Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-07


towns to whom their municipal water
| supplies are of the very first Importance,
users and furnishers of water power,
and the users of water for domestic,
| manufacturing, mining and other pur-
| poses. All these are directly dependent
upon the forest reserves.
| The second reason for which forest re-
| serves are created is to preserve the tim
ber supply for various classes of wood
users. Among the more important of
| these are settlers under the reclamation
act and other acts, for whom a cheap
and accessible supply OF timber for do
nestle uses is absolutely necessary; min
| ers and prospectOrs, who are in serious
danger of losing their timber supply by
fire on through export by lumber COM
pan1es when timber lands adjacent to
their mines pass into private ownership;
lumbermen. transportation companies,
| builders and commercial interests in gen
| eral.
| Although the wisdom of creating for
est reserves is nearly everywhere heart
ny recognized, yet in few localities
! there has been misunderstanding and
complaint The following statement is
! therefore desirable:
| The fOrest-reserve policy can be sue
| cessful only when it has the full support
| OF the people of the west. It cannot
| sa1ely, and should not in any case, be
| imposed upon them against their will
| But neither can we accept the views Of
| those whose only interest in the forest is
! temporary; who are anxious to reap what
| they have not sown and then move away,
leaving desolation behind them. On the
| contrary. it is everywhere and always
the interest of the permanent settler and
| the permanent business man. the man
with stake in the country, which must
be considered and which must decide.
I have repeatedly called attention to
| the confusion which exists in govern
ment forest matters because the work is
scattered among three Independent or
CARNATIONS The United States is the
only one Of the great nations in which
the forest work of the government is not
concentrated under one department., in
consonance with the plainest dictates of
good administration and common sense
| The present arrangement is bad from
every point of view. Merely to mention
| 1t is to prove that it should be terminal
ed at once. AS have repeatedly recon-
mended. all the forest work of the gov
eminent should be concentrated in the
| department Of agriculture, where the
| larger part of that work is already done,
where practically all of the trained for
| esters of the government are employed,
where chiefly in Washington there is
| comprehensive first-hand knowledge Of
| the problems of the reserves acquired
on the ground, where all problems relat-
ing to growth from the soil are already
gathered and where all the sciences
| auxiliary to forestry are at hand for
| prompt and effective cooperation
Pensions.
| The veterans of the civil war have a
claim upon alienation such as no other
| body of our citizens possess. The pen
sion bureau has never in it's history been
| managed in more satisfactory manner
than is now the case.
The Postal Service.
| In the post office department the service
| has increased in efficiency, ndaconditions
| as to revenue and expenditure continue sat-
| isfactory. The increase Of revenue during
| the year was $s,35S, 1S110 or So per cent,
| the total receipts amounting to $143, 3S2.-
| 62434. The expenditures were $152 1862 h6. TO-
! an increase OF about nine per cent over the
previous year. being thus IS 979, 1872. sc in OK
| cess of the current revenue. Included in
| these expenditures was total appropria-
ton of 1886. 637. IS for the continuation and
| extension of the rural free delivery service,
! which was an increase of $, 9O2, 237 IS over
| the amount expended for this purpose in
the preceding fiscal year. Large as this
! expenditure has been, the beneficent results
! attained IN extending the free distribution
of mails to the residents Of rural districts
have justified the wisdom of the outlay.
Statistics brought down to the 1st of Octo-
Der, 1904, show that on that date there were
"''Aco uA al 1OuSCS CSldplISilSu, serving ap-
| proximately II, 600, 600 of people in rural dis
tricts remote from post offices, and that
| there were pending at that time 1859 petit
| tons for the establishment of new rural
| routes. Internationally some part Of the
general increase in receipts is due to the
| increased postal facilities which the rural
service has afforded. The revenues have
| also been aided greatly by amendments in
| the classification of mail matter, and the
| curtailment of abuses of the second-class
| mailing privilege. The average increase in
| the volume of mail matter for the period
| beginning with 1902 and ending June, 1905
! (that portion for 1905 being estimated), is
| 4O.H per cent, as compared with % 46 per
| cent. for the period Immediately preced-
ing, and 1892 for the four-year period i'm
mediately preceding that.
National Quarantine Law.
1t is desirable to enact proper national
quarantine law. 1t is most undesirable
| thai a state should on it's own initiative
! enforce quarantine regulations which are
| in effect a restriction upon interstate and
international commerce. The question
should properly be assumed by the govern
| ment alone. The surgeon general Of the
national public health and marine hospital
| service has repeatedly and convincingly
set forth the need for such legislation.
Currency.
The attention of the congress should be
especially given to the currency question
and that the standing committees on the
matter in the two houses charged with the
duty, take up the matter of our currency
and see whether it is not possible to secure
an agreement in the business world fol
lettering the system; the committees
should consider the question of the retire.
ment of the greenbacks and the problem
of securing in our currency such elasticit,
as is consistent with safety. Every silve,
dollar should be made by law redeemablt
in gold at the option OF the holder
Merchant Marine.
! l especially commend to your immediate
| attention the encouragement Of our mer
chant marine by appropriate legislation.
Tariff.
On the tariff I shall communicate with
you later.
immigration and Naturalization.
There is no danger Of having too man,
immigrants of the right kind. It.makes nj
difference from what country they come
If they are sound In body and in mind, and
above all. If they are of good character, S,
that we can rest assured that their chill
dren and grandchildren will be worthy fel
low citizens Of our children and grand
children, then we should welcome then
with cordial hospitality.
But the citizenship of this country shoult
not be debased. 1T is vital that we Shout,
keep high the standard of .well-bein,
among our wage workers. and therefor
we should not admit masses of men who's
standards Of living and whose personal Gus
toms and habits are such that they tend t.
lower the level Of the American wage work
er; and above all, we should not admit an,
man of an unworthy type, any man con
corning whomEwe can say that he viii him
self be bad citizen, or that his children
and grandchildren will detract from in
stead of adding to the sum of the goo,
citizenship:tof the country. Similarly W
should take the greatest care about nat
uralization. Fraudulent naturalization
the naturalization of improper persons, i