Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-06

teal judgment on the problems OF our
country life. All students now realize
that education must seek to train the
executive powers of young people and 10
eRrase en rsa of and To- aee
pare the pupils SO that in addition to
each developing in the highest degree
may together help create a right public
opinion. and show in many ways social
and cooperative spirit. Organization has
become necessary in the business world:
and it has accomplished much for good
in the world of labor. 1t is no less neces-
sary for farmers. Such movement as
the grange movement is good in itself
and is capable of a well-nigh infinite fur
Their extension for good so long as it is
benefits to be derived by the association
of farmers for mutual advantage are
partly economic and partly sociological
Marriage and Divorce.
AS means of bringing about national
regulation of marriage and divorce he
suggests a constitutional amendment, and
says 1t is not safe to leave these oues-
tons to be dealt with by the various
states. Continuing on this subject he
says;
When home ties are loosened; when
men and women cease to regard
worthy family life, with all its duties
fully performed. and all its RESPONSE
bilft1es lived up to, as the life best
worth living; then evil days for the
regions in our land, and classes of our
population. where the birth rate has
sunk below the death rate. Surely 1t
should need no demonstration to show
that wilful sterility is, from the
standpoint of the nation from me
standpoint, of the human race. the one
sin for which the penalty is national
death, race death; sin for which
there is no atonement; sin which is
the more dreadful exactly in propor-
ton as the. men and women guilty
thereof are in other respects, in char
aeter. and bodily and mental powers.
those whom for the sake of the state
would fathers
and mothers of many healthy children.
well brought up in homes made happy
can shirk the primary duties of life.
whether for love of ease and pleasure.
or for any other cause, and retain his
or her Self-reSpect.
The president asks for the enactment
into law of a shipping bill that will place
American interests on the seas on par
especially that something be done that
will establish direct steamship commu-
nication with South American ports.
Currency Reform.
Amendments to the present currency
that present laws are inadequate because
of the wide fuctuation of interest
The mere statement of these facts
shows that our present system is seri-
ously defective. There is need of a
of the proposed changes must be ruled
from consideration because they are
complicated. are not easy of compre-
hension. and tend to disturb existing
rights and interests. We must also
rule out any plan which would ma
terially impair the value of the United
States two per cent bonds now pledged
to secure circulation, the issue of
which was made under conditions pc
do not press any special plan. Various
plans have recently been proposed by
expert committees of bankers. Among
the plans which are possibly feasible
and which certainly should receive
your consideration is that repeatedly
brought to your attention by the pres
sential features of which have been
approved by many prominent bankers
and business men: According to this
mitted to issue a specified proportion
of their capital in notes OF a given
kind. the issue to be taxed at so high
a rate as to drive the notes back when
not wanted in legitimate trade. This
plan would not permit the issue of
profits. but to meet the emergency pre-
scented by times of stringency
He again asks for free trade with this
same connection reviews the work done
by this country in the islands, and says
IF we have erred in the Philippines it
has been in proceeding too rapidly in
the direction of granting a large meas
ure of self-government."
Naturalization of Japs.
President Roosevelt scores San Fran
cisco and other Pacific coast cities for
their treatment of the Japanese. and
makes the following recommendations:
Il recommend to the congress that
an act be passed specifically providing for
the naturalization of Japanese who come
here intending to become American cit
liens. One of the great embarrassments
attending the performance of in
ternational obligations is the fact that
the statutes of the United States gov
eminent are entirely inadequate. They
fail to give to the national government
sufficiently ample power, through United
States courts and by the use of the
rights secured to them under solemn
treaties which the law of the land.
l therefore earnestly recommend that
the criminal and civil statutes of the
United States be so amended and added
to as to enable the president, acting for
responsible in our international rela-
tons, to enforce the rights of aliens I'M
der treaties. Even as the law now is
something can be done by the federal
government toward this end, and in the
matter now before me affecting the Jap
anese, everything that it is in my, power
military and civil, of the United States
which l may lawfully employ will be
so employed. There should. however, be
no particle of doubt to the power of
the national government completely to
perform and enforce its own obligations
to other nations. The mob of single
lawless violence against some class of
foreigners which would plunge us into
less to make defense against the for
eign power thus assaulted. and if inde-
pendent of this government it would
never venture to perform permit the
performance of the acts complained of.
The entire power and the whole duty to
protect the offending city or the Offend
ing community lies in the hands of the
United States government. 1t is I'M
thinkable that we should continue a pol
icy under which a given locality may be
allowed to commit a crime against a
friendly nation. and the United States
government limited, not to preventing
the commission of the crime, but. in the
last resort, to defending the people who
have committed it against the conse-
quences of their own wrongdoing."
American citizenship should be con-
The harbor of san Juan in Porto Rico
expenses of the federal court of Porto
Rico should be met from the federal
treasury. The administration of the af-
fairs of Porto Rico. together with those
of the Philippines. Hawaii and our other
inSular possessions, should all be direct
ed under one executive department by
preference the department of state or the
department of war.
Cuban Intervention.
The rebellion in Cuba and the incl
dents leading up to the establishment of
the provisional government is reviewed,
and the president says:
When the election has been held and
the new government inaugurated in
peaceful and orderly fashion of the provi-
l take this opportunity of expressing
with all possible solemnity, our most
earnest hope that the people of Cuba
will realize the imperative need of pre-
serving justice and keeping order in the
island. The United States wishes moth
ing of Cuba except that it shall prosper
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 their
Independence. II the elections become a
farce, and if the insurrectionary habit
becomes confirmed in the island, it is alb
solutely out of the question that the
island should continue independent; and
the United States, which has assumes
the sponsorship before the civilized world
for Cuba's career as a nation, would
again have to intervene and to see that
the government was managed in such
Ill. L