Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-12-09

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Philippines. The profits on foreign mails
are perhaps sufficient measure Of the
expenditures which might first be tenta-
lively. applied to this method Of inducing
American capital to undertake the estab-
ilshment Of American lines of steamships
\ those directions IN which we now feel
IL most important that we should have
means of transportation controlled in The
interest OF the expansion of our trade
a DIV OF this character has once passed
the House and more than once passed the
senate, and l hope that at this session a
BIN framed on the same lines and with
'he same purposes may become law.
New Mexi,o and Arizona.
The successful party in the last election
IN its national platform declared in favor
OF the admission as separate states of New
Mexico and Arizona. and l recommend
that legislation appropriate to this end be
ADOPTED. urge. however, that care be
exercised in The preparation of the legisla-
non affecting each territory to secure de-
liberation in the selection of persons as
members Of the convention 10 draft con-
stitution for the incoming state, and I
eaetr as ,y,; advise that such constitution
submitted to the people of the territory
for their approval at an election In which
me sole issue shall be the merits of the
tuition Is defeated by popular vote means
shall be provided in the enabling act for a
new convention and the drafting of new
i &.
sue as TO the merits of the constitution
should not be mixed up with the selection
Of state s, officers and that no election of
the constitution has been fully approved
and finally settled upon.
Alaska.
With respect to the territory of Alaska
recomme.,d legislation which shall pro
vide for the appointment by the president
of governor and also of an executive
council. the members of which shall dur
ritory, and which shall have legislative
powers sufficient to enable it to give to
the territory local laws adapted to its
present growth. strongly deprecate leg
islation looking to the election of a terri
tolial legislature in that vast district. The
lack of pernianence of residence of "a large
part of the present population and the
small number of the people who either
permanently or temporarily reside in the
district compared with its vast ex-
panse and the variety of the interests that
uniting in my judgment to provide for
a popular election of a legislative body.
The present system is not adequate and
does not furnish the character of local
control that ought to be there. The only
compromise it seems to me which may
give needed local legislation and secure a
conservative government issthe one pro-
pose.
Conservation of Resources.
In several departments there is presented
the necessity for legislation looking to the
further conservation of our national re-
sources 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 / shall take an early opportu-
nifty to send a special message to congress
on the subject of the Improvement of our
waterways, upon the reclamation and irri-
cation OF arid, semi-arid and swamp
lands; upon the preservation of our for
ests and the reforesting of suitable areas;
upon the reclasstication of the public do
main with a view of separating from agri-
cultural settlement mineral, coal and
phosphate lands and sites belonging to the
for the utilization of water power
Consolidation of Bureaus.
request congressional authority to en-
able the secretary of commerce and la
Dor to unite the bureaus of manufac-.
lures and d., statistics This was recon-
pointed in the previous administration
for the purpose of suggesting changes in
the interest Of q es Go and efficiency
White Slave Trade.
! greatly regret TO have to say that
the Investigations made in the bureau of
urgent necessity for additional legislation
and greater executive activity to sup
press the recruiting of the ranks of pros
flutes from the streams of Immigration
into this country-an evil which, for want
Of better name has been called the
White sase rade 1 beiev called to be
constitutional to forbid. under penalty,
the transportation of persons for
and state lines; and BY appropriating a
fund of $4,000 to be used by the secre-
tary of commerce and labor for the en-
possible to bring, those responsible for
this trade to indictment and conviction
under federal law.
as much as the subjects will permit re-
ferred to many of the legislative needs
of the country, with the exceptions al
country is in high state of PROSPERITY.
There is every reason to believe that We
are on the eve of substantial business
harvest uneXampled in the market value
of our agricultural products. The high
prices which such, products bring mean
fnunity. but on the other hand they
mean very considerably increased bur
den upon those classes in the community
pand with the improvements in business
and the general prosperity. Various rea-
sons are given for the high prices. The
gold, which today is the chief medium
of exchange and is in some respects a
measure, of value. furnishes substan-
increase in prices. The increase in pop OF,
ulation and the more expensive mode of
living of the people, which have not been
in acreage production. may furnish fur
ther reason. 1t is we'll to note that the
increase in the cost of living is not CON
fined to this country. but prevails the
world over. and that those who would
charge increases in prices to the existing
protective tariff must meet the fact that
the rise in prices has taken place almost
wholly In those products of the factory
and farm in respect to which there has
been either no increase in the tariff or
in many instances a very considerable
reduction.