The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-09

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Salmon hatcheries should be estab-
lished In many direreD. streams, SO as
10 secure h preservation OF this vaIua-
BILE o fish. Salmon fisheries and AN
neries should be prohibited on certain
OF the rivers where the mass OF those
Indians dwell who live almost exclu-
sively on fish.
The Alaskan natives are kindly. intel
hgent. anxious 10 learn, and willing TO
work Those who have come under
the influence OF civilization, even for
a limited period have proved
their ~caDabiiity OF becoming seIf-sup-
porting. seIf-respecting citizens. and
ask only for the just enforcement OF
law and intelligent instruction and SUI
pervlsion Others. living in more re-
mote regions. primitive. simple hunters
and fisher folk. who know only the life
Of the woods and the waters. are daily
being confronted with twentieth GEN.
fury civilization with all of it's COM
plexities Their country is being over
run by strangers. the game slaughtered
and driven away, the streams depleted
of fish. and hitherto unknown and fatal
diseases brought to them, all of which
combine to produce a state of abject
poverty and want which must result
in their extinction. Action in their in
terest is demanded by every considera-
ton of justice and humanity.
n needs of these people are:
The abolition of the present fee sys-
TEN. whereby the native is degraded,
imposed uDon. and taught the injustice
of law.
The establishment of hospitals at CEN
trail points. SO hat contagious diseases
that are brought to them continually
by incoming whites may be localized
and not allowed TO become epidemic, to
| spread death and restitution over great
areas
The development OF the educational
system in the form of practical train
ing in such industries as will assure the
indians sslf-support under the changcn
conditions in which they Will . TO
live.
The duties of the Office of the gov
ernor should be extended to include
the supervision of Indian affairs. with
necessary assistants in different dis
tricts. He SHOULD be provided with the
means and the power to protect n ad-
| wise the native people, to furnish med
ical treatment in time of epidemics, and
to extend material relief in periods of
famine and extreme restitution.
The Alaskan natives should be given
the right to acquire, hold, and DISPOSE
of property upon the same conditions
| as given other inhabitants: and the
privilege of citizenship should be given
to such a may be able to meet certain
definite requirements.
Hawaii and Porto Rico.
In Hawaii Congress should give the
| governor power to remove all the Off
Gals appointed under him. The harbor
| Of Honolulu should be dredged. The
Marine Hospital Service should be en-
| powered to study leprosy in the stands
I ask special consideration for the re-
port and recommendations of the gov
eruor of Porto Rico.
Our Foreign Policy.
In treating Of our foreign policy and
Of the attitude that this great Nation
should assume III the world at large.
II is absolutely necessary to consider
the Army n the Navy, n the Con-
gress, through which the thought of the
Nation finds it's expression, should
keep ever wildly in min the funda-
mental fact that it is impossible to treat
our foreign policy, whether this policy
takes shape in the effort to secure JUS
tice for others or justice for ourselves
say as conditioned upon the attitude
we are willing to take toward our
Army, n especially toward our Navy.
r. is not merely unwise- it is contemp-
| ttble, for a nation, as for an individual,
IL use ~high-sounding language to pro-
| claim its purposes, or to lake positions
which are ridiculous if unsupported by
| potential force, and then to refuse to
provide this force. If there is no inten-
ton of providing and of keeping the
force necessary to back al a strong at
tttude, then it is far better not to as
sumo such an attitude.
The steady aim o. this Nation, as of
all enlightened nations, should be to
| strive to bring ever nearer the day when
! there shall. prevail throughout the world
the peace of justice. There are kinds
of peace which are highly undesirable,
| which are in the long run as deStruc-
tive as any war. Tyrants and oppres-
sors have many times made a wilder
less and called it peace. Many times
people who were slothful or imid or
| shortsighted, who had been e~nervated
I by ease or by luxury, or misled by false
teachings, have shrunk in unmanly
fashion from doing duty that was stern
| and that needed s~elf-sacriice, and have
sought TO hide from their own minds
their shortcomings, their ignoble mo-
tives. by calling them owe of peace. The
| peace of tyrannous terror, the peace OF
craven weakness. the peace of injustice,
all these should be Stunned as We shun
unrighteous war. The goal to set be-
fore US as a nation, the goal which
should be set before all mankind. is the
attainment of the peace of justice, or
the peace which comes when each ma
| ton is not merely s~afe-guarded in It's
own rights, but s~crupulously recognizes
! and performs it's duty toward others.
| Generally peace tells for righteousness;
but if there is conflict between the two
| then our fealty is due first to the cause
| of righteousness. UnrighteOuS wars are