The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-11
President Taft'S Inaugural Address


or religion.
The admission CT Asiatic immigrants who
cannot be amalgamated with our population
has been made the subject either of prohib-
itory clauses in our treaties and statutes,
or of strict administrative regulation Sc
cured by diplomatic negotiation. | sincerely
hope that we may continue TO minimize the
evils likely to arise from such immigration
without unnecessary friction and by mutual
concessions between self-respecting govern
ments. Meantime. must take every pre-
caution to prevent. or. failing that, to pun
iSh Outbursts OF race feeling among our peo-
pie against foreigners of whatever nation
ality who have by our grant treaty right
10 pursue lawful business here and TO be
protected against lawless assault or injury.
Need Monetary Reform.
One Of the reforms to be carried out dur
ing the incoming administration is a change
OF our monetary and banking laws. so as TO
secure greater elasticity in the forms of
currency available for trade, and TO prevent
the limitations of law from operating TO in
crease the embarrassments of a financial
panic. The monetary commission Lately ap-
pointed is giving full consideration TO exist
ing conditions and to all proposed remedies,
and Will doubtless suggest one that will
meet the requirements of business and of
public interest We may hope that the re-
port will embody neither the narrow view
or those who believe that the sole purpose
Of the new system should be 10 secure
large return banking capital nor Of those
who would have greater expansion OF cur
rency with little regard to provisions for
| its immediate redemption or ultimate
curity.
The Panama Canal.
The Panama Canal will have most i'm
portant bearing upon the trade between the
eastern and the far western sections of our
country. and will greatly increase the ia
cliitles Tor transportation between The east
ern and the western seaboard. and may pos
Siby rey0lutioniZe the tranScontinental rates
| with respect to bulky merchandise. 1t Will
! also have most beneficial effect 10 in
! crease the trade between the eastern sea-
4 board Of the United States and the western
| coast of South Africa and indeed with
| some of the Important ports on the east
| coast CT South America reached by rail
| from the west coast. The work on the canal
| Is making most satisfactory progress. The
| construction will go on under most effect
| i've organization controlled by Col. Goethals
| and his fellow army engineers associated
| with him, and will certainly he completed
| early in the next administration, IL not
| before.
Dependencies Make Progress.
The governments Of our dependencies in
Porto Rico and the Philippines are progress
ing as favorably as could be desired The
| prosperity of Porto Rico continues unahat-
| ed. The business conditions in the Philip
| pines are not all that we could wish them
to be, but with the passage of the new
| tariff bill permitting free trade between the
| United States and the Archipelago. with
| such limitations in sugar and tobacco es
| shall prevent injury TO the domestic inter
| ests on those products. we can count on an
| Improvement In business conditions i'm the
| Philippines and the development of a mutu-
| ally profitable trade between this country
/ and the islands. Meantime our government
in each dependency is Upholding the tradi-
| tions of civil liberty and increasing popular
| control which might be expected under
| American auspices. The work which we
are doing there rebounds to our credit as
| nation.
| look forward with hope to increasing
| the already good feeling between the South
| and the other sections of the country. Ny
| chief purpose is not 10 effect a change in
| the electoral vote of the Southern States
| That is a secondary consideration. What /
| look forward TO is an increase in the toler-
| ance of political views of all kinds and
their advocacy throughout the South. and
| the existence of n respectable political CD
| position in every State; even more than
/ this. to an increased feeling on the part of
| all the people in the South that this gor-
eminent is their government. and that its
| officers in their States their officers.
| The consideration OF this question cannot,
however. be complete and full without ref
| erence to the negro race, its progress and
| ment secured them freedom; the fourteenth
amendment due process of law. protection
| of property and the pursuit of happiness !;
| and the fifteenth amendment attempted to
| secure the negro against any derivation OF
| the privilege to vote, because he was a
| negro. OF course. the mere adoption of a
constitutional law is only one step in The
| right direction. IL must be fairly and Just
! ly enforced as well. In time both will
| come
Would Educate Negroes.
There is in the South a stronger feeling
| than ever among the intelligent, well-to-do
| and influential element in favor of the in
| dustrial education of the negro and the en-
couragement of the race to make themselves
| useful members of the community. The
| progress which the negro has made in the
last fifty years from slavery. when its sta
| tistics are reviewed. Is marvellous. and IL
furnishes every reason TO hope that in the
| next twenty-five years n still greater i'm
| provement in his condition a productive
| member of society. on the farm, and in the
saop aud in other occupations, may come.
The Labor Controversy.
NY distinguished predecessor has given
much attention to the cause of labor, with
whose struggle for better things he has
| shown the sncerest sympathy. At his in
stance. Congress has passed the bill fixing
the liability of interstate carriers 10 their
employees for injury sustained In the course
OF employment, abolishing the rule OF fell
| low-servant and the common law rule as to
| contrbutOry negligence. and substituting
| therefor the so-called rule of comparative
| negligence. 1t has also passed law fixing
| the compensation of government employees
| for injuries sustained in the employ of the
| government through the negligence of the
| superior. 1t also passed a model child labor
| law for the District of Columbia. In pre-
| yious administrations an arbitration law for
| interstate commerce railroads and their en-
| ployes. and laws for the application of safe
| ty devices to save the lives and limbs OF
| empoyes OF interstate railroads had been
| passed Additional legislation of this kind
| was passed by the outgoing Congress
wish TO say that In so far as can. ! hope
to promote the enactment Of further legis-
| lation of this character.
| Another labor question has arisen which
| has awakened the most excited discussion.
| That is I'm respect TO the power OF the Fed
eral courts to issue injunctions in indus
| trial disputes. As TO that. my convictions
| are fixed Take away from courts, In IL
| could be taken away. the power TO issue in
| functions in labor disputes and IL would
create privileged class among the laborefs
| and save the lawess among their number
| from n most needful remedy available TO all
| men for the protection of their business
| against lawless invasion. The proposition
| that business is not a property or pecuniary
| right which can he protected by equitable
| Injunction is utterly without foundation in
precedent or reason. The proposition Is
| usually linked with one 10 make the Sec
! ondarv boycott lawful. Such a proposition
! is at variance with the American instinct
! and will find no support in my Judgment
when submitted TO the American people.
| The secondary boycott is an instrument OF
| y,
mate.
New Statute Needed.
The issuing of a temporary restraining
] order without notice has in several in
| stances been abused by its inconsderate
! exercise. and 10 remedy this, the platform
| upon which | was elected recommends the
| formulation in n statute of the conditions
! under which such a temporary restraining
| order ought TO issue. a statute can and
| ought to be framed TO embody the best
modern practice, and can bring the sup
| iect so closely to the attention of the cours
| as to make abuses of the process unlikely
| in the future.
Having thus reviewed the questions like
| lv to recur during my administration. and
| having expressed in a summary way the
position which | expect 10 take In recon-
| mendations to Congress and i'm my conduct
| as an executive. l invoke the considerable
| sympathy and support of my fellow citi-
| zens. and the aid Of Almighty God in the
discharge of my responsible duties
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