Arizona republican., 1912-12-09

the passage of the pending volunteers bill which would not entail dollars expense upon the government in this time or in the future until war comes. Attention is also directed again to the great shortage in he supply of field artillery. which cannot be purchased abroad in time of war and requires years to manufacture Taking a les
 son from the present great struggle in the east, Secretary Sumson says: The amount which we have permitted to accumulate would be insufficient for a single engagement of the character of the engagements in either the Rus so-Japanese or the present Balkan war"
 Suggestions of the old controversy between the executive and congress ov- CT the construction of dams in navig- able streams without compensation to the government are contained in a long chapter of report dealing with the at tempt of the war department to pro- ect such sreams from private jeoparda- tiorS. The secretary reiterated his views already laid before congress in connection with the veto last session of the COosa River Dam Bill, and he again urges that existing law be amended so that the guarantee of dam privilege be required to pay a reasonable sum to the government, the proceeds to be used for the develop ment of the stream, where the dam is located.
 The international waterways com mission has completed its investiga- ton of the boundary waters between the United States and Canada and with the exception of the final report upon "a dam at the outlet of Lake Erie, de Iayed by the illness of one of the Can adian engineers. and it is suggested
 that the commission be extended to April l. 1914
 For the Porto Ricans, the secretary urges citizenship, declaring that it was
 promised and that it had been earned
 bv loyalty The island should also
 have a department of labor and agri- culture and a department of health and sanitation. as well as a rigorous civil service law. and all judicial officers
 non-elective should be ade appointice. A remarkable recital of the develop ment of the Philippines in ways of civ
 ilization during the fourteen years of American occupation is given in the report It is declared that there is no other instance in history, where, after four years of war and insurrection, to i over 100000 of an entire alien race have been so soon given not merely the | forms of civil control, but immediate l and extensive participation in their i own government. similarly" says the secretary. there is no parallel to the material, mental, and moral progress i shown in these ten years of civil gov | ernmert by so many millions of peO- pie. held for centuries in ignorance and 1 in effect in political and economic bon | dage" After making this statement | Secretary Stimson proceeds to detail at length what has been accomplished ! in each separate direction in the i islands: the sanitation. the education. ] the development of new industries, the l opening of the lands to small farm
 CTS. the construction of harbor works and railroads and irrigation plants. l Yet with all this progress, our work ] in the Philippines has just com l menced." continues the secretary. Half of the children born in Manila die in infancy; and million children are without schools; the old system of peonage is still accepted by the masses, i who unless protected by Americans 1 would fall ready victims to the rich and educated Philippine minority" The
 American policy, he says, should be