The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-12-06

states. Conunsing on this subteot he
When home ties are Ioosened; when
| men and women cease to regard
worthy fsmily life. with AL its duties
bilities lived up to. as the life best
worth living then evil days for the
commonwealth are at hand. There arc
population. where the birth rate has
sunk below, the death rate. Surely II
should need no demonstration to show
standpoint Of the nation. from me
| standpoint Of the human race, the one
n for rSea wsce death ,hf pen'y + for nat2p wSsb
| there is no atonement: a sin which Is
| the more dreadful exactly in proper
ton as the men and women guilty
| thereof are in other respects. in char
| acter, and bodily and mental powers
| those whom for the sake Of the state
and mothers of many healthy children
| we'll brought up In homes made happy
| by their presence. 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 hts
| 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
with those Of other countries. and urges
| especially that something be done that
nicatlon with South American ports.
Currency Reform.
Amendments to the present currency
| laws are asked for, and after showing
| that present laws are inadequate because
of the wide fiuctuaton of interest
charges. he says:
''The mere statement of these facts
| shows that our present system is seri-
ously defective. There is need Of
| change. Unfortunately. however, many
| " the proposed changes must be ruled
| complicated are not easy of compre-
| hcnsion. 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
| culiarly creditable to the treasury I
| 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 IL that repeatedly
| brought to your attention by the pres
| ent secretary or the treasury. the es-
| aential features OF which have been
approved by many prominent bankers
| plan national banks should be per
nitted TO issue specified proportion
Of their capital in notes OF given
Sind' the issue 70 he taxed at so MIN
a rate as to drive the notes back when
not wanted in Legitimate trade. This
currency TO give banks additional
profits but to meet the emergency pre-
sented by times OF stringency.
Need Of Automatic System.
81 do not say that this is the right
| system. ! only advance 10 to empha-
size my belief that there Is need FOR
the adoption of some system which
4 shall be automatic and open to ali
sound banks so as to avoid all pos
sibility OF discrimination and favorit-
ism. Such plan would tend 60 pre-
vent the spasms of high money and
speculation which now obtain in the
New York market; for at present
seasons of the year enc its accumu-
| lation at New York tempts bankers
10 lend IL at low rates for specuiative
| purposes; whereas at other times when
| the crops are bing moved there Is
| urgent need for large but temporary
increase SEN In the currency ,rrn,yo supply IL
| question concerns business men gem
orally quite as much as bankers, es-
peclally Is this true OF stockmen.
| for at present at certain seasons Of
the year the difference in interest
rates between the east and the west is
from six TO ten per cent. ,whereas IN
| Canada the corresponding difference is
but two per cent. Any plan must or
| course guard the interests OF west
crn and southern bankers as carefully
as II guards the interests of New York
or Chicago bankers; and must be
farmer and the merchant no less than
from the standpoints OF the city
| banker and the country banker.
| The law should be amended 40 as to
specifically to provide that the funds de-
rived from customs duties may be treat
ed by the Se"rrAry OF the treasury AZ
he treats funds obtained under the In
ternal revenue laws. There should be
n considerable Increase IN bills Of small
denominations. Permission should be
given banks, II necessary under settled
restrictions. to retire their circulation to
a larger amount than s5.0OO,0O0 month, -
He. again asks for free trade with this
same COZ neciion reviews the work done
by this country In the Islands, and says
"if W" have erred in the Philippines IL
has. LGen. in proceeding too rapidly In.
the direction a, Of srsnsin.g larSe' mess-
American citizenship should be con-
rerred on the. eiti.ens Of Porto, Rico
should be So' dredsed re @ snd ND improved, The
expenses OF the federal court OF Portp
Rico, should be met from the federal
fairs OF Porto Ricol together with thuse
Of the Philippines, Hawaii and our other
insular possesasons,. should all be direct
ed under one executive department; py
preference tho department of state or ahs
department OF war;
. Naturalization Of lsps.
Prcsident Roosevelt scores San Fesu.
cisco and other Pacific coast cities, for
| thor treatment OF the Japanese, and
makes the following recommendations:
as " fronts on the Atlantfc' We hops
to- play n constantly growing pnrt IL
the great oceHn OF the. orient W,
wishi as we ought to wian. for a srea
| comniercial development, I'm our deal
ings with Asia, and II fs out " tn,
| question: that we should perma arntl,
have such Developments unless we free
ly and gladly extend tu other s-tton
| tho same measure of justice and goo,
treatment which we expect to, rrceiv
In RETURN rt Is only very small nod,
| of our cirizens that acd badly. Wher
| the federal governments has power l
will deal summarily with any such
. | Whore the several stsSsss have powe
| earnestly ask that they ssiRo dea
wisely and promptly with such COG
| duct. or else this smaF body ~ wrong
/ dOers may bring shame upon che grea
mass OF their Innocent aHd' right
thinking fcllows---tiat IL. uDor -,
! should be an international MN less aha
( am individual attribute ask rhl
! treatment for the Jrnanese as I w,y,:l
nsk FUR treatmcnc for Germans a
| Fniglishmcn, FrencNmen. Russia 8s q
Italians. ] ask t as due eo huma wit
: and civilization. ask 70 as d0s I
l L ourselves because we must act uy
\ rightly toward ala mem
"I recommend - the congress- this
. | nm act he passed sTeGif cpfy providing Il
? the naturalization sf J nGneso WHO CON
: | here Intending to, become American CT
y Zeus One OF tive great embarrassment
attending the performance OF our II
tcrnatonal oblign lions Is the fact tn,
. the statutes OF the united States go'
q ornment are entirely Inadequate. The
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