Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-12-08

its national encampment has urged
the erection of such an amphitheater
as necessary for the proper observ-
ance of Memorial Day and as a fit
ting monument to the soldier and
sailor buried there. In this / hearth
ly concur and commend the matter
to the favorable consideration of the
Congress.
Marriage and Divorce.
| am well aware of how difficult
it is 10 pass a constitutional amend
ment. Nevertheless in my judgment
the whole question of marriage and
divorce should be relegated to the
authority of the National Congress.
At present the wide differences in
the laws of the different States on
this subject result in scandals and
abuses; and surely there is nothing
so vitally essential to the welfare of
the nation, nothing around which
the nation should so bend itself to
throw every safeguard, as the home
life Of the average citizen. The
change would be good from every
standpoint. In particular it would
be good because it would confer on
the Congress the power at once to
deal radically and efficiently with
polygamy; and this should be done
whether or not marriage and divorce
are dealt with. 1t is neither safe
nor proper to leave the question of
polygamy to be dealt with by the
several States. Power to deal with
it should be conferred on the Ma
tional Government.
When home ties are %loosened;
when men and women cease to re-
gard 4. worthy family life, with all
its duties fully performed, and all
its responsibilities lived up to, as
the life best worth living; then evil
days for the commonwealth are at
hand, and classes Of our population.
where the birth rate has sunk below
the death rate. Surely it should
need no demonstration to show that
wilful sterility is, from the stand
point of the nation, from the stand
point of the human race, the one
sin for which the penalty is national
death, race death; a sin for which
there is no atonement; a sin which
is the more dreadful exactly in pro-
portion as the men and women gull
ty thereof are in other respects, in
character, and bodily and mental
powers, those whom for the sake of
the state it would be well to e the
fathers and mothers of many
healthy children, well brought up in
homes made happy by their pres
ence. No man, no woman, can shirk
the primary duties Of life, whether
for love of ease and pleasure, or for
any other cause, and retain his OF
her s~elf-respect.
American Shipping.
Let me once again call the atten.
ton OF the Congress to two subjects
concerning which / have frequently
before communicated with them
One j. the question of developing
American shipping. | trust that g
law embodying in substance tht
views, or a part of the views, ex.
pressed in the report on the subject
laid before the House at its last SEES
sion viii be past. | am well aware
that in former years Objectionable
measures have been proposed in ref
orence to the encouragement o
American shipping; but it seems t.
me that the proposed measure is a
nearly unobjectionable as any car
be. 1t will of course benefit pri
marily Il seaboard States, such a
Maine, Louisiana. and Washington
! but what benefits part of our peopl
in the end benefits all; just as Gov
eminent aid to irrigation and forest
, II INC NNob 10 really VI DeHtlt
not only to the Rocky Mountain
States, but to all our country. If i
7 prove impracticable to enact a lay
for the encouragement of shipping
! generally, then at least ~provisiol
l should be made for better commu
nication with South America, not
; ably for fast mail lines to the Chic
South American ports. 1t is discred
! liable to us that our business pee
: pie, for lack of direct communities
; tion III the shape of lines of steam
{ ers with South America, should i
{ that great sister continent be at
disadvantage compared to the bus
ness people of Europe.
Currency Reform.
| especially call your attention I
the second subject, the condition
our currency laws. The nation;
bank act has ably served a gref
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