The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-04

num1I1ate such stranger who la
come here lawfully and who is con
Quoting himself properly. To remen
Der this is incumbent on every Amer
can citizen, and it is of course pc
culiarly incumbent on every Gov
eminent official, whether of the ma
ton or of the several States.
1 recommend to the Congress thai
an act be past specifically provid
csc who come here intending to be
come American citizens. One of the
great embarrassments attending the
performance of oar international OBJ
legations is the fact that the Statutes
of the United States are entirely in.
adequate. They fail to give to the
National Government sufficiently am
| pie power, thru United States courts
and by the use of the Army and Navy
to protect aliens in the rights secur-
ed 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 Govern
ment, which is responsible in our
international relations, to enforce the
rights of aliens under treaties. Even
as the law now is something can be
done by the Federal Government to-
ward this end, and in the matter now
before me affecting the japanese,
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 1 may lawfully employ
will be employed. There should, aow
ever, be no particle of doubt as to
the power of the National Govern
ment completely to perform and en-
force it's own obligations to other
nations. The mob of a single city
may at any time perform acts of law
less violence against some class of
foreigners which would plunge us
into war. That city by itself would
be ~powerless to make defense
against the foreign power thus as
saulted, and if Independent of this
Government it would never venture
to perform Or permit the perfor-
nance of the acts complained of.
The entire power and the whole duty
to protect the offending city or the
offending community lies in the
hands of the United States Govern
ment. 1t is unthinkable that we
should continue a policy under which
commit a crime against a friendly
nation, and tne United States Gov
eminent limited, not to preventing
the commission of the crime, but, in
the last resort, to defending the peo-
pie who have committed it against
the consequences of their own wrong
doing.
Cuba.
last AupuSt on inrurroofion bro1a
out in Cuba which it speedily grew
evident that the existing Cuban Gov
eminent was powerless to quell. Tnis
Government was repeatedly asked by
the then Cuban Government to inter
vene, and finally was notified by the
President Of Cuba that ne intended
to resign; that his decision was fr-
r~evocable; hat none of the other
constitutional officers would consent
to carry on the Government, and
that he was powerless to maintain
was impending, and there was every
probability that if steps were not
Immediately taken by this Govern
ment to try to restore order, the rep
resentatfves of various European ma
tions in the island would apply to
their respective governments for arm
ed Intervention in order to protect
the lives and property of their citi.
zpns Thanks To the nrenarodnor