Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-12-13

has been the favor with which the law has been regarded by administrative of fieers. Any attempt to carry on the great executive departments of the gov ernment without this law would inev- itablv result in chaos. The civil ser vice commissioners are doing excellent work; and their compensation is made quate considering the service they perform.
 Adulteration of Foods.
 I recommend that a law be enacted to regulate interstate commerce in mis- branded and adulterated foods, drinks, and drugs. Such law would protect | legitimate manufacture and commerce, and would tend to secure the health and welfare of the consuming public. Traf- | ic in foodstuffs which have been de- based or adulterated so as to injure health or to deceive purchasers should | be forbidden.
 National Parks.
 call your attention to the generous act of the state of California in con- ferring upon the United States govern ment the ownership of the Yosemite valley and the Mariposa Big Tree ,irove. There should be no delay in accepting the gift, and appropriations should be made for the including there of in the Yosemite national park, and for the care and policeing of the park. California has acted most wisely as well as with great magnanimity in the matter There are certain mighty na- tural features of our land which should be preserved in perpetuity for our children and our children's children. In my judgment the Grand Canyon of the Colorado should be made into a national park. It is greatly to be wished that the state of New York should copy as regards Niagara what the state of California has done as re- gards the Yosemite. Nothing should be allowed to interfere with the preser- vation of Niagara Falls in all their beauty and majesty.
 Indians.
 During the year just past, the phase of the Indian question which has been most sharply brought to public atten- tion is the larger legal significance of the Indians induction into citizen ship. This has made itself manifest not only in a great access of litigation in which the citizen Indian figures as a party defendant and in a more wide spread disposition to levy local taxa tion upon his personality, but in a de- cision of the United States Supreme Court which struck away the main prop on which has hitherto rested the government benevolent effort to pro tect him against the evils of intemper- ance. The court holds, in effect, that when an Indian becomes by virtue of an allotment of land to him, citizen of the state in which his land is situated, he passes from under federal control in such matters as thIs, and the acts of the congress prohibiting the sale or gift to him of intoxicants become substan tially imperative. It is gratifying to note that the states and municipalities of the west which have most at stake in the welfare of the Indians are taking up this subject, and are trying to SUD- ply, in a measure at least, the abdica- tion of its trusteeship forced upon the federal govern ment. Nevertheless, l would urgently press upon the atten- tion of the congress the question whe ther some amendment of the internal revenue laws might not be of aid in prosecuting those malefactors, known in the Indian country as "boOtlegg ers," who are engaged at once in de- frauding the United States treasury of taxes, and, what is far more important, in debauching the Indians by carrying liquors illicitly into territory still ol. C,
 Among the crying present needs of the Indians are more day schools situ- ated in the midst of their settlements, more effective instruction in the in- dustries pursued on their own farms, and a more liberal extension of the feld-matron service, which means the education of the Indian women in the arts of home-making.
 The Philippines.
 During the last year the Philippine islands have been slowly recovering from the series of disasters which, since American occupation, have great ly reduced the amount of agricultural products below what was produced in Spanish times. The war, the rinderpest, the locusts, the drought, and the cholera udN6 DccH JO pItNtuJ a return of the prosperity much needed in the islands. The most serious is the destruction by the rinderpest of more than 75 per cent of the draft cattle, be- cause it will take several years of breeding to restore the necessary num- Der of these indispensable aids to agri- culture. The commission attempted to supply by purchase from adjoining countries the needed cattle, but the ex- periments made were unsuccessful. Most of the cattle imported were unable to withstand the change of climate and the rigors of the voyage and died from other diseases than the rinderpest.
 Tie income of the Philippine govern ment has necessarily been reduced by reason of the business and agricultural depression in the islands, and the gov ernment has been obliged to exercise great economy to cut down its expenses, to reduee salaries, and in every way to avoid a deficit. 1t has adopted an internal revenue law, imposing taxes on cigars, cigarettes, and distilled liquors, and aboiishing the old Spanish in dustrial taxes. The law has not operat