Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-05

| face with heavy deficit. But when the desire to win the popular approval leads to the cutting off of expenditures really needed to make the government effective, and to enable it to accomplish | it's proper objects, the result is as much to be condemned as the waste of gov ernment funds in unnecessary expendi- ture. The scope of modern govern ment in what it can and ought to ac- complish for its people has been widen ed far beyond the principles laid down | by the old laissez faire school of polit- | ical writers, and this widening has met popular approval.
 In the department of agriculture, the use of scientific experiments on large scale, and the spread of information de- rived from them for the improvement of general agriculture, must go on. The importance of supervising busi- ness of great railways and industrial combinations, and the necessary inves- tigation and prosecution of unlawful business methods, are another neces- sary tax upon government which did not | exist half century ago.
 Conservation of Resources. The putting into force of laws which shall secure the conservation of our resources, so far as they may be within the jurisdiction of our 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 cannot be expected of them. A permanent improvement, like the Panama Canal, should be treated as & distinct enterprise, and should be paid for by the proceeds of bonds, the issue of which will distribute it's cost between the present and future generations in accordance with the benefits derived. It may well be submitted to the serious consideration of congress whether the deepening and control of the channel of a great river system, like that of the Ohio or 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 it's proper place among the nations of the world, and is to exercise it's proper influence in defense of its own trade interests, in the maintenance of traditional Ameri- can policy against the colonization of European monarchies in this hemisphere kn .,, ternational morality. refer to the cost of maintaining a proper army, proper navy, and suitable Notifications upon the mainland of the United States and in it's dependencies.
 Army Organization.
 We should have an army so organized and so ofticered, as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the national militia, and under the pro- visions of proper national volunteer law, rapidly to expand into a force sufficient to resist all probable invasion from abroad and to furnish respec- table expeditionary force, if necessary, in the maintenance of our traditional American policy which bears the name of President Monroe
 Our Notifications are yet in a. state of only partial completeness, and the number of men to man them is iRsuf ficient In few years, however, tho usual annual appropriations for our coast defenses both on the mainland and in the dependencies, will make them sufficient to resist all direct attack and by that time we may hope that the men to man them will be provided as necessary adjunct. The distance of our shores from Europe and Asia of course reduces the necessity for main taining under arms a great army, but it does not take away the requirement of mere prudence, that we should have an army sufficiently large and so consti- tuted as to form a 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 oper ation. My distinguished predecessor has in many speeches and messages set out with great force and striking Ian guage the necessity for maintaining q strong navy commensurate with the coast line, the governmental resources and the foreign trade of our nation; and | wish to reiterate all the reasons which he has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining 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 interests and the exercise of our influence in in ternational matters
 International Policy.
 Our international policy is always to promote peace. We shall enter into any war with full consciousness of the awful consequences that it always entails, whether successful or not, and we, of course, shall make every effort, consistent with national honor and the highest national interest, to avoid a resort to arms. We favor every iD- strumentality, like that of The Hague Tribunal and arbitration treaties made with view to it's use in all internation- al controversies, in order to maintain peace and to avoid war. But we should be blind to existing conditions, and should allow ourselves to become fool- ;s,l, ;Inal,ate u,a J:l not I,1o +bot