The Glenwood post., 1906-12-08


American eiti.enship should bs -
TSs 1sTsed hsrSo, on the CITIZENS Of Pe.ts
expenses of the federal court Of Fort3
Rico should be met from the fsdsrJ
fairs of Porto Rico. together with thosl
OF the Philippines. Hawaii and our othAi
insular possessions. should all be dirsse
ed under one executive department.; bI
preference the department of state o. tn
department OF war.
Naturalization Of Japs.
President Roosevelt scores San Fran
cisco and other Pacific coast cities for
their treatment OF the Japanese, ana
Our nation fronts on the Pacific. Juss
as IT fronts on the Atlantic. We hope
To the plsy essan ,Ss y
wish. as we ought to wish. for . grsaS
commercial development in our deal
question that we should permanently
have such development unless we free
the ana e1seod o to tse. nS
treatment which we expect to receive
in return; 1t is only very small body
the federal government has power t1
will deal summarily with any such
1 earnestly ask that they also d.si
wisely and promptly with 1uch con-
duct. or else this small body of wrong
mass OF their innocent and risht-
thinking fellows-that is. upon our
shoud be an Goa e.. tS.s
an individual attribute. ask fair
treatment for the Japanese as would
Englishmen, Frenchmen. Russians o.
Italians: ! ask 1t as due to humanity
ands.irol and 1iyilizatton htto. ask it a. due e
rightly toward all men.
II recommend to the congress thaa
an act be passed specifically providing fov
the naturalization of Japanese who come
here intending to become American cit
,ns,,n i1sns One s Of the great smbasr.s.m'nts
ternational obligations is the fact thas
the statutes of the United States gov
fail to give to the national governmsns
sufficiently ample power, through United
sa,sS .nS s9uts and I'd by h se Of p:
treaties which are the law of the land,
the criminal and civil statutes of tie
United States be so amended and ad1eA
to as to enable the president. acting, 70.
tons. to enforce the rights of aliens un-
something can be done by the federal
government toward this end. and In ths
s anese, Everything that It is i in my w poWs-
to do will be done. and all of the forces,
military and civil, of the United stats6
so employed. There should, however. b
no particle Of doubt as to the power =
perform and enforce its own Obligations
to other nations. The mob of a sinsis
city, may at any time perform acts Of
lawless violence against some class Of
foreigners which would plunge US ineo
war. The city by itself would be power
eign power thus assaulted. and II inds-
pendent of this government II would
never venture to perform or permit the
performance of the acts complained OF
The entire power and the whole duty -
protect the offending city or tho Offend
ing community lies in the hands of the
thinkable that we should continue . pol
icy under which given locality may b
friendly nation, and the United States
government limited, not 70 preventing
last resort. to defending the people who
have committed 1t against the conss-
quences of their own wrongdoing."
Cuban Intervention.
The rebellion in Cuba and tho inoS.
dents leading UP to the establishment q
the provisional government Is reviewed
and the president says:
when the election has been held and
the new government inaugurated In
sional government will come to end.
| take hss this opportunity of expressing
with all possible solemnity. our mos2
earnest hope that the people of Cuba
will realize the imperative need of pre-.
island, The United States wishes MOTH
ing OF Cuba except that it shall prospsR
morally and materially. and wishes moth.
ing of the cubans save that they shall
be able to preserve order among them-
selves and therefore to preserve thsi.
farce, and If the insurrectionary habit
becomes confirmed in the island. It is abb
soutely out or the question that the
island should continue independent; and
the United States. which has assumed
the sponsorship before the civilized world
f1r tl.Esl rlf ION
again have to intervene and to see thAA
the government was managed in such
of life and property. The path to BE-
trodden by those who exercise self gov
ernment is always hard. and we should
have every charity and patience with the
Cubans as they tread this difficult parth,
have the utmost sympathy with, and
regard for. them: but l most earnestly
sponsibiites and to see that when thei1
smoothly, and with freedom from nA-
grant denial of right on the ono hand.
and from insurrectionary disturbances on
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 faot
that our efforts in behalf OF the nations
of that country are appreciated by them-
on the subject OF the Panama canal he
future.
The Army and Navy.
The message closes with a plea foV
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 thA
army and navy he says:
THE readiness and efficiency of both the
army and navy in dealing with the re-
cent sudden crisis in Cuba illustrates
afresh their value to the nation. This
readiness and efficiency would have boon
very much less had 1t not been for the
existence of the general stan in the army
and the general board In the navy; both
are essential to the proper development
and use of military forces ahoat and
ashore The troops that were sent to
Cuba were handled flawlessly. 1t was
the swiftest mobilization and dispatch 04
troops ever accomplished BY
our government. The expedition landed
completely equipped and ready for i'm
mediate service. several of Its organisA-
tions hardly remaining in Havana ovsS
night before splitting up into detach-
Ii W q fine don, stration of tha xaloE