The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-09

president recommends a comprehensive
revision Of tina naturalization laws.
me enactment Of a law directed
against bribery and corruption in federal
elections Is recommended.
Ihe president reviews at length exist
ing conditions in Alaska and makes q
number of recommendation as to leris-
lation made necessary by the growth
and development OF the territory.
In treating Of our foreign policy and
Oh the attitude that this great nation
should assume in the world at large, says
the president. 1t is absolutely necessary
to consider the army and navy, and the
congress through which the thought Of
Keep ever wildly in mind the funda-
mental fact that it is impossible to treat
our foreign policy. whether this policy
tlce for others or justice for ourselves,
save as conditioned upon the attitude
we are willing to take toward our navy.
lbfe, for a nation, as for an individual,
to use. high-sounding language to pro-
claim Its purposes, or to take positions
%p pn,an are fo rls,eo sna t # %nns 10 ref,,sa BY BY
provide this force. If there is no inten-
ton Of providing and OF keeping the
force necessary to back up a strong att
such an attitude.
The steady aim Of this nation, as OF
an enlightened nations. should be to
AAi WV IiCrlS I lie udy WItD
tnere shall prevail Throughout the world
the peace Of Justice. The goal to set be-
iore us as a nation is the attainment Of
the peace OF justice, the peace which
comes when each nation is not merely
safeguarded In it's own rights. but scru-
pul"nsiy recognizes and performs it's duty
which is the price of liberty must
be exercised, sometimes to guard
against outside foes, although of
course far more often to guard against
our own selfish and thougntless Short
cornings. A great free people owes it to
itself and to all mankind not to sink
mo helplessness before the powers of
we are IN every way ~endeavoring to
heIp on. with cordial good will. every
movement which will tend to bring us
INTO more friendly relations with the rest
or In pursuance of this policy
me president says he will shortly lay
before the senate treaties of arbitration
with the powers when are willing to en-
ter into these treaties with us.
1t Is not true. says the president, til
the United States feels any land hunger
other nations Of the Western hemisphere
save such as are for their welfare. All
that this country desires is to see the
neighbofing countries stable. orderly and
prosperous. Any country whose people
conduct themselves well can count upon
our hearty friendship. In asserting the
we have taken in regard to Cuba, Vene-
zuela and Panama, and in e~ndeavoring to
circumscribe the theater OF war in the
Ear East, and to secure the open door
In China. we have acted In our own in
terest as we'll as in the interest of hu-
manly at large.
Even when it is not possible to secure
in other nations the observance of the
principles which we accept as automatic.
it is necessary for us firmly to insist
upon the rights of our own citizens with
out regard to whether they We're born
here or abroad.
The strong arm of the government in
enforcing respect for it's Just lights in
international matters is the navy. The
president earnestly recommends that
there be no halt in the work of upbuild-
more patriotic duty before us as a people
than to keep the navy adequate to the
needs OF this country's position. The
president urges the need of increasing
our fleet of b~attleships.
Our army, the president says, has been
reduced to the minimum at which it Is
possible to keep 1t with due regard to
In the Philippine islands there has been
during the past year a continuation of
the steady progress which has obtained
upper hand of the insurgents. The Phil
ippine people contain many elements of
good. and some elements which we have
a right to hope stand for progress. At
present they are utterly incapable Of ex-
listing in Independence at all or of build
ing up a civilization of their own, The
R that we c a9n' hsie them to trm nise P hiassr
and higher in the scale Of civilization
and OF capacity for self-government, and
ina most mae ea hn Sly n hops that in the end
~ alone. yet in some such relation to the
United States as Cuba now stands. This
end is not yet in sight and it may be
Indefinitely postponed if our people are
foolish enough to turn the attention of
the F1lpinos away from the problems of
achieving moral and material prosperity,
Of q Hor q Cfnhln 9Ar a-l S,,-%
government. and toward foolish and dan
gerous intrigues for a complete indie
pendence for which they are as yet to-
- must keep steadily before their minds
the fact that he justification for our
stay in the Philippines must ultimately
do in the islands. 1 do not overlook the
fact that in the development of our in
terests in the Pacific ocean and along
its coasts the Philippines nave played
and will play an important part. and
that our interests have been served in
more than one a by the possession
continuing to hold them must be that
we ought in good faith to try to do our
share OF the worlds work, and this par
ticuiar piece OF work has been imposed
upon us by the results Of the war with
SPAIN"
In concluding, the president says:
Every measure taken concerning the
islands should be taken primarily with.
a view to their advantage. We should
certainly give them lower tariff rates on
their exports to the United States: if
this Is not done it will be a wrong to
extend our shipping laws to them. +
earnestly hope for the immediate enact
ment into law of the legislation now
pending to %ncourag American capital
to seek investment in the islands in rail-
roads. in factories. in plantations. and
in numbering and mining"
The Forestry Movement.
The basic principle of forestry is to get
the greatest possible use out of the for
est. It Is opposed to the old idea of lum-
bering by cutting the forest clean. leav.