The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-12-09

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 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 it
seems to me to lave in it the seeds of
Generalization to conservative banking
and certain financial disaster.
Ship Subsidy.
Following the course of my distin.
guished predecessor, I earnestly recon-
mend to congress the consideration
and passage of a ship subsidy bill.
looking to the establishment of lines
etween our Atlanta seaboard and the
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 mails are perhaps a
sufficient measure of the expenditures
which might first be tentatively APP
piled to this method of inducing
American capital to undertake the cs-
tablishmcnt of American ines Of
steamships in those directions in which
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 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
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 I 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
and irrigation of arid, semi-arid, and
swamp lands: upon the preservation of
our forests and the reforcsting of suit
able areas; upon the Reconsideration of
the public domain with a view of sep
arating from agricultural settlement min
eral, coal, ard phosphate lands and sites
belonging to the government bordering IN
streams suitable for the utilization OF
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 Informal
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--sn evil which, for want Of a bet
ter name has been called The White
Slave Trade" l believe it to be constitu-
tional to sorbid. under penalty, the trans
portatior of persons for purposes of pros
t%itltion tcross national and state lines;
and by ApprOpriating q fund of $50. COO to
be used by the secretary Of
and labor for the employment of special
inspectorh it will be possible to bring
those responsible for this trade to indict-
ment and conviction under a federal law.
Bureau Of Health.
For a very considerable period a move
mcnt 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
bureaus and offices in the general gov
eminent which nave to do with the pub
lie health or subjects akin thereto should
not be united in a bureau to be called the
bureau OF public health" This would
necessitate the transfer of the marine
hospital service to such a bureau. T 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
nave 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 Whlch the states properly exercise
direct Jurisdiction. The opportunities Of
fered for useful research and the snread
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 asricu)-
lure nave demonstrated the wisdom of
establishing that department. Similar
reasons, of equal force, can be given for
the establishment of a bureau of health
mat snail not only exercise the police
Jurisdiction of the federal government 70
specting quarantine, but which shall also
anord 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 Hke]v
to be promptly solved.
Political Contribution,
urgently to congress that
d Ia" De passed requiring that caudi-
oates IN elections of members of the
mouse OF representatives and committees
III charge OF their candidacy and cam
Paish ME IN a proper Office of the United
states government a statement of the
contrlputlons received and of the eynen-
ultures incurred in the campaign for such
elections and that similar legislation be
enacted IN respect to all other elections
"hlch are constitutionAlly within the
control Of congress.
Conclusion.
l nave thus, in a message compressed
as lnuch as the subjects will permit. re-
lerreu 10 many of the legislative needs
VI Ihe country, with the exceptions al
ready noted. Speaking generally the
country is IN a high state of prosperity
lnere Is every reason to believe thar 1ve
are on the eve of a substantial business
s@panslon and we have just garnered =
harvest ~unexampled in the market va1uo
" our agricultural products. The hiph
prices which such products bring mean
siea. prosperity for the farming con-
MUMMY but on the other hand thew
llean a very considerably increased Inv,
uen upon those classes in the comm:
MI "hnCn rn~l.