Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-12-05
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
Legislation Recommended at This
Session of Congress.
THE COUNTRY AT PEACE WITH
THE WORLD.
Epitome Of What President Roose
Welt Advises In His Volum-
mus Document.

President Roosevelt, i'm his annual
message to Congress, recommends
A graduated tax on inheritances, So
as to reduce swollen fortunes, and
a graduated income tax.
Further extension of Federal power.
SO that the national Government may
supervise all interstate corporations
and their business.
A law to limit the hours of work of
railroad employees.
| Compulsory arbitration of serious
/ disputes between employers and en-
/ poyes, so as TO prevent strikes.
That japanese be put on the same
basis as other foreigners and given
the right of naturalization as Ameri-
can citizens.
| Law to prohibit corporations from
contributing 10 campaign funds.
That entire control over divorce
and marriage laws be given the Feder-
/ al Government.
| Currency reform, though he does not
/ commit himself TO the bankers plan.
Extension of employers liability
laws.
American citizenship for Porto Rico.
| Building of one battleship a year
to maintain the navy at it's present
strength.
| Fres trade with the Philippines.
Drastic laws to prevent child labor.
That the Government be given right
| Of appeal in criminal cases, as il ''has
| now definitely begun policy of re-
sorting to the criminal law in those
trust and interstate commerce cases
where such a course offers reason
able chance of success.
That courts ba prohibited from set
| ting aside judgments and granting new
trials on techniealities where there
has been no miscarriage of justice.
The President says:
II again recommend law prohib-
iting all corporations from .contribu-
ting to the campaign expenses of any
party. Such bill has already pass
ed the House of Congress. Let indi-
viduals contribute as they desire; but
let us prohibit in effective fashion all
corporations from making contribu-
tions for any political purpose, direct
~ or Indirectly
"The members of the white race on
the other hand should understand that
every lynching represents by just SO
much loosening of the bands of civil
lization; that the spirit of lynching
inevitably throws into prominence in
the community all the foul and evil
creatures who dwell therein. No man
can take part i'm the torture of human
being without having his own moral
nature permanently lowered. Every
1ynching means just so much moral
deterioration in all the children who
have any knowledge of ii. and there
fore just so much additional trouble
for the next generation of Americans.
Let justice be both sure and swift;
but let it be justice under the law, and
not the wild and crooked savagery
of a mob.'
''Of course the best type of educa-
tion for the colored man, taken as a
whole, is such education as is confer
red in schools like Hampton and Tus-
kegee, where the boys and girls, the
young men and young women, are
trained industrially as we'll as in the
ordinary public school branches. The
graduates of these schools turn out
we'll in the great majority of eases,
and hardly any of them become cr1m-
inals, while what little criminality
there is never takes the form of that
brutal violence which invites lynch
law y
"In dealing with both labor and
capital, with the questions aff Getting
both corporations and trades unions,
there is one matter more important to
remember than aught else, and that is
the infinite harm done by preachers
of mere disoontent.
"Corruption is never SO rife as in
communities where the demagog and
the agitator bear full sway, because
in such communities all moral bands
become loosened, and hysteria and
sensationalism replace the spirit of
sound Judgment and fair dealing as
between man and man.
There must be a stern refusal to
be misled into following either that
base creature who appeals and pan
ders II the lowest instincts and pas
sions in order to arouse one set of
Americans against their fellows, or
that other creature, equally base but
no baser, who in spirit of greed or
to accumulate or add to an already
huge fortune. seeks to exploit his
fellow Americans with callous dis
regard to their welfare of soul and
body. The man who debauches
others in order to obtain high Office
stands on an evil equality with the
man who dehauches others for finan-
cial profit. and when hatred is sown
the crop which springs up can only
be evil.
"The triumph of the mob is just
as evil thing as the triumph of the
plutocracy, and to have escaped one
danger avails nothing whatever if we
succumb TO the other.
Half holidays during summer
should be established for government
employees; il is as desirable for wage
workers who toll with their hands as
for salaried officials whose labor is
mental that there should be reason
able amount of holiday"
THE horrors incident to the EN-
ployment of young children in factor
les or at work anywhere are a blot on
our civilization.
II earnestly hope that the bill 10
provide a lower tariff for or else alb
solute free trade in Philippine pro-
duets will become a law.
American citizenship should be
conferred on the citizens of Porto
Rico.
Il ask fair treatment for the Japa-
nese as l would ask fair treatment for
Germans or EnglishmenA Frencnmen,
Russians or Italians. / ask il as due
to humanity and civilization | ask
it as due ourselves because we must
act uprighTly toward all men.
"a inst war is in the lone run far