Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-09


order to offer proper inducement to
thrift and saving TO a great many
people of small means who do not
now have banking facilities, and to
whom such a system would offer an
opportunity for the accumulation OF
capital. They will furnish a satisfac-
tory substitute, based on sound prin-
ciple and actual successful trial In
nearly all the countries of the world.
for the system of government guar
anty of deposits now being adopted in
several western states. which with
Difference to those who advocate Ii
seems to me to have In 1t the seeds OF
Generalization to conservative banking
and certain financial disaster.
Ship Subsidy.
Following the course of my distin-
guished predecessor. earnestly recon-
mend to congress the consideration
and passage of a ship subsidy bill.
looking to the establishment of lines
between our Atlantic seaboard and the
eastern coast of South America, az
well as lines from the west coast of
the United States to South America,
China. Japan and the Philippines The
profits on foreign mails are perhaps a
sufficient measure of the expenditures
which might first be tentatively APP
piled to this method of inducing
American capital to undertake the es-
adjustment of American lines of
steamships in those directions in which
we now feel 1t most important that we
should have means of transportation
controlled in the interest of the expan-
sion of our trade.
The president recommends the ad-
mission of New Mexico and Arizona
as separate states, and strongly OPP
poses legislation looking to the cleo
ton of territorial legislature for
Alaska.
Conservation of National Resources.
In several departments there is present
ed the necessity for legislation looking to
the further conservation of our national
resources, and the subject is one of such
Importance as to require more detailed
and extended discussion than can be en-
tered upon in this communication. For
that reason shall take an early oppor-
tunity to send special message to con-
gress on the subject of the Improvement
OF our waterways, upon the reclamation
and irrigation of arid, semi-arid, and
swamp lands; upon the preservation OF
our forests and the reforesting of suit
able areas; upon the Redistribution OF
the public domain with a view Of sep
arating from agricultural settlement min
eral, COAL and phosphate lands and sites
belonging to the government bordering on
streams suitable for the utilization Of
water power.
The White Slave Trade.
greatly regret to have to say that the
investigations made in the bureau of inn
migration and other sources of informa-
ton lead to the view that there Is urgent
necessity for additional legislation and
greater executive activity to suppress the
recruiting of the ranks of prostitutes from
-A..1
country-an evil which, for want of a bet
ter name, has been called THE White
Slave Trade" l believe it to be constitu-
uonal to forbid, under penalty, the trans
portation of persons for purposes of pros
titution across national and state lines:
and by appropriating fund of $50 900 to
be used by the secretary Of commerce.
and labor for the employment of special
inspectors it will be possible to bring
those responsible for this trade to indict-
ment and conviction under a federal law.
Bureau of Health.
For a very considerable period a move-
ment has been gathering strength, espe-
cially among the members OF the medi-
cal profession, in favor Of a concentra-
ton of the instruments of the national
government which have to do with the
promotion OF public health. In the nature
of things, the medical department of tina
army and the medical department of the
navy must be kept separate. But there
seems to be no reason why all the other
bureaus and offices in the general gov
eminent which have to do with the pub
lie health or subjects akin thereto should
not be united in a bureau to be called tho
bureau of public health" This would
necessitate the transfer of the marine
hospital service to such a bureau. I am
aware that there is wide field in re-
spect to the public health committed to
the states in which the federal govern
ment cannot exercise Jurisdiction, but we
have seen in the agricultural department
the expansion into widest usefulness Of
a department giving attention to agricuf-
ture when that subject is plainly one
over which the states properly exercise
direct jurisdiction. The opportunities Of
fered for useful research and the spread
Of useful information In regard to the
cultivation OF the soil and the breeding
OF stock and the solution of many of the
intricate problems in progressive agricul-
ture have demonstrated the wisdom of
establishing that department. Similar
reasons, of equal force, can be given for
the establishment of a bureau of health
that shall not only exercise the police
jurisdiction of the federal government re-
specting quarantine. but which shall also
afford an opportunity for investigation
and research by competent experts into
country, or important sections thereof.
questions which, in the absence of fed
eral governmental work, are not likely
to be promptly solved.
Political Contribution.
i urgently recommend to congress that
law be passed requiring that candi-
dates in elections of members of the
house OF representatives and committees
In charge Of their candidacy and cam
paign file in proper Office of the United
States government a statement of the
contributions received and of the expen-
| ditures incurred in the campaign for such
| elections and that similar legislation be
| enacted in respect to all other elections
which are constitutionaily within the
| control of congress.
Conclusion.
I have thus, in a message compressed
| as much the subjects will permit re-
| ferred to many of the legislative needs
| of the country, with the exceptions al
ready noted Speaking generally, the
| country is in a high state of prosperity.
| There is every reason to believe that we
| are on the eve of a substantial business
| expansion and we have just garnered q
| harvest unexampled In the market value
| of our agricultural products The high
| prices which such products bring mean
/ great prosperity for the farming COM
1 munity, but on the other hand they
mean a very considerably increased bur-
| den upon those classes in the commu-
| nifty whose yearly compensation does not
expand with the Improvement In busi-
| ness and the general prosperity. Various
| reasons are given for the high prices.
| The proportionate increase in the output
Of gold, which to-day Is the chief medi-
| UNI of exchange and is in some respects
| a measure of value, furnishes a substan-
tial explanation of at least part of the
| increase in prices. The increase in pop
ulation and the more expensive mode OF
living of the people, which have not been
| accompanied by proportionate increase
in acreage production, may furnish a fur
Their reason. 1t is we'll to note that the
increase in the cost of living is not con-
fined to this country but preyails the