Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 49, Number 13, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 December 1906 — Page 6
WEEKLY COURIER
BIN Kl l.OANK. rl.lU.e.
JASIKK
INDIANA
NEWS OF THE WEEK AN EPITOME OF THE MOST INI PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD. NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Carefully Dgest 'nd Condensed Compilation of Current New Item, Don-eitic and Foreifln.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Th.- short session o( the Fifty-ulnth stauisst will U Ätfotod, it hi i,iediewd. io the passage of appropriation bills KWfOltmfcUmi MM billion dollars, and as little other gonera! legislation a possible, although the chip subsidy bill may be brought out of the house committee and passed.
senate. that one-third Uta United States WM funeral of the tats president of the Such nun as J. P.
wo: e
It has pass.il iSS It is sftirnatsd vast wealth of the represented at UaS flannel pMr, Bout hern railway.
Ktmn and K H, llarriniau
among the mourners. George Hoffman, of Ashley. Pa . had to be locked up when twins arrived at his home Already the father of ten children, he declared that it was impossible to support a family of twelve ' on two dollars a day. George Ye, I wealthy Chinaman, is to wed, it is said, a Dotrolt girl or excellent family. The queen of Ensland celebrated her sixty-second birthday anniversary. Greetings from all parts of the world were received. I -;.ut County Clerk Edward Gritten Of Hudson county, New York, has received from Acting CommlsaiorierOeneral F. H Larned. of the bureau Of Immigration, a re;ly upholding Gritten's refusal to naturalize a Japaaese. The naturalization of any other than free white persons and alkns of African nativity and persons of African descent Is forbidden. The Missouri state bureau of labor and statistics shows that the value of manufactured products in St. Louis In Mtf was I257.93V293. Representative Hays, of California, arrived In Washington with a resolution which. It is Bald, he Intended to Introduce, excluding Japanese from the t'nlted States Hy solicitation or the president he has agreed to with hold it for awhile. The shah of Persia suffers from kidney trouble and r.psy. His physician
ays he w ill keep him alive for perhaps one year. Influenza is prevalent in London, many notable people being laid up with the disease. Trade In London and tferOBfBOfll Encland is reported better Uiaa for several years. Many towns in the Dakotas and Minnesota are suffering from a coal famine. A cablegram from Paris says that Mme Anna 1 old. formerly CotttMl de Castellane. is to marry an Atneriran millionaire, and that Count Moni la engaged to a millionaire French widow. The annual report of Commissioner of Internal Revenue John W TOrkvl for the past fiscal year shows total receipts or 1249,102.738. an excess of fl 4.11 1 7;2 over UM pr ceding, ('r. Lauded as a diplomat who tempered statecraft with the Golden Rule, the late John Hay was honored by the Jewish people of Philadelphia when a handsome memorial window to the dead rotary of state was unveiled at Kenesoih Israel temple. Sir Thomas Upton, who recently
Tisited this count! v. and who know the business situation here far itetter than the majority of Americans, on his return home to England wrote a London newspaper that the American people are enjoying a period of pros perity greater than ever known In human Industry. He says that even well Informed English writers have little idea of what Is happening In the I'nlted States. AI! this la due. he says, to our solid industries, while the general confidence Is such that nolio.lv is afraid lo Bpend lavishly." So large Is the demand for structuial Iron In this country that the importations are greater thnn for years, the American mills being unable to nor Mi. exigencies Groat building are in course or construetlon In New York. Chicago, St. Louts, Ban Francisco and other cities, which, tog ther with the demand for bridges, will consume the output of the Am: lean mills until the fall r 1HU7, Indeed the output has been contracted that
In Glasgow. Scotland, the are buying everything In
far ahead. Americans
sight A report the Hrltlsh fered the
is current In London that South African Co. has of Salvation Army l.ooo.ooo
acre of land In Khodesia Tor rolnnlia tlon purposes, with the stipulation, however, that In th event of miosis lng srht ni proving a failure the land should revert to the company The coasting steamer J. II .Ions was wrecked 01 Cape Cocker. In Georgian Lav. Canada, and at least 2 lives were lost. IkoltTf M Cullcm. dorH of Arizona supreme (otirt, nephew nf Senator Culloni of Illinois, di d at Phot nix. Ariz., of lunMumptlon, aged 38.
A Cincinnati trade journal estimates that there Is 220.OO0.lHK bushels of wheat In this country available tor port. Mono recent!? has been a jumping Jack In Wall street. It startetd amt ti per coat, paused at U. and then up 10 27. and down to 6. The mllllonntics were playing with the little fellows. Americans attending the great Wiol auction In Loudon are buying superior grades. Kngtand and France getting the U-avlngs. The only stirs spot In the general business situation or the country U the congestion of railway traffic. To meet the exigencies of the occa sion pig iron is being ofclppod from Chicago to the Pittsburg district, thus n rslng the usual order of things. The de.it h of President Spencer ot the Southern railway had no apprecla ble effect on the market value of stock
of that road. The prc.-ldont is receiving many letters, the majority from the north, coniim mlmg bis action In the dismissal of negro troops ror "shooting up" Hrownsville. Tex. St. Andrews' society celebrated Its 150th anniversary at New York. Letters or congratulation were received from President RoOMTOtt former
PrtaldOOl G rover Cleveland and IUS Kdward. At r.endona. Kas.. I. W, Har- ! rls, a faun hand, entered a bank and attempted a hold up. A clerk escaping and giving the alarm, liarrti ; ..iced a revolver to his head, pulled the trigger and died The funeral of the late Samuel j Spencer, president of the Southern Rail WSJ system, was held In Wash- I UftOB, D. C The active pallbearers i VOtS the ten oldest colored porters ot the road, and the honorary pall- i
bearers were officials of the road. J. P Morgan and other financiers. 1 1. an ftosCQS Pound, of the law school Ot the University of Nebraska, has oosted a letter from Chancellor K Benjamin Andrews, ordering the j expulsion of students who chew to- j bacco. Secretary ot the Treasury Shaw snapped his fingers In the face of H. I). W England, a millionaire, and president of the Pittsburg chamber of commerce, and altogether stirred up j the animals wuen he notified the ; members of the chamber that they did not amount to so much The rowis over the location of a new post- , office. The president of the Pritish board of trade, In reply to a question, as- t sured the house of commons that the board of trade was carefully watching a scheme being organized in the Unit- , ed States to regulate the price of cotton by means of StSftg and gradual i sale. William McKinley, the Pennsylvania railroad engineer who ran the en- j gine of the train on which President Lincoln rode to Washington to be inaucurated. is seriously ill in Washington. The president believes the Porto
Ricans are ready for American citizenship. An unknown man in a small boat was swept over the Horseshoe falls at Niagara. Two men In a boat made a daring attempt to rescue him Congressman BaVrtSOktt of Missouri, in Washington, says he will ask for an appropriation of oOO.uOO for the Missouri river. A high Vatican authority sayg the h of MonsUnor S?ab!llnskie, at i n. German Poland. rCieved the Vatican of a serious situation. The e was expecting Emperor William to request the removal of Stableinski. The priest was insisting that the children Of Posen be taught the Polish language instead of the German language in the schools. The emperor u ild not listen to the proposition, but the priest was Insistent. Cspt Hgh ti. Henry, past national commander of the Army and Navy union, and chief of staff of the present national c ommander, Hrowne, died in Washington. In an interview in the City of Mex
ico William Randolph Hearst is quoted
as saving that if circumstances mane It imperative he would once more l.e a candidate Tor office." He did not designate the office. The official vote of Illinois gives the republicans a plurality of 145.560. Active military preparations are he uiK made by Japanese in northern Korea, according to advices received bysteamer trom the Orient, at Vancou H C. The Korean Dally News says the preparations indicate Japan's Intention 10 pick a quarrel with China regarding the ownership of Kando. the inland province inclosed by the headwaters of the Yaln at Tumen river. Samuel Spencer, president of the So'i'hprn Hallway Co.. and recognized
as one of the foremost men In the development of the southern states, was killed In a collision on his own road near Lynchburg. Va. besides Mi Si iic OT, Charles I Klsher. of Hal1 1 more. Philip Schuyler, of New York; r rands T. Redwood. of llnltlmore, quests of Mr Spencer, and D. W. 1 a vis, of Alexandria. Va.. private dls , ttrher for Mr Spencer and two nearoes were killed The party were occupying a private car. were on a
hunting trip, and ware all killed while SSlstp with the exception ot Mr. Davis. King George of Ordere, on his recent visit to Home, hesllated before cnlllnk on the pope. It Is said that France and Great Urltain urged him not to do so, whne the Vatican, backed by Austria M IMftff and Germany pressed Him advisability of a visit Italy win the otilv power Indifferent Near Hutchinson, Minn, three sons of Pft.r L Hudson, aged it, II and years, were drowned In Lake Marlon They skfttsi in n an air hole while ImtitlnK muskints Hongkong sdWtsii report i titwt of ant i missionary feeling ft! Lieu , Chow, where property was pillaged.
THE PRESIDEHTS
ANNUAL MESSAE
Recommends Legislation New and Important Subjects.
r L
on
i v
INCOME-INHERITANCE TAX
He Believes Such Laws Would Curb Growth of Fortunes to Dangerous Proportions.
Hla Views on Negro Question Asks for Currency Reform, and Shipping Bill Would Make Citizens of Japs Many Other Important Subjects Di scussed.
const i ! an in! Mai afta upon, far of v brol l. Irtf to which
Washington. Pc S -The notable featur.s of President Koosevell's annual message to i-oncres arc his appeal for the enactment Into law ct several! bills tr.troduce,l Into iiKr.'.! last vv.tit.r and rnng; his rtSrWI on the negn) problem; the scoring he (fives those whom he terms "preavchen of discontent; the . he takes for the control of corporation hv the fedenü govsiiunent umier the interstate commerce clause of the
ution, ana his reeommcnaation ior ierit8tn-e snd income tax law. ,- other subjects eetSSMa to mesof the chief executive uro toucheJ t'Ut the ones mentioned are by the srreatest Importance. He esv urces the l ahsaice of the bill
ftlns corporatiotte from conttibutcampaicn fund, and also that one would Rive the government the Of Hp! eal In crlnunal cases. Of
this he s.i .- "Anotbtr ldl which has Just past one house of the eongress and which Is urgently necessary should be enacted Into law m that . onferrtnK ujon the governmeat the right of appeal In criminal cases on questions or law. This right exists in many of the states; It exists in the District of Columbia hy act of the conrreiis It Is of course not proposed that In any case a verdict for the defendant on the merits should be set aside. Recently In one district where the government had Indict.-. I certain Persons for conspiracy In connection with rebates, the court sustained the defendant's demurrer. SrhllC In another Jurisdiction an Indictment for conspiracy to obtain rebates has been sustained by th court, convictions obtained under it.
snd two defendants sentenced to Imprisonment. The two eaass. referred to may not te In real conflict with each other, but It is unfortunate that there should even be an apparent conflict. At present there is no way by which the government can cause such a conflict, when It occurs, to be solved by an appeal to a hiK.ier court, and the wheels of Justice are blocked without any real decision of the queetton. I can not too strongly urge the passage of the bill in question. A failure to pass will result In seriously hampering the government in Us effort to obtain Justice, especially against wealthy Individuals or corporations who do wrong; and may also prevent the government fr.m obtaining Justice for wageworkers who are not themselves able effectively to contest a case where the Judgment of an Inferior court has been against them. 1 have specifically In view a recent decision by a district judge leaving railway employees without remedy for violation of a certain socalled labor statute It seems an absurdity to permit a single district jude against what may be the Judgment f the Immense majority of his colleagues on the bench, to declare a law solemnly enacted by the congress to be "unconitltutlonsl." and then to deny to tr government the right to have the supreme court definitely decide the quesi tlon." Injunct ons. On the subject of the abolition of tn- ' Junctions In labor disputes, he says: "In my last aweaag- 1 sugg-sted the en- ! actm-nt of a law in . ..nne. tion with the
' Issuance of Injunctions, ifn- l.cen sharply drawn
hv tli' .ie-'iand mat
; Irl Injun- tu.ns In
wh'dlv aboiistieii
re with head er tiand. the men to whom American tradition are dear, who love their country and try to act dscntly by th. ir neighbor. ov It to themselves to remember that the most damaging Mow (hat can he kis.ii popular government is to sleet an unworthy snd sinister sgitator on a
(form or violence an.i ioi""f.
.never such an Issue is rats. .1 in
this country nothing can ne guinea iy flinching from II. for In such case democracy is Itself on tin! popular selfgov. rnm. nt under republican forms Is Itself .n trial The triumph of the nob Is Just as evil a thing as the triumph of the plutocracy, und to have iped one danger avails nothing whatever if sucuumh to the oth. r. In the end the honest man. whether tie or poor who earns his own living und tries to deal lustly by his fellow, has as much to fesf from the Insincere und unworthy .bmugog. promising much and p.-t forming nothing or else performing nothing hut svIL Who w,.u;,i s, t om the mot to plunder the rich as fron the crafty corruptlonlst. who, for his own etuis, would permit the common people lo be exploited by the vi r wealthy. If we ever let thin mrarantal fill Into the hand of men
,.f .it I,, r of lln.se two class. we shall show ourselves false to America's past. M,.r. -o.r the demagog and corruption -t often work hand In hand. There arc at this moment wealthy reactlonkl ... ..f such ohtuse morality that they regard the public servant who prosecub h thitu when th. y violate the law. or who s. . k s t,. make them bear their proper share of the public bur. Uns. a beins even more objectionable than the violent agitator who hounds on the mob to plunder the rich. There Is nothing to choose between such a reaction rv and such an agitator; fundament. illv they are alike In their selfish di r. g ird of the rights of others: und It Is natural that they should Join in
n.,t.. tuition t.i anv niovi tn.nl or witou
the aim Is fearlessly to even Justice to nil."
, i I and
Railroad Employees-
Hours.
He asks for the i i.-sing or me i ,..i lim
it, i.g the number or noura i lymgnt of railroad employes and classes ne measure us a very moderate ore. He savs the aim of all Should be to t.-a.li'.v reduce the number of hours of labor, with as a itoal the general introduction of nn eight-hour day. but Insists that on the Isthmus of Panama the conditions are so different from what they are here that the Introduction of an eight-hour daiy on the canal would be absurd, and .ontlnues. "Just about as abs ;r l as it Is. so far as the Isthmus Is eon erned, where white labor cannot he ved. to bother as to whether the vvoik Is done DJ alien black men or a. en yellow men " lie arges the enactment of a drastic I mi r law for the District of Columbia and the territories, and a federal investigation of the subject of child nnd female labor throughout the country. He reviews the work of the commission
appdnted to invest gate labor In the cal Heids of l'ennsylva and refers to the wish of the ( "that the state and federal gc should provide the machinery Btay be called the compulsory
tlon of i ontroversles between
and c-mj ho
conditions , ,w,i la in i - wnmlssion rernments for what Inveetlga-
employers
aptoynt when they arise.
Control of Corporations. A COtU k rable portion of the message I .lev .ted to the subject of federal control of corporations in what he refers to the piBSSSg ut the last session of the rate meat Inspection and food laws, ana ears that ail of these have already Justified their enactment, but recommends the nmendment of the meat Inspection law so as to put dales on the labels oi meat products, and also to place the cost of Inspection on the packers rather than on the government. Continuing on this subject of the control of corporations by the federal government he says: "It cannot too often be repeated that expei nce has conclusively shown the imposalblllty f securing by the actions or nearly half a hundred different state legislatures anything hut ineffective chaos In the way of dealing with the great corporations which do not operate .x lusively within the limits of any one täte In some method, whether by a national license law or In other fashion. .. muti .ercie. and thnt at an early
dnte. a far
at present
tlons- a
. . a i . . .
more complete nmuui ... over these great corpora-
..rirnl that will among omer
to the matter
the right of apply-
In bor cases should he
It is at least d.eibtful
whether a law ai.onsninie aii.ne,,,er ,,,e
,.f in tun. lions in su m a..-
stand the test of the case of course the lei inefr.M t.ve. Moreover.
be wrong altogether t
nt i i. imioM. 'tiS. It is
..retrsnllit With
r 1 --. - . . , ,: . t. If e,,r,
1 u m .IT,. 101,1.11k. liie . ,,,'. ,
things overca the dli of Its nnd n onrvi si This w ln of
f,r. int
the evils of excessive i. and that will compel
losures by euch big corporation ock holders and of Its properties iness. whether owned directly or
sidiary or ar,' .iei rnrtiin"".
tend to put s stop to me sc ini.r.linut nriitlts by fav
a s e s
irts; in whic h tlon would be i-lleve It would ohddt the use
criminal to permit
criminals to weaken our
tttol unracoiiH sei v es most p.
tlc
me 1 1 hIs of
,a r.
.. w a ... v.r. tries TV tv
ScSK IO aesiioj nie e- - -
i.., OivrK sli. odd le no uni iTti,
nf tue power of the
them 111 the most summary
nib-
ap-
says
law-
mob
nt
ourts to deal with
and effective
wav posslt.le. ion uu ii " abuse Ot the power should be provided against by some such law as I advocated last year. The Negro Problem. The negro problem Is given considerable attention, after .ailing attention to the fact that no section of the country Is fr.-e from faults, and that no section ho .raton to ler at the shortcomings
t nv r.'hr section, he turns to the
Wso r,t Ivrwhines. and especially as
l in the nvsirr,, of the outl. He
v. ar.cic.at tlnff cause for mot
Is the peri-etrntion by the blacks of the crime if rape, a crime which he terms even worse than murder. He rpiotes the admonitions to the white people spoken by iov fandler. of Georgia, some years .... it e a t I . 'i i yv ' a r .--
ag... anil ty UOT. jeia. ui 1". cently, and then says Kvery colored man should realise that the worst enemy of hi race is the n. gro criminal, and above all th" ne- . . la. St-.-. . Pi.'lil.
fro criminal wri comiioi- mjw - - ul crime of rate. and It should be reit as In the highest .bur .- n offense agarfj't the whole country, and against the cb.red race in particular, rr a colored man to fall to help the officers of the law ,n hunting down with all possible earnestness and seal every sued infamous offender Moreover, n mv judgment, th- . rime of rap.' should always he punished with death as is the case with murd.r. assault with intent to commit rape should be und a capital . rime, at least In the discretion of the court; and provision should be made bv which the punishment may follow Immediately upon th- h.-.-.s of the offen, e; while the trial should ! o conducted that the Victim need not be wniitonlv shamed whil- giving tstlmonv nnd that the bast Possible Publicity shall he given to the get nb The members of 'lie White race on the other hand should understand that very lynching represents by lust so much a loosening of the hands of I v ! Ulsatlon; that the spirit f lyn, hing Inevitably throws Into prominence In i the community all the f.ml and evil
creatures who dwell therein No man can take part In the torture Of a human helne without having his own moral nature permanently lowered very lynching m-ans jvi s-1 so mu-h moral deterioration in all the children who have any knowledge of It and s. r, r,.rc lust co much additional
trouble for the neat generation
American . i io.il, Ke both sure and
but let It lie Justice under the law, and not the wild and crooked savagery of a mob. Capital and Labor. On the subject of capital nnd labor w. ..oi.ni takes Hie nvilntors of lass
hatred to task and says ...a ii... rich man. n
'o-i . ,..
Seek 10 mislead arm ni'ismr .
honest men whose no-s sr.- .i..r.j have not the kind nf mental na whl. h will permit them to ap,te the danger In the doctrine
a, lie. I IS iO i ouiuii. ii .........
thS holy politic and lo be raise to every worthy principle and tradition of . ..,- taaa national hfe." t'onliiiultig OS this
gubl'-i t be say s 'fl . i, lain .MODle WhO think
. : - , .. .1.
such As a
reactionaries
secure ny
the people
control and
ci on
ur-
red
Individuals at the expense w ne uer ... the get . rol public, the stockholders pr tt.e wageworkers. Our effort should te n..t so much to prevent consolidation ns suc h, but so to supervise and control u as to see that It results In no harm w the people. The reactionary or ultraconi. f,.r the misuse f
u..iM, ussail Hie effort to secure
eorstrol ns a üeti toward SOCtallSS"
t..r ,.r tint It t tiles.
rvalives w no . "" tent In increasing scvialls-
f.elirig. one of ine inosi nu. .tt...
averting ttie conseu urn. e .
a .latig. nun agiieovii. ,,v V cent wrong. Is to remedy the Ä per eent. of evil as to which the agitation is well founded The best way to avert the ery ;.. ,ve for the governmental
o-.v Lei. i ot railw .ys Is to Iku mm . rTiment on ( half Of
. uo.oio auch ad.'.iuate
..I.,,. . ? t . 17 T . t
IfKUlitiii'ii 'i w-. - - .... n earners as will do away Wh the evils which give rise to the '';" against them 8o the rroper aattdpte the dangerous and wicked ngU Stl n against the men of wealth as such is to seV ure by proper legislation and execuo'J I.n'ihe abolition of the grave
i - o.i. nctinillv do obtain In
II sjfse.. " .,... - - '
Tie-. Hon with Ml DUimfPi -a .... .sA-t t nvsif asm or
un'-r. ,.: ..tnl.e any ade
Suite control at all. Some persons speak - If the e.Tcise of such governmental
control would do away with of Individual Initiative and ..err Thli I not
v ild - u veritaoie sismuj cut a premium upon indtv .ual Initiative. Individual cat-city and sgert.npaaths energy, character and foresight which It Is "so important to encourage In the Individual. Hut as a matter Of fact tlse deadening and degrad lng effect of pure soctallam. and especially of Its extreme form communism, and the destruction of individual character which they would bring about, are In part achieved by the Wholly unregulated competition which result in a single Individual or corporfttlon rising at the expense of all others until his or Its rise effectually checks all competition and reduce former competitor., to a position of utter Inferiority and subordination. Inheritance snd Income Tax. It was expected that the president would refer In some way to his belief In tne ne.esslty for the . urbing of enormous fort mes. and he has done so by r miiien.hng legislation for both ln- . ooie and an inheritan.e tax He believes the government should Impose n graduated Inheritance tax. and. If poSBlt,!e a .1 idiated Income tux He says I am well aware that sin h a subject as Ibis ne.ds long and careful study In order that the people may lieeome famlli. r win. ulint I BrODOBsd to be done,
toav . 1. arlv . the necessity of pro,
Intf with wisdom and self restraint,
iiiav make SB their minds Just y-..- .. i sifting to g.. hi i he
while oi.lv lr.ilri.-d legislators
limiting the transmission by devise e gift of the enormous fortunes In question "l Is not necessary at present to discus. It is wise that ptogre in this due tlon should he gradusl. At first a permanent national Inheritance tax, while it might be more substantial than any such tax hss hitherto tievn, need not approximate. Ither in amount or In ihs extent of th In, i. e by graduation, to what such a tax should ultimately ga AJncultural Interests. Ha appeals for every encouragement that the congress CSS give to the agricultural Interest! of US country Ma point to the good thai I h. ing done by the uriou forms of grange organizations, and says: Several factor must cooperate In the Improvement of the farmer's condition. He must have the chance lo be educated In tin" wi.lio.1 possible sense In the etixe whl Ii keeps ever in view the intimate, relationship between the theory of education and the f.uts of life. In all education we should widen our alma. It Is a good thing to produce a certain number of trained scholars and Students; l. ut Ihs education superintended by the
state must se.-k rather lo pi. Meo a hundred g I citizens dum merely MM scholar, and It must be turned now and tlon from the class book to the study of the great look of nature Itself. This la especially true of the farmer, ns has been p.. ml. I out again and again by all observers most i eteut to pass practical Judgment on the problems of our country Ufe All students now realize that education mist seek to triiln tint
executive powers of young ieop!c and to confer more real slgnlfl. an. e upon the i h r ise "dignity of labor.'" and to pre-
nara the tun. lis so that In addition to
each developing In the highest degree i,i tn.livi.liial cat.aoiiv for work, they
mav together help create a right public oi.uilon. and show In many ways social
and cooperative spirit. Organization has
become necessary In the business world sad it hi accomplished much for goo.'
in the world of labor. It Is no less neces
sary for farmers Such a movement as the grange movement Is good in Itself and 1 capable of a well-nigh Intlnlte further extension for good so long as It Is kept to Its own legitimate business. Tho benefits to be derived by the association
of farmers for mutual advantage ara
partly economic and partly socIOm I ! Currency Reform.
Amendments to the pr. -.nt currency
laws are asked for. and after showing that present laws are inade.juate localise of the wide fluctuation of interest
charges, he sa
The mere statement of these facts
shoe-s that our present s; hm is s. ri ousfV defective. There is ne. d of
change. Unfortunately, however, many
of the proposed changes must be ru
from consideration because th.y uro complicated, are not easy of compre
hension, and tend to disturb existing rights and Interests We must also rule out any plan Which would materially Impair the value of the I'nlted States two per cent, bonds now pledged to secure circulation, the Issue of which was made under conditions peculiarly rr.ditable to the treasury I do not press any special plan. Various plans have recently been proposed by expert committees of bankers. Among the plans which are possibly feasible and which certainly should receive your consideration is that repeatedly brought to your attention hy the present secretary of the treasury, the essential feature of which hnve been approved by many prominent hankers and business no-n According to this plan national banks should be permitted to issue a specified proportion of their capital in notes of a given kind, the Issue to be taxed at so high a rate a to drlv. the notes back when not wanted in legitimate trade. This plan would not permit the Issue of currency to give banks additional profits "hut to meet the emergency presented hv tim.s of stringency He airain asks for free trade with this
countrv for the 1'hillppin.s and In the same connection reviews the w..rk done by this country in the islands, and say s "If we have erred in the Philippines it has been In proceeding too rapidly In the dir. . tlon of grantli.g a large meas
ure 01 seir-governmeni. Naturalization of Japs. President Roosevelt sc. res San Francisco and other Tacltlc coast cities for iiioir treatment of the Japnm-se. and
makes the following recommendations: 'I recommend to the congress that an net be passed speclrically prov ding for the naturalization of Japanese who come here Intending to become American citizens One of the gnat embarrassments attending the performance of our International obligations Is the fact that the statutes of the fritted States g- v eminent are entirely Inadequate. They fail to give to the national government sufficiently ample power, through I'nlted '..ites court and by the use of tha an. IV and navy, to prot.it aliens In the rights secure.) to them under solemn treaties which are the law of the land. I therefore earnestly recommend that the criminal nnd civil stat ites of the I'nlted States be so amended and ad led to ns to enable the president, acting for the t'nlted States government, which is responsible in our International rela
tions, to enforce the rights of aliens under treaties. I'ven a the law now is something can he done by the federal government toward this end. and In the matter now before me afb ling the Japnne.e. everything that It is In my power to do will be done, and all of the forces, military and civil. L the I'nlted States which I may lawfully employ will be m. mIm ...1 Than should, however, be
rsrs r.rtl, 1 nf ilollbt SB to the power of
th national government completely to
perform and enforre Its own obligations to other nation The mob Of a single
cltv mav at uro time perform nets
JAPAN AND AMERICA
LONDON MAIL SAY9 JAPAN WILL
NOT ENFORCE RIGHTS.
FRISCO INCIDENT WILL PASS
Yet Sooner or Later. Paper Declares, Westerners Must Recognize Asiatic Equality. London Tor Dally Mall publishes. . . . 1.1 . . .
all illtml.il on tile iiiiucuin. h oi mo
UsitSd States 1th .Idl'.iU iv.. l!ie
school question iu San FraUflsco I psjjM i If of the opinion thai in tutta of th gravity of the situation, DWlsj
to the f.H t th..t Presides! Roost reit has uot power to coerce Cstiforsis, it U foolish to suggest tllSl JSBSS Would enforce SST rights ut tho CSOS D mouth. Japan certainly has no in d tlou of Dicklsg a quart el SltB U Sited BtSteS, tin- psJJSff ssyt. Am. ilea has bssn hsr Bra Irk ui w past, ln r nil. is will be ah to tn large allowances for t.io dilti' lilies, uf America, and as 1'rcsld. itt R m reit is esrtsw to meet Japes re quests In I (sir KSd kindly iptrtt, 'he incident will pass anil be. forgott. q "Vet sooner Of later," the Dsllj M .ill concludes, "tho wot will luv. , reckon with the fact of Asiatic claims
to m.rr. .: euualliv Willi Uli- w
er
Many Japanese Hear of Hawaii. Honolulu, rls San Prsncisou r dsuma. resressiittBi s-ah r Prai
the aniair-'ainatioii ol the American . British shipping; firms In Vol. whoso ttSSAtshlp, the Bhlblta, I I In port, says that then- arc at ! loo.ubii Jspsoese la Japan read) coin.- to Hawaii The tsboting . throughout the int. rior portions Japan an b. -inning to hear of the port unit leg ttiey ai tOid eslsl I and are showing a desire to c
iod
The Japs in Hawan, Honolulu Indications are cropping out that the Japan, so w!m bare SJTlrtef h. rc for sonio titn. pssti M well as these who have B irsBted passports, and who will arrive in future, are nu n w ith nllltar) exnt B
SENATOR FORAKER EXPLAINS.
His
Resolution of Inquiry. He Says, Speaks for Itself.
Washington Senator Ftiraker xplained the purposes of hl reeolBtk of Inquiry In r gird to the discharge of negro soldiers from the Tw.-ntv-fifth Infantry in the following, iut.rvle : "Thb resolution speaks for Itse'f I cannot dlacuss it. I will Bay. hOWSTi I have no purpose of raising tSS race question. The question Involved la
broader. It would be BBKOrtaosia to have It narrow, d down by draw InK the color line. It concerns white us well an colored soldiers. It la a SSSSttoa of constitutional power on the DM hand and const tttrUoSSl and StStStory rights on the oih. r. Usttl St bST( I compl.'te record. I do not know ast what sastlBB will arise; bsl wo mav have to con-id r wb th-r I matt can be convicted of felony hy order, an 1 whether following such a COST let ion, sentence may he imposed and pin.-, tn. ut inflicted hy order. Wscharge without honor may he granu-d Where they are not based on an ofl ii-' anainst the law of the land the mission Of which is denied, and Sl no ptinishnien' follows. Hut win rs there is conviction, sentence and pasIshnient, I have always supposed M..it ther. would have to be also trial"
NEW ISLE OF PINES TREATY.
ron-
of wealth rather no
the freeilom dwarf Indla fact It
eed
an. I
how far
matter
can work
of
swift;
"to preach
sii. h.
to
ness and train
pre.
or.
the
in Iii t.rn crt in neoexury ciei.in. nm
t .1 ., ,., On. n,':ir future our nation
ril legislators slio ul cruet a law i.rovldinir f..r n srn.iuate.l liiherltunee tax ly
which S steadily increasing rate of .,v.,.ii.i 1. nut urx.ti all money or
....I,, 1.1... ...mlfiir bv Blft. .eniiet
a..... to mv individual or eorrora! Inn
It to iv be well M niase in- i '"'Y'. In pr .i.ortloti as the Individual benefited la remote of kin. In any event. In my ...i-rr,...,. il... t.m rnta. of the tin houl.I
f.eMaa vrv heavily With the
. .... ...r,,,nt t..ft to anv one
OI llir fsoiu..... . - I ..i
nfter a esrtaln iKilnl nan i.een m-. It In most desirable to encourage Ihriri nnd amblllon. and potent source Ol ....... orr.T.IO.ir, Im Ihf desire Oll 1 1S
- ... i,. I r...l icner to leave his chll
.i... ,.ff Till, ob le t ran be
... m .kini the tsx very mal
n.no.int of troiorty left. be. a ire
the prime objeel should he to put staiitlv Imreasing burden on the ..........' r.r iiinw wollen fortunes
It is certainly of no ssseAi IS this ooun
try to j.erpetuaie. There i Sti be no question
.....I ,r,,i,ni,lv of the K
i,n, iidtitf II ii.lltlr.nf upon which liny
Kift or liiherltioi. e SIMHlKl OS " V. .... trtr III., Itiberltil,'
would, as an Incident, have Uts effa of
duty
..ther
or
in. -reuse
Individual
attained
on niouer-
a eon-Inher-vv hl. h
..f the eth-
overnineiit thus de
ei v ed
I in
i.aUi. v ii pnre aaa nst some cihhs t
foreigners which would plunge us Into war The city bv Itself would be jH.werless to make defense ngnlnt the foreign power thus assaulted, and if inde
pendent or mi government n wvuw never venture to perform r f rmlt the performance of the acts rnmplnined of. The entire power and the whole duty to protect the offending city or the offending community lies In the hands of the
United State government. ii i on
thinkable thnt we should continue a pol
icy under which a given i.K-aiiiy may os allowed to commit a crime against a
friendly nation, and the 1 nlt.-d Mates
government limited, not to preventing
the commission nt tne crime, um, m u lad resort, to defending the people who have committed It against the consequence of their own wrongdoing." American rltlsenshlp ShOuM he conferred on the CttiSsnS of Porto Rico. The harbor of Han Juan In Porto Hlco BhOllM be dredged and Improved Th expense of the federal court of Porto Hlco should be met from the federal treasury. Tho ndmlnlstr.-illori of the affairs of Porto Rico, together with those of the Philippine. Ha wall and our other lnuhir possessions. Should all 1 directed under one executive department, by preference the department of state or the department of war. Cuban Intervention. The rebellion In I'uba snd the Incldents lending up to the establishment of the provisional government Is reviewed, and the president says; 'When the election has I e n held and the new government Innu ir.ii.-.l In peaceful nnd orderly fashion Off the provisional ko ottiniont will come to an end.
I take this opportunity of expressing
tiTion behalf of the American people,
with all possible solemnity, our most earnest hope that the people of CtlbS
111 realise the imperat iv. need of pre
eo-lnr lustlce and k-"i' ng order In the
l.lund The I tilted States wishes noth
ing of Cuba except that u shall prosper morally and matertalljr, and wishes noth Our nf' tbe Cuban save that they shall
l,e utile to preserve older among them
sehe and therefore to preserve their Independence. If the elections become a fuire and If the In s ur ( t lonary hai.lt
iiflrmed In the sund. It Is ab
soliitelv out of the question liiat me island should continue Independent; and tbe I'nlted Stales u hl. Ii ha aumed il,. arwirsorsliln before the Iv lined world
for CUSS'S career as a nation, would again have to intervene and to ee that lie v.io I'liin.'iit tt.i managed In such
..rriorlv fushlon iis lo secure the safety
of life and property The path to be trodden by those who exercise self-gov-ornment Is alvvavs hard, and we should
have ev. ry charity and patience with the
i-ul'ina ns tb. v tread lb s difficult parin
l iiuve th utmost svnuiathv with, and
recard for, them, but 1 most enrnestly
adjure them solemnly to weigh theli reiiionslbilltles and to see that when their
tu.- sovernmetit Is started It shall run
,..,. it.lv a :,. I with freedom from fin
arant denial of right on the MIS hand.
and from insui re. tioiuiry .Hal urhanees on
t lie nl lier "
tin the sol lect of ttie Panama ranat hs
t.roiiiiscs a i..vlal uicssagt: lu Ue near
hr.jrsi
Will Contain fVlore Definite Safeguaros
for Americans. Washington There Hl BS Bee
treaty sent to ;h. sena'e ar tie a .1 A . . 1 . . . . ,l,n
ent session oi congress, nemmi.. o
title of the isle of Plana, sceorslsi to the plans that have he. n m ol by
certain committee on foreign rela
tions The present treaty has bees
pendin for BtaS years, with WttM prospect of ratification. It is siaast i to redraft the treaty in order to in
corporate more definite SSfSgSSrdl for
the tattai'Sata Of th. Americans SBO had bought lands In the lslan l p to the negotiation of the peli'l . am a g .
treaty It Is expected that i.m li
(Sea will negotiate the tr. atv Si I the state d partnient. Change- eOB
leniplated, It Is said, would dl I the principal ohjectlon urged again.-1
the convention.
Three Killed in a Fight. San Diego. Cal. Two nv n and ä
woman were killed in tne row
tween KaconnluO ami BSS uas Isss, . 1 1 tac rsaslt of a Hf( between
Howard Core and Kdward Itrady. who
have been St enmity for BOtV tim
ove: clatan which Uore Is alleged
hav,. jumped. The men met in H
Mole canon, along the line of Bscondc
do irrigation ditcli. The dispute was
reneweil and Qors shot Brsd vl -
Hradv isast. d a gun SSd akOI who siicc.edei in killing Mrs Brsdjf
bafore be an tl.
o
.
The Case of William Nelson Cromweii.
Washington Senator Moruar i planning tr resume hla Invest l " i,,n
of the actions of William N" ISOO Cro-
well, of New Yfirk. in conncti OS Sits the Isthmlnn canal and th Pan i 1 railroad affairs Mr Crotiiw.l I H made It plain thnt he does not Intend to Atiswi r any BSastltM aftsetlai his biisini ss relations with tin .una Oaaal Otv aa osaasafl, and sMorgan. It is bt Ut rOi Ml OS affBlB to compel answers or to stimnioti BS SitaMM h- fore thi bar of the I i:e-