The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-12-10
THE PRESIDENTS
ANNUAL MESSAGE
FIRE CLAIMS AND
SUCCINCTLY TOUCHES MANY
MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The first
third of the Presidents message is de-
voted to the trust problem. He says
among other things:
In Curbing and regulating the COM
binations of capital which are or may
become injurious to the public we must
be careful not to stop the great enter
prises which have legitimately reduced
the cost of production, not to abandon
the place which our country has won
in the leadership of the international
Industrial world, not to strike down
wealth with the result of closing fac
tories and mines, of tU:;s..ti.... =. the wage
worker idle in the streets and leaving
the farmer without market for what
he grows. Insistence upon the impos-
sible means delay in achieving the pos
sible exactly as, on the other hand, the
stubborn defense alike of what is good
and what is bad in the existing sys-
tenn the resolute effort to obstruct any
attempt at betterment, betrays blind
mess to the historic truth that wise evo-
luton is the sure safeguard against
revolution"
OF the proposal to take off the tariff
on articles dealt in by trusts he says:
The only relation of the tariff to big
corporations as a whole is that the tar
if makes manufactures profitable, and
the tariff remedy proposed would be in
effect simply to make manufactures I'M
profitable. To remove the tariff as a
punitive measure directed against trusts
would inevitably result in ruin to the
weaker competitors who are struggling
against them.
I'm my judgment, the tariff on anth-
racite coal should be removed and
anthracite put actually, where it now
is nominally, on the free list. This
would have no effect at all save in
crises; but in crises it might be of SER
vice to the people,"
On the subject of Immigration he
says:
Il again call your attention to the
need of passing proper immigration
law, covering the points outlined in my
message to you at the first session of
| the present congress. Substantially
such a bill has already passed the
! house."
| He discusses at some length the rela-
| tions of capital and labor and recon-
mends in connection with the subject
the creation of the post of Secretary of
! Commerce with a seat in the Cabinet.
He expresses the hope that a recip-
rocity treaty with Cuba may soon be
presented to the Senate and ratified.
The status of the Isthmian canal, the
/ dClllC CdDle, the 1nlllpplneS, the army
and navy maneuvers is given in very
brief but clear language. A thousand
additional naval officers he says are
needed.
| The marked progress of rural free de-
! livery is commented upon. Recon-
mendations of legislation for game
preservation the reclamation of arid
lands, the proper organization of the
! Territory of Alaska, for Indian educa-
| ton, for the encouragement of agricul-
| ture are made. The tendency to print SO
many government documents of little
worth is deprecated. Gratifying pro-
! gress in the extension of the merit sys-
! tenn is noted. The alterati lions in the
| White House are approved.
The only direct reference to Hawaii
! is in the following paragraph:
! Il commend to the favorable consid-
Grafton of the congress the Hawaiian
fire claims, which were the subject of
careful investigation during the last
! session"
The message is much shorter than
such documents usually are.