The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-12-08

oo1s. The exports Of dressed beef increased
from 137 $500 40 pounds IN 1889 to ~ So' w
pounds in 1892. or about g. per cent During
the past year there has been exported 3s46OI
head of live stock cattle as against 25,7S6
exported in 1889. This increased expectation
has been largely promoted by the inspection
authorized l. law and the faithful efforts OF
the secretary and his efficient subordinates to
make that inspection thorough and to care.
fully exclude from all cargoes diseased or
suspected cattle.
Enormous Agricultural Exports.
Agricultural products constitute 78I per
cent of our unprecedented exports for the
fiscal year which closed June 30 1897, the total
exports being s1O3O, 2S7, ! 30. and the value of
the agricultural products 1876, which
exceeds by more than $l500IO,00 COO the shipment
of agricultural pyodut ts in any previous year.
Rusk's Suggestions Commended.
The suggestions of the secretary for an en-
largement of the work Of the department are
recommended to your favorable considers
ton. 1t may be, think, said without onai-
lenge that in no corresponding period has 20
much been done as during tho last four Yeas
for the benefit Of American agriculture.
Quarantine Inspection.
The subjects of quarantine regulations, in
spectiou and control were brought suddenly
10 my attention by the arrival at our ports In
August last of vessels infected with cholera
Quarantine regulations should be uniform at
al our ports. Under the constitution they are
nlainlv within the exclusive federal jurisdic-
ton, when and so Tar as congress SHALL iesis-
late.
taken into national control, aud adequate
mower given tu the executive to protect the
neople against plague invasions. There is dan
Ger that with the coming of spring cholera
will again appear, and a liberal appropriation
should be made at this session to enable our
quarantine and port officials to exclude the
deadly plague.
For Restricted Immigration.
We are peculiarly subject in cur great ports
to the spread of infectious diseases by reason
of the fact that unresl. icted Immigration
brings to us out of European cities in the over
crowded. steera.,es OF great steamships large
number of uereOnS whose surroundings make
tbem the easy victims of the pague. This
consideration, as we'll as those affecting the
,oliticaI moral and Industrial interests of our
country lead l.e 10 renew the suggestion that
admission to our country and to the high prlVl-
leges of its clt.z .nshlp should De more re-
stricted and more careful. We have, l think
a right ana owe a duty TO our own people, and
especially 10 our working people, not only 10
keen out the Vicious, the ignorant, the civil
disturUers, the pa per ana the contract IA
borer but the TOO great flow of immigration
ton now coming by further limitations
The president renewS his recommendation
FOR legislatio ion Tor the protection of railroad
employees, and also for an election law which
will insure a free ballot and a fair count.
In Conclusion.
This exhibit of the work of the exec tH'
denartnlents is submitted 70 congress an st
the public in the hope that there VIII be 1ouId
in il a due sense of responsibility and an
earnest purpose TO MAINTAIN the national
honor and t. promote the happiness and pros
perity of all our people, And this brief e1-
btbit of the growth and prosperity of the
country will give US a level from which to
note the increase or decrease that new legls-
latiye policies may bring 10 US. There Is no
reason why the national influence, power and
pro,pxrity should not observe the same rates
of increase that have characterized the past
thirty years.
We carry the great impulse and increase OF
these years into the future. There is Nc
reason why in many lies of the production
we should not surpass all other nations as we
have already done IN some. There are no near
frontie. to our possible development hetfo-
gression would be a crime.
ISignedl BENJAMIN HARRISON.