The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-09

fisheries win amount to nothing: and this comes from 6 struggle between one .ss ssn or na sf ase fishing wheels up the river The fisheries of the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Potomac are also tn a bad way, Fer this sAess IS no remedy remedy, except & lo late for the interstate fisheries as part ok the business of interstate commerce.. In this ease the machinery for seien- tific anyestigation Tor control aiready Fisheries. In this as in similar pro6- iems the obvious and simple rule should be followed of having those mstters which no particular state can states: is problems, ai which in the seesaw of conflicting state legislatures are ab- soluteiy unsoivabie, are easy enough Cor the Congress to control.
 Ffsherien And Fur Seals.
 The federal statute regulating inter state traffic In game should be extend cd to incI1ie fish. New federal fisn hatcheries should be established. The administration of the. Alaskan fur-seai service should be vested in the Bureau of Fisheries.
 Thls nations foreign policy is based fndivfduals. and In our actions for the proven our faith by our deeds. We have behaved and are behaving. towards other nations, as iti private fife an honorable man would behave towards his fellows.
 Latln-Amerscan Republies. The commercial and material pro- gress of the twenty Latin-American Republics Is worthy of the careful at- tention of the Congress. No other see. tion of the world has shown a great CT proportionate development of ite foreign trade during the last ten years and none other has more special claims T a.k -A a1.-x TaNf 0NAf
 It offers today probably larger oDpor- tunifies for the legitimate expansion of our commerce than any other group or on tine theory that. right must be done
 between nations precisely as 1,, pe'wesn we
 our products in greatly increased quantities. and we shall correspond. tng1y need theirs. The international Bureau of the American Amer in mss'n9 aepnSifess fsess nations and their resources better known to us. and in acquainting them not only with us as people S,1t and witbb w,tb what we have to exchange for their goods. It is an international institu- tion supported by all the Governments of the two Americas.
 Pnnamn Canal.
 The work on the Panama Canal ia being done with speed, efnctency anq entire devotion to duty, which make tt a model for all work of the kind. No
  fore been. undertaken by any nation; and no task of the kind has ever been better performed. The men on the fsiioW RUs co1m%issioneTs 1n1m Ss1 throush the en- tire list of employees who are faith fully doing their duty, have won theiE Eai;, ts ,Ss SSsETSasins fssSsSit psSopie ana Ocean Mail Lines.
 again rscommend the extension If l the ocean mail act of 1891 so that sat- isfactory ocean mail lines to Soutn Austrs iasia may be established. The creation of such steamship lines should be the natural cofoIlary of the voyage of the battle fleet; It should precede Even under favorable conditions sew eral years must eiapse before such lines can be put into operatton.9 Ac- nromptiy who're hh foresight already shows that action sooner or later VIII Hawaii.
 I eau particular attention to the Ter ritory of Hawaii. The importance of those islands Id apparent, and the need vsloping thsir rssourcss ls urgent upon the isisnds have radically chang cd Fhe fr1iportation < of coofle labor has practically ceased, and there is now developing such Q diverslty in sible a change in the land conditions of the Territory, so that an oppor. l tunity may be given to the small land owner similar to that on the maln-
 land. To aid these changes. the Ma tionai Government must provide the necessary haFbor improvements on each 1 island, so that the argicultural prod- .ucts can be carried to the markets of l the world. The coastwise shipping tlaws should be amended to meet the special needs of the islands. and the alien contract labor law should be 60 modified in it's application, to Ha- 1 waif as to enable American and Euro l peaus labor to be brought thither. l We have begun to Improve Pearl f Harhor for q naval base and to pro I vide, the necessary militaFy fortihca- lions for the protection of the islands | but Lean not too strongly emphastse the need of appropriations for these | purposes of such an amount as will | within the shortest possible time make | those islands practically impregna- | bis. It Is useless to develop the indus trial conditions of the islands and es-