The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-06

new lines is already very great. and congress is urged to continue to sup port the department Of state in it's en- deavors for further trade expansion.
 Our foreign trade merits the best support of the government and the most earnest endeavor of our manu- facturers and merchants. who. if they do not already in all cases need a for. eign market. are certain soon to be- come dependent on it. Therefore, now is the time to secure a strong position i'll this field.
 emphasizing the necessity of such leg fslation as will make possible and con- venient the establishment of American banks and branches of American banks in foreign countries. Only by such means can our foreign trade be favor ably financed. necessary credits be ar. ranged and proper avail be made of commercial opportunities in foreign countries. and most especially in Latin America.
 Another instrumentality indispensa- ble to the unhampered and natural de- velopment of American commerce is merchant marine. All maritime and commercial nations recognize the im- portance of this factor. The greatest commercial nations. our competitors. 5ealOusly foster their merchant ma rine. Perhaps nowhere is the need for rapid and direct mail. passenger and freight communication quite so urgent as between the United States and Latin America. We can secure in no other quarter of the world such iiHme- diate benefits in friendship and com- merce as would flow from the estab- lishment of direct lines of communica- ton with the countries of Latin Amer. ica adequate to meet the requirements of a rapidly increasing appreciation of the reciprocal dependence of the coun- tries of the western hemisphere upon each others products. sympathies and assistance.
 I alluded to this most important sub ject in my last annual message It has often been before you. and l need not recapitulate the reasons for its recom- mendation. Unless prompt action be taken the completion of the Panama canal will find this the only great commercial nation unable to avail in international maritime business of this great contribution to the means of the worlds commercial intercourse.
 Quite aside from the commercial as- pect. unless we create merchant ma- rine where can we find the seafaring population necessary as natural na- val reserve and where could we find. in case of war. the transports and sub sidiary vessels without which a naval fleet is arms without a body?' For many reasons I cannot too strongly urge upon the congress the passage of q measure by mail subsidy or other establishment and rapid development of an American merchant marine, the restoration of the American flag to its ancient place upon the seas.
 With our increasing international in- tercourse it becomes incumbent upon me to repeat more emphatically than ever the recommendation which made in my inaugural address that congress shall at once give to the courts of the United States jurisdic- sion to punish as crime the violation of the rights of aliens secured by trea- ty with the United States in order that the general government of the United States shall be able when called upon by a friendly nation to redeem it's solemn promise by treaty to secure to the citizens or subjects of that nation resident in the United States freedom from violence and due process of law in respect to their life, liberty and property.
 l also and for the same general req sons strongly commend to the favora- ble action of the congress the enact ment of a law applying to the diplo- matic and consular service the princi- pies embodied in section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in the civil service act of Jan. 16. 1883, and the executive orders of June IT, 1906, and of Nov. 26, 1909.
 The excellent results which have at- tended the partial application of civil service principles to the diplomatic and consular services are an earnest of the benefit to be wrought to both branches of the foreign service. The marked improvement in the consular service during the four years since the prin- ciples of the civil service act were ap- piled to that service in limited way and the good results already notice able from a similar application of civil service principles to the diplomatic service year ago convince me that the enactment into law of the general principles of the existing executive reg ulations could not fail to effect further improvement of both branches of the foreign service, offering as it would by it's assurance of permanency of tenure and promotion on merit an in- ducement for the entry of capable young men into the service and an in. centive to those already in to put forth their best efforts to attain and main tain that degree of efficiency which the interests of our international relations and commerce demand.
 During many years past appeals have been made from time to time to con- gross in favor of government owner ship of embassy and legation premises abroad. The arguments in favor of such ownership have been many and