Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-12-07

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regions IN our land. and classes of our
population. where the birth rate has
sunk below the death rate. Surely IL
should need no demonstra ton to show
that wilful sterility is, from the
standpoint of the nation from me
standpoint of the human race. the one
sin for which the penalty is national
death. race death; sin for which
there is no atonement; a sin which is
the more dreadful exactly in proper
ton as the men and women guilty
thereof are in other respects. in char
acter. and bodily and mental powers.
those whom for the sake of the state
ii would be well to the fathers
and mothers Of many healthy children.
well brought up in homes made happy
by their presence. No man, no woman.
can shirk the primary duties or life,
whether for love of ease and pleasure.
or for any other cause and retain his
or her self-respect.
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 tine present currency
laws are asked for. and after showing
of the wide fiuctuation of interest
charges. he says:
THE mere statement of these facts
shows that our present system is seri-
ously defective. There is need of a
change. Unfortunately. however, many
of the proposed changes must be ruled
complicated are not easy of compre-
hension. and tend to disturb existing
rights and interests. We must also
rule out any plan which would ma
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.
do not press any special plan. Various
plans have recently been proposed by
expert committees of bankers Among
the plans which are possibly feasible
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
and business men. According to this
plan national banks should be per-
mitted to issue a specified proportion
of their capital in notes of a given
a rate as to drive the notes back when
not wanted in legitimate trade. This
plan would not permit the issue OF
currency to give banks additional
profits but to meet the emergency pre-
scented by times of stringency
He again asks for free trade with this
country for the Philippines and in the
same connection reviews the work done
by 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 self-government"
American citizenship should be con-
ferred the citizens of Porto Rico.
The harbor Of San Juan in Porto Rico
should be dredged and improved. The
OF the federal court of Porto
Rico should be met from the federal |
treasury. The administration of the az |
fairs of Porto Rico together with those |
of the Philippines, Hawaii and our other |
insular possessions, should all be direct
ed under one executive department. by /
preference the department Of state or the |
of war.
Z recommend to the congress that /
an act be passed specifically providing for |
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 I
the statutes OF the United states gov
eminent are entirely inadequate. They /
fail to give to the national government |
sufficiently ample power, through United |
States courts and by the use of the /
rights secured to them under solemn |
treaties which are the law of the land. |
I 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
in our international rela-
tons. to enforce the rights of aliens un-
der treaties Even as the law now is
something can be done by the federal
government toward this end. and in the
matter now before me affecting the Jap
lnese, everything that 1t is in my power
10 do will be done, and all of the forces,
and civil. of the United States
which / may lawfully employ viii he
so employed There should. however. be
10 particle of doubt as to the power OF
he national government completely to
perform and enforce its own obligations
o other nations. The mob OF single
.ity may at any time perform acts OF
awless violence against some class OF
foreigners which would plunge US into
var. The city by itself would be power
fr. naI~ Haf nfFnCf a
.ign power thus assaulted. and If inde-
PENDENT Of this government IL would
lever venture to perform or permit the
OF the acts complained OF.
rhe entire power and the whole duty to
protect the offending city or the Offend
ng community lies in the hands of the
United States government. II is un-
hinkable that we should continue pol
cy under which a given locality may be
flowed to commit a crime az; against a
government limited, not to preventing
he commission of the crime. but. in the
asst resort, to defending the people who
AVE committed it against the conse-
uences of their own wronSdoinS.
Cuban Intervention.
The rebellion in Cuba and the incl
ents leading up to the establishment OF
he provisional government is reviewed.
nd the president says:
when the election has been held and
he new government inaugurated in
eaceful and orderly fashion of the provi-
take this opportunity of expressing
pom behalf of the American people,
nth all possible solemnty, our most
arrest hope that the people of Cuba
7ill realize the imperative need of pre-
CRYING justice and keeping order in the
sland. The United States wishes moth
lg of Cuba except that it shall prosper
lorally and materially, and wishes Moth
lg of the Cubans save that they shall
e able to preserve order among them
elves and therefore to preserve their
If the elections become a
arce, and il the insurrectionary habit
ecomes confirmed in the island, II is alb
olutely out of the question that the
land should continue independent and
ne United States, which has assumed
ne sponsorship before the civilized world
lr Cuba's career as nation, would |
gain have to intervene and to see that