Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-06

the district attorneys should be prohibite'
from engaging in private practice; ina
United States commissioners be appoinle'
by the governor of the territory instead
by the district judges, and that a nxef
salary be provided for them TO take .n'
place of the discredited fee SYSTEM
which should be abolished In all omces
that a mounted constabulary be created tt
police the territory outside the limits "
Incorporated towns-a vast sectlon nov
wholly without police protection' anu elia
some provision be made to at least lesser
the oppressive delays and costs tnat nov
attend the prosecution of appeals from tht
district court of Alaska There should pc
division of the existing judicial distrlc's
and an increase in the number of judges.
Alaska should have delegate In the Con,
gress. Where possible. the Congress shouio
aid in the construction OF needed wagon
roads. Additional lighthouses should De
provided. In my judgment, 1t is especially
important to aid in such manner as seems
Just and feasible in the construction OF q
trunk line of railway to connect the CUR OF
Alaska with the Yukon river through Amer
lean territory. This would be most bene-
fetal to the development of the resources
of the territory, and to the comfort and
welfare of its people.
Salmon hatcheries should be established
In many different streams, so as to secure
the preservation of this valuable food fish.
Salmon fisheries and canneries should be
prohibited on certain Of the rivers where
the mass OF those Indians dwell who live
almost exclusively on fish.
The Alaskan natives are kindly, intelli-
gent, anxious to learn, and willing TO
work, Those who have come under the IN,
fiuence of civilization, even for a Limited
period, have proved their capability OF be-
coming self-supporting. self-respecting citi-
Zens, and ask only for the just enforce
supervision Others. living In more re-
mote regions. primitive, simple hunters
and fisher folk, Who know only the lie OF
the woods and the waters. are daily pelng
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zation with all of its complexities Iheir
country is being overrun by strangers, the
game slaughtered and driven away, the
streams depleted of fish, and hitherto I'M
known and fatal diseases brought to them,
all of which combine to produce a state OF
abject poverty and want which must re-
suit In their extinction. Action in their In
terest is demanded by every consideration
of justice and humanity.
The needs of these people are:
The abolition of the present fee system,
whereby the native Is degraded; imposed
The establishment of hospitals at CEN
trail points, so that 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 sys-
tenn in the form of practical training In
such industries as will assure the Indians
self-support under the changed conditions
in which they will have to live.
The duties Of the office OF the governor
should be extended to include the super
vision of Indian affairs, with necessary as
sistants in different districts. He should
be provided with the means and the power
to protect and advise the native people, to
furnish medical treatment in time OF cpl
denies and to extend material relief IN
periods of famine and extreme restitution
Hawaii and Porto Rico.
The Alaskan natives should be given the
right to acquire, hold and dispose of prop
erty upon the same conditions as given
other inhabitants; and the privilege of cid-
zenship should be given to such as may be
able to meet certain definite requirements.
In Hawaii Congress should give the gov
ernor power to remove all the officials ap-
pointed under him. The harbor OF Homo
lulu should be dredged The marine hos
pital service should be empowered to study
ieprosy In the islands. / ask special con-
sideration for the report and recommends
tions of the governor of Porto Rico.
Our Foreign Policy.
In treating of our foreign policy and of
the attitude that this great nation should
assume in the world at large, 1t is abso-
lutely necessary to consider the army and
the navy, and the Congress, through which
the thought of the nation finds it's express
sion, should keep ever wildly in mind the
fundamental fact that 1t is impossible to
treat our foreign policy, whether this policy
takes shape in the effort to secure justice
for others or justice for ourselves, save as
conditioned upon the attitude we are will
ing to take toward our army, and eSpe-
cially toward our navy. 1t Is not merely
unWise it Is contemplate, for nation, as
for an individual, to use high-sounding IAN
guage to proclaim its purposes or to take
positions which are ridiculous If unsup-
ported by potential force, and then to re-
fuse to provide this force. II there Is no
intention of providing and of keeping the
force necessary to back up strong atti-
tude then it Is far better not to assume
such an attitude. .
The steady aim of 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 destructive as any war.
Tyrants and oppressors have many times
made a wilderness and called 1t peace.
Many times peoples who were slothful or
timid or shortSighted, who had been ener-
waited by ease or by luxury, or misled by
false teachings. have shrunk in unmanly
fashion from doing duty that was stern
and that needed self-sacrifice, and have
sought to hide from their own minds their
shortcomings, their ignoble motives, by
calling them love of peace. The peace or
tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weak
ness, the peace of injustice, all these should
be shunned-aS we Shun unrfghteouS war.
The goal to set before us as nation, the
goal which should be set before all man
kind, is the attainment of the peace of JUS
tice, of the peace which comes when each
nation is not merely safe-guarded In its
own rights but scrupulouSly recognizes ard
performs its 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 common, and ur-
righteous peace is rare but both should be
stunned. The right of freedom and the re-
sponsiblity for the exercise of that right
can not be divorced. One of our great poets
has well and finely said that freedom is not
a gift that tarries long in the hands of cow
ards. either does it larry long In the
hands of those too slothful. too dishonest
or too unintelligent to exercise it.. The eter-
must be exercised, sometimes to guard
against outside foes; although Of course
far more often to guard against our own
selfish or thoughtless shortcomings.
If these self-evident truths are kept before
us, and only IL they are so kept before us,
we shall have clear idea of what our
foreign policy in its larger aspects should
be. II is our duty to remember that ma
tion has no more right to do injustice to
another nation. strong or weak than an
individual has to do injustice to another
individual: that the same moral law applies
in one case as in the other. But we must
also remember that il Is as much the duty
of the Nation to guard Its own rights and
its own interests IL Is the duty of the