The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-12-07
PRESIDENT TAFT'S
MESSAGE
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trust and interstate commerce laws
which will be discussed in separate
message.
The president says the actual loss
growing out of the transmission OF
second class mail matter amounts to
about $63, 100000 year. Congress,
he says, may we'll consider whether
radical steps should not be taken to
reduce the deficit by imposing high
er rate ON magazines and periodicals..
President Taft says he is convinced !
the people desire for postal savings
bank and that they would be produc-
tive of the utmost good. He says OF
them: .They will furnish a salts
factory substitute for the system or
a government guaranty of deposits
which, with Difference to those who
advocate it, seems to me to have in 1t
the seeds of decentralization TO con-
servative banking and certain finan-
cal disaster"
The president earnestly recon-
mends the passage of a ship subsidy
bill.
In recommending separate state
hood for New Mexico and Arizona,
the president advises that after the
adoption of a constitution it be sub
mitted to the people for approval.
State officers should not be elected
until the constitution has been voted
upon.
With respect to Alaska" said the
president, Il recomend legislation
which shall provide for the appoint
ment by the president of a governor
and also of an executive council, the
members of which shall, during their
term of office, reside in the territory, !
and which shall have legislative pow
ers sufficient to enable it to give the
territory local laws adapted to IT'S
present growth. l strongly deprecate |
legislation looking to the election of
a territorial legislature in that vast
district"
The president mentions the neces- |
sity for legislation looking to the !
further conservation of natural re- |
sources and announces that a special |
message on the subject, including that
of waterways, reclamation, irrigation, |
refOresting, etc, will be sent to con-
gress early. Transfer of control over |
the lighthouse to a suitable civilian
bureau is recommended because of |
frequent friction due to the absence I
Of any central Independent authority. /
White slavery is discussed, the |,
view being that there is urgent neces- |
sity for additional legislation and |
greater executive power to suppress |
it.
I believe il to be constitutional -
the president says, to forbid, under
penalty, the transportation of per-
sons for purposes of prostitution,
across national and state lines; and
by appropriating a fund of $50, 900 to
be used by the secretary of commerce
and labor for the employment of
special inspectors, it will be possible
to bring those responsible for this
trade to Indictment and conviction,
under a federal law
The president says that while the
medical departments of the army
and navy must be kept separate, there
seems to be no reason why all the
other bureaus and officers in the gen.
eral government which have to do
with the public health should not be
united in a bureau to be called the
Bureau of Public Health"
In conclusion, the president says:
Speaking generally, the country
is in 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 garner
ed a harvest unexampled in the mar
ket value, of our agricultural pro-
ducts.
THE high prices which products
bring, mean great prosperity for the
farming community, but on the other
hand, they mean very considerably
increased burden upon those classes
in the community whose yearly COM
pensation does not expand with the
improvement in business and the gen.
eral prosperity. Various reasons ale
given for the high prices. The pro-
portionate increase in the output of
gold which today is the chief medium
of exchange and is in some respects
a measure of values, furnishes a sub
Stantial explanation of at least part of
the increase in prices. The increase
in population and more expensive
mode of living of the people, which
have not been accompanied by pro-
portionate increase in acreage pro-
duction, may furnish a further rea-
son. It is well to note that the in
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