin for which there is no atonement.” Of Cuba : “If the elections become a farce, and if the insurrectionary habit becomes confirmed in the island, it is absolutely out of the question that the island should continue independent.”