The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1904-12-08
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
READ TO CONGRESS
Document Deals Unanimously with
Questions of State Tariff Left for
Future Communication Position of
the Government Toward Organized
Labor---Dealins with Illegal Combi-
nations.

President Rooseyelt's message to
Congress, read at the opening of the
short session of that body, deals vol.
uminously with questions of state,
The subject of tariff revision is left
for further communication. Sub
stantially the message is as follows.
To the Senate and House Of Represen.
tatives:
The nation continues to enjoy note
worthy prosperity Such prosperity Is Of
course primarily due to the high individ-
slal average Of our citizenship, taken TO-
gtther with our great natural resources;
but an important factor therein Is the
working of our long continued govern
mental policies The people have en-
phaticaly expressed their approval of the
principles underlying these policies, and
their desire that these principles he kept
substantially unchanged, although Of
course applied in Il progressive spirit to
uleet tiuSlilS cuilultlutls,
Caution Against Extravaganza.
The enlargement of scope of the flnc-
lions of the national government re-
Quired by cur development as a nation
involves. of course, increase of expense;
and the period of prosperity through
which the country Is passing iusliiies eX
pendt,rcs for permanent improvements
far greater than would he wise in hard
times, Battle ships and forts public
buildings, and improved waterways are
Adjustments which should he made when
we have the money; but abundant rev.
enues and a large surplus always invite
extravaganza, and constant care should
pe. taken to guard against unnecessary
increase Of the ordinary expenses Of gov
eminent,
Capital and Labor
In the asst and complicated mechanism
OF our r'odern civilized life the dominant
note is the note Of nduslrialsm; and the
relations of capital and labor and espe-
cially OF organized capital and organized
labor. to each other and to the public at
large come second In Importance only to
the intimate questions Of family life,
As long as the states retain The prl.n-
airy control of the police power the cir
cumstances must be altogether extreme
w'"pN asauHe interference by Inc federal
sa,dna ,,a "" ,'ht ~ ' 'o,,a way % saw
way Of seeing that wrong is M, dorc bv
lmuly persons who shield themselves be-
sistaoon ,' ,o tho " t.aa "" o,, ,,e'r ~ IT,
ence with the mails or Interstate cow,
rr,epee. or molestati0n of federal pronerty
or II the state authorities In some crisis
which they are unable TO face call for
klelp. then the federal government nnv
interfere. but though such interference
may be caused by a condition of THING.
arising out of trouble connected with
some question of h,bor. the Interference
Itself simply takes the form If restoring
order without regard ia the cpestions
which have caused the breach of order
for to keen order IL n urinary dptv md
IN a time of disorder and violence ali oth.
er questions sink into allowance untt, or.
der has been restored In tho District
Of Columbia and In tho tprritories Tho
federal law covers the entire field of gov.
elnment, hut the labor question s o,ly
acute in populous ceu,ers of co,nmnrce
manufactures. ar mining Ncverth,locs
4eth in the enactment ond in tba on,
forcemept of law Tho fpdoro, .ovcrnmo,,
within Ms restricted snhert. shnuId 80, an
evamnlo In tho st,le rovnrnmonts e',,a