The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-12-08

the direction OF granting a large meas
American citizenship should BE- esn
ierred on the citizens of Porto Rico
should @ d. be S'' dredsed re s and I'D improves. ny Tss
expenses Of the federal court of Port{
!s Rico .,,s,! should be met from the feders'
fairs of Porto Rico, together with those
of the Philippines. Hawaii and our othes
cd 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
makes the following recommendations:
our nation fronts on the Pacific. just
as It fronts on the Atlantic. We hope
the great ocean Of the orient. We
wish. as W" ought TO wish for a great
commercial development in our deal
iugs with Asia; and IL is out of tho
question that we should perma anently
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 II is only a very small body
of our citizens that act badly. Where
the federal government has power IL
Where tho several states have power
I earnestly ask that they also deal
wisely and promptly with such con-
duct, or else this small body of wrong
doers may bring shame upon the great
mass of their innocent and right
thinking Is}i"ws-that Is upon our
should Ii" an international no less than
an individual attribute, ask fair
treatment for tn" Jeu9uesc as | would
ask fair treatment for Germans or
EnTlishmon. Frenchmon. Russians OF
aud civilization. ask it as due to
ourselves because w" must act %
rightly toward all men,
II recommend to the congress that
an act hr passed speCl Ideally providing for
the naturalization Of Japanese who come
here intending to become American cit
izens one Of the great eInbarrassrnents
attending the Performance of in
,srnatioral oblI,ations is the fact that
the statutes Of the United States gov
eruweut are entirely Inadequate. They
fail to give to the national government
states courts and by the of the
army and navy, to protect aliens in tho
treaties which are the law of the land
| therefor" earnestly recommend that
the criminal and civil statutes OF the
United States be amended and ad1ed
to as to enable The president, acting for
the United States government which 10
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
anese. everything that 1t is in my power
to do viii be DONE and all OF the forces.
military ana ciytl, OF the United states
which | may lawfully employ Will Be
employed. There should, however, Dc
no particle of doubt as to the power OF
the national government completely to
perform and enforce its own obligations
to other nations The mob OF a single
city may at any time perform acts Of
lawlcss 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 II inde.
pendent of this government IL would
never venture to perform or permit the
performance of the acts complained of.
The entire power and the whole duty to
protect the offending city or the Offend
ing community lies in the hands of the
thinIlable that we should continue pol
ley under which given locality may BE-
allowed to commit a crime asainst .
friendly nation. and the United Statss
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 conso-
quences of their own wrongdoing.'
Cuban Intervention.
The rebellion in Cuba and the inci-
dents leading up to the establishment Of
the provisional government is reviewed.
and the president says:
when the election has been held and
the new government inaugurated In
peaceful and orderly fashion Of the provi-
| take this opportunity of expressing
upon behalf Of the American peopls,
earnest hope that the people OF Cubs
will realize the Imperative need OF pre-
serving Justice and keeping order in ths
island. The United States wihhes moth
ing OF Cuba except that 1t shall prosper
morally and materially, and wishes moth.
ing OF the Cubans save that they shah
be able to preserve order among then-
selves and therefore to preserve thefv
independence, Il the elections become .
becomes confirmed in the island. 1t is alb
solutely out of the question that ths
the United States. which has assumed
the sponsorship before the civilized world
for Cuba's career as nation, would
again have to Intervene and to see thaa
the government was managed in such
orderly fashion as to secure the safety
of life and property. The path to b
crnment is always hard, and We should
have every charity and patience with the
Cubans as they tread this difficult parth.
1 have the utmost sympathy with, and
regard for, them; but most earnestly
I'D jure them so.rmnly to weigh their re-
sponsbilities and to see that when thef1
new government is started II shall run
smoothly. and with freedom from ia
grant denial Of right on the one hand,
and from insurrectionary disturbances on
the other"
Considerable space is devoted to the
international conference of American re-
publics and the visit Of Secretary Root
to South America, and points to the fact
of that country are appreciated by theIn-
on the subject of the Panama canal he
promises special message in the near
future.
The Army and Navy.
The message closes with a plea foD
the maintenance of the navy at its preS-
ent standard, to do which he says would
mean the building of one battleship each
year. OF the present efficiency of the
army and navy he says.
The readiness and efficiency of both the
army and navy in dealing with the
cent sudden crisis in Cuba illustrates
afresh their value to the nation. This
readiness and efficiency would have been
very much less had it not been for the
existence Of the general staff in the army
and the Erurrtl board l0 the navy; both
are essential TO the proper deselopnent
and use of our military forces a1oat ana
ashore. The troops that were sent to
cuba were handled fIwlessly. 1t was
the swiftost mobilization and dispatch OF
troops over sea ever accompltshed BY
our government. The expedition landed
completely equipped and ready for i'm