Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-12-12


birthplace There is no danger of having
too many immigrants of the right kind. 1t
makes no difference from wnat country they
come. Ii they are sound in body and in
mind, and above all, if they are of good
character so that we can rest assured that
their children and grandchildren will be
worthy fellOw-citiZens of our children and
grandchildren, then we should welcome
them with cordial hospitality. But the
citizenship of this country should not be
debased 1t is vital that we should keep
high the standard of well-being among our
wage-workerS, and therefore we should not
admit masses of men whose standards of
living and whose personal customs and
habits are such that they tend to lower the
/ level of the American Wage-worker; and
/ above all we should not admit any man of
! an unworthy type, any man concerning
! whom we can say that he will himself be a
bad citizen, or that his children and grand
I children will detract from instead of add
ing to the sum of the good citizenship of
! the country. Similarly we should take the
greatest care about naturalization. Fraudu-
| lent naturalization, the naturalization of
I improper persons, is a curse to our govern
ment and it is the affair OF every honest
voter, wherever born, to see that no fraud
uent voting is allowed, that no fraud in
connection with naturalization is permitted.
! The courts having power to naturaliZe
/ should be definitely named by national au-
| thority the testimony upon which natur-
alzation may be conferred should be defn-
| itely prescribed publication of impending
naturalization apnicatiOnS should be re-
quired in advance of their hearing in court
! the form and wording of all certificates is
sued should be uniform throughout the
! country, and the courts should be required
to make returns to the secretary of state
at stated periods of all naturalizations con-
| ferred.
Concerning Citizenship.
! Not only are the laws relating to nat
uralization now defective, but those relat-
ing to citizenship of the United States
ought also to be made the subject of scien
tifc inquiry with view to probable
further legislation.
Protection of Elections.
recommend the enactment of law di-
rected against bribery and corruption in
No subject is better worthy the attention
of congress than that portion of the report
of the attorney general dealing with the
justice experienced in the cases of Beavers,
Green and Gaynor and Benson. Were
these isolated and special cases, l should
not call your attention to them but the
difficulties encountered as regards these
men who have been indicted for criminal
practices are not exceptional Ihey are
precisely similar in kind to what occurs
again and again in the case of criminals
who have sufficient means to enable them
to take advantage OF system OF procedure
which has grown up in the federal courts
and which amounts in effect to making the
law easy of enforcement against the man
who has no money and difficult of enforce
ment. even to the point of sometimes secur-
inc immunity, as regards the man who has
money In criminal cases the writ OF the
United States should run throughout its
borders The wheels of justice should not
be clogged, as they have been clogged IN
the cases above mentioned, where it has
proved absolutely impossible to bring the
accused to the place appointed by the con-
stitution for his trial At present the IN
terests of the innocent man are amply SAFE
guarded but the interests Of the govern
ment. that is. the interests of honest al
ministration. that is the interests OF th 1ee
people. are not recognized as they should
be- No subject better warrants the atten-
ton Of the congress-
Alaska.
Alaska has proved resourceful beyond the
expectations of those who made the pur
chase It has become the home of many
hardy Industrious. and thrifty American
citizens. Towns of a permanent character
have been built. The extent of its wealth.
in minerals timber fisheries and agricul-
ture while great. is probably not compre-
hended yet in any just measure Dy our peo-
pie We do know. however. that from a
very small beginning its products have
grown until they are a steady and material
contribution to the wealth of the nation.
Owing to the immensely of Alaska and It's
location in the far north. it is dlfhcult
matter to provide many things essential to
its growth and to the happiness and COM
fort of its people by private enterprise
alone It should. therefore. receive rea-
eminent has already done excellent work
for Alaska in laying cables and building
telegraph lines The president urges re,
vision of the laws for the territory and he
thinks Alaska should have delegate in the
congress Where possible the congress
should aid in the construction Of needed
wagon roads Additional lighthouses should
be provided. In my Judgment 1t is espe-
cialIy important to aid In such manner as
seems just and feasible in the construction
of trunk line of railway to connect the
gulf of Alaska with the Yukon river
through American territory This would be
most beneficial to the development OF the
resources of the territory. and to the COM
fort and welfare of its people.
Foreign Policy.
| The steady aim of this nation, as of all
enlightened nations, should be to strive to
bring ever nearer the day when there shall
lprevail throughout the world the peace of
Justice There are kinds Of peace which
are highly undesirable which are
in the long destructive as any
war. Tyrants and oppressors have many
times made wilderness and called 1t peace
Many times peoples who were slothful OF
tmid or shortsighted, who had been ener-
waited by ease or by luxury, or mlsled by
false teachings, have shrunk in humanity
fashion from doing duty that was stern and
that needed self-sacrifice and have sought
to hide from their own minds their snort
comngs their ignoble motives, by calling
them love of peace. The peace OF tyran-
nous terror. the peace OF craven weakness,
the peace of injustice, all these should De
stunned as we shun unrighteous war.
self respecting, just and far-seefng nation
should on the one hand endeavor by every
means to aid in the development OF the va
rious movements which tend TO provide sub
stitutes for war, which tend to render ma
tionS in their actions toward one another,
and indeed toward their own peoples, more
responsive to the general sentiment OF hui
name and civilized mankind; and on the
other hand that it should keep prepared.
while scrupulously avoiding wrongdoing it,
self. to repel any wrong, and in exceptional
cases to take action which in more adj
vanced stage of international relations
would come under the head OF the exercise
of the international police. great free
people owes it to itself and to all mankind
not to sink into helplessness before the
powers of evil
Arbitration Treaties.
We are in every way endeavoring to help
on every movement which will tend to
bring us into more friendly relations with
the rest of mankind. In pursuance of this
policy / shall shortly lay before the senate
treaties of arbitration with all powers