Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-08

y Qllly-uallylnS OF Qeiay.4 - ne pan WHICH
GIpromises the best and quickest results
4 is that of a permanent commission au-
/ thorized to coordinate the work OF all
i the government departments relating
/ 10 waterways and to frame and super
i wise the execution of n comprehensive"
Iplnn Under such n commission the
I actual work of construction might BE-
! Entrusted to the reclamation service or
TO the military engineers acting with
4 a sufficient number OF civilians to con-
.htinue tue work in time Of war, or it
might he divided between the rcclama-
ton service and the corps of engineers.
! Funds should be provided from cur
/ rent revenues if it Is deemed wise,
otherwise from the sale Of bonds The
essential thing is that the work Should
\ go forward under the best possible
4 plan and with the least possible dclny.
I We should have n new tyne of work
/ and ii new organization for planning
4 and directing IT, The time for playing
i with our Waterways is past. The coun-
/, try demands results.
National Parks,
urge that all our national parks adj
! jacent to national forests be placed
| completely under the control of the
4 forest service of the agricultural de-
/ partmcnt. instead of leaving them, as
they are now, under the interior de-
pnrtment and polced by the army.
The congress should provide for SUI
perntendents with adequate corps of
first class civilian scouts or rangers
! and, further place the road construc-
! ton under the superintendent instead
/ Of leaving II will, the war department.
such Il change in park management
would result in economy and avoid the
difficulties of administration which
! now arise from having the responsi-
| blity of care aud protection divided
| between different departments. The
need for this course is peculiarly great
in the Yellowstone park. This. like the
| Yosemite, is a great wonderland and
should be kept as a national play
ground IN both all wild things should
be protected and the scenery kept
wholly unmarried. &
| am happy to say that l have been
able to set aside in various parts OF
the country small, we'll chosen tracts
of ground to serve as suncluarics and
nurseries for wild creatures.
Denatured Alcohol.
had occasion in my message of
| May 4, 1906, to urge the passage Of
some law+putting alcohol used in tho
arts, industries and manufactures upon
the free list-that is, TO provide for the
withdrawal free of tax of alcohol
which is to be denatured for those
purposes. The law of June 6, 1906,
and its amendment of March ., 1907,
accomplished what was desired in that
| respect. and the use of denatured al
coho as intended is making Il fair de-
gree Of progress and is entitled to fur
Their encouragement and support from
the congress.
Pure Food.
Tho pure food legislation has already
worked benefit difficult TO overesti.
mate.
Indian Service.
1t has been my purpose from the be-
| ginning of my administration to take
the Indian service completely out of
] the atmosphere of political activity,
| and there has been steady progress to-
ward that end The last remaining
stronghold of politics in that service
was the agency system, which had
seen its best days and was gradually
i falling TO pieces from natural or pure
/ ~ evolutionary causes. but. like all
such suryivnls, was decnying slowly
4 i'll its later stages. 1t seems clear that
I! its extinction had better be made final
now. SO that the ground can be cleared
4 for larger constructive work OH behalf
! of the Indians preparatory TO their in
! duction into the full measure of re-
/ sponsille citizenship. On Nov ! only
/ eighteen agencies We're left OH the
roster. With two exceptions, where
| some legal questions seemed to stand
temporarily in the way, these have
| been changed to superintendencies and
their heads brought into the classified
civil service.
Secret Service.
| Last year an amendment was incor.
poratcd in the measure providing for
| Liz ScNIShE SNit WV NIlNb BioNIutu tuu I
there should be no detail from the Sc
cret service and no transfer therefrom
1t is not too much to say that this
amendment has been of benefit only.
and could be of benefit only. to the
criminal classes. If deliberately in
troduced for the purpose of diminish
! ing the effectiveness of war against
| crime it could not have been better de-
viscd to this end. 1t forbade the prac-
| tees that had been followed to a
greater or less extent by the executive
heads OF various departments for TWEEN
| ty years. TO these practices we owe
| the securing of the evidence which en-
abled us TO drive great lotteries out of
| business and secure Il quarter OF a
million of dollars in fines from their
promoters. These practices have eli.
abled us TO discover some of the most
outrageous frauds In connection with
the theft of government land and
government timber by great corpora
tons and by individuals, These prac-
tices have enabled us to get some Of
the evidence Indispensable in order to
secure the conviction of the wcalthicst
and most formidable criminals with
whom the government has TO deal,
both those operating in violation of