The Carlisle independent., 1909-12-09

believe them to be necessary in order to offer & proper inducement to thrift and saving to great many people of small means who do not now have banking facilities, and to whom such a system would offer 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 deference to those who advocate it seems to me to have in it the seeds of demoralization to conservative banking and certain financial disaster.
 Ship Subsidy.
 Following the course of my distin- | guished predecessor l earnestly recom- mend to congress the consideration l and passage of a ship subsidy bill. 1 looking to the establishment of lines i between our Atlantic seaboard and the eastern coast of South America, as i well as lines from the west coast of l the United States to South America, l China, Japan and the Philippines. The 1 profits on foreign mails are perhaps 8 1 sufficient measure of the expenditures | which might first be tentatively ap- I piled to this method of inducing l American capital to undertake the es- O steamships in those directions in which we now feel 1t most important that we l should have means of Transportation controlled in the interest of the expan- 1 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 1 Alaska.
 Conservation of National Resources.
 In several departments there is present l ed the necessity for legislation looking to l the further conservation of national l resources, and the subject is one of such l importance as to require more detailed | and extended discussion than can be en- i tered upon in this communication. For 1 that reason I shall take early oppor- tunity to send a special message to con- gress the subject of the improvement ! of our waterways, upon the reclamation | and irrigation of arid, semi-arid and swamp lands; upon the preservation of l our forests and the reforesting of suit 1 able areas; upon the reclassficatfon of | the public domain with a view of sep arating from agricultural settlement min eral, coal. ard phosphate lands and sites 1 belonging to the government bordering on streams suitable for the utilization of water power.
 he White Slave Trade.
 I greatly regret to have to say that the | investigations made in the bureau of im- | 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 into this country-an evil which, for want of a bet l ter name, has been called 'The White Slave Trade" I believe it to be constitu- tional to forbid, under penalty. the trans l portation of persons for purposes of pros- ] titution across national and state lines: | and by appropriating fund of $50 600 to be used by the secretary of commerce and labor for the employment of special 1 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 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 l government which have to do with the promotion of public health. Tn 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 | bureaus and offices in the general gov | ernment 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. I am | aware that there is wide field in re- | spect to the public health committed to | the states in which the federal govern 1 ment cannot exercise Jurisdiction but we l have seen in the agricultural department l 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 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
 
 law be passed requiring that candis dates in elections of members of the house of representatives and 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 elections and that similar legislation be enacted in respect to all other elections which are constitutionally within the control of congress.
 Conclusion.
 have thus, in a message compressed as much as the subjects will permit. re- ferred to many of the legislative needs of the country, with the exceptions aI- 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 a harvest unexampled in the market value of our agricultural products. The high prices which such products bring mean great prosperity for the farming con- munity, but on the other hand they mean very considerably increased bur-