The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-12-07
the PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Is In Line With Republican Theorie.
OF the Late Campaign.

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, sage WAS submitted to Congress
last Monday. II proved to be about
the kind of a document outlined in
The UNION OF last week.
The message opens with congratu.
lations on the evidence on every
hand of individual and national
prosperity" and the increasing
power for good Of republican insti.
tutions. 1t declares that the re.
public was never so strong, because
80 strongly intrenched in the hearts
Of the people, as now.
The Chinese question is the first
point taken up. The Boxer trouble
is reviewed, the action of the Ameri-
can government made plain, losses
during the outbreak are re.counted
and the question of suitable indem-
nifty is taken up and discu ;sed, but
there is an absence of demand for
Chinese territory in payment of any
indemnity.
The message endorses q restric-
tion of the liquor traffic in unciviliz
ed countries, especially those of
the western Pacific" touches on our
relation to the Central and South
american republics and recommends
improved trade relations with Bra
zil. Our relations with Great Brit
iah and Germany are declared to be
amicable, though restoration OF
our meat trade with the latter ma
tion is much to be desired.
The construction of the Nicarau-
guam canal is urged and a conyen-
tion with Great Britian is advocated
to get rid of possible diff culties
which may come from resurrection
Of the Clayton -Bulwer treaty.
Then the president takes up the
Philippine question, mention is
made of where our flag rightfully
floats" and the declaration is made
that the military arm of the govern
ment has been employed there
through necessity. However, "pro
gress IN the hoped-for direction has
been favorable. He then declares
that our forces have successfully
controlled the greater part of the
islands, overcoming organized for.
ces of the insurgents and carrying
order and administrative regularity
to all quarters. Whatopposition re.
mains is for the most part scatter
ed, obeying no concerted plan of stra
tegic action, operating only oy the
methods comm on to the ira ,itions O
guerrilla warfare, which, while 10
effective to alter the general contro
now established, are still suficien,
to beget insecurity among the pop
ulations that have felt the good re
suits of our control and thus delay
the conferment on them Of the fuller
measures Of local self-gUvernment
of education and OF industrial aud az
ricultural development which W,
stand ready to give them. On tn,
question of civil government, in th,
Philippines the president declare
that sit will be necessary to fl
some offices for the present will
Americans, which, after time, ma,
well be filled by natives Of the island
AS soon as practicable system 70
ascertaining the merit and fitness Q
candidates for civil Office should b.
put in force. Anindispensable quail
ification for all offices and position
,of trust and authority in the iland
must be absolute and unhampered
authority and power to remove an,
punish any officer deviating iron
that standard must at all times b
retained in the hands the centra
authority Of the islands.
In reference to the financial an,
banking law enacted last Marcel
the president declares that 9Th
beneficial effect of the act is Alread
apparent. The provisions for til
incorporation of national bank
With capital of not less than $2s
600 in places not exceeding 3, 600 in
habitants, has resulted In the e1
tension Of banking facilitier to man
small communities hitherto unabl
/ to provide themselves with bankin
institutions under the national sy.
TEN. There we're orgonized fro,
the enactment of the law up to an
Including November 80, 1863 nations
banks, Of which 266 were with cap
talless than $50. 900, and 1O3 wit
capitalof $50, 900 or more.
He further notes that . large il
1 crease in national bank note circul,
tion has resulted from the provisio
Of the act, which permits nation,
& banks TO issue circulating notes I
the par value Of the United State