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
| bep supply for various classes of wood
users. Among the more important of
these are settlers under the reclamation
act 'and other acts, for whom 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
panies 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
| lly 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 a stake in the country, which must
be considered and which must decide.
have repeatedly called attention to
| the confusion which exists in govern
ment forest matters because the work is
! scattered among three Independent or
ganizations 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
it is to prove that it should be terminal
| ed at once. AS I 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 effectlVe cooperation.
Pensions.
The veterans of the civil war have a
| claim upon the nation such as no other
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 and conditions
! as to revenue and expenditure continue sat
| lsfactory. The increase Of revenue during
the year was $3.50 10, or So per cent
the total receipts amounting to S143 3S2,-
624.34 The expenditures were $152 1862, 116 TO-
an increase OF about nine per cent over The
previous year. being thus IS, 979, 1872. 36 in cx-
cess of the current revenue. Included in
these expenditures was total appropria-
ton of S12. Csc. 6S7 IS for the continuation and
| extension of the rural free delivery service
! which was an increase of 81, 1902, 237. IS over
| the amount expended for this purpose in
| the preceding fiscal year. Large as this
| expenditure has been, the benef1cent 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-
| ber 1904, show that on that date there were
|
proximately 100000 Of people in rural dis
| tr1cts remote from post offices, and that
! there were pending at that time 1889 petit
| lions for the establishment Of new rural
routes. Unquestionably 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
Chat portion for 1905 being estimated), is
| 40.47 per cent, as compared with q. 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 its own initiative
I enforce quarantine regulations which are
| IN enect 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 for
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 elasticity
as is consistent with safety. Every silver
/ dollar should be made by law redeemable
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 1 shall communicate with
you later.
immigration and Naturalization.
There is no danger Of having too many
! immigrants of the right kind. Itmakes no
difference from what country they come.
If they are sound In body and in mind, and
above ALL II they are of good character, SO
| 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 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 Gus
toms and habits are such that they tend to
lower the level Of the American wage work
er: and above all, we should not admit any
man of an unworthy type, any NAH con-
corning whom>we can say that he will him.
self be bad citizen, or that his children
and grandchildren will detract from in
stead of adding to the sum Of the good
citizenship: of the country Similarly we
should take the greatest care about nat
uralization. Fraudulent naturalization,
| the naturalization of Improper persons Is