The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1909-12-09

order TO offer a proper inducement ~
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 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 have in IL the seeds OF
decentralization 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 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
| pronts on foreign mails are perhaps a
| sufficient measure of the expenditures
| which might first be tentatively ap-
| piled to this method of Inducing
| American capital to undertake the es-
Establishment of American lines of
we now feel it most important that we
| should have means of transportation
| controlled in the interest of the expan-
| sion of our trade.
The president recommends the adj
mission of New Mexico and Arizona
as separate states, and strongly op-
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 a more detailed
and extended discussion than can be en-
tered upon In this communication For
that reason / shall take an early oppor-
tunfty 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. and
swamp lands; upon the preservation Of
our forests and the reforesting OF suit
able areas; upon the reclassitication 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 thu
investigations made in the bureau of i'm
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
the streams of immigration int this
country-an evil which, for want Of bet
| ter name, has been called THE White
| Slave Trade" I believe it TO be constitu-
| tional to forbid, under penalty. the trans
portation of persons for purposes Of pros
| tuition across national and state lines:
and by appropriating a fund of $4,000 to
| be used by the secretary of cemmercs
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 federal law.
Bureau of Health.
| For a very considerable period 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 the
army and the medical department of the
| navy must be kept separate. But there
seems to be no reason why all the other
eminent which have to do with the pub
| lie health or subjects akin thereto should
not be united in bureau to be called the
bureau of public health" This would
| necessitate the transfer of the marine-
| hospital service to such a bureau 1 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 agricul-
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
| questions of health affecting the whole
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 eandi-
dates In elections of members of tho
house of representatives Fnd committees
| in charge OF their candidacy and cam
| paign file in a proper Office of the United
States government statement of the
| contributions received and of the expen-
| ditures incurred In the campaign for such
| a1a cfs elaff h..