Arizona republican., 1904-12-07

Alaska should have a delegate in the
 congress. Where possible. the congress should aid in the construction of needed l wagon roads. Additional light houses should be provided. In my judgment, it is especially important to aid in such manner as seems just and feasible in tAe construction of a trunk line of rail- way to connect the gulf of Alaska with the Yukon river through American ter 1 ritory. This would be most beneficial 10 the development of the resources of the territory, and to the comfort and welfare of it's people.
 | Salmon hatcheries should be estai5- l Ii, he'd 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, in- ! telligent, anxious to learn, and willing | to work Those who have come under the influence of civilization, even for a limited period, have proved their capability of becoming self-supporting. self respecting citizens and ask only for the just enforcement of law and in telligent instruction and supervision. | Others, living in more remote regions, primitive, simple hunters and fisher folk. who know only the life of the woods and the waters, are daily being confronted with twentieth century civilization with all it's complexities. Their country is being oveTrun 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 | !. f hi poverty and want which must result in their extinction Action in their in- terest is demanded by every considera- tion of justice an humanity.
 The needs of these people are:
 The abolition of the present fee sys- tenn, whereby the native is degraded, imposed upon, and taught the injustice of Jaw.
 The establishment of hospitals at central points, so that contagious dis eases that are brought to them con- tinually by incoming whites may be localized and not allowed to become epidemic, to spread death and desti- tuition over great areas.
 The development of the educational system in the form of practical train ing in such industries as will assure the Indians self-suppoqt under the changed conditions in which they will have to live.
 The duties of the office of the gover- | nor should be extended to include the l supervision of Indian affairs, with nec- essary assistants in different districts | He should be provided with the means and the power to protect and advise | the native people, 70 furnish medical | treatment in time of epidemics, and to | extend material relief in periods Of | famine and extreme destitution.
 HAWAII AND PORTO RICO
 The Alaskan natives should be given the right to acquire. hold, and dispose of property upon the same conditions as given 70 other inhabitants and the l privilege of citizenship should be given to such as may be able to meet cer- tain definite requirements. In Hawaii congress should give the governor power to remove all the officials ap- pointed under him. The harbOr Of Honolul1 should be dredged. The mar inc hospital service should be enpow- cred to study leprosy in the islands. I ask special consideration for the re- port and recommendations Of the gov ernor of Porto Rico.
 FOREIGN POLICY
 In treating of our foreign policy and of the attitude that this great nation
  it is absolutely necessary to consider the army and the navy, and the con- gress. through which the thought of | the nation finds its expression, should | keep ever wildly in mind the fulda- mental fact that it is impossible to | treat our foreign policy whether this policy takes shape in the effort to se- cure justice for others or justice for | ourselves, save as conditioned upon the | attitude we are wiling to take toward | our army, and especially toward our | navy. It is rot merely unwise, it is contemptible. for a nation, as for an | individual, to use high-sounding lan- giaga to proclaim it's purposes, or to | take positions which are ridiculous if | unsupported by potential fonce, and | then to refuse to provide this force. | If there is no intention of providing | and of keeping the force necessary to | back Up a strong ettitude, then it is far better not to assume such an atti- | tude
 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 | undesiral--e. which are in the long run | as destructive as amy war Tyrants l and opressors have many times made a wilderness and called it peace. Many 1 times people who were slothful or tin1id or shortsighted, who had been enervsted by ease or by luxury, or mis- led by false teachings, have shrunk in unTnanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sac- rifice, and have sought to hide fror thoir own minds their shortcomings. their ignoble motives, by calling them love of peace. The peace of tyrannous terror the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice, all Of these should be summed as we shun un- righteous war. The goal to set before us as a nation, the goal which should be set before all mankind, is the at