Bisbee daily review., 1919-05-21

petition of a peculiarly insidious and dangerous kind The United States should, moreover, have the means of properly protecting itself wherever our trade is discriminated against by foreign nations, in order that we may be assured of that equality of treat ment which We hope to accord and to promote the world over. Our, tariff laws as they now stand provide no weapon of retaliation in case other governments should enact legislation unequal in it's bearing on our products as compared with the products of oth- CT nations.
 Though we are as far as possible from desiring to enter upon any course of retaliation, we must frankly face the fact that hostile legislation by other nations is not beyond the range of possibility and that it may have to be met by counter legislation.
 This subject has, fortunately, beeh exhaustively investigated by the Uni ted States tariff commission. re- cent report Of that commission has ! that we ought to have the instru- ments necessary for the assurance of equal and equitable treatment. The attention of the congress has been called to this matter on past occasions and the measures which are now re- commended by the tariff commission are substantially the same that have been suggested by previous admins trations. I recommend that this phase of the tariff question receive the early attention of the congress.
 Urges Woman Suffrage
 Will you not permit me, turning from these matters to speak once more and very earnestly of the pro- posed amendment to the constitution | which would extend the suffrage to women and which passed the house or representatives at the last session of the congress? It seems to me that every consideration of justice and of public advantage calls for the imme- diate adoption of that amendment and | it's submission forthwith to the leg l
 Throughout the world this long de-
 layed extension of the suffrage is
 looked for; in the United States long
 CT, I believe than anywhere else, the
 necessity for it and the immense ad-
 vantage of it to the national life, has
 been urged and debated by women and
 men who saw the need for it and
 urged the policy of it. when it required steadfast courage to be so much be- forehand with the common conviction;
 and I, for one, covet for our country
 the distinction of being among the first to act in great reform.
 Promises Wire Return
 I The telegraph and telephone lines
 will, of course, be returned to their
 owners so soon as the re-transfer can
 be effected without administrative . confusion; so soon, that is, as the change can be made with least pos
 sible inconvenience to the public and !, to the owners themselves. The rail roads will be handed over to their owners at the end of the calendar : year If I were in immediate contact with the administrative questions which must goven the re-transfer of the telegraph and telephone lines, could name the exact date for their
 return also Until I am in direct
 contact with the practical questions involved I can ouly suggest that in the case of the telegraphs and telephones . as in the case of the railways, it IS : clearly desirable in the public inter : est that some legislation should De considered which may tend to make ot these indispensable instrumentalities of our modern life a uniform and co ordinated system which will afford those who use them as complete anC ! certain means of communication witf $ all parts of the country as has so Ions been afforded by the postal system of the government and at rates as uni : form and intelligible. Expert advic' ? is, of course, available in this verl Il practical matter, and the public in 5 terest is manifest Neither the tele graph nor the telephone service 0 the country can be said to be in an! F sense a national system. There ar II many confusions and inconsistencies Il of rates. The scientific means b. l. which communication by such instru ' mentalities can be rendered more thor Il ough and satisfactory has not beel made full use of. An exhaustive stud, | of the whole question of electrica l. communication and of the means D.
 which the central authority of the na
 tion can be used to unify and i'm II prove it, if undertaken, by the appro ' priate committees of the congres U would certainly result, indirectly eve . if not directly, in a great publl benefit,
 .. Asks Repeal of Wine. Beer Ban n The demobilization of the militar