Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-14

aIa,,hg from agricultural settlement min
80, coal and phosphate lands and sites
urionBhg TO the government bordering
vi ~, streams suitable for the utilization Of
water power.
Department of Agriculture.
tIoD the report of the secretary of agri-
c9i,ure as showing the immense sphere
% 81 usefulness which that department now
MS and the wonderful addition to the
mea .I or he nation made by the farmers
rent year.
The lighthouse board now discharges
Ies duties under the department of COM
ea.. and labor / recommend the trans
rs,,.a " control over the lighthouses to a
suieaule CIVILIAN bureau.
consolidation of Bureaus.
| request congressional authority TO
ENABLE the secretary of commerce and
TABOR TO unite the bureaus of manufac-
lures and statistics.
The "White Slave" Trade.
| greatly regret to have to say that
the Investigations made in the bureau
OF immigration and other sources of in
formation lead to the view that there is
urgent necessity for additional legislation
ana greater executive activity to sup
press.
Bureau of Health.
The opportunities offered for useful re-
search and the spread OF useful infor-
nation in regard to the cultivation of
the soil and the breeding of stock and the
soluuon OF many of the intricate prob
lenns IN progressive agriculture have DEM
onstrated the wisdom of establishing that
department. Similar reasons, of equal
force, can be given for the establishment
OF bureau of health that shall not only
exercise the police jurisdiction of the fed
eral government respecting quarantine,
but which shall also afford an opportuni-
fffrf
petent experts into questions of health
aHecting the whole country. or import
ant sections thereof, questions which, in
the absence of federal governmental work.
are not likely to be promptly solved.
The Civil Service Commission.
The work of the United States civil
service commission has been performed
tive officers with whom the commission
has been brought into official communi-
cation.
recommendations have been made by
my predecessors that Congress appropri-
ate sufficient sum to pay the balance
about 3S per cent-of the amounts due
depositors in the Freedman's Savings and
Trust Company. l renew this recommen-
dation
Emancipation Semi-CentennfaI.
The year 1918 will mark the fiftieth
anniversary of the issuance of the Eman-
cipation Proclamation granting freedom
to the negroes. 1t seems fitting that this
event should be properly celebrated. AL
ready a movement has been started by
prominent negroes encouraged by prom
inent white people and the press.
In Conclusion.
have thus, in a message compressed
as much as the subjects will permit, re-
ferred to many of the legislative needs
of the country, with the exceptions al
ready noted. Speaking generally, the
1t
There is every reason to believe that we
are on the eve of a substantial business
and we have just garnered a
harvest unexampled in the market value
of our agricultural products. The high
prices which such products bring mean
great prosperity for the farming COM
but on the other hand they mean
a very considerably increased burden upon
those classes in the community whose
yearly compensation does not expand
with the improvement in business and the
general prosperity. Various reasons are
given for the high prices. The proper
tionate increase in the output of gold,
which to-day is the chief medium of eX-
change and is in some respects a measure
Of value furnishes substantial eXplana-
ton OF at least part Of the increase in
prices. The increase in population and
the more expensive mode of living of the
people, which have not been accompanied
by a proportionate increase in acreage
production, may furnish a further rea-
son. 1t is well to note that the increase
IN the cost of living is not confined to this
but prevails the world over, and
that those who would charge increases in
prices to the existing protective tariff
must meet the fact that the rise in prices
has taken place almost wholly in those
products of the factory and farm in re-
spect to which there has been either no
Increase in the tariff or in many instances
1 very considerable reduction
VIM. II. TAFT.