The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-05

ships, it is evident, are going to be
built greater and greater, until some
authority declares the limit has been
reached. But the presidents program
Of simply replacing the units Of the
present navy with effective and up-to-
date bits of naval strength is reason
able and moderate.
The president has treated the immi-
grafton question in a manner which can
not but appeal to the Chinese govern
ment as being fair and impartial. The
exclusion of Chinese laborers is insisted
upon, but this is not the point of COM
plant with China, and the presidents
fairness and his determination to treat
the Chinese with equity is SO evident
that the Chinese government cannot
but be impressed with the fact that here
is one foreign ruler who is on the
square.
T. So far as immigration is concerned
the president makes two or three sug-
gestions, one Of which is that of an in
ternational conference upon the subject.
He is clear that the country still has
room for immigrants of the good kind,
but how to get them is difficult prob
lem, tho not so difficult as the problem
how to shut out the undesirable immi-
grant.
The president makes an earnest plea
for delegate in congress from Alaska.
The interests of the country demand i'm
peratively that some. one conversant
with the needs Of the territory should
be at hand to inform congress on what
it is necessary to do. It would seem as
tho it would be q difficult thing at the
present time to elect delegate from
Alaska, but the president does not insist
upon this, all he insists upon is that
there shall be man. at the elbow of
congress who knows the situation in
Alaska, This seems nothing but reason
able and fair.
AS remedy for the evil of conflict
ing, ineffective yet burdensome regu'
lation, the president says that there
has been for some years demand for
| federal supervision of insurance. This
may be doubted. The question is hard
ly as old as the president believes, and
| it has not become an acute question
| nationally yet. While it is true that
the state department. has for a gooc
many years carried on negotiations
with foreign countries with reference
| to the rights of certain American in
| onp,,orino 1nirr h,,ci act
abroad, the intervention Of the STATE
| department was not claim or admis
sion of the national character Of thu
business. It was very much such nego
tiation as the department might an(
| would undertake for an Individual. II
fact, the insurance companies were of
ten in the case of Miss Ellen Stone
they were kidnapped and had to b.
ransomed. Federal regulation of insur
ance may come, but it does not appea
to the people at present as business
proposition to throw away all that ha
been built up in the way Of state super
vision and take on a new form Of reg
ulation.
The message is eninently one TO
calm consideration by congress. It con
tains the best thought and reflection
of the president, and his advisers n
doubt, on a large number Of stat
questions. There are SO many touche
upon that their enumeration even
forbidden. The main topics are tn
railroads and foreign problems, but tn
president has also offered some sugges
tions in other lines. His report on tn
state Of the civil service is especially
interesting; his advice to congress wit
regard to economy should result in cor
gress going on hunt for unnecessar
offices. The president has discovere
where the country is paying quartz
of million year for the purely orns
mental place Of landoffice receive
, Perhaps congress can find more of tn
same kind. = VI