Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-12-08

aguuiaii ana III must be turned now and
Jlen from the class book 10 the study
Of the great book uf nature itself ;Tbjs
Is especially true Of the farmer, as hag
peen pointed out again and again nv aU
observers most competent to pass brac.
ucal judgment on the problems OF our
country life. All students now realize
mat elucau0n must seek TO train tho
executive powers Of young people and TO
confer more real Significance upon tbe
phrase dignity Of labor and to nre.
pare me pupils 50 that in addition TO
each developing in the highest degree
his individual capacity for work fhev
may. together help create a right public
opinion and show in many wavs social
ana cooperative spirit, Organization has
petouie necessary IN the business world;
ahd u mas accomplished much for good
| IN the. world Of labor IL Is no less neces-
| hafy Tor farmers. Such a movement as
the grange movement Is good i'm itself
ana is capable Of wel-ngh infinite fur
Stnet extension Tor good so long as It is
kept TO lts own legitimate business. The
benehts to be derived by the association
oI farmers for mutual advantage are
partly economic and partly sociological.
Marriage and Divorce.
As means OF bringing about national
regulation or marriage and divorce he
| suggests n constitutional amendment and
says IT Is not safe to leave these dues-
| tons to be dealt with by the various
says: ''0
When home ties are loosened. when
! men ana women cease to regard a
| worthy family life, with all its duties
! iiuiily performed and all its RESPONSE
pllltleS lived up to, as the life best
worth llyingi then evil days for tho
| commonwealth are at hand. There are
regions in our land, and classes of our
| population, where the birth rate has
| sunk below the death rate. Surely it
/ should ngnI M 80 .
| that wiltul sterility is from the
| standpoint Of the nation from me
| standpoint OF the human race, the ono
SIN Tor which the penalty Is national
death race death; a sin for which
| there is no atonement: n sin which Is
| the more dreadful exactly in propor-
| uon 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
! 1t would be well to see the fathers
| and mothers Of many healthy children,
well brought up in homes made happy
| by their presence. No man, no woman,
can shrll 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
| into law Of q shipping blll that will place
| American interests on the seas on a par
| with those of other countries, and urges
! tbItCltlg ludL something De uOue llluL
| Will establish direct steamship Commu-
| nicatlon 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 luctuation of interest
| charges, he says:
'The mere statement Of these facts
| shows that our present system is seri-
! Ously defective. There Is need OF n
| change, Unfortunately, however many
| Of the proposed changes must be ruled
| from consideration because they are
| 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
! which was made under conditions pe-
| culiarly creditable to the easury. I
! 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 buginesg men. According to this
/
| mitted to issue a specified proportion
! of their capital in notes of a given
! kind, the issue to be taxed at SO high
| a rate as to drive the rotes 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-
| sented by times of stringency.
He again asks for free trade with this
country for the Philippines and in the
/ gpnnaNt{pt rnAtiayVg the work nnpD
! by this country In the islands, and says
| IF we have erred in the Philippines IL
| has been In proceeding too rapidly in
| the direction Of granting large meas-
ure of self-government'
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:
| "I recommend to the congress that
an act be passed specifically providing for
! the naturalization of japanese who come
! here intending to become American cit
| liens One of the great embarra ssments
| attending the performance Of our in
! ternatonal 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.
| 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, WhlCh lS
| responsible In our international rela-
| tions to enforce the rights Of aliens un-
| der treaties. Even as the law now i9
something can be done by the federal
| government toward this end, and in the
| matter now before me affecting the Jap
| anese, everything that II is IN my power
to do will be done, and all or the forces,
| military and civil, of the United States
which | may lawfully employ viii be
so employed There should, however, be
no particle Of doubt as to the power OF
| the national government completely to
! perform and enforce its own obligations
| 10 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--
! pendent of this government would
| never venture to perform or permit the
performance of the acts complained or.
| The entire power and the whcle duty 70
| protect the offending city or the ofend-
! ing community lies in the hands or the
! United States governments 1t is un-
| thinkable that we should continue a pol
icy under which a given locality may ha
| allowed to commit a crime against n
! 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'
! uuences Of their own wrongdOing,'
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. Ihe
expenses Of the federal court or Porto
| Rico should be met from the federal
| treagury The administration of the af-
| 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 tho
| department of war.
Cuban Intervention.
The rebellion In CGAG and the incl
! dents leading up to the establishment of
| the provisional government is reviewed,
| and the president says:
'tWhan the election has been held and
| the new government naugurated IN
| peaceful and orderly fashion of the proy-
| sional government will come TO an end.
| | take this opportunity OF expressing
| upon behalf OF the American people,
| with all possible solemniy, our most
| earnest hope that the people of Cuba
| will realize the Imperative need OF pre-
serving justice and keeping order In tho
| island The United states wishes notn-
! ing of Cuba except that 1t shall prosper
| morally and materially, and wishes moth.
| 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 il the insurrectonary habit
becomes confirmed in the island, it Is alb
solutely out of the question that tho
island should continue independent, and
| the United Statos which has assumed
the sponsorship before the civilized world
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