Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-12-06

Assuming that our political relations
with Canada are to remain unchanged
the President thinks radical revision of
our trade relation with the Dominion
should be made.
The President recommends to the at
tention Of Congress proposed telegraph
cable to Honolulu and refers briefly to
the protest OF this government against
French encroachment upon Liberia and
the action taken to protect our mis-
sionaries and schools in Turkey.
Reciprocity.
In connection with the discussion of
the tariff the President reviews the
alleged beneficial results OF the reciproc.
ty provision of the Mckinley tariff and
forecasts much benefit yet to come.
Nicaragua Canal.
The Nicaragua canal is given the fol-
lowing paragraph:
81 repeat, with great earnestncss, the
recommendation which have made in
several previous messages that prompt
and adequate support be given to the
American company engaged in the con.
structing of tie Nicaragua ship canal.
1t is impossible to overestimate the
value from every standpoint of this
great enterprise, and l hope that there
may be time, even in this Congress, to
give to it an impetus that will insure the
early completion Of the canal and secure
to the United States its proper relation
to it when completed"
The Cholera.
AS to cholera and the quarantine the
President says; "There is danger that,
with the coming of spring, the cholera
will again appear. The most careful
and stringet quaran line legislation may
not be sufficient to exclude the disease.
The progress of medical and sanitary
science has been such, however, that if
approved preventives are taken at once,
putting all OF our cities and towns in the
best sanitary condition and provision is
made for the isolation Of any sporadic
case, and for thorough dissecting. an
epidemic, can, am sure, be avoided.
This work appertains to the local au-
thorities and the responsibility and tie
penalty will be appalling j. it is neglected
or unduly delayed.
Immigration.
I'VE are peculiarly subject in our ports
to the spread of infectious diseases by
reason of the fact that unrestricted i'm
migration brings to us out of European
cities i'll the overcrowded stecraGes OF
the great steamships large number OF
persons whose surroundings make them
the easy victims of the plague. This
consideration, as well as those affecting
the political, moral and industrial inter
ests of our country, lead me to renew the
suggestion that admission to our coun-
try and to the high principles OF citizen
ship should be more restricted. We have,
| think, right, and owe it as duty to
our people to keep out the ignorant, the
pauper and the contract laborer, but
also to check the too great flow of immi-
grafton now coming by further limit" "
Wants an Election Law.
"In my last annual message endeav-
ored to invoke serious attention to the
evil of unfair apportionment. had
hoped that it was possible to secure a
non-partisan inquiry, by means OF COM
mission, into the evils the existence OF
which is known to all, and that out OF
this might grow legislation from which
all thought of partisan advantage should
be eliminated and only the high thought
appear of maintaining the freedom and
purity of the ballot and the equality of
he elector. 1t is time mutual charges
OF unfairness and fraud between the great
parties should cease and the sincerity Of
those who desire pure and honest cleo
tions should be brought to the test OF
their willingness to free our legisla-
ton and our election methods from
everything that leads to fraud in
the announced result. The necessity
for an inquiry and for legislation by
Congress upon this subject is isemphasized
by the fact that the tendency of legisla-
ton in some of the states in recent years
has, ir some important particulars, been
away from and not toward free and fair
elections and equal apportionment. 1t
gether upon the high plane of patriotism
while we devise methods that shall secure
the right OF every man qualified by law
to cast free ballot and give to every
such ballot an equal value in choosing
our public Offices and in directing the
policy OF tie government.
L.ynchings.
The frequent lynching OF colored
people accused of crime is without the
excuse which is sometimes urged by
mobs, that the accused have an undue
influence over the courts and jurics. Sucl
acts are reproaCh to the community ir
which they occur, and so far as they car
be made the subject of jurisdiction
the strongest legislation is demanded
A public sentiment that will sustain tht
officers OF the law in resisting mobs anC
in protecting the accused in their custod,
should be promoted by every possible
means
The New Policies
The President concludes as follows;
This exhibit of the work of the cxecu
tive departments is submitted to Con
gress and to the public in the hope tha
there will be found in it an earnest pur
pose to maintain the national honor ant
to promote the happiness and prosperit.
of all our people, and this brief exhibit O
the growth and prosperity of the countr,
will give US a level from which to not
the increase or decrease that new legis
lative policies may bring to us. Their
is no reason why the national inhuenc
for power and prosperity should not OF
serve the same rates of increase tina
have characterized the past thirty year:
We can carry the great impulse and ii
crease of these years into the future
There is no reason why, i'll many lines c
production, we should not surpass a
other nations as we have already don
in some. There are no near frontiers t.
our possible development. Retrogressio
would be a crime"
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