Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-12-06
ROOSEVELT'S SENSIBLE
AND BUSINESS MESSAGE
Read to Congress Today - Many
Timely Suggestions and Good Rec
concentrations 80 Tariff Question
Not BrOaChed---Silen on State-
hood.

corporations "is this act to confer on
the Interstate Commerce Commission
the power to revise rates and regula-
tions, the revised act to go into effect
at once and to stay in effect unless and
until the court of review reverses it.. %
Municipal Improvement and Right.
eousness.
| In speaking of the necessity of mu-
nicipal and social improvements in
the City of Washington, the President
addresses all cities of this country. He
warns against overcrowding and GER
tain tendencies of modern city life
| which are in conflict with the ideal
home and family life. He says: There
should be severe child-labor and fac
tory-inspection laws. 1t is very desir-
able that married women should not
work in factories. The prime duty of
the man is to work, to be the bread
winner; the prime duty of the woman
is to be the mother, the housewife. All
questions of tariff and finance sink in
to utter insignificance when compared
with the tremendous, the vital import
ance of trying to shape conditions so
that these two duties of the man and of
the woman can be fulfilled under reas-
onably favorable circumstances. If
race does not have plenty of children,
or if the children do not grow up, or
if when they grow up they are unheal-
thy in body and stunted or vicious in
mind, then that race is decadent, and
no heaping up of wealth, no splendor
of momentary marital prosperity, can
avail in any degree as offsets"
He advocates public play ground,
compulsory education law, juvenile
courts such as that of the State of Col
orado, the abolishment of back alleys
and improper housing in the City of
Washington, and what is good for the
city of Washington, would, of course,
also prove of benefit to every other
community.
Agriculture.
The work of this department is dis
cussed and its immense benefit to the
Nation are discussed. The facts con-
cerning meteorology, meat inspection,
cheap foods, insect pests, introduction
of new grains and grasses, the i'm
provement of the soil, silk growing, ir-
rigation and forests are discussed. The
President says of irrigation:
"The larger problems have been
solved and it now remains to execute
with care economy and thoroughness
the work which has been laid out All
important details are being carefully
considered by boards of consulting en-
gineers, selected for their thorough
knowledge and practical experience.
Each project is taken up on the ground
by competent men and viewed from
the standpoint of the creation of pros
porous homes, and of promptly refund
ing to the Treasury the cost of con-
struction. The reclamation act has
been found to be remarkably complete
and effective, and so broad in it's pro-
visions that wide range of undertak-
ings has been possible under it. At
the same time, economy is guaranteed
by the fact that the funds must ulti-
mately be returned to be used over
again"
"The forest-reserve policy can be
successful only when it has the full
support of the people of the West. 1t
oh in
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 con-
trary, it is everywhere and always the
interest of the permanent settler and
the permanent business man, the man
with stake in the country, which
must be considered and which must
decide"
every administrative officer con-
cerned is convinced of the necessity
for the proposed consolidation of for
est work in the Department OF Agricul-
ture, and l myself have urged it more
than once in former messages. Again
l commend it to the early and favor
able consideration Of the Congress.
The interests of the Nation at large
and of the West in particular have
suffered greatly because of the delay"
"ln connection with the work of the
forest reserves l desire again to urge
upon the Congress the importance of
authorizing the President to set aside
certain portions Of these reserves or
other public lands as game refugees"
Pensions.
"The veterans Of the Civil War have
a claim upon the Nation such as NO
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