The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-12-05

L HUI VIII Wtoooh 10 oVoht III III thU
year preceding a presidential election.
has concIusiveay shovn tina at such a
IL from the standpoint Of the public good.
In my Judgment the wise time to deal
with the matter is Immediately after
such election"
Income Tax and Inheritance Tax.
"when our tax laws are revised the
question of an income tax and an inner
itance tax should receive the careful at
tention of our legislators. In my judg-
ment both OF these taxes should be part
OF our system of federal taxation"
Compulsory investigation of Indus-
trial disputes.
STRIKES and lockouts. with their at
tendant loss and suffering. continue to
decrease. For the five years ending Dec.
81, 1905. the number OF strikes was
greater than those in any previous ten
preceding five years. These figures in
| dictate the increasing need of providing
some machinery 10 deal with this class
Of disturbances In the interest alike OF
the employer, the employee. and the gem
eral public. I renew my previous rec
o~mmendation hat the congress favorably
consider the matter OF creating the ma.
such industrial controversies as are of
sufficient magnitude and OF sufficient con-
Germ to the people of the country as a
whole to warrant the federal government
I'm kin action"
" National Inspection of Grain.
.'The grain producing industry OF the
the United States, deserves special con-
alteration at the hands of congress. Our
grain is sold almost exclusively by
grades. To secure satisfactory results
in cur home markets and to facilitate
our trade abroad, these grades should
approximate the highest degree Of uni
formfty and certainty. The present d.
\ verse methods Of inspection and grading
throughout the country. under dinerent
lack of uniformity. destroying that con,
fdence which Is necessary for healthfnl
trade. Complaints against the present
methods have continued for years and
tensity, not only in this country but
abroad. 1 therefore suggest to the con-
gress tho advisability of a national sys-
entering into Interstate and foreign com
merce as q remedy for the present evils
Inland Waterway.
THE conservation of our natural re-
sources and their proper use constitute
the fundamental problem which underles
almost every other problem OF our ma
tional life. We must maintain fnr nnr
civilization the adequate material Dasis
without which thai civilization cannot
exist. We must show foresight, We must
look ahead. As a nation we not only en-
Joy a wonderful measure of present pros.
perity but If this prosperity is used Alright
1t is an earnest of future success SUCH as
no other nation will have. The reward OF
1 loT0Sisut lot Ills HdtlOH Is biodt ohN
easily foretold. But there must be the
look ahead, there must be a realization
of the fact that to waste, to destroy, our
natural resources. to skin and exhaust
the land instead OF using 1t so as to in
crease its usefulness, will result in ub-
dermining in the days of our children
right to hand down to them amplified and
developed. For the last few years,
through several agencies. the government
has been s~ndeaVoring to get our people to
| look ahead and To Suhsfiflta a Manned
and orderly development OF our resources
in place of a haphazard striving for i'm
should be developed as national water
highways; the Mississippi, with its trib-
utaries. standing first in Importance, and
the Columbia second, although there are
many others of Importance on the Pa
cihc. the Atlantic and the gulf slopes.
he national government should under
ne this work and l hope a b%eginnine
ne greatest of all our rivers. the Miss!s-
sippi. should receive especial attention.
From the Great Lakes to the mouth Of
the mississippi there should be a deep
waterway, with deep waterways leading
from 1t to the asst and the West. Such
a waterway would practically mean the
extension Of our coast line into the very
heart or our country. 1t would be of in
calculable benefit to our people. If be-
gun at once 4 can be carried through in
time appreciabiy to relieve the congestion
or our. great freight carrying lines Of
railroads. The work should be sys-
tematically and continuously carried for
ward In accordance with some well-con-
ceiyed plan.
II have appointed an inland waterways
commission TO study and outline a COM
Az the lines indicated. Later I shall Law
Reclamation Work.
irrigation should be far m ore ex-
tensiyely developed han at present not
only In the states of the great plains and
tne rocky mountains but in many others
as Tor instance. in large portions of the
South Atlantic and Gulf States, where
= should go hand in hand with the rec
Iamation OF swamp land. The work Of
me service in developing the
larger opportunities of the western half
or our country for irrigation Ia more i'm
portant h almost any other movement.
ihe constant purpose Of the government
IN connection with the reclamation serv-
Ice mas been to use the water resources
OF the public lands for the ultimate great
est good OF the greatest number; In other
words. TO put upon the land permanent
themselves and for their children and
children's children"
Forestry.
On the subject Of forestry the presi-
dent says:
I'VE are prone to speak of the resources
or TINS country as ~inexhaustible; this IL
not SO. The mineral wealth of the coun-
try. the coal. iron. oil, gas and the like,
does not reproduce itself, and therefore is
certain to be exhausted ultimately. and
wastefulness in dealing with 1t to-day
means that our descendants will feel the
exhaustion a generation or two before
they otherwise would. But there are GER
tain other forms of waste which could be
entirely s~topped-the waste of soil by
washing. for instance, which is among
the most dangerous of all wastes now In
progress in the United States, is easily
p~reventabie. so hat this present enormous
loss OF fertility is entirely unnecessary
The preservation or replacement of the
forests is one OF the most important
means of preventing this loss. We have
made a beginning in forest preservation,
but IT is oriy a beginning.
Every business man In the land, every
writer in the newspapers. every man or
woman of an ordinary school education,
ought to be able to see that immense
quantities of timber are used in the
country, that the forests which supply
this timber are rapidly being exhausted
and that, II no change takes place, ex-
haustion will come comparatively soon,
and that the effects OF 1t will be felt Sc
verely in the everyday life Of our peo-
pie. Surely when these facts are so OBJ
vious there should be no delay In talk
ing preventive measures.
anama Canal.
Work on the Panama canal Is pro-
ceeding In a highly satisfactory manner"
Postal Affairs.
1T commend to the favorable considera-
ton of the congress a postal savings bank
system. as recommended by the post
master general. The primary object Is to
encourage among our people economy and
thrift and by the use of postal savings
bank to give them an opportunity to hus-
who have not the facilities at hand for
depositing their money in savings bank.
Viewed, however, from the experience OF
the past few weeks, 1t Is evident that the