Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-12-17

late. In my opinion the whole suD)ect
should be taken under national control
and adequate power given to the executive
10 protect people against plague inva-
sions.
Further restriction Of immigration Is
also suggested asa preventive OF plague
importation.
Worlds Columbian Exposition.
The report Of the Worlds Columbian
exposition has not been submitted. That
of the board OF management OF the gov:
eminent exhibit has been received and is
herewith transmitted. The work of con.
struction and of preparation Of the open
ing of the exposition in May next has pro,
crossed most satisfactorily and upon n
scale Of liberality and magniicence that
will worthily sustain the honor of the
United States.
Needs a Liquor Law.
The District of Columbia is left, by a
decision of the supreme court OF the dis
trict, without any law regulating the liquor
traffic. An old statute OF the legislature
OF this district relating to the licensing OF
various vocationsh has hitherto been treated
by the commissioners as giving them
power To grant or refuse licenses TO sell
intoxicating liquors and as subjecting
those who sold without licenses to penal
ties. In May last the supreme court of
the district held against this view Of the
powers OF commissioners II Is of urgent
Importance therefore that congress should
supply, either by direct enactment or by
concerning discretionary powers upon the
commissioners, proper limitations and re-
straints upon the liquor traffic in the dis
trict.
Legislation tor Railroad EMPLOYEES.
In renewing the recommendation which
/ nave made in three preceding annual
messages that congress should legislate
Tor the protection OF railroad employees
against the dangers incident to the old
and inadequate methods of braking and
coupling where still in use upon freight
business, i do SO with the hope that this
congress may take action upon the sub
ject.
Tho Civil Service.
Tho civil service commission ask for an
Appropriation for more clerical assistance.
which | think should be given. / extended
the classified service March /, 1892, to in
clude physicians. superintendents, assist
ant superintendent, school teachers, and
teachers in the Indian service, and have
bad under consideration the subject of
some further extensions, but have not as
yet fully determined the lines upon which
the extension can most properly and use-
fully be made.
A Plant About Election Methods.
have In each three annual messages
which IL has been my duty to submit To
congress, called attention TO the evils and
dangers connected with our election
methods and practices as they are related
to the choice of officers of the national
government. In my last annual message
l ~endeavored to invoke serious attention
to the evils Of unfair apportionments for
congress. cannot close this
message without again calling
attention to these grave and
threatening evils. l had hoped that it
was possible to secure a non-partisan in
quiry by means OF a commission into evils
the existence of which is known to all and
that out of this might grow legislation
from which all thought OF partisan adj
vantage should be eliminated and only
the higher Thought appear of maintaining
the freedom and purity OF the ballot and
the equality of the e~lector, without the
guaranty Of which the government C, uld
never have been formed, and without the
continuance of which il cannot continue
10 exist In peace and prosperity. 1t Is
time that the mutual charges Of unfair
ness and fraud between the
great parties should cease and
that the sincerity of those who profess n
desire for pure and honest election should
be brought to the test of their willingness
to free our legislation and our election
'tilO rum tNtTNlHIuR tUdt ten0S To
impair the public confidence in the an
nounced result. The necessity for an in
qulry and for legislation by congress upon
this subject is emphasized by the fact that
the tendency of the legislation in
some states In recent years has
been In some important particulars
away from and not toward free and
far elections and equal apportionments.
Is 1t not time that we should come to-
gether-upon he high plane OF patriotism
while we devise methods that shall secure
the right OF any man qualified by law TO
cast a free ballot and give to every such
ballot an equal value in choosing our pub
lie officers and in directing the policy of
the government Lawlessness is not less
such, but more, where it usurps tire func-
tons of the peace officer and of the courts.
c use fe1 MsGf}pe}h has so Sometimes been
by mobs for a failure to pursue the
appointed methods for the punishment Of
crime that the accused have an undue in
fluence over court and ~juries. Such acts
are a reproach to the community where
they occur and so far as they can be made
the subject of federal jurisdiction the
strongest repressive legislation is de-
manded. A public sentiment that will
sustain the officers of the law in resisting
mobs and protecting accused persons in
their custody should be promoted by
SNSA Po''AbAp N n oiittA IN
gives his life in the brave dis
charge of his duty Is worthy Of
special honor. No lesson needs to be so
urgently impressed upon our people a.
this, that no worthy end or cause can be
promoted by lawlessness. This exhibit OF
the work of the executive departments Is
submitted to congress and TO the public in
the hope hat there will be found in il q
due sense of responsibility and an earnest
purpose to maintain the national honor
and to promote the happiness and pros
perity of all our people. And this brief
exhibit of the growth and prosperity of
the country will give us a level from which
to note the increase or d~ecadence that new
Legislative policies may bring US. There
is no reason why the national influence,
power and prosperity should not observe
the rates of increase that have character
lied the past thirty years, we carry
the great impulses and in
crease of these years into the
future. There il no reason why In many
lines of our productions we should not
surpass all other nations as we nave
already lone In some. There is no near
boundaries to our possible development.
RetroQressiop would be a crime.