The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1904-12-08

ing an appropriation Tor q commission
to study the industrial and CONNER
cial conditions in the Chinese Empire,
and to report as to the opportunities
for and the obstacles to the enlarge
ment Of markets in China for the raw
products and manufactures OF the
United States. Action was not taken
thereon during the last session. I
cordially urge that the recommends
ton receive at your hands the con-
sideration which it's importance and
timeliness merit"
ALASKA.
The message makes a number of
suggestions on Alaska, the treat
ment Of the natives and other matters
affecting the welfare Of the territory.
It is also recommended that Alaska
be given a delegate in Congress.
THE INDIANS.
It is recommended that better treat
ment be accorded these wards of the
nation, and that every encouragement
possible be extended them to become
more Industrious and self-supporting.
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1t is recommended that the consular
service be raised to the highest degree
Of efficiency by selecting men who are
familiar with trade conditions and
Who know something Of the. language
If the country to which they are ac-
reIitoG.
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
The President recommends that the
city be thoroughly cleaned up, so that
it be made in fact a perfect Amer
lean city, free from contagious and
evil influences.
THE ARMY.
Within the last three years the
United States has set an example in
disarmament where disarmament was
proper. By law our Army is fixed at
4 maximum of one hundred thousand
and a minimum of sixty thousand men.
When there was instruction in the
Philippines we kept the army at the
maximum. Peace came in the Philip
pines, and now u Army has been re-
duced to the minimum at which it is
possible to keep it with due regard to
its efficiency. The guns now mounted
require twenty-eight thousand men, If
the coast Notifications are to be ade-
1uately manned. Relatively to the
Nation, it is not now so large as the
police force of New York or Chicago
relatively to the population of either
ciey. We need more. officers; there are
not enough to perform the regular
army work. 1t is very important that
the officers of the Army should be &C
customed to handle their men in
masses, as it is also important that the
National Guard of the several States
should be accustomed to actual field
naneuvering, especially in connection
with the regulars. For this reason we
are to be congratulated upon the sue
,ess of the field maneuvers at Manas-
sas last fall, maneuvers in which a
larger number of Regulars and Ma
tional Guard took part than was eve
before assembled together in time Of
peace. No other civilized nation has,
relatively to it's population, such a
1iminutive Army as ours; and while
the army is so small we are not to be
excused If we fail to keep it at a very
high grade of proficiency. 1t must be
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The enlisted men should be kept very
high, while at the same time the SER
vice should be made as attractive as
possible; and the standard for the off,
GERS should be kept even higher
which. as regards the upper ranks,
can best be lone by Introducing some
system of selection and rejection into
The promotions. We shall be able, in
the event of some sudden emergency,
to put into the field one irst-class
army corps, which should be, as a
whole, at least the equal of any body
Of troops of like number belonging to
any other nation.
Great progress has been made in
protecting our coasts by adequate
notifications with sufficient guns. We
should. however, pay much more heed
than at present to the development OF
an extensive system of floating mines
for use in I'll our more important har-
eors. These mines have been proved to
De a most formidable safeguard against
hostile feots.