The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-12-07

in return. IL is only a very small
body OF our citizens that act badly.
Where the federal government has
power Ii Will deal summarily with any
such. Where the several states Ave
power / earnestly ask that they also
deal wisely and promptly with such
conduct, or else this small body OF
wrong-doers may bring sham upon
the great mass 0 ftheir %innoceut aad
right-thilking fellows-that IS, upon
our nation rs a whole Good manners
should be an international 10 less
than an individual attribute | ask
fair treatment for the japanese as |
would ask fair treatment fer Germans
or Engiishmen. Frenchmen. Russians.
or Italians. | ask 1t as due 10 hu-
mainly and civilization. / ask IL as
due to ourselves because We must &C.
%uprightly toward all men.
| recommend TO the congress tina. an
act be past specifically providing for
the naturalization of Japanese who
come here intending I become Ameri-
can citizens. One OF the great embar-
attending the performance
Of our international obligations is the
fact that the statutes of the United
States are entirely inadequate. They
fail 10 give To the national government
sufficiently ample power. thru United
States courts and by the use Of the
army and navy: 10 protect aliens in
-he rights secured To them under sol
emn treaties which are the law ~ the
land. l therefore earnestly recon-
mend that the criminal and civil stat
utes of the United States be SO amend
ed and made TO as to enable The presi-
dent, acting for the United States GOV
which is responsible in our
International relations, to enforce the
rights OF aliens under treaties. Even
as the law now is something can pc
done by the federal government to-
ward this end. and in the matter now
before me affecting the Japanese,
II everything that it is in ny power to
do will be done, and all of the forces,
military and civil, of the United States
which l may lawfully employ will be
so employed. There should, however,
be no particle of doubt as 10 the power
o fthe national government completely
to perform and enforce its own obliga-
=. tons to other nations. The mob of Il
5, single city may at any time perform
I acts Of lawless violence against some
class of foreigners which would plunge
: US into war. That city by itself would
ST NC poVCi CSo " lldhC uCICASC dSdlhcO
the foreign power thus assaulted, and
f IL Independent Of this government it
! would never venture to perform or
permit the performance of the acts
S, complained of. The entire power and
the whole duty to protect the Offend
ing city or the offending COM
d munity lies in the hands of
j the United States government. 1t is
u~nthinkable that we should continue
a policy under which a given locality
q may be allowed to commit a crime
against a friendly nation, and the Uni
Il ted States government limited, not to
preventing the commission of the
s. crime, but, in the last resort, to de-
Tending the people who have commit
ted it against the consequences of
=: their W w~rongdoing.
CUBA.
Last August an Instruction broke
d out in Cuba which it speedily grew
evident that the existing Cuban GOV
eminent was pOwerlezs to quell. This
government was repeatedly asked by
the then Cuban government to inter
n Vene, and finally was notified by the
president CT Cuba that he intended ia
resign; that his decision was irrevo-
caDle; that none of the other consti-
le tutional officers would consent to
,e carry on the government, and that he
s. was pOWer1ess to maintain order II
It was evident that chaos wa impenc,
e Ing, and there was every probability
that II steps were not edia ely
q taken by this government to try to
n restore order, the representatives o.
u various European nations in thu is.
lie land would apply to their respective
# governments for armed intervent' OF
IN order to protect the lives and prop
erty Of their citizens. Thanks TO the
J., preparedness Of our navy, | was able
}, Immediately 90 send enough ships tc
Cuba to prevent the situation from be.
If coming hopeless; and | furthermo
\ dispatched to Cuba the secretary O
war and the ASSISTANT secretary o.
q state, in order that they might grappit
IT with the situation On the ground. Al
er efortS to secure an agreement he
"a tween the contending factions. b,
which they should themselves come {
to- ali amicable understanding and settle
ID upon some modus vivendi-sOme pro
visional government of their own
ir failed. Finally the president OF tn,
republic resigned. The quorum n
oil congress assembled failed by deliber
r ate purpose of it's members, so tha
n there was no power to act on his re
signation, and the government cam,
" 20 a halt. In accordance with the SO
called Platt amendment. which wa
Il embodied in the constitution OF Cuba
m | thereupon proclaimed a provisional
Ell government for the island, the secre
,dI tary OF war acting as provisional gov
ernor until he could be replaced b,
:, Mr.. Magoon, the late minister to Pana
n ma n governor OF the canal zone o,
:. TIE Isthmus; troops were sent TO sup
port them and to relieve the navy, tn
70 expedition being handled with mo
satisfactory speed and efficiency. TIL
nj insargent chiefs immediately agrees
that their troOns should Law down thoi