Arizona republican., 1909-03-05

duced by it, and so arrange the duties Should it be impossible to do so by import duties, new kinds of taxation must be adopted, and among these recommend graduated inheritance tax, as correct in principle and as certain and easy of collection.
 The obligation on the part of those responsible for the expenditures made to carry on the government, to be as economical as possible, and to make the burden of taxation as light as possible,s is plain and should be af- firmed in every declaration of govern ment policy. This is especially true when we are face to face with a heavy deficit. But when the desire to win the popular approval leads to the putting off of expenditures really needed to make the government ef- fective, and to enable it to accom- plish its proper objects, the result is as much to be condemned as the waste of government funds in unnec- essary expenditure The scope of a modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for it's people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old laissez faire school of political writers, and this widening has met popular ap- proval
 In the department of agriculture. the use of scientific experiments on a large scale. and the spread of infor- nation derived from them for the i'm provement of general agriculture, must go on.
 Corporation Supervision.
 The importance of supervising busi- mess of great railways and industrial combinations, and the necessary in vestigation and prosecution of unlaw- ful business methods, are another nec- essary tax upon government which did not exist half a century ago.
 The putting into force of laws which shall secure the conservation of our resources, as far as they may be within the jurisdiction of the federal govern ment, including the most important work of saving and restoring our for ests, and the great improvement of waterways. are all proper government functions which must involve large ex- penditure if properly performed. While some of them, like the reclamation of arid lands. are made to pay for them selves, others are of such an indirect benefit that this can not be expected of them. A permanent improvement, like the Panama canal, should be treated as a distinct enterprise, and should be paid for by the proceeds of bonds, the issue of which will dis tribute its cost between the present and future generations in accordance with the benefits derived. It may well be submitted to the serious considera- ton of congress whether the deepening and control of the channel of a great river system, like that of the Ohio or of the Mississippi, when definite and practical plans for the enterprise have been approved and determined upon.. should not be provided for in the same way.
 Then, too, there are expenditures of government absolutely necessary if our country is to maintain its proper place among the nations of the world. and is to exercise its proper influence in defense of its own trade interests. in the maintenance of traditional American policy against the coloniZa tlO1 Ol EuIOptdIl III NiiAS hemisphere. and in the promotion of peace and international morality. refer to the cost of maintaining a proper army. a proper navy and suitable Qualifications upon the main land of the United States and its de- pendencies-
 Army Reforms.
 We should have an army so organ ized. and so officered, as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the national militia, and under the provisions of a proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all prob able invasion from abroad and to fur nish respectable expeditionary force. if necessary, in the maintenance of our traditional policy which bears the name of President Monroe.
 Our Qualifications are yet in state of only partial completeness, and the number of men to man them Is insuf- ficient. In a few years, however. the usual annual appropriations for our coast defenses both on the mainland and in the dependencies. will make them sufficient to resist all direct at tack. and by that time We may hope that the men to man them will be pro vided as a necessary adjunct The distance of our shores from Europe and Asia of course reduces the neces- sity for maintaining under arms great army, but it does not take away the requirement. of mere prudence, that we should have any army sufficiently large and so constituted as to form nucleus out of which a suitable force can quickly grow.
 What has been said of the army may be affirmed in even a more emphatic way of the navy A modern navy can not be improvised. It must be built and in existence when the emergency arises which calls for it's use and op- eration. My distinguished predecessor has in many speeches and messages set out with great force and striking language the necessity for maintaining a strong navy commensurate with the coast line, the governmental resources and the foreign trade of our nation; and I wish to reiterate all the reasons which he has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion | of our rights, the defense of our inter- ests and the exercise of our influence 1 in international matters.