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Of California. which do not gladly welcome
Japanese students and on which Japanese stu,
dents do not reflect credit ash fair treat,
ment for the Japanese as | would ask fair
treatment ior Germans or knElishmcnt, French
men, Russians. OF Italians ! ash u a. due to
ourselves because We must act uprightly toward
all men,
| Last August an lnsutreetion broke out IN
Cuba which Il speedily grew evident that the
existing Cuban government Was pOwereun TO
queli, This government was repeatedly asked
Il boys and girls are trained merely In literary
| Accomplishments, 10 the total exclusion OF IN.
dus,rial manual and technical training, the
tendency is 10 unit them fot Industrial work
| and 70 make them reluctant 10 30 into Il. or
untitled TO do well u they do so into Il, THIS
Is a tendency which should be strenuously
eombated. Our Industrial development depends
largely upon. technical education, Including In
this term all industrial education, from tha.
which FITS man to be good mechanic, good
| carpenter, OF blacksmith, TO that which fits a
man TO do the greatest engineering feat. The
skilled mechanic. the skilled workman, can
best become such by technical industrial edu'
cation,
The department, Of agriculture has broken
new ground in many directions, and year by
year Il finds how Il can improve Its methods
by the then Cuban government TO intervene,
aud finally was notified by the president ot
Cuba that he intended 20 resign that none Of
the other constitutional officers would eon
sent 20 carry on the government. and that he
was powrrless 10 maintan order, II was eVi
dent that chaos was impending Thanks to
| the preparedness Of our navy. | was able I'M
mediately to send enough ships TO Cuba to
preVent the situation from becoming hopeless.
In accordance with the soeailed PiaU
ane endment, which was embodied In the con
| Stitution OF Cuba | proclaimed a provisional
government for the island. the secretary OF
war acting as provisional governor until he
could be replaced by Mr.. MagoonI troops
were sent to support them and to relieve the
navy, The expedition being handled with most
satisfactory speed and efficiency, The pro
hs oa sas sas &. S .s
as might be, unchanged, and will thus ad
minister the island for few months until
tranquility can be restored. a new election
rated. Peace has come in the island; and the
harvesting Of the sugareane crop. the grra,
crep Of the island, Is about to proceed.
The United States wishes nothing Of Cuba
except that Il shall prosper morally and ma.
terially. and wishes nothing OF tho cuhans save
that they shall be able to pkseryc order
among themselves and therefore TO preserve
their Independence II the elections become
farce. and II the in:arree,ionary. habit be-
comes confirmed in the island Il Is ahso
mtely out OF the question that the island
should continue independent; and the United
States, which has assumed the sponsorship he
tnrc the NtNiitNCu NOflu LOT OnuA career an n
nation, would again have 10 intervene and 10
| see that the government was managed In such
orderly fashion as to secure the safety OF life
and property.
In many parts OF South America there has
been much misunderstanding Of the attitude
and purposes OF the United States toward the
other American republics. An idea had be-
come prevalent that our assertion Of the
Monroe doctrine implied or carried with il
an assumption Of superiority and OF right
to exercise some kind Of proteetoratc over
the countries TO whose territory that doctrine
| applies Nothing could be farther from the
truth. Yet that impression continued to be a
serious barrier 10 good understanding, 10
| friendly intercourse, to the introduction OF
American capital and the extension OF Ameri
can trade. The impression was SC widespread
that apparently Il could not be reseh.d by any
Il was part Of Secretary Roots mission TO
dispel this unfounded impression. and there
is just cause TO believe that he has succeeded
have just returned from a trip to Panama
end shall report TO ySu at length later on
the whole subject of the Panama canal
The destruction of the pribi@of islands fur
seals nv pclNgic Sealirg stl' continues, The
regulations have proved plainly inadequate 20
accomplish the object OF protection and prcser'
vation of the fur seals, and for long time
this government has been trying In vain to
secure from Great Britain such revision and
modification of the regulations es were con.
| templated and provided for by the award Of
| the Tribunal of Paris
| The process Of destruction has been aecel.
Grated during recent years by the appearance
of a number of japanese vessels engaged In
pclagc sealing. As these vessels have not
been bound even by the Inadequate limitations
prescribed by the Tribunal of Paris, they have
paid no attention either 10 the close season or
to the sixty mile limit imposed upon the Cana.
| dams and have prosecuted their work up 20
the very islands themselves
| We have not relaxed our efforts to secure an
agreement with Great Britain for adequate
protection of the seal herd. and negotiations
with Japan for the same purpose arc in
progress
In ease we arc compelled to. abandon the
| hope Of making arrangements with other gov
| ernments to put an end to the hidcous cruelty
now incident TO pelaRie sealing, II Will be q
| question for your serious consideration how
| far VIC should continue TO protect and main.
tain the seal herd on land with the result Of
continuing such practice, and whether i
is not better to end the practice by eSterm:'
mating the herd ourselves in the most humane
| way possible.
The United States navy is the surest guar.
| antor of peace which this country possesses,
| II is earnestly TO be wished that we would
profit by the teachings of history II this mat
| ter strong and wise people will study Its
own failures no less than its triumphs, for
there is wisdom to be learned from the study
of both, Of the mistake as well as of the sue
cess
| do not ask that we continue 10 increase
our navy ask merely that II be maintained
at its present strength; and this can be done
only IL we replace the obsolete and outworn
ships by new and good ones the. equals of
any afoat in any navy. To ston building ships
for one year means that for that year the
navy goes back instead of forward. The old
battleship Texas, for instance. would now be
of little service In stand'uP fight with a
| powerful adversary The old double.turret
monitors have outworn their usefulness, while
II was a waste Of money TO build the modern
sngle.turret monitors. All these ships should
by weiisettled program of providing for the
building each year Of at least one frst'class
battleship equal in size and speed to any that
| any nation is at the same time building.