The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06


 population, where the birth rate has | sunk below the death rate. Surely it | should need no demonstration to show | that wilful sterility is. from the standpoint of the nation. from me l standpoint of the human race, the one | sin for which the penalty is national | there is no atonement; a sin which is | the more dreadful exactly in propor- | ton as the men and women guilty | thereof are in other respects, in char l acter. and bodily and mental powers, | those whom for the sake of the state | 1t would be well to see the fathers | and mothers of many healthy children, | well brought up in homes made happy l by their presence. No man, no woman. | can shirk the primary duties of life, | whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.
 The president asks for the enactment l into law of a shipping bill that will place American interests on the seas on a par with those of other countries, and urges
 especially that something be done that nication with South American ports. Currency Reform.
 Amendments to the present currency | laws are asked for, and after showing | that present laws are inadequate because | of the wide fiuctuation of interest charges, he says:
 Tine mere statement of these facts ously defective. There is need of a | change. Unfortunately. however, many | of the proposed changes must be ruled l from consideration because they are | hension, and tend to disturb existing l rights and interests. We must also | terially impair the value of the United | States two per cent. bonds now pledged | to secure circulation. the issue of | culiarly creditable to the treasury I l do not press any special plan. Various
 plans have recently been proposed by expert committees of bankers. Among l the. plans which are possibly feasible 1 and which certainly should receive | your consideration is that repeatedly | brought to your attention by the pres- | ent secretary of the treasury the es- | sential features of which have been | approved by many prominent bankers l plan national banks should be per- | mitted to issue a specified proportion | of their capital in notes of a given | kind the issue to be taxed at so high I a rate as to drive the notes back when | not wanted in legitimate tra de. This | plan would not per,ait the issue of | profits, but to meet the emergency pre- | sented by times of stringency
 | He again asks for free trade with this l country for the Philippines and in the 1 same connection reviews the work done lby this country in the islands. and says | 'if we have erred in the Philippines it | has been in proceeding too rapidly in | the direction of granting a large meas- ure of .sclf-government."
 American citizenship should be con- | ferred on the citizens of Porto Rico. | The harbor of San Juan in Porto Rico | should be dredged and improved. The expenses of the federal court of Porto | Rico should be met from the federal | treasury. The administration of the af- | fairs of Porto Rico, together with those | insular possessions, should all be direct | ed under executive department; by | preference the department of state or the department of war.
 CT recommend to the congress that | an act be passed specifically providing for l the naturalization of Japanese who come | here intending to become American cit- izens.,. One of the great embarrassments | attending the performance of our in- | ternational obligations is the fact that 1 the statutes of the United States gov- | ernment are entirely inadequate. They | fail to give to the national government sufficiently ample power, through United army and navy, to protect aliens in the rights secured to them under solemn treaties which are the law of the land. | therefore earnestly recommend that | the criminal and civil statutes of the | United States be so amended and added | to as to enable the president, acting for | the United States government, which is 1 responsible in our international rela- | tions to enforce the rights of aliens un- something can be done by the federal government toward this end, and in the matter now before me affecting the Jap- anese, everything that it is in my power to do will be done, and all of the forces.
 military and civil, of the United States
 which I may lawfully employ will be
 no particle of doubt as to the power of
 the. national government completely. to
 perform and enforce its own obligations to other nations. The mob of a single city. may at any time perform acts of lawless violence against some class of foreigners which would plunge us into war. The city by itself would be power- less to make defense against the for eign. power thus assaulted. and if inde..
 never venture to perform or permit the
 performance of the acts complained Of.
 The entire power and the whole duty to protect the offending city or the offend ing community lies In the hands of the United States government. It Is un-
 thinkable that we should continue a pol allowed to commit crime against friendly nation, and the United States
 government limited, not to preventing
 have committed it against the conse- quences of their own wrongdoing."
 Cuban Intervention.
 The rebellion in Cuba and the incl dents leading up to the establishment of the provisional government is reviewed, and the president says:
 When the election has been held and the new government inaugurated in
 peaceful and orderly fashion of the provi- sional government will come to an end.
 I take this opportunity of expressing
 upon behalf of the American people, with all possible solemnity, our most
 earnest hope, that the. people of Cuba
 will realize the imperative need of pre-
 serving justice and keeping order in the island. The United States wishes noth-
 ing of Cuba except that it shall prosper
 morally and materially, and wshes noth-
 ing of the Cubans save that they shall
 be able to preserve order among them
 selves and therefore to preserve their
 independence. If the elections become a
 farce, and if the insurrectionary habit
 becomes confirmed in the island, 1t is ab-
 solutely out of the question that the
 island should continue Independent; and
 the United States, which has assumed
 the sponsorship before the civilized world
 for Cuba's career as nation, would
 again have to intervene and to see that
 the government was managed in such