Norwich bulletin., 1909-03-05

reellug on the paFt oA oAA thC P~oP>S AN the south that this government is their government and that It's officers in their states are their officers.
 The Negro Question.
 The consideration of this question cannot. however, be complete and full without reference to the negro race. it's progress and its present condition. The thirteenth amendment secured them freedom. the fourteenth amend ment due process of law, protection of property and the pursuit of happi- ness. and the fifteenth amendment at tempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to immediate redemption or uTrImare SC curity. There is no subject of econom- ic discussion so intricate and so likely to evoke differing views and dogmatic statements as this one. The commis- sion in studying the general influence of currency on business and of busi- ness on currency have wisely extend ed their investigations in European banking and monetary methods. The information that they have derived from such experts as they have found abroad will undoubtedly be found helpful fin the solution of the difficult problem they have in hand.
 Favors Postal Savings 6anlcs-
 The incoming congress should nrompSIr fulfill the promise of the Re publican platform and pass proper postal savings bank bin. It will not he unwise or excessive paternalism. The promise to repay by the govern ment will furnish an inducement to savings deposits which private enter prise cannot supply and at such low rate of interest as not to withdraw custom from existing banks. It will substantially increase the funds avail able for investment as capital in use fui enterprises. It will furnish the absolute security which makes the proposed scheme of government guar anty of deposits so anuring without its pernicious results.
 Ship Subsidies Advocated.
 I sincerely hope that the incoming congress will be alive. as it should be- to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the orient, in the Philip pines and in South America is known to every one who has given the matter attention. The direct effect of free trade between this country and the Philippines will be marked upon our sale of cottons. agricultural machinery and other manufactures. The necessi- ty of the establishment of direct lines of steamers between North and South America has been brought to the aE- tention of congress by my predecessor and by MT. Root before and after hls noteworthy visit to that continent, and I sincerely hope that congress may be induced to see the wisdom of tenta' tive effort to establish such lines by the use of mall subsidies.
 The importance which the depart. ment of agriculture and of commerce. and labor may play in ridding the markets of Europe of prohibitions and discrimfnations against the importa ton of our products is fully under stood. and it is hoped that the use oi the maximum and minimum feature of our tariff law to be soon passed VII be effective to remove many of those restrictions.
 Lock Canal Plan Defended. ! The Panama canal will have a mos i important bearing upon the trade be i tween the eastern and the far west l ern sections of our country and vii | greatly increase the facilities fol { transportation between the eastern | and the western seaboard and ma, i possibly revolutionize the transconn | mental rates with respect to bulky mer chandise. It will also have a mos beneficial effect to increase the trad between the eastern seaboard of th
 United States and the western coas
 of South America and indeed wit
 some of the important ports Of tn
 east coast of South America reaehe'
 by rail from the west coast. Tn
 work on the canal is making most sal
 isfactory progress. The type of tn
 canal as a lock canal was fixed b
 congress after full consideration o
 the conflicting reports of the maJorit
 and minority of the consulting boar
 and after the recommendation Of tn
 war department and the execut1v
 upon those reports. Recent suggestio
 that something had occurred on th
 isthmus to make the lock type of tn
 canal less feasible than 1t was suI
 posed to be when the reports wer
 made and the policy determined O
 led to a visit to the isthmus of T board of competent engineers to exam
 inc the Gatun dam and locks whic
 are the key of the lock type The \
 port of that board shows that nothin
 has occurred in the nature of newi
 revealed evidence which should chang
 the views once formed in the origini discussion. The construction win g on under a most effective organizatio
 controlled by Colonel Goethals and h fellow army engineers associated wit him ard will certainly be complete early in the next administration, if nt before.
 Some type of canal must be col structed. The lock type has been s
 Iected. We are all in favor of havtn . 1t built as promptly as possible. W . must not now, therefore. keep up fil : in the rear of the agents whom V , have authorized to do our work c : the isthmus We must hold up the r hands. and, speaking for the incomir