The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-12-05

our country, Just as the settlement Of the
Ohio and Mississippi valleys brought prosr
creased demand FOR manufactured arti-
cles will stimulate Industrial production,
while wider home markets and the trade
Of Asia will consume the larger food sup
plies and efrectually prevent western
competition with eastern agriculture. In
deed, the products of irrigation will be
consumed chiefly in upbuilding local CEN
would otherwise not come into existence
at all. Our. people as a whole will profit,
for successful homemaking Is but another
name for the upbunuIng OF the nation"
He counsels against attempting too much
at the beginning, but advises that we let
experience on small plan teach the pos
sibilities OF greater undertakings He also
cites the conditions under which the set
tiers OF the west are attempting to build
homes on these arid lands, and says:
created depend largely on the stsb,ity @ ef
titles to water, but the majority Of these
rest on the uncertain foundation Of court
aS W sndfTss fea Hfsbasrs sxsspr ssi st
the arid states have failed to provide for
the certain and just division of streams in
times of. scarcity. Lax and uncertain laws
to water In excess of actual uses or ne
cessities, and many streams have already
passed into private ownership or control
equivalent to ownership.
Whoever controls a stream practically
controls the land II renders productive and
the doctrine Of private ownership Of water
rS% fns saons saonS whS
mitted to grow up in the arid regions,
should give wsy to and
lie In the control and disposal Of the pub
lie water supplies. Laws founded upon
sSSnditicns cSsns obtaining ,rn n humid regions.
boarding It. have no proper application In
a dry country.
I'm the arid states the only right to water
In irrigation this right should attach TO
the land reclaimed and be inseparable
tlYSts thsrefrom othsI Granting perpetual water
compensation 10 the public Is open nVI to all
the objections which apply to giving away
perpetual franchises TO the public utili.
ties Of the cities few Of the western
have Incorporated In their constitutions
h the doctrine Of perpetual state ownership
The Colonies.
Considerable attention is given the col
onies, and especially the Philippines. This
section OF the message begins by citing
the needs OF Hawaii and Porto Rico, Of
which he says:
'In Hawaii our aim must be to develop
the territory on the traditional American
lines. We do not wish a region of large
estates titled by cheap labor. We wish
who themselves till the farms they own. %
All our legislation for the islands should
be shaped with this end in view. The we'll
being Of the average ,.s homemaker hsI,,k must
opment OF the islands. The land policy
should as nearly as possible be modelled
on our homestead system"
ing as never before. and is being admins
tered efficiently and honestly. He deems
no Legislation necessary except that con-
He calls attention to the fact that in
Cuba the independent government of the
island will soon be In control, and In the
same connection urges strongly the need
nation. upon which subject he says
I'm the case Of Cuba there are weighty
Of morality Sn,S and 9f M naSSa bs,S inter
a peculiar application, and most earnest
ly ask your attention to the wisdom. indeed
to the vital need, of providing for a sub.
stantial reduction In the tariff duties on
Cuban imports into the United States.
Cuba has in her constitution affirmed what
we desired that she should stand in inter-
national matters In closer and more friend
ly relations with US than with any other
power and we are bound by every consid-
Grafton Of honor and expediency to pass
commercial measures In the interest OF
her material well being"
For the philippines he recommends much
In the way Of legislation. but again coun-
sells caution that we go neither too far nor
to make our administration OF the islands
honorable to our nation by making II of the
highest benefit to the Filipinos themselves,
we point to what we have done.
and Of governmental honesty
Phhippinss than ever before in their # his. is
He says we do not desire to do for the
islanders "merely what has elsewhere beer,
d. roVxtn anVIn hux ~ -
foreign governments We hope to do for
them what has never before been done for
any people Of the tropics-to make them
tse q, fGs pesiiy frs. nation. e the FASHION OF
But the idea Of the president Is that we
cannot leave the Islands at this time, OF
,Ss time would mean aA sat they Soud
fall into a welter Of murderous anarchy.
such a desertion Of duty on our part
wGSe be be pnoK4s.. ha,
been made along the line under which we
have been working in the Islands to war
IN S sy.s nsw hs nsS S1, in
tion. He believes the time has come when
the industries OF which the islands are
capable should be encouraged by granting
franchises for their development, and OF
this he says: |II
Nothing better can be done for the is
lands than to Introduce Industrial enter
pstses. Nothing would benent them 20
much as throwing them open to industrial
development. The connection between
opportunity to do remunsrative work is
one Of the surest preventives Of war. OF
course no business man Will 20 into the
DO and Il snsi Is immehseiS iS the
Of the islands that he should 20 In. IL Is
therefore necessary that the congress
sf the ISLANDS can be developed, so that
franchises Qor limited terms or years) can
be granted to companies doing business In
to the incoming of business men Of every
kind;
granted and the business permitted only
under regulations which win guarantee the
islands against any kind OF Improper ex-
81 the ISLANDS M must t be developed, and the
capital willing to develop 1t must be given
the opportunity. The fled must be thrown
open TO individual enterprise, which mas
every region over which our flag has flown.
II Is ur2ently necessary TO enact suitable
laws dealing with general Transportation,
mining, banking, currency, homesteads ana
the use and ownership of the lands and
timber. These laws Will give free play to
industrial enterprise, and the commercial
development which will surely follow will
afford TO the people of the Islands the
to aid them"
also urged, either that the government
lay such cable to connect Hawaii and
the Philippines, or that an arrangement
be made by which the advantages ac-
cruing from a government cable may be
secured to the government by contract
with private cable company. This he
deems necessary for both commercial.
political and military considerations.
The Isthmian Canal.
He calls attention to the need of an
isthman canal, and says:
Its Importance to the nation Is by no
means limited merely to its material ef-
fects upon our business prosperity, and
yet with a view to these effects alone II
would be to the last degree important
for us Immediately to begin 1t. While its
marked upon the PACIFIC coast and the