The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1903-12-07

J crimes and ~offenses and the subject
of naturalization. Recent investiga.
lions have shown a d~eplorable state
of affairs in these three matters of
vital concern.
Public Land Frauds.
By various frauds and by forgeries
the public domain, embracing lands
of different character and extending
through various sections of the
country, have been dishonesty ac-
quired. 1t is hardly necessary to urge
the Importance of recovering these
dishonest acquisitions, stolen from
the people, and of promptly and duly
Furnishing the offenders.
Postal Frauds.
l speak in another part OF this
message of the widespread crimes
by which the sacred right of citizen
ship is falsely asserted and that Gin
estimable heritage" perverted to
base ends. By similar means-that
is through frauds, forgeries and per-
juries, and by shameless briberies-
the laws relating to the proper con
duct of the public service in general
and to the due administration of the
Postofice Department have been
VIGOROUSLY violated, and many indict
ments have been found. and the con
sequent prosecutions in course of
hearing or on the eve thereof. For
that the government may be prapar-
ed to enforce promptly and with the
greatest effect the due penalty for
such violations of law. and to this
end may be furnished with sufficient
instrumentalities and competent le-
gal assistance for the Investigations
at many different points of the coun-
try, l urge upon the Congress the
necessity of making the said appro-
priation available for immediate use
for all such purposes, to be expended
under the direction of the Attorney
General.
Extradition Treaty for Bribery.
Steps have been taken by the
State Department looking to the
making of bribery an extraditable Of
tense with foreign powers. The need
of mor effective treaties covering
this crime is manifest. The expos
ures and prosecutions of official cor
ruption in ST. Louis, Mo-. and other
cities and states have resulted in a
number of givers and takers of
brides becoming fugitives in foreign
lands. Bribery has not been includ-
ed in ~extradition treaties heretofore,
as the necessity for it has not arisen.
While there may have been as much
official corruption in former years,
there has been more developed and
brought to light in the immediate
past than in the preceding century
of our country's history. II should be
the policy of the United States to
cave no place on earth where a cor
rupt man fleeing from this country
can rest in peace.
International Arbitration.
There seems good ground for the
belief that there has been a real
growth among the civilized nations
of a sentiment which will permit a
gradual substitution of other meth
DDS than the method of war in the
of disputes. 1t is not pre-
that as yet we are neal a po-
sition in which it will be possible to
wholly prevent war, or that a just
regard for national interest and hon
or will in all cases permit of the set
arbitration; but by a mixture of pru-
dence and firmness with wisdom we
think it is possible to do away with
much of the p~rovocatiOn n excuse
for war. and at least in many cases
to substitute some other and more
method for the settlement
of disputes. The Hague Court offers
good an example of what can be
done in the direction of such settle
ment that it should be encouraged
in every way.
Relations with China.
The signing of a new commercial
treaty with China. which took place
at Shanghai on the 8th of October,
is a cause for satisfaction. This act
result of long discussion and ne
gotiation, places our commercial re-
with the Oriental Empire on
a more satisfactory footing than
they have ever heretofore enjoyed.
1t provides not only for the ordina-
ry rights and privileges of diplomatic
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