Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-12-11

serves. While such a measure is desira-
bic in any event, it is especially desira-
BILE at this time, in view of the fact that
our present governmental contract for
ocean mail with the American Line Will
expire in 1905. Moreover, lines of cargo
ships are of even more importance than
fast mail lines; save SO far as the latter
can be depended upon to furnish swift
auxiliary cruisers in time of war. The
establishment Of new lines of cargo ships
to South America, to Asia, and else
where would be much in the interest of
our commercial expansion.
hmm II ration.
We cannot have too much immigration
of the right kind, and we should have
none at all of the wrong kind. The need
is to devise some system by which unde-
sirable immigrants shall be kept out en-
tirely, while desirable immigrants are
properly distributed throughout the coun-
! try.
| The special investigation of the sub
| iect of naturalization under the direction
of the Attorney General, and the conse-
qucnt prosecutions, reveal a condition Of
| affairs calling for the immediate atten-
| ton Of the Congress. Forgeres and per-
| iuries of shameless and fragrant charac-
ter have been perpetrated, not only in
the dense centers Of poprn1tlon, but
throughout the country; and 1t is estab-
| llSIeu DCNOHu uOuDJ LlldL NSly manly oO-
called citizens of the United States have
no title whatever to that right and are
asserting and enjoying the benefits Of
| the same through the grosseSt frauds.
| The body polite cannot be sound and
healthy if many of it's constituent mem
bers claim their standing through the
prostitution of the high right and calling
of citizenship. 1t should mean some
thing to become q citizen Of the United
States; and in the process no loophole
whatever should be left open to fraud.
In my last annual message, in connec-
ton with the subject of the due regula-
| ton of combinations of capital which are
! or may become injurious to the public,
recommended a special appropriation for
| the better enforcement Of the antitrust
law as it now stands, to be expended I'M
der the direction of the Attorney Gen
eral. Accordingly the Congress appro-
priated the sum of five hundred thousand
dollars, to be expended under the direc-
ton of the Attorney General in the en-
ployment of special counsel and agents
in the Department Of Justice to conduct
proceedings and prosecutions under said
laws in the courts of the United States.
| now recommend, as matter Of the ut
most importance and urgency, the extern
| sion of the purposes of this approprla-
ton, so that it may be available, under
the direction of the Attorney General,
ana unul uScu, TOT Jne que enforcement
of the laws of the United States in gen
eral and especially of the civil and Grim
inal laws relating to public lands and
the laws relating to postal crimes and
offenses and the subject of naturaliZa-
ton. Recent Investigations have shown
a deplorable state of affairs in these
three matters of vital concern.
BY various frauds and by forgeries
and perjuries, thousands Of acres of the
| nnhlio dom hin oDlhpo1 lands Of DIFF
ferent character and extending through
various sections Of the country, have
been dishonesty acquired. 1t is hardly
necessary to urge the Importance Of re-
covering these dishonest acquisitions,
stolen from the people, and Of promptly
and duly furnishing the offenders.
Postal Frauds.
/ speak in another part OF this mes
sage of the widespread crimes by which
the sacred right of citizenship is falsely
asserted and that "inestimable heritage"
perverted to base ends. BY similar
means-that is, through frauds, forgeries
and perjuries and by shameless briberies
THE laws relating to the proper conduct
of the public service in general and to
the due administration of the Postotfice
Department have been VIGOROUSLY vio-
llated. and many indictments have been
found and the consequent prosecutions
are in course of hearing or on the eve
thereof. For the reasons thus indicated,
and so that the government may be pre-
pared to enforce promptly and with
the greatest effect the due penalties for
such violations of law, and to this end
may be furnished with sufficient in
strumentalities and competent legal
assistance for the Investigations and trials
which will be necessary ut many different
gress the necessity Of making the said mp
preparation available for immediate use for
al such purposes, to be expended under the
direction of the Attorney General
Steps have been taken by the state De-
partment looking to the making of bribery
an extraditable offense with foreign pow
covering this crime is manifest. The ex-
posures and prosecutions Of official cor
| ruption in st. Louis, Mo, and other cities
and States have resulted in n number of
| givers and takers Of brides becoming fugi-
tives in foreign lands. Bribery has not
! been included In extradition treaties here
tofore as the necessity for 1t has not aris-
en-. 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
be the policy of the United States to leave
no place on earth where a corrupt man
fleeing from this country can rest in peace.
There Is no reason why bribery should not
be included in all treaties MS extraditable
Alaskan Boundary.
For several years past the rapid develop
ment of Alaska and the establishment of
| growing American interests In regions there
| tofore unsuweyed and imperfectly known
! brought into prominence the urgent neces-
| sity of a practical demarcation of the boun-
darics between the jurisdictions of the
| United States and Great Britain. Although
the treaty of 1925 between Great Britain
and Russia, the provisions of which were
copied in the treaty of 1867, whereby Rus
STA conveyed Alaska to the United States,
was positive as TO the control, first by Rus
sia and later by the United States of n
strip of territory along the continental main
land from the western shore of Portland
| Canal to Mount st. Elias following and
| surrounding the fluctuations of the coast
and including the islands to the westward
| its description of the landward margin of
| the strip was indefinite, resting on the sup
posed existence OF continuous ridge or
range of mountains skirting the coast, as
figured in the charts of the early navigators.
1t had at no time been possible for either
party in interest to lay down, under the