Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-12-13

terred on the citizens of Porto Rico.
should be dredged and improved The
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.
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
Our nation fronts on the Pacific, Just
as 1t fronts on the Atlantic. We hone
to the pay e2eat constantly oGnan growing part IN
wish. as we ought to wish for a great
commercial development in our deal
question that we should permanently
have such development unless we free
~ ana gladly extend to other nations
the same measure of justice and good
treatment which we expect to receiye
in return. 1t is only very small body
Of our citizens that act badly. Where
the FEDERAL government has power it
Will deal summarly with any such.
Where the several states have power
learn | earnestly ask that they also deal
duct. or else this small body of wrong
doers may bring shame upon the great
thinking fellows-that is. upon our
nation as a whole. Good manners
should be an International no less than
an individual attribute. / ask fair
treatment for the Japanese as ! would
ask fair treatment for Germans orf
Englishmen. Frenchmen, Russians or
Italians l ask 1T as due to humanity
and civilization. l ask it as due to
ourselves because we must act up
rightly toward all men.
81 recommend to the congress that
an act be passed specifically providing for
the naturalization of Japanese who come
izens. One of the great embarrassments
attending the performance of our in
ternational oblisations is the. fact that,
ernment are entirely inadequate. They
fail to give to the national government
sufficiently ample power, through United
army and navy, to protect aliens in the
rights secured to them under solemn
! therefore earnestly recommend that
the criminal and civil statutes of ths
United States be so amended and added
10 as to enable the president acting for
the United States government. which is
responsible in our international rela-
tions, to enforce the rights of aliens un-
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
to do will be done, and all of the forces,
military and civil, of the United States
which ] may lawfully employ will be
so employed. There should however, be
no particle of doubt as to the power OF
the national government completely to
perform and enforce its own OBLIGATIONS
to other nations. The mob of a single
city, may at any time perform acts Of
lawlcss violence against some class of
foreigners which would plunge us into
war The city by itself would be power
less to make defense against the for
egn power thus assaulted, and if indie
pendent of this government it would
never venture to perform permit the
performance of the acts complained Of
a w 1nt tn
protect the offending city or the Offend
ing. community lies in the hands of the
thinbable that we should continue a poll
icy under which given locality may be
allowed to commit a crime against a
government limited, not to preventing
the commission of the crime, but, in the
last resort to defending the people who
nave committed it against the conse-
quences of their own wrongdoing."
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-
sional government will come to an end.
l take this opportunity of expressing
upon behalf of the American people.
with all possible solemnity, our most
earnest hope that the people of Cuba
serving justice and keeping order in the
island: The United States wishes moth
morally and materially, and wishes noth-
ing of the Cubans save that they shall
be able to preserve order among them
selves and therefore to preserve their
independence. If the elections become a
farce, and if the insurrectionary habit
becomes confirmed in the island, it is alb
solutey out of the question that the
island should continue independent; and
the United States, which has assumed
a.
for Cuba's career as a nation, would
again have to intervene and to see that
the government was managed in such
orderly fashion as to secure the safety
of life and property. The path to be
trodden by those who exercise self-gov-
ernment is always hard, and we should
Cubans they tread this difficult parth.
have the utmost sympathy with, and
adjure them soleinnly to weigh their re-
sponsibilities and to see that when their
new government is started it shall run
smoothly, and with freedom from fla
grant denial. of right on the one hand,
and from insurrectionary disturbances on
Considerable space is devoted to the
international conference of American re-
publcs and the visit of Secretary Root
to South America, and points to the fact
that our efforts in behalf of the natiors
of that country are appreciated by them
On the subject of the Panama canal ne
promises special message in the near
future.
The Army and Navy.
The message closes with a plea for
the maintenance of the. navy at it's pres
ent standard, to do which he says woulH
mean the building of one battleship each
year OF the present efficiency of the
army and navy he says:
1.-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 been
very much less had it not been for the
existence of the general staff in the army
and the general board in the navy both
are essential to the proper development
and use of our military forces afioat and
ashore. The troops that were sent to
Cuba were handled flawlessly. 1t was
the swiftest mobilization and slispatch of
troops over ever accomplished by
our government. The expedition landed
completely equipped and ready for i'm
mediate service several of its organiza-
tons hardly remaining in Havana ovee
night before splitting up into detach-
ments and going to their several posts.