Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-12-15

believe them to be necessary In
order to ofrer proper inducement to
thrift and saving to a great many
people of small means who do nor
now have banking facilities. and to
whom such system would offer an
opportunity for the accumulation OF
capital They will furnish satisfac-
tory substitute, based on sound prin-
cip1e 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
Difference to those who advocate IL
seems to me to have In it the seeds OF
decentralization to conservative banking
and certain financial disaster.
Ship Subsidy
Following the course of my distin-
guished predecessor. 1 earnestly recon-
mend to congress the consideration 4
and passage of a ship subsidy bill.
looking to. the establishment of lines
between our Atlantic seaboard and the
eastern coast of South America, az
we'll as lines from the west coast OF
the United States to South America,
China Japan and the Philippines. The
profits on foreign mails are perhaps q
sufficient measure OF the expenditures
which might first be tentatively ap-
piled to this method of inducing
American capital to undertake the es-
steamships in those directions in which
we now feel 1t 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 OPP
poses legislation looking to the cleo
ton 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
tered upon in this communication. For
that reason / shall take an early oppor-
tunity to send a special message to con-
gress OF 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 Redistribution 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 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 a 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
titution across national and state lines;
and by appropriating fund of $4,000 to
be used by the secretary Of commeros
and labor for the employment Of special
inspectors it will be possible to bring
those responsible for this trade to indct-
ment and conviction under a federal law.
Bureau of Health.
For a very considerable period move
ment has been gathering strength, espe-
cially among the members of the nledi-
cal profession. in favor of 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
bureaus and offices in the general gov
| eminent winch nave TO DO with the pub
lie health or subjects akin thereto should
bureau of public health" This would
necessitate the transfer of the marine
hospital service to such a bureau. I am
aware that there Is a 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 bureau Of health
that shall not only exercise the police
Jurisdiction of the federal government re-
: speeding quarantine, but which shall also
afford opportunity for investigation
! and research by competent experts into
t questions of health affecting the whole
country, or important sections thereof
i questions which, in the absence OF fed
eral governmental work. are not likely
D to be promptly solved.
Political Contribution.
1 urgently recommend to congress tina
j law be passed requiring that candi
dates in elections Of members of tn,
). house OF representatives and COMMITTEES
Z in charge of their candidacy and cam
$ paign file in a proper Office of the Unitet
: States government statement of tn
n contributions received and OF the expen
r ditures incurred in the campaign for sucl
elections and that similar legislation b.
Z enacted in respect to all other election
I which constitutionally within tn
control Of congress.
i Conclusion.
t 1 have thus in a message compresse
8 as much as the subjects will permit. re
IS ferred to many of the legislative need
n of the country, with the exceptions al
8 ready noted. Speaking generally. tn
n country Is in a high state of prosperity
e There Is every reason to believe that "
e are on the eve of substantial bushes
4 ! exra asiora and iiist szarraerad