Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-04
THE MESSAGE.

THE MESSAGE.
No editor can read the presidents
message without wishing that every
citizen would read the document thru.
President Roosevelt addresses the
American people in his annual mes
His official utterance is made COM
plete editorial discussion of the princi-
pal issues of the day withYthe editorial
signed by the president of the United
States. 1t deserves to be read by
everybody
The message read before congress
and published to the world today is
notable for it's frankness as much as
for any other one quality. Without a
moments hesitancy and supported by
forceful argument the president fav-
ors ship subsidies, an inheritance tax,
a graduated income tax. free trade
with the Philippines, an eight
day. asset currency, LaFollette's em-
rloyers' liability bill and permanent
il fe serai arbitrary commission to in
vestigate labor disputes, while with
equal positiveness he denounces the
proposal to abolish injunctions, lee
lures the people of the south most Wig
orously about their lynching, makes
another plea against race suicide, and
advises congress to amend it's pack
ing house law by requiring dates on
inspection to the packers. He grows
vehement in his denunciation of the
people Of San Francisco for their I'M
fair treatment of japanese and he very
z blandly suggests startling innova-
ton byiannouncing that he had with
drawn all government coal lands from
would keep undeveloped coal fields I'M
der government ownership in the flu
ture to be worked upon the royalty
plan with regulation of the price by
the government itself.
/. Regarding ship subsidies the presi-
dent favors the bill now before the
house and which Secretary Root de-
tended before the trans Mississippi
commercial congress at Kansas City.
! In the main it authorizes the postmas-
ter general to substitute fast natl
steamers to South American ports.
The president urges an inheritance
tax as a means Of breaking up the
enormous fortunes which are a men,
ace to the public.
He favors graduated income tax
because it tends to distribute the bur-
den of taxation in accordance with the
citizens ability to pay.
He favors all just measures for the
benefit of the wage worker and the
uplift OF men, but is not afraid to point
out the need of injunctions and the
fallacy Of seeking to do away with it
because at times it has been abused.
In referring to the race prejudice
against Japanese, the president points
out a very grave danger of war being
precipitated by the unreasonable
frenzy OF very few people and he
calls for legislation which will give the
federal government more authority in
enforcing the rights which it guaran-
as.ese--to aliens in its international
/ jeaties.
lon the subject of corporations the
resident lectures Big Business quite
3yerely upon the danger of forcing
s,rnment ownership and other forms
icialism unless moderation is prac-
IL. He announces it as the estab-
ID policy of his administration to
cute rebaters and other violators
the commerce act under the GRIM
inal statutes as was successfully done
in the case against the New York Cen
trail railway and he asks for even more
law making greater penalties possible.
II congress makes even a start on the
program thus laid down for it there
will be plenty to do, but it is apparent
from reading the message that the
president was addressing primarily the
American people. knowing that thru
them and thru them only would he get
action out of congress on what he
wanted done