The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-07

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 National Quarantine Law.
 It is desirable to enact a national quarantine law. It is most undesirable that state should on it's own initiative enforce quarantine regulations which are in effect restriction upon inter state and international commerce. The question should properly be assumed by the government alone. The surgeon general of the National Public Health and Marine Hospital service has re- peatedly and eonvincingly set forth the need for such legislation.
 Extrayagance in Printing.
 call your attention to the great ex- trayagance in printing and binding government publications and especial ly to the fact that altogether too many of these publications are printed. There is constant tendency to in- crease their number end their volume. It is an understatement to say that no appreciable harm would be caused by, and substantial benefit would accrue from, decreasing the amount of print ing now done by at least one-half. Probably the great majority of the goy- ernment reports and the like now printed are never read at all. and fur thermore the printing of much of the material contained in many of the re- maining ones serves no useful purpose whatever.
 Currency.
 The attention of the congress should be especially given to the currency question, and that the standing com mittee on the matter in the two houses charged with the duty, take up the matter of our currency and see whether I 1t is not possible to secure an agree ment in the business world for better ing the system; the committees should consider the question of the retirement of the greenbacks and the problem of securing in our currency such elastIci- ! ty as is consistent with safety. Every silver dollar should be made by law re- deemable in gold at the option of the holder.
 Merchant Marine.
 l especially commend to your imme- diate attention the encouragement of our merchant marine by appropriate 1 Legislation.
 oriental Markets.
 The growing importance of the Ori- ent as field for American exports drew from my predecessor. President Mckinley, an urgent request for it's l special consideration by the congress. Tn his message of 1898 he stated:
 Tn this relation, as showing the pe- culiaf volume and vaulo oi our trade with China and the peculiarly favora- ble conditions which exist for their ex- pansion in the normal course of trade, i I refer to the communication addressed to the Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatiyes by the Secretary of the Treasury on the 14th of last June, with its accompanying letter of the Secreta- ry of State, recommending an appropri- atton for commission to study the in- dustrial and commercial conditions in l the Chinese empire and to report as to the opportunities for and the obstacles l to the enlargement of markets in China. I for the raw products and manufactures of the United States Action was not i taken thereon during the last session. cordially urge that the recommends l tion receive at your hands the consid- eration which it's importance and time- Illness merit"
 In his annual message of 1899 he again called attention to this recom- mendation, quoting it, and stated fur- ther:
 T now renew this recommendation, as the importance of the subject has steadily grown since it was first sub- ] mitted to you, and no time should be i lost in studying for ourselves the re- sources of this great field for American trade and enterprise.n
 The importance of securing proper in l formation and data with a view to the enlargement of our trade with Asia is I undiminished. Our consular represen- tatives in China have strongly urged a place for permanent display of Ameri- can products in some prominent trade center of that empire, under govern ment control and management, as an effective means of advancing our ex- port trade therein. call the attention iof the congress to the desirability of carrying out these suggestions.
 Immigration and Naturalization. In dealing with the questions of inl- migration and naturalization it is in- l dispensable to keep certain facts ever before the minds of those who share in enacting the laws. First and foremost, let us remember that the question of being a good American has nothing whatever to do with a mans birthplace any more than it has to do with his creed. Tn every generation from the time this government was founded men Of foreign birth have stood in the very foremost rank of good citizenship, and that not merely in one, but in every field of American activity; while to try l to draw 8 distinction between the man I whose parents came to this country and the man whose ancestors came to l it several generations back is a mere absurdity Good Americanism is a matter of heart, of conscience, of lofty l aspiration, of sound common sense, but not of birthplace or creed. The medal of honor, the highest prize to be won by l tose who serve in the army and navy of I te United States decorates men born here, and it also decorates men born in Great Britain and Ireland, in Germany, | ] Tt1ST. L1lsg -.s' | 1l --4 n r .N3l