Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-12-05

reduction in the number of agencies
| In dealing with the aboriginal races
preserve them from the terrible physical
and moral degradation resulting from the
| liquor traffic. We are doing all we can
evil. Wherever by International agree
| ment this same end can be attained as
| regards races where we DO not possess
made to bring it about
INTERNATIONAL ExPOs1TIoNs.
They Are of Great Value to the World
and the Nation.
I bespeak the most cordial support
from the congress and the people for the
st. Louis exposition to commemorate the
one hundredth anniversary of the Louis
lana purchase. This purchase was the
greatest instance of expansion in our his
| tory 1t definitely decided that we were
to become a great continental republic,
| hemisphere. It is one of three or four
great landmarks in our history-the great
turning points in our development. 1t is
shana Sn tR f 6 that a go oSs T RHGpe
St. Louis, of Missouri, of all the ada
cent region, are entitled to every aid in
| event in our annals We earnestly hope
that foreign nations will appreciate the
deep po; interest our country takes in this
portance from every standpoint, and that
they will participate in securing its sue
cess. The national government should
of exhibits.
The people Of Charleston, with great
| energy and civic spirit, are carrying on
an an exposition which will continue
the Congress-. I heartily com comm ne't this is
| exposition to the good will of the people.
It deserves all the announcement that
Charleston exposition have requested the
| cabinet officers to place thereat the gov
ernment exhibits which have been at
Buffalo, promising ph to pay the necessary
OF directing that this be done, for feel
that it is due to Charleston to help her
In her praiseworthy effort In my opin-
CURED to pay all these expenses. I earn
estly recommend that the congress ap-
propriate at once the small sum neces-
sary for this purpose.
The Pan-American exposition at Buff
falo has Just closed. Both from the in
dustria! and the artistic standpoint this
exposition has been in a high degree
falo, but to the United States. The ter
! rible tragedy of the presidents assas-
sination interfered materially with :: it's
was peculiarly in harmony with the trend
Of our PUBLIC policy, because it repre-
scented ts =; an t,, effort to bring into closer
isphere and give them an increasing sense
OF unity. Such effort was a genuine
service to the entire American people.
/ The Smithsonian Institution.
The advancement of the highest inter-
ests of national science and learning and
the custody Of objects of art and Of the
| valuable results of scientific expeditions
conducted by the United States have been
committed to the Smithsonian institution.
In furtherance of it's declared purpose
for the increase and diffusion Of knowl-
time, to time given it other important
cuted by the institution with notable fidel-
ity.,, There should be no halt in the work
Of the institution, in accordance with the
for the preservation Of the vanishing
| races of great North American animals in
the National geological park. The urgent
commended to the favorable consideration
of the congress.
Perhaps the most characteristic edu-
cational movement Of the past fifty years
public library and developed it into broad
and active service. There are now over
5000 public libraries in the United States,
to accommodating material, they are also
striving by organization, by Improvement
in method and by cooperation to give
hold, to. make it more widely useful and
by avoidance of unnecessary duplication
in process to reduce the cost of it's ad-
mnistration.
assistance to the federal library, which,
though still the library of congress and
SO entitled, is the one national library
single collection of books on the western
hemisphere and certain to increase more
rapidly than any other through purchase,
right law. this library has unique oppor-
tunity to render to the libraries Of this
country-to American scholarship-service
the bnas WhsS 81 the It asd
most magnificent yet erected for library
uses. Resources are now being provided
which will develop the collection properly,
necessary to its effective use, render it's
photographic work widely available and
enable it to become not merely center of
operative efforts for the diffusion of
knowledge and the advancement of learn
Ing.
For Permanent Census Bureau.
For the sake Of good administration,
Science the census office as now consti-
tuted should be made permanent govern
ment bureau. This would insure better,
tine interest not only Of our bSsiness but
Of statistic. economic and social science.
Growth of Postal Service.
The remarkable growth of tho postal
service is shown in the fact that its rev.
enues have doubled and it's expenditures
have nearly doubled within twelve years.
It's progressive development compels con-
stantly increasing outlay, but in this pc
Rod Of business energy and prosperity its
receipts grow so much faster than it's ex-
penses that the annual deficit has been
steadily reduced from $11 All ,779 in 1897 to
s., 923,77 in 1901. Among recent postal adj
vances the success Of rural free delivery
wherever established has been so marked
and actual experience has made its bene-
fits so plain that the demand for its ex-
tension is general and urgent.
It is just that the great agricultural
incubation should share in the improve
ment Of the, service. The number Of rural
" ali established within three years. and
there are, 5000 applications awaiting &C
ton. It is expected that the number In
operation at the close los Of the current fiscal
wear will reach $500. The mail will then
be daily carried to the doors of s, ZOO, 900 of
our people who have heretofore been de.
pendent upon distant Offices, and one-third
Of ali that portion of the country which is
adapted to it will be covered by this kind
of service. .t.[s 4
The full measure Of postal progress
which might DO realized has long bsen