Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-12


bankers, doctors, manufacturers. professors
travellers and the like-should be eucour-
aged to come here and treated on precisely
the same footing that we treat students
business men, travellers and the like OF
other nations Our laws and treaties should
be framed not so to put these people
in the excepted classes, but to state thar
we will admit all Chinese, except Chinese
of the coolie class. Chinese skilled or mn
skilled laborerS.
Much trouble has come during the past
summer from the organized boycott against
American goods which has been started in
China. The main factor in producing this
boycott has been the resentment felt by
the students and business people of China
by all the Chinese leaders, against the
harshness of our law toward educated
Cinnamon of the professional and business
classes This government has the friendli-
est feeling for China and desires China's
well-beng We cordially sympathize with
the announced purpose of Japan to stand
for the integrity of China Such an atti-
tude tends to the peace of the world.
AduIteration of Foods.
recommend that law be enacted to
regulate interstate commerce in misbrand-
ed and aduterated foods. drinks, and drugs.
Such law would protect legitimate manu-
facture and commerce, and would tend to
| secure the health and welfare of the con-
Stunning public. Traffic in foodstuffS which
have been debased adulterated so as to
injure health or to deceive purchasers
should be forbidden.
National Parks and Show Places.
I call your attention to the generous act
of the State of California in comforting
upon the United States government the
ownership of the Yosemite Valley and the
Mariposa Big Tree grove. There should be
no delay in accepting the gift, and appro-
priations should be made for the including
thereof In the Yosemite National Park and
for the care and policing of the park. Cal
ifornia has acted most wisely as well as
with great magnanimity in the matter.
certain mighty
of our land which should be preserved in
perpetuity for our children and our chill
dren's children. In my judgment the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado should be made
into national park. 1t is greatly to be
wished that the State of New York should
copy as regards Niagara what the State Of
California has done regards the Yosem-
lite. Nothing should be allowed to interfere
with the preservation of Niagara Falls in
ali their beauty and majesty.
The Philippine Islands.
During the past year the Philippine ISL
ands have been slowly recovering from
the series of disasters which, since Ameri-
can occupation, have greatly reduced the
amount of agricultural products below
what was produced in Spanish times. The
war, the rinderpest the locusts, the
drought and the cholera have been united
as causes to prevent a return of the pros
perity much needed in the islands, The
income of the Philippine government has
necessarily been reduced by reason of the
business and agricultural depression in the
islands, and the government has been
obliged to exercise great economy, to cut
down its expenses, to reduce salaries, and
in every way to avoid deficit. 1t
has adopted an internal-reyenue law
imposing taxes on cigars, cigarettes,
and distilled liquors, and abolishing
the old Spanish industrial taxes. The
come derived from it has partly made up
for the reduction in customs revenue There
has been a marked increase in the number
of Ftlipinos employed in the civil service,
ana a corresponding decrease in the num-
Der of Americans
Improvements of harbors, roads, and
bridges continue, although the cutting down
OF the revenue forbids the expenditure Of
any great amount from current income for
these purposes. Disturbances have all now
been suppressed, and it is hoped that with
these lessons local governments can be
formed which will secure quiet and peace
to the deserving inhabitants. The Incl
dent Is another proof of the fact that If
there has been any error as regards giving
self-government in the Philippines it has
been in the direction of giving it too quick
ly, not too slowly.
The agricultural conditions of the islands
enforce more strongly than ever the argu-
ment in favor of reducing the tariff on the
products of the Philippine Islands entering
the United states. l earnestly recommend
that the tariff now imposed by the Dingley
bill upon the products of the Philippine ISL
ands 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 1. 1909 the tariff upon tobacco and
sugar produced in the Philippine Islands
be entirely removed, and that free trade
between the islands and the United States
in the products of each country then be
| provided for by law.
Problems of Hawaii.
In my Judgment immediate steps should
| be taken for the fertilization of Hawaii
| This IS the most important point in the Pa
citic to fortify in order to conserve the in
! terests of this country. Hawaii is too heav-
! lily taxed. Laws should be enacted setting
aside for period of. say, twenty years, IS
| per cent of the internal revenue and Gus
! toms receipts from Hawaii as a special fund
| to be expended in the islands for educa-
tional and public buildings, and for harbor
| improvements and military and naval de-
| lenses. Hawaii has serious commercial ana
| industrial problems to reckon with; but no
| measure of relief can be considered which
| looks to legislation admitting Chinese and
| restricting them by statute to field labor
| and domestic service. The status of SER
! Witty can never again be tolerated on Amer
| lean soil.
Porto Rican Affairs.
| earnestly advocate the adoption of leg
! tslation which will explicitly confer Amer
! lean citizenship on all citizens of Porto
| Rico. The problems and needs of the island
are industrial and commercial rather than
| political
InsuIar Affairs in General.
l wish also to call the attention Of the
| Congress to one question which affects
| our insular possessions generally; name
| ly, the need of an increased liberality in
| the treatment of the whole franchise
| question in these islands. In the proper
| desire to prevent the Islands being ex-
| plotted by spectators and to have
| them develop in the interest of their
| own people an error has been made in re-
| fusing to grant sufficiently liberal terms to
| induce the investment of American capital
in the Philippines and in Porto Rico. We
! D1ya been paying all possible heed to the
/ political aud educational interests of the
! islands, but, important though these OBJ
| iects are, 1t Is not less important that we
should favor their industrial Development,
Admission 10 Statehood.
l recommend that Indian Territory and
/ Oklahoma be admitted rs one State and
! that New Mexico and Arizona be admitted
further delay; and the ACCESSIBILITY of max
| ing the four territories into two States has
been clearly established.
TIE 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
r.tihcation by the United States Senate
on Feb. 3d. 1904. The canal properties of
the French Canal Company were INNS.
IeetdsTeu 70 me United States on April %.
1904, on payment of $40,O00,0OO to that
company. Active work in canal construc-
ton, mainly preparatory, has been in
progress for less than year and a half.
During that period two points about the
canal have ceased to be open to debate.
First the question of route; the canal will
be built on the Isthmus of Panama Sec
ond, the question of feasibility; there are
no physical obstacles on this route that
American engineering skill will not be able
TO overcome without serious difficulty, or
that VIII prevent the completion ol the
canal within reasonable time and at a
reasonable cost.
The point which remains unsettled is the
question of type, whether the canal shall
be one of several locks above sea level, or
at sea level with a single tide lock- On
this point / hope to lay before the Con-
gress at an early day the findings of the
advisory board of American and European
engineers, that at my invitation have been
considering the subject, together with the
report of the commission thereon; and such
comments thereon or recommendations In
reference thereto as may seem necessary.
The American people are pledged TO the
spee6iest possible construction of a canal
adequate to meet the demands which the
commerce of the world will make upon it,
and appeal most earnestly to the Con-
sta tn qtyns FLA