The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-19

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improving the conditions of interstate
labor without usurping the powers OF
! the state.
| '"The pure food law has been en-
| forced by the present administration
with vigor and effectiveness.
! There have been over 800 prosecu-
| lions for violations of that law WITHIN
the last year and more than thous-
| and cases within the past three years.
| More than 500 shipments OF adulter-
ated and misbranded foods and drugs
have been condemned and forfeited,
and enormous quantities of injurious
food material have been destroyed
The conservation of natural resources
| has been in the hands or lts 1rlehos.
| The process of examining and Separat-
| ing the timber and the agricultural
| land in the great forest reserves estab-
| lished at the close of the last admins
tration has proceeded under the pres
emf administration in accordance with
| the original plan. The study or the
| water resources of the country ana
| the recording of the flow of streams
| have gone on under the geological sur
yey. Classification and appraiser OF
coal lands and their restoration to en-
! trv at discriminating prices based upon
! the classification, has bee'I extended 10
| over 100000 acres of total valua-
| ton of over seven hunorcd ana IWeiNe
million dollars.
| "Great reforms have been made in
the economy of the pubic service. "A
| commission appointed by the president
has been. examining all. the depart
ments of government operating under
| the antiquated statutes passed genera
lions ago with a view to applying IN
them the labor saving and money saw
ing methods which have made the
success of the great business esta biish-
ments of our country. In the mean
time, also, the new Republican poilcy
of the postal savings system mas been
ted
of Tune %, 1910. beginning expert
mentally with a few Offices and now
after eleven months OF operation eA
tending to seventy-five hundred pres1-
dental postoffices and $11 100000 or
denosits. The army has been made
more efficient. The great process OF
training not only the regular army
but the militia. has been pressed lot
ward to the end that if war unfortu-
natelv comes upon US, we shall have
a great body of trained American cltl-
zens competent to act as ofncers OF the
volunteer force upon which we must
60 largely depend for our military de-
Tense.
Improvement of the Navy.
1.-The navy has improved its organ
ization and decreased its expenses; has
Increased its preparedness and mill
tary efficiency, has improved its marks
manship and skill in seamanship and
evolution, and has reorganized and re-
duced the cost of the system of con-
1.-The execution of the regular and
established program of adding two
battleships to, the fleet annually to take
the place of the old ships, which from
year to year grow obsolete, and to
maintain the position of our navy
among those of great powers, has met
with reverse in the refusal of the
Democratic house of representatives
to appropriate any money for the con-
struction of battleships, and the ques-
ton now stands between the Repubn-
can senate and the Democratic house,
as to whether our navy shall be main
tanned or shall be permitted to fall
back to level with the weaker and
unconsidered countries of the world.
What is the-will of the American peo-
pie on that question?
1.-The construction of the Panama
canal has been pressed forward with
renewed evidences under the concen-
trated observation of all the civilized
world that America possesses con-
structive genius, organization, power
and habits of honest administration
equal to the greatest undertakings.
1t is manifest now that the work will
be done in advance of the time fixed
and within the cost estimated and that
during the coming year it will be sub
stantially completed. VIII not the
American people consider whether they
have no grateful appreciation of the
honor brought to US all by the great
thing that has been done on the 18TH
mus? When the wonderful procession
of ships takes it's way for the first
time through the canal between the
waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific
will the people of America wish thai
the honors of that greater-than-a
man triumph be given, not to the men
who executed the great design, but
to the men who opposed and scoffed
and Numbered and sought to frustate
the enterprise until, in spite of them.
its success was assured?
In our foreign relations, controver-
sizes of almost a hundred years over
the northeastern fisheries have been
settled by arbitration at The Hague.
The attempt to preserve the fur sea-
life of the Alaskan islands. in which
we were defeated 20 years ago in the
Behring sea arbitration, has been
brought to success by diplomacy in the
fur seal treaty with Great Britain.
Japan and Russia. The delicate ques-
lions arising from the termination of
our treaty regulating trade and travel
with Japan have been disposed of by
new treaty satisfactory to both nations
and to the people of both coasts of our
natfon.
Our tariff relations with all the