Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-12-10

oruer 10 oiIer proper lnducement TO
thrift and saving to great many
people OF small means who do not
now have banking facilities. and to
whom such system would offet an
opportunity for the accumulation of
capital. They will furnish n satisfnc-
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 II
seems to me to have in 1t 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 tho
eastern coast of South America. as
we'll as lines from the west coast of
the United States to South America,
China, Japan and the Philippines. The
profits on foreign malls are perhaps n
sufficient measure of the expenditures
which might first be tentatively ap-
piled to this method of inducing
American capital to undertake the es-
tablishment 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 tho 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 elec-
tion 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 more detailed
| and extended discussion than can be en-
| tered upon in this communication. For
that reason 1 shall take an 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. and
| swamp lands: upon the preservation OF
our forests and the reforesting of suit
| able areas: upon the reclassihcation OF
| the public domain with view OF sep
arating from agricultural settlement min
eral. coal. and phosphate lands and sits
| belonging to the government bordering on
streams suitable for the utilization oi
water power.
The White Slave Trade.
I greatly regret to have to say that the
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 into this
country-an evil which. for want of bet.
ter name, has been called THE White
Slave Trade" 1 believe It to be constitu.
tional to forbid under penalty. the trans.
portaton of persons for purposes of pros.
titution across national and state lines
and by appropriating a fund of $4,000 ts
be used by the secretary of commercs
and labor for the employment OF special
inspectors II will be possible to brlng
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
government which have to do with the
promotion of public health. In the naturs
of things, the medical department of tha
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 a bureau to be called the
| DuTeau OF PUBIC InlS WOulO
necessitate the transfer of the marine
hospital service to such a bureau. / 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
department giving attention to agricul-
ture when that subject Is plainly one
over which the states properly exercise
1
fered for useful research and the spread
of useful information In regard to tho
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.
urgently recommend to congress that
a law be passed requiring that candi-
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 a statement of the
contributions received and OF the expen-
ditures incurred in the campaign for such
elections and that similar legislation bo
enacted in respect to all other elections
which are constitutionally within the
control of congress.
Conclusion.
) hnva thua in n nessa romDraaaad
, as much as the subjects will permit re-
, ferred to many of the legislative needs
, of the country, with the exceptions al
, ready noted. Speaking generally the
, country is in high state OF prosperity.
, There is every reason to believe that Wa
, are on the eve of substantial business
expansion and we have just garnered .
harvest unexampled in the market Yalua