, 1906-12-04
PRED|DENT'S MESSAGE
IS SENT To CONGRESS


this just rule; the habit of treating all
the members of the race, good and
bad, alike. There is no question OF
social equality or negro domination
involved; only the question of relent.
lessly furnishing bad men, and of Sc,
curing to the good man the right to
his life, his liberty and the pursuit OF
his happiness as his own qualities OF
heart, hea dand hand enable him to
achieve it."
Denounces Pessimistlc Agitators.
Discussing capital and labor, the
president denounces the preachers of
discomfort, the men who try to create
a class hatred. He says: "The SIMS.
ter demagoges and foolish Missionaries
are always eager to undertake such a
campaign of destruction. They some
times seek to associate themselves with
those working for a genuine reform in
governmental and social methods, and
sometimes masquerade as such reform
ers. In reality they are the worst en-
emies of the aus they profess to ad-
vocate, just as the purveyors of sem
sational SANDER in newspapers or mag
azines are the worst enemies OF all
men who are engaged in an honest Ell
fort to better what is bad in our social
and governmental conditions"
Supervision of Corporations.
He favors corporation supervision
strongly, thinks the power of the inter
state commission must be
cease, but Judgment, not passion, must
prevail. He says: "The best way to
avoid the very undesirable move for
the government ownership of railways
is to secure by the government on be-
half of the people as a whole such ad.
equate control and regulation of the
great Interstate commerce carriers as
will do away with the evils which give
rise to the agitation against them.
Abolition of Grave Abuses.
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the men of wealth as such is to secure
by proper legislation and executive &C
ton the abolition of grave abuses
which actually do obtain in connection
with the business use of wealth under
our present system, or rather no sys-
TEN, of failure to exercise any adequate
control at all. This means that the
law as construed by the supreme court
is such that the business of the country
cannot be conducted without breaking
it. 1 recommend that you give careful
and early consideration to this subject
and if you find the opinion of the inter
state commission justified,
that you amend the law SO as to OBJ
viate the evil disclosed"
Commends Development of West.
The president also says: Much is
now being done for the states of the
Rocky mountains and great plains
through the development of the nation
al policy of irrigation and forest pres
ervation. No government policy for
the betterment of u internal condi-
lions has been more fruitful of good
than this. The forests of the White
mountains and southern Appalachian
regions should be preserved, and they
cannot be unless the people Of the
states in which they lie, through their
representatives in congress, secure Wig
orous action by the national govern
ment."
AS to the Birth Rate.
He discusses marriage and divorce
He thinks there should be a general
law on the subject, and says: "When
home ties are %loosened, when men and
women cease to regard a worthy fam,
lily life, with all its duties fully per-
formed and all it's responsibilities lived
up to, as the life best worth living, then
evil days for the 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 need no demon
StratlOn TO snow tnaI Wllllul SUNNY
is. from the standpoint of the nation
from the standpoint of the human
race-the one sin for which the penalty
is national death, race death, a sin
for which there is no atonement, a sin
which is the more dreadful exactly IN
proportion as the men and women
guiltv thereof are in other respects, IN
character, and bodily and mental pow
ars. those whom for the safety of state
If would be we'll to see the fathers n
mothers of many healthy children well
brought up in homes made happy by
their presence. No man, no woman
can shrink the primary duties Of ire
whether for love of ease and pleasure
or for other cause, and retain his or
her self respect"
The Japanese Question
He fayors the greatest care OF col,
onies and discusses the Japanese ques
nontinued on page A.