The Monticellonian., 1906-12-06

Tine harbar of san Juan in Porto Rico should he dredged and improved. The Rico should be met from the federal treasury The administration of tine af- fairs Of Porto Rico, together with those of the Philippines. Hawaii and our other insuldr possessions. should all he direct eG under one executive department, by preference the department of state or the department of war.
 Naturalization of Japs.
 President Roosevelt scores San Fran cisco and other Pacific coast cities for their treatment of the Japanese. and makes the following recommendations:
 Our nation fronts on the Pacific just as lt fronts on the Atlantic w. hope to play constantly growing part in wish, AS we ought to wish for great commercial development in our deal ings with Asia and # Is out of the question that we should permanently have such development unless We free lX and gladly extend to other nations the same measure of justice and good treatment which We expect to receive In return. II is only a very small body or our citizens that act badly. Where the federal government has power tt will deal summafily with any such. Where the several states have power l earnestly ask that they also deal wisely and promptly with SHeH cons duet. ar else this small body of wrong doers may bring shame upon the great mass of their innocent and right NtftHNttE itllOWS=l llII IS. HARh our nation as a whole. Good manners should be an International no less than an individual attribute. ask fair treatment Tor the Japanese ae | you1d ask fair treatment for Germans or Enwlishmen, Frcnehmen. Russians or Italians, l ask it as due to humanity and civilization. ask it as due to ourselves because we must act up rightly toward all mon.
 T recommend to the congress that. an act be passed spccifleallx providing for the naturalization of .IFD1fFFag who here intending to become American cit izens One of the great embarrassments attending the performance of our in- ;efnationai obligations is the fact that the statutes of the United States gov ernment are entirely inadequate They fail to give to the national government sufficiently ample power. through United States courts and by the uSe of the 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 ad1ed to IS to enable the president. acting for the United States government, which is responsible in our international rela- tions to enforce the rights of aliens un- der treaties. Even the law now ia 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
 
 SC employed. There should, however. be no particle of doubt as to the power of perform and enforce its own obligations to other nations. The mob of a single city may at any time perform acts of lawess 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- pendent Of this government it would never venture to perform permit the performance of the acts complained of. The entire power and the whole duty to ing community lies in the hands of the United States government. It Is un- thinltahle that We should continue q pol icy under which a given locality may be allowed to commit a crime against d friendly nation and the United States government limited, not to preventing the commission Of the crime, but. in the last resort to defending the people who have committed it against the conse- quences of their own wrengdoing"
 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 peaceful and orderly fashion of the provl- l take this opportunity of expressing upon behalf of the American leople, Wlln dil poSSlbie SOleNilty, 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 1t shall prosper morally and materially, and wishes noth- ins 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 farce, and if the insurrectonary habit becomes confirmed in the island, it is ab- sdldtely 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 a nation, would the government was managed in such orderly fashion as to secure the safety of life and property. The path to be troddcn by those who exercise self-goV ernment is always hard. and We should have every charity and patience with the Cubans they tread this difficult parth. 1 have the utmost sympathy with, and adjure them solemniy to weigh their re- responsibilities and to see that when their new government is started 1t shall run smoothly, and with freedom from fla grant denial of right on the one hand, Ind from insurrectionary disturbances on the other.
 Considerable space Is devoted to the international conference of American re- publics and the visit of Secretary Root To South America, and points to the fact shat our efforts in behalf of the nations .f that country are appreciated by them.
 On the subject of the Panama canal he promises q special message in the near future.
 The Army and Navy.