The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-05

grants should be strengthened. Ade-
! quate means should be adopted, en-
forced by sufficient penalties, to COM
pei steamship companies engaged in
the passenger business to observe in
good faith the law which forbids
them to encourage or solicit immi-
grafton to the United States.
In dealing with this question it is
unwise to depart from the old Amer
lean tradition and tt discriminate for
Or against any man who desires to
come here and become a citizen, save
on the ground of that mans fitness
for citizenship. 1t is our right and
duty to consider his moral and social
quality. His standard OF living should
be such that he will not, by pressure
of competition, lower the standard of
living of our own wage-workers; for
1t must ever be a prime object of
our legislation to keep high their
standard of living. If the man who
seeks to come here is from the moral
and social standpoint of such a char
acter as to bid fair to add value to
h community he should be heartily
welcomed. We car not afford to pay
heed to whether he is of one creed
or another, of one nation or another.
We can not afford to consider wheth-
or he is Catholic or Protestant, Jew
or Gentle; whether he is English
mar Or Irishman, Frenchman or Ger
man, Japanese, Italian, Scandinavian
Slav or Magyar. What we should
desire to find out is the individual
quality of the individual man. In my
judgment, with this end in view, we
shall have to prepare through our
own agents "a far more rigid lnspec-
ton in the countries from which the
immigrants come. 1t will be a great
doa1 hnttor IN have fawnr i'm mi ora MIS- |
but all of the right kind, than a great
number of immigrants, many of
Who are necessarily of the wrong
kind. AS far as possible we wish TO
limit the immigration to his country |
to persons who propose to become
citizens of this country, and we can
well afford to insist upon adequate
scrutiny of the character of those
who are thus proposed for future
citizenship. There should be an in
crease in the stringency of the laws
TO keep out insane, idiotic, epileptic,
and pauper immigrants. But this is
by no means enough. Not merely the
anarchist, but every man of anarch-
istic tendencies, all violent and dis
orderly people, all people of bad char
acter. the incompetent, the lazy. the
vicious, the physically unfit, defec-
tive, or degenerate should be kept
out. The stocks out of which Ameri-
can citizenship is to De built should
be strong and healthy, Uni in body,
mind, and character. If it be object
ed that the Government agents
not always select we'll, the an
swer is that they would certainly Sc
lect better thar do the agents and
brokers of foreign steamship comp
anies. the people h now do what
ever selection is done.
PhiIippine Tariff.
The agricultural conditions of the
enforce more strongly than
ever the argument in favor of re
iucing the tariff on the products o.
the Philippine Islands entering the
United States. l earnestly econ
the Dingley bill upon the products
of the Philippine Islands be entirely
removed, except the tariff on uga
and tobacco, and that that tariff be
reduced to 25 per cent of the present
rates under the Dingley Act; that af-
ter July 1, 1909, the tariff upon tobao
60 and sugar produced in the Phil
ippine Islands be entirely removed.
and that free trade between the is
lands and the United States in the
products of each country then be
provided for by law.
Hawaii
In my judgment immediate steps
~houId be taken for the Fertilization
of Hawaii. This is the most import
point in the Pacific to fortify in
order to conserve the interests OF
his country. 1t would be hard to ov
the Importance of this need.
Hawaii is too heavily taxed. Laws
-hou1d be enacted setting aside for a
period of, say, twenty years rs per
cent of the internal venue and GUS
receipts from Hawaii as a spec
ial fund to be expended in the Is
for educational n public build
and for harbor improvements
and military and naval 1t
can not be too often repeated that
aim must be to develop the Terri
tory of Hawaii on traditional Ameri-
can lines. That Territory has serious
commercial and industrial problems
TO eckon with; but no measure OF
relief can be considered which looks
TO legislation admitting Chinese and
them by statute to held
and domestic service. The sta
tus of servility can again be
tolerated on American soil. We can
not concede that the proper solution
Of its problems is special legislation
to Hawaii a class of labor
ars denied admission to the other
States and Territories There are OBJ
stacles. in the way of building up a {
representative American community
IN the Hawaiian Islands: but it is
not in the American character to
give up in the face of difficulty. Many
an American Commonwealth has
built up against odds equal to
hose that now confront Hawaii.
No merely h~alf-hearted effort to
meet its problems as other American
communities ave met theirs can be
accepted as fnal Hawaii shall never I
a Territory in which a gov-