The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-06

| WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Ten min
1tes before noon, assistant secretary
to the president, Barnes, accompanied
by Assistant Secretary Forester and
Executive Clerk Young, left the White
House in carriages bearing two hand
someyl printed parchment copies of
the presidents annual message to be
read to the senate and the house.
! Copies for all the members in the two
houses were carted to the capitol i'm
mediately afterwards.
At 1910 the house took a recess
until 1890.
| The message in part is as follows:
To the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives.
The nation continues to enjoy note
worthy prosperity. Such prosperity
is of course primarily due to the nigh
individual average of our citizenship,
taken together with our great natural
resources; but an important factor
therein is the working of our long-con-
| tinued governmental policies The peo-
/
approval Of the principles underlying
these policies, and their desire that
these principles be kept substantially
unchanged. although of course applied
in a progressive spirit to meet chang
ing conditions.
Caution Against Extravaganza.
The enlargement of scope of the
functions of the national government
required by our development as ma
ton involves, of course, increase Of
expense; and the period of prosperity
through which the country is passing
justifies expenditures for permanent
improvements far greater than would
wise in hard times. Battle ships and
forts, public building, and improved
waterways are investments which
should be made when we have the
money; but abundant revenues and a
large surplus always invite extrav
agance, and constant care should be
taken to guard against unnecessary
increase of the ordinary expenses of
government. The cost Of doing govern
ment business should be regulated with
the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of
doing a private business
Oapndt ana LABOR.
In the vast and complicated mechan-
ism of our modern civilized life the
dominant note is the note of indus
trialiSm; and the relations of capital
and labor, and especially of organized
capital and organized labor, to each
other and to the public at large come
second in Importance only to the inti-
mate questions of family life. Our
peculiar form of government, with it's
sharp division of authority between
the nation and the several states, has
been on the whole far more advantag-
eOus to, our development than a more
| strongly centralized government. But
it is undoubtedly responsible for much
of the difficulty of meeting with ade-
Quate legislation the new problems
presented by the total change in indus
trial conditions on this continent dur
ing the last half century. In actual
practice it has proved exceedingly diff
ficult, and in many cases impossible,
to get unanimity of wise action among
the various states on these subjects.
From the very nature Of the case this
is especially true of the laws affecting
/ the employment of capital in huge
! masses.
/ With regard to labor the problem is
| no less important, but it is simpler. AS
| long as the states retain the primary
| control of the police power the circum-
! stances must be altogether extreme
which require interference by the fed
/ eral authorities, whether in the way of
1 safeguarding the rights of labor or IN
i the way of seeing that wrong is not
done by unruly persons who shield
| themselves behind the name of labor
/ If there is resistance to the federal
courts, interference with the mails, or
! interstate commerce, or molestation of
| federal property. or if the state author
| tiles in some crisis which they are un-
able to face call for help, then the fed
eraf government may interfere; but
| though such interference may be
| caused by condition of things arising
| out of trouble connected with some
question of labor, the interference it
self simply takes the form of restoring
order without regard to the questions
which have caused the breach of order
for to keep order is a primary duty
and in time Of disorder and violence
all other questions sink into allegiance
| until OrOer mas Deen restored. In the
District of Columbia and in the terri
tories the federal law covers the en-
tire field of government; but the labor
! question is only acute in populous
centers of commerce, manufactures, or
mining Nevertheless, both in the en-
actment and in the enforcement of law
| the federal government within its re-
stricted sphere should set an example
to the state governments, especially in
matter so vital as this affecting la
bor believe that under modern in
dustrial conditions it is often neces-
sary, and even where not necessary it
| is yet often wise, that there should be
organization of labor in order better
to secure the rights of the individual
wage-worker. All encouragement
should be given to any such organiza-
ton, so long as it is conducted with a
due and decent regard for the rights
of others. There are in this country
some labor unions which have habit