Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-12-09

thrift and saving to a great many
of small means who do not
now have banking facilities. and to
such a system would oner an
opportunity for the accumulation OF
They viii 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 il
seems to me to nave in it the seeds of
Generalization to conservative banking
and certain financial disaster.
Ship Subsidy.
Following the course OF my distin-
guished predecessor, 1 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, as
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-
Establishment 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 op-
poses legislation looking to the cleo
ton of a 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 a more detailed
and extended discussion than can be en-
tered upon in this Communication For
that reason 1 shall take a early oppor-
tunity to send a special message to con-
gress on the subject of the improvement
of our waterways, upon the reclamation
and irrigation of arid, semi-arid, an6
swamp lands; upon the preservation OF
our forests and the reforesting of suit
able areas; upon the Redistribution o.
the public domain with a view of sep
arating from agricultural settlement min
eral, coal, ard phosphate lands and sites
belonging to the government bordering OF
streams suitable for the utilization O.
water power.
The White Slave Trade.
I greatly regret to have to say that tn,
Investigations made in the bureau Of i'm
migration and other sources of informa
ton lead to the view that there is urgen
necessity for additional legislation an,
greater executive activity to suppress tn
recruiting of the ranks of prostitutes iron
the streams of immigration into thi
country-an evil which, for want Of a bet
ter name, has been called THE Whit
Slave Trade l believe it to be constitu
tiunal to forbid, under penalty, the trans
p~ortation of persons for purposes of pros
titution across national and state lines
and by appropriating a fund of $4,000 t
be used by the secretary of CONNER
and labor for the employment Of specis
inspectors it will be possible to brin
those responsible for this trade to indict
ment and conviction under a federal Law
Bureau of Health.
For a very considerable period a NOV
mcnt has been gathering strength, espt
Hcially among the members of the med
cal profession, in favor of a c%oncentrt
ton of the instruments of the nation.
government which ave to do with II
promotion of public health. In the natul
of things, the medical department of Il
army and the medical department of tt
navy must be kept separate. But thel
seems to be no reason why all the 9th,
bureaus and offices in the general go
eminent which nave to do with the pul
lie health or subjects akin thereto shou
not be united in a bureau to be called IL
bureau of public health" This won
neCessitate the transfer of the marin
hospital service to u a bureau. I a
aware that there Is a wide field In +
spect to the public health committed
the states in which the federal COVER
ment cannot exercise Jurisdiction, but v
have seen in the agricultural departing
the expansion into widest usefulness
a department giving attention to agricu
ture when that subject is plainly o.
over which the states properly exerci
direct jurisdiction. The opportunities G
fered for useful research and the spre,
Of useful information in regard to t
cultivation of the soil and the breedil
of stock and the solution of many of t
intricate problems in progressive agricl
, ture have demonstrated the wisdom
establishing that department. Simil
/ reasons, of equal force, can be given f
: the establishment of a bureau of heal
that shall not only exercise the poll
{ jurisdiction of the federal government I
speeding quarantine, out which shall al
afford an opportunity for Investigate
and research by competent experts II
questions of health affecting the WHIT
: country, or important sections there
questions which, in the absence Of fe
r eral governmental work, are not llk
D to be promptly solved.
: Political Contribution.
. l urgently recommend to congress tt
a law be passed requiring that can
dates in elections of member of {
house of representatives and committt
Z in charge of their candidacy and ca
G paign file in a proper office of the Unit
States government a statement of
contributions received and of the exp
ditures incurred in the campaign for ST
elections and hat similar legislation
2 enacted in respect to all other Eclectic
which are constitutionally within
control of congress.
Conclusion.
l nave thus, in a message compress
9 as much as the subjects will permit,
s ferred to many of the legislative net
n of the country, with the exceptions
8 ready noted. speaking generally,
n country is in a high state of prospect
10 There is every reason to believe that
e are on the eve of a substantial busin
d expansion and we have just garneret
d harvest unexampled in the market va
n of our agricultural products. TIL h
# prices which such products bring m
il great prosperity for the farming &C
munity, but on the other hand Il
mean a very considerably increased b
den upon those classes in the conn
n nifty whose yearly compensation does
~ expand with the improvement in bi
ness and the general prosperity. Vari
reasons are given for the high pric
The proportionate increase in the out
!. of gold, which to-day Is the chief m
um of exchange and is in some respt
a Measure of value, furnishes a subst
tial explanation of at least part of
l. increase in prices. The increase in r
he ulation and the more expensive mode
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