The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-12-07

ed ara adnlterated FOODS, drinks. and
drugs. Such law would protect Iegiti-
mate manufacture and commerce.
would tend to secure the health and wei
rare of the consuming public. Traffic in
foodstuffs which have been debased or
adulterateds 50 as to injure health or to de-
cesve purchasers shonld be forbidden.
The Indian Question.
During the year just past, the phase Of
sharply brought To public attention is the
larger legal significance of the Indians
INDUCTION INTO citizenship, This has made
OF litigation in which the citizen Insliaa
figures as a parry defendant and in a more
Widespread disposition to levy local AKA
ton upon his personality, but In a decision
of he United States supreme court which
struck away the main prop on which has
hitherto rested the governments benevo-
lent effort to protect him against the evils
of intemperance. The court holds, in ef-
feet, that when an Indian becomes, ky
virtue Of an allotment of land to him, d
citizen of the state in which his land is sit
uated, he passes from under federal cons
troll in such matters as this, and the acts
of the congress prohibiting t-he=sale@nr
| Gift to him of intoXicants become substan-
tally imperative. 1t is gratifying to note
that the states and municipalities of the.
west which have most at stake in the well
fare OF the Indians are taking up this SUB
ject and are trying to supply, in a measure
at least, the abdfcation of its trusteeship
forced upon the federal government.
Nevertheless. / would. urgently press
upon the attention of the congress the
question whether some amendment of the
internal revenue laws might not be of aid
N n prosecuting these malefaetors, known
who are engaged at once in ~defraudfng the
United States treasury of taxes and, what
Is $ far more important, IN debauching the
jurisdiction.
Among the crying present needs of the
Indians are more day schools situated In.
the midst of their settlements, more eff
fective instruction in the Industries pur-
sued on their W farms. and a moro lib
eral extension OF the Reclamation service,
which means the education of the Indian
women in the arts of home making.
The Philippines.
During the last year the Philippine
the series of disasters which, since Amer
lean occupation, have greatly reduced the
amount an 9 of agricaltural products below
war. the rinderpest, the locusts, the
drought, and the cholera have been unit
ed as causes to prevent a return of the
The most serious is the destruction by
the rinderpest of more than rs per cent.
several years of breeding to restore the
necessary number of these Indispensable
aids to agriculture.
Would Reduce Tariff.
The agricultural conditions Of the
the argument in favor of reducing the
tariff on the products of the Philippine
islands entering the United States. I
imposed by, the Dingley bill upon the
products Of the Philippine, islands be
entirely removed, except the tariff on
sugar and tobacco. and that that tariff
be reduced to % per cent. of the present
rates under the Dingley act; that after
July l, 1909, the tariff upon tobacco and
sugar DrDGucpd in tha pbj1irnipa iS1an1s
be entirely removed, and that free trade
between the islands and thesunited States
provided for by law.
"a statute in force, enacted April Is,
1904. Suspends the operation of the coast
wise laws of the United states upon the
trade between the Philippine islands and
the United States until July /, 1906. L
earnestly recommend that this suspcn-
sion be postponed until July l, 1909.
Would Fortify Hawaii.
be taken for the fertilization of Hawaii.
This is the most important point in the
Pacific to forti6Gy in order to conserve
be hard to overstate the Importance of
his need. Hawaii is too heavily taxed.
Laws law. sh0Hld be enacted setting aside
per cent. of the internal revenue and
customs receipts from Hawaii as a spe-
ccial fund to be expended in the Stands
for educational and public buildings. and
Tor hafbor improvements and military
a4d naval defenses. 1t cannot be too
I Jatgii eP Pa tdrr rn a. our an must be to
ditonal American lines.
Citizenship for Porto Ricans.
earnestly advocate the adoption of
LEGISLATION which viii explicitly confer
no excuse for failure to do this. The
harbor of San Juan should be dredged
ana improved. The expenses of the fed
eral court OF Porto Rico should be met
from the federal treasury, and not from
the Porto Rican treasury. The elections
four years, end the legislature should
meet in session, every two years. The
Rico. which provides for the appointment
by the. president of the member of the
executive council or upper house of the
legislature, has proved satisfactory and
has inspired confidence in property own
crs and investors. [ do not deem 1t adj
V,isable at the present time to change
this form in IN material feature. The
problems and needs of the island are in
d%nstrlal and commercial rather than po-
litiCal.
Needs of Alaska.
l earnestly ask that Alaska be given
an elective delegate. Some person should
be chosen who can speak with authority
of the needs Of the territory. The gov
Of a railroad from the gulf Of Alaska to
the Yukon river, in American territory.
In my last two messages l advocated
certain additional action on behalf of
Alaska. I shall not now repeat those
recommendations, but ] shall lay all my
stress upon the one recommendation Of
giving to Alaska some one authorized TO
speak for 1t. | should prefer thar the
delegate was made elective. but if this
is not deemed wise then make him APP
pointivc.
The Panama Canal.
The treaty between the United States
and the republic of Panama, under which
the construction Of the Panama canal was
made possible, went into effect with its
February 20, 1904. The canal properties of
the French Canal company were trans
ferrcd to the United States on April %