The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-12-08

divided between different depart
ments. The need for this course is
peculiarly great in the Yllowstonc
Park. This, like Yosemite, is a great
wonderland, and should be kept as a
national playground. 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
sanctuaries and nurseries for wild
creatures.
DENATURED ALCOHOL
l had occasion in my message of
May 4, 1906, to urge the passage of
some law putting alcohol, used in
the arts, industries, and manufactures,
upon the free list; that is, to provide
for the withdrawal free of tax of al
cohol which is to be denatured for
those purposes. The law of June Z,
1906, and it's amendment of March 2,
1907, accomplished what was desired
in that respect, and the use of dena-
tured alcohol, as intended, is making
a fair degree of progress and is en-
titled to further encouragement and
support from the Congress.
PURE FOOD.
The pure food legislation has al
ready worked a benefit difficult to
overestimate.
1t has been my purpose from the
beginning of my administration to
take the Indian Service completely
out of the atmosphere of political ac-
tivity, and there has been steady
progress toward that end. The last
remaining stronghold of politics in
! that service was the agency system
which had seen its best days, and was
gradually falling to pieces from nat
ural or purely evolutionary causes,
but, like all such survivals. was de-
caying slowly in its later stages. 1t
( seems clear that its extinction had
4 better be made final now. so that the
I ground can be cleared for larger con-
I structive work on behalf of the In
| dams, preparatory to their induction
into the full measure of responsible
, citizenship. On November / only
eighteen agencies were left on 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 clas-
sifed civil service.
SECRET SERVICE.
Last year an amendment was in
4 corporated in the measure providing
( for the Secret Service, which provid-
ed that there should be no detail from
the Secret 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 clSsses. If de-
/ iberately introduced for the purpose
OF diminishing the effectiveness of
war against crime it could not have
been better devised to this end. II
forbade the practices that had been
followed to a greater or less extent
by the executive heads of various
departments for twenty years. tt
these practices we owe the securing
of the evidence which enabled us lC
drive great lotteries out of bushes!
and secure a quarter of a milton %
, dollars in fines from their promoters
These practices have enabled us t.
discover some of the most outrageous
frauds in connection with the thief
of government land and government
timber by great corporations and b.
individuals These practices hav,
: enabled us to get some of the evi
dence indispensable in order to sc
cure the conviction of the wealthies
whom the Government has to dea
both those operating in violation o
the antitrust law and others. TIL
amendment in question was of benz
] fit to no one excepting to these GRIN
inals, and it seriously hampers tn
: Government in the detection of Grim
and the securing of justice. More
over, it not only affects department
outside of the Treasury but it tend
to hamper the Secretary of tn
Treasury himself in the effort to ut
: lie the employees of his department
:, ! so as to best meet the requirement
= of the public service. 1t forbids hir
- from preventing frauds upon the cui
= toms service. from investigator
- Irregularities in branch minis an
assay offices, and has seriously Grill
pied him. II prevents the promotlo
of employees in the Secret Service
and this further discourages goo
: effort In its present form the r
striction operates only to the adval
: tage of the criminal of the wron
y doer The chief argument in favor
u, the provision was that the Congress
> men did not themselves wish TO be 4
% vestigated by Secret Service me
Very little of such investigation hi
g been done in the past; but it is trr
= that the work of the Secret ServiC
y agents was partly responsible for Il
" Indictment and conviction of a Sc
,. ator and a Congressman for Ian