The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-12-11
The PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE
BOILED DOWN

nestle policy are sources of congratula
ton.
Publicity in corporate affairs will tend
. !. TO do away with ignorance
! the Department of Commerce is a
clearing house for business information
Honest corporations fear not the light
and We need not be over-seusitive about
those that do.
Every man must be guaraoteed his
liberty and the right To do as he likes
with his property or his labor, so long as
be does not infringe Cd the rights of
others.
Obedience 10 the law is demanded as
a right, not asked as a favor.
Pro- ress has been by evolution, not
by revolution.
The need of strict economy in our ex-
pendltures Is emphasized by the fact
that We cannot afford to be parsimon-
ious in providing for what is essential to
! our national well being.
| Our merchant marine should equal
! the best.
We cannot have too much immigra.
ton of the right kinu, and We should
have none at all of the wrong kind
1t should mean something to become
citizen of the United States, and IN |
WIG PiOSCSS nv IOO hOlC
be left open TO fraud.
1t should be the policy of the
United States to leave no place on earth
where a corrupt man fleeing from his
country can rest IN peace.
The givers and takers of brides stand
on an vIleminence of infamy.
The exposure and punishment of pub
lie corruption is an honor to a ma ton
not disgrace
The first requisite of successful self,
government is unhinching enforcement
oi the law and the cutting out of COR
ruption
The Alaskan award has furnished a
signal proof of the fairness and good !
will with which two friendly nations can
approach and determine issues involving |
national sovereignty and by their nature
incapable Of submission to third power
for adjudication.
Fhere seems good ground for the be-
lief that there has been real growth ,
among the civilized nations OF senti-
nent which will permit gradual i;
of other methods than the >
method of war in the settlement of Z
disputes. T
The fighting ship, not the commerce :,
destroyer, is the vessel whose feats add
enown to a nations history and
establish her place among the great
,owers of the world.
The full measure of development =
which our commerce with China may T
ightfully expect can hardly be looked Vi
OF until the settlement of the present
bnormal state of things in the En- pire, IL
ut the foundation for such development OF
as at last been laid. vi
1t is unhealthy and undesirable for
ne cities to grow at the expense of the
ountry: and rural free delivery is not
My good thing IN itself but it is good
ecause 1t is one of the causes which
heck this unwL olesome tendency to Pf
ard the urban concentration of our vi
opulation at the xxi ense of the country
stricts pa
The Philip, ines should be knit closer
us by tariff arrangements
No one people ever benefited anofher M
.ople more than we have benefited
e Filpnos by taking possession Of the
ands
The necessity for perpetua' ing our
rest resources. whnther in public or tar
ivate hands, is recognized now as
yer b. fore Do
The compilation of the reform in the
I'll service is recognized by good dit
lzens everywhere as matter OF the SET
yht st puollc importance.
The o. " people who are contented +
til system of promotion by mere
,iority are those who are contt n ted
IN the triumph of mediocrity over
Ne cannot afford to let up in the :,
at work of upbuilding the American ~
Wy. Mi'
The question is not y which route an In
lmian canal shall be ouit, but simply Z
ether or not we shall have an 18th
IN canal.
he canal will alter the geography
continent and the trade routes of ~,
world.
Ye have done our duty to others ID
er aud in spirit, and we have shown
utmost forbearance in exacting our pl
rights Broi
olombia has been utterly incap b z nusi
eel ing order on the isthmus for half Pult
injury, and only the active interior ASST
, OF the United States has enabled tors,
to preserve so much a semblance ASST
to b.
be control of the means Of undistur- blv
transit across the Isthmus OF suffe
anna has become of transcendent i'm Marc
ance to the United States. indn
ne possession OF territory fraugh -
such REGULAR capacities as the
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,uilt by p'iyate enterprise or by
)tnar ton pau our own; therefore,
lst be bull b. The United States So"''
Ia ma has uunc her duty.