White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1902-12-11
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Live Para6rA phs Eerssted out Of the Mes.
sA6e. Covering Salient Features.

We still continue in a period of un-
bounded prosperity. This prosperity is
not the creature of law. but our laws have
been instrumental in creating the condi
tions which made prosperity possible.
There will undoubtedly be periods of de-
preston but the tide will advance
AS people we have played large part
in the world and are bent upon making our
future even larger than the past. For woe
or for veal, our place must be great among
the nations. sOurs is not the creed Of the
weakling and the coward; ours is the gos
pei of hope and triumph of endeavor.
Never before has material we'll being
been so widely diffused among our people.
Great fortunes have accumulated, yet the
plain people are better off than they have
ever been before. Conditions have favor
ed the. growth of much that is good; but,
at the same time some that is evil. The
evils are real and menacing and we should
fail in our duty if we did not try to remedy
thom.
Publicity is recommended as the remedy
for trusts. and congress. has the power to
regulate combinations of corporation. and
national not state legislation is needed.
These things should be managed under
public regulations. and the line should be
drawn against mismanagement and not
,raolfh Tho Cnoctiop rs h<a iouic-
lation of. trusts stands apart from the ques-
ton of tariff revision. No reduction of
tariff should be made as punitive meas
ure.
Reciprocity is recommended as one of the
best means of curbing trusts. and treaties
should be entered into and where this can
not be accomplished direct legislation re-
stored to. The appointment of a tariff
commission is recommended and the re-
moval of tariff from anthracite suggested.
Needed migration legislation is recon-
mended ~.
Opposition to both labor and capital or
CARNATIONS should take the form of opposi-
ton to whatever is bad in the conduct of
the corporation or union. not on corpora
tions as such, nor the union as such. Capi-
tai and labor should be brought together.
and each should recognize the rights Of the
other. Federations OF labor are as necessa-
ry as fedeaations of capital. This is an era
of federation and combination. I'VE are
neither for the rich man nor the poor man
as such; we are for the upright man rich or
poor.
A new cabinet Office is recommended,
secretary Of commerce, attention is direct
ed to the importance of the Isthmian canal
is emphasized as commercial advantage
as we'll as military measure OF necessity.
The army should be kept at the highest
point efficiency thorough training is deman-
ded among members and officers of the
regular army. There should be no fault in
building up the navy, providing every
year additional fighting crafts. Increased
strength is earnestly asked, greater eff
cheney in craftsmanship urged. "A good
navy is not provocation of war. 1t is the
surest guarantee of peace" I'm battle
the only shots that count. are the shots that
hit"
The army and the civil government in the
Philippines are extoled for the work they
have accomplished in pacifying the islands
The army has been reduced from 100 900
men to 5000 men and the campaign has