Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-05
The Mesa ge.

The message Is long. But the topics are
numerous. and public interest in all of them
is keen. For this reason the document will
be carefully read and fully disested,. and
much of it is certain of cordial approval.
There is a familiar ring in the treatment
of certain issues, but that does not deprive
them of their appeal. The President, now
as at all times, speaks for the peace which
comes from a preparedness for war, for
progress without buster or land covetous-
ness, for the maintenance of the Monroe
doctrine upon the broad lines of its present
day meaning. for navy as fit as a fiddle,
for publicity in the matter of political cam
paign contributions and expenditures, and
for the early completion of the Panama
canal. Upon all these heads he repeats
the sentiments of former deliverances, and
with an emphasis which shows how deeply
he feels and how firmly he stands 1t is
Roosevelt in every line.
Attention will be particularly fixed and
held by the treatment of these subjects:
% Railroad rate supervision and control
by the national government. This, the
President insists Is necessary to all the
parties In interest. 1t is necessary to the
people, because experience shows that left
unrestraned the great railroad corpora
lions have abused their opportunities and
powers at the expense of the people. 1t is
necessary to the railroads, because as mat
tiers have been heading it would not be DIFF
ficult in a short time TO lay the foundation
for a vigorous campaign for public owner
ship-something the President most earnest
" opposes He therefore asks for ma
tional tribunal, clothed with the power to
try and decide disputed questions of rates.
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of procedure. but none to the ADVISABLE
ity of some substantial acton. Congress
confronts both a condition and a theory.
and cannot, If it would, run away. We
shall have a law on this subject at this
session.
I2) National supervision of insurance.
Insurance companies. like railroad COM
panies. control enormous sums of money,
operate under charters, and have been
abusing the interests of their patrons and
the public. Impatience and indignat ton
with their methods have been aroused by
recent disclosures, and the President holds
that a sound public policy demands the es-
adjustment of a check upon such corpora
lions in the interests of ALL AS the two
propositions have much in common, the
railroad proposition, which is the stronger,
should carry the other through.
90 Chinese exclusion. The Chinese, as
immigrants, are in a class to themselves.
Foreign immigration in general needs to be
more carefully regulated, but the President,
in speaking of the Chinese. declares that
both their skilled and unskiled laborers
undesirable In this country, and must be
kept out. As for an improved inspection,
whereby the exempted classes may find
their entrance to the. country subject to no
delay annoying hardship. the President
voices the general wish. and the means he
suggests should answer that end If the in
speCtion is transferred TO China, and the
American service there charged with it is
made In every way worthy of and COM
petent for the duty. We shall hear no more
complaint on this subject. Friends of the
exclusion law have never had any other
desire than an enforcement of the law
within the fair scope of it's meaning, and
this is what the President recommends.
Nothing else is reasonably to be read into
his words.
a. Tariff revision. The little boy.
munching his apple with great relish, said
to his wistful playmate standing near,
There amt tgoin' to be no core" Like
wise here: There amt gon' to be no tariff
revision TIE Presidents personal views
are his own, and as a separate proposition
standpatism is probably not in favor with
him, But he does not in his message and
probably will not IN any other, ask for
revision by this Congress, and so the issue
goes i5fto next years congressional cam
paigns, and thence into the next presiden-
tial campaign Get ready.