The Green Forest tribune., 1906-12-08

education we should widen our aims. It Der of trained scholars and students but the education euperfntsnded by the state must seek rather to produce hun seSoaF 6so goGa and snS 1t ast @ 5e How and an then from the glass book to the study of the great book ts,G5 % Of nntuss 1sef This been pointed out again and again by all observers moet cofnpeteHt to pass prac- t6s1,y tGs s G .n.se the sog qe pes1e that education must seek 10 train the executive powers, of young people and to ebrase fs of nd to 9he pare the pupils so that in addition to each developing in the highest degree his irdvidua hs11 hoa1pae Tor St 9Tk nhiy thHy opinion, and show in naany ways social and cooperative spirit Organization has and artp,' it has e'ta aecompished much Tor good in the world of labor. It is no less neces- sary for farmers. Such movement as and Is capable of weil-nigh infinite fur thor extension for good so long as 1t is kept to its own legitimate business. The of farmers for mutual advantage are partly economic and partly sociological.
 Moreover, while in the long run volun- tary effort will prove more eficacious than government assistance. while the farmers must primarily do most for themselves, yet the government can also
 
 has broken new ground in many direc- tions, and year by year 1t finds how it can improve its methods and develop fresh usefulness. It's constant effort is to give the governmental assistance in the most effective way; that is, thru as- sociations of farmers rather than to or ing to coordinate its work with the agri- cultural departments of the several to t wss M3rk ths work of other educational authorities. Agricultural education fs necessarily agricultnral i Educational ins,itutions are are wisely specializing themselves, making their course relate to the actual teaching to to sica young s country peop,e or young t city people who wish to live m the country.
 Great Progrsss sss has ss ;,reaAy ,h been , made tions. of breeders associations, horti- cultural associetions, anA tee like. A ment and the farmers can cooperate is shown in connection with the menace offered to the cotton srowets of the boil weevil. The department Is doing all 1t can to organize the farmers in the threatened districts just as it has in aid of it's work to eradicate the cat tie fever tick in the south The depart me9t can and will coqpsra*e with all their help if iss ewn ws~a ss to ' be be done In the I4aosS efTieie1s g114e."
 :. He urges t,e extenstvN T the irrtsa- nsan memorial ria tesss at 223.sn s D0'0'hs
 Marriage ana n&sxce.
 As a meags of erfrag aEsqt national regulation H fohrTfaM xra divorce he suggests a eonstitutfohAl amendment, and tions to be dealt with by the various states. Continuing on this subject he says;
 fully performed. and ali it's responsi- commonwealth are at hand There are regions in our land, and classes of our s9P hs aea ths rats sh snrey 5ns hft should need no demonstration to show that wilful sterility is, from the of the hs sua1 be one sin for which the penalty Is national death, race death; a sin for which the S nc sn n whioh is tion as the men and women guilty thereof are in ather respects. in char the direction of granting large meas-
 American eitizenshlp shoula be con- The .harbor of San Juan in Porto Rico should be dredged and improved. The expenses of the federal court of Porto treasury. The administration of the af- fairs of Porto Rico. together with those of the Philippines. Hawai- and our other insular possessions. should all be direct. ed under one executive department; by preference the department of state or the department of war
 Naturalization of Japs.
 President Roosevelt scores San Fran cisco and other Pacific coast cities for their treatment of the Japanese, and
 Our nation fronts on the Pacific, just as it fronts on the Atlantic. We hope to play constantly !p growing part in wish, as we ought to wish. for great commercial development in our deal ings with Asia; and it Is out Of the have such development unless we free ly and gladly extend to other nations the same measure of justice and good treatment which we expect to receive in return. It is only very small body of our citizens that act badly Where the federal government has power it Where the several states have power I earnestly ask that they also deal wisely and promptly. with such con- mass of their innocent and right thinking fellows-that ts. upon our
 
 should be an international no less than an individual attribute. I ask fair treatment for the Japanese I would ask fair treatment for Germans or En nglshmen, Frenchmen. Russians :. ot Italians. I ask it as due to humanity and civilization. I ask it as due to ourselves because we must act up- rightly toward all men.
 "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 izens. One of the great einbarrassments attending the performance of onr in- ternational obligations is tho fact that the statutes of the United States gov ernment are entirely inadequate Thay sufficiently ample power. through United States courts and by the use of ths 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 O1'led to as to enable the president acting for the United States government, which is responsible in our international rela- tions, to enforce the rights of aliens un- der treaties Even as the law now Is something can be. done by the, federal matter now before me affecting the Jap anese, 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 I may lawfully employ will be so employed. There should, however. be no particle of doubt as to the power of the national government completely to