The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-06-22

study of the water resources OF the
country and the recording of the now
of streams have gone on under the
geological survey. Classification and
appraisal of coal lands and their re-
storation to entry at discriminating
prices based upon the classification
has extended to over 16,00o-000 acres
Of total valuation Of over 3712,000.
900.
Great reforms have been made in
the economy of the public service. a
commission appointed by the Presi-
dent has been examining all the de-
partments of government operating
under the Anticipated statutes passed
generations ago with a view to apply
ing in them the labor-saving and
money-saving methods which have
made the success Of the great busi-
ness establishment Of our country.
| In the meantime also the new Re
publican policy of the postal savings
system has been successfully inaugu-
rated under the act of June rs, 1905,
beginning experimentality with few
officers and now after eleven months
of operation extending to 1900 presi-
Dental postoffices with s11 100000 of
deposits.
Army And Navy Strengthened.
The army has been made more ef-
fective. The great process OF train.
ing not only the regular army but the
militia has been pressed forward to
the end that II war unfortunately
comes upon us we shall have great
body of trained American citizens
competent to act as officers of the
volunteer force upon which we must
so largely depend for our military de-
tense.
The navy has improved its organi.
zation and decreased its expenses,
has increased its preparedness and
military efficiency; has improved its
Workmanship AMI skill in SEAMAN ship
and evolution mi has REQ gani&e9
and reduced the cost Of the system of
construction, repair and supply.
The execution of the regular ard
established program of adding two
battleships to tho feet 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 the great powers, has
met with a reverse in the refusal of
the Democratic House of Representa-
tives to appropriate any money for
the construction of battleships, and
the question now stands between the
ic House as to whether our navy shall
be maintained or shall be permitted
to fall back to level with the weak
er and unconsidered countries of the
world. What is the will of the Amer
lean people on that question:
Progress On Panama Canal.
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 1t will
be substantially completed Will not
the American people consider wheth-
er they have no grateful appreciation
of the honor brought to us all by the
great things that have been done on
the Isthmus? When the wonderful
the first time through the canal be-
tween the waters of the Atlantic and
the Pacific will the people of America
wish that the honors OF that greater
than Roman triumph be given. not
to the men who executed the great
design, but to the men who opposed
and scoffed and hindered and sough
to Illustrate the enterprise until in
spite of that its success was assured
In our foreign relations controvers-
les of almost 100 years over the nor
thern fisheries have been settled by
arbitration at the Hague. The at
tempt to preserve the further seal
life OF the Alaskan islands. in. which
We were defeated twenty years ago
in the Behring sea arbitration, has
been brought to success by diplomacy
in the fur seal treaty with Great Brit.
ain, Japan and Russia.
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