Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-12-15

ed and adulterated foods, drinks. and
drugs. Such law would protect legiti,
mate manufacture and commerce., and
would tend to secure the health and well
fare OF the consuming public. Traffic In
foodstuffs which have been debased or
adulterated so as 10 injure health or to de-
ce.ve purchasers should be forbidden.
The Indian Question.
During the year just past. the Phase of
the Indian question which has been most
sharply brought To public attention Is the
larger legal significance of the Indians
induction into citizenship. This has made
itself manifest not only IN a great excess
OF litigation in which the citizen Indian
figures as a party defendant and in a more
widespread disposition 10 levy local taxa
ton upon his personality, but In a decision
of the 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. by
virtue of an allotment of land to him, a
citizen OF the state in which his Ian is sit
uated, he passes from under federal con-
troll In such matters as this, and the acts
of the congress prohibiting the sale or
gift to him of intoXicants become substan-
TALLY imperative. 1t is gratifying to note
that the states and municipalities of the
west which lave most at stake IN the well
fare OF the Indians are taking UP this sub
ject and are trying to supply, In a measur
at least. the abdication OF its trusteeship
forced upon the federal government.
Nevertheless, l would urgently press
upon the attention Of the congress the
question whether some amendment of the
internal revenue laws might not be OF aid
in prosecuting those m~aiefactors, known
in the Indian country at "~bootlegBers,"
who are engaged at once in defraudi1g the
United States treasury of taxes and, what
is far more important, in d~ebauching the
Indians by carrying liquors illicitly into
territory stin completely under federal
jurisdiction,
Among the crying present needs OF the
Indians are more day schools situated in
the midst OF their settlements, more eff
fectiye instruction in tho industries pur-
sued on their own farms. and a more lib
eral extension OF the field-matron service.
which means the ducation Of the Indian
women In the arts OF home making.
The Philippines.
During the last year the Philippine
i~slanS5s have been slowiy EstoyeH3pg. from
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the rinderpest Of more than rs per cent.
OF the draft cattle, beeadss 1t wul take
several years Of breeding to restore the
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aids to agriculture.
Would Reduce Tariff.
Tho agricultural conditions of the
islands enforce more strongly than ever
t tasl4 @r 81 fse p IN faySr Of Of rl gsdssi hnIEbp tine
islands entering the United States. l
earnestly recommend that the tariff now
imposed BY, the p9ingiey bill upon the
entirely removed, except the tariff on
sugar, and tobacco, and that that tariff
F ns rsd TGsar to Che q pR Gr SeSt. a Of the lfa Pre a T
July /, 1909, the tariff upon tobacco and
sugar produced in the Philippine islands
between the Islands and the United States
in the products of each country then be
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
sion be postponed until July i, 1903.
Would Fortify Hawaii.
In my Judgment immediate steps should
be taken for the f~ortification of Hawaii.
This is the most important point in the
Pacific to fortify in order to conserve
the interests OF this country. 1t would
be hard to oversrate the Importance of
this need. Hawaii is too heavily taxed.
for a period OF, say, twenty Years rs
per cent. of the internal revenue and
customs receipts from Hawaii as a spe-
cial fund ia be expended In the islands
for educational and public buildings and
for harbor improvements and military
and naval defenses. 1t cannot be too
often repeated that our aim must be to
develop the territory OF Hawaii ON ira
dftionai American lines.
Citizenship for Porto Ricans.
I earnestly advocate the adoption of
Legislation which VIII explicitly confer
American citizenship on all citiYens Of
no excuse for failure to DO t6Es The
harbor of San Juan should be dredged
and 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 eleosians
four years, and the Legislature should
meet in session every two years. The
present form OF government in Porto
Rico, which provides for the appointment
by the president OF the members of the
executive council or upper hesse Of tho
legislature, has proved satisfactEy and
ers and investors. | do not deem II adj
ylsable at the present tyme to change
this form In any material feature. The
problems and needs Of the ISLAND are in
dustrial and commercial rather than po-
litical.
Needs Of Alaska.
/ earnestly ask that Alaska be given
be chosen who can speak with authority
Of the needs Of the territory. The gov
should aid In tho construction
OF a railroad from the gulf OF Alaska to
the Yukon river, In American territory.
In my last two messages / advocated
certain additional action or behalf of
Alaska. I shall not now repeat those
recommendations, but l h n lay all my
stress upon the one recommendation of
giving TO Alaska some one authorized TO
speak for ii. i should prefer that the
delegate was made elective. but IL this
is not deemed wise then make him APP
pointive.
The Panama Canal.
The treaty between the United States
and the republic of Panama, under which
made possible, went into effect with its
ratification by the United States senate on
February %, 1904. The canal properties OF
the French Canal omnan were trans
ferred to the United States on April %,
1904. on payment Of 100000 TO that COM
pany. On April /, 1906. the commission
was reorganized. and 1t now consists OF
Theodore l.. Shonts, chairman, Charles E.
Magoon, Benjamin M. Harrod, Rear-Ad-
miral Mordecai T.. Endicott, Brigadisr Gen
eral Peter c.. Hams, and Colonel Oswald
III. Ernst. John +. Stevens was appointed
chief engineer on July / last. Active work
in canal construction, mainly, preparatory,
has been ia progress for less than a 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 VIII be built on the Isthmus of
Panama. Second. the question of feasible
lty; there are no physical obstacles on this
route that American engineering skill will
not be able 10 overcome without serious
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