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SAFEGUARDS FOR
NATION'S TOILERS
President Pays Especial Atten
tion to Women and Chil
dren Who Work.
The national government has as a
role hmt little occasion to deal with the
formidable group of problems con
nected more or less directlv with what
is known as the labor qxiestion, for in
the great majority of cases these prob
lems must be dealt with bv the state
and municipal authorities and not by
the national government. The national
government has control of the District
.of Columbia, however, and it should
"see to it that the city of Washington is
made a model city in all respects, both
as regards parks, public playgrounds,
usingregulation
roper of the system of
so as to do away with the
evils or alley tenements, a proper sys
tem of education, a proper svstem of
dealing with truancy and juvenile of
fenders, a proper handling of the char
itable work, or the District. Moreover,
there should be proper factory laws to
prevent all abuses in the employment
of women and children in the District.
These will be useful -ihieflv as obiect
lessons, but even this limited amount
of usefulness would bo of real national
value.
Injunctions.
There has been demand for depriving
courts of the power to issue injunctions
in labor disputes. Such special limita
tion of the equity powerB of our courts
would toe most unwise. It is true that
some ."judges have misused this power
but this does "not justify a denial of the
power any more than an improper ex
ercise of the power to call a strike by a
labor leader would justify the denial of
the right to strike. The remedy is to
regulate the procedure by requiring the
judge to give due notice to the adverse
parties before granting the writ, the
hearing to be ex parte if the adverse
party does not appear at the time and
place ordered. What is due notice must
depend upon the facts of the case it
should not be used as a pretext to per
mit violation of law, or the jeopardizing
of life or property. Of course, this
would toot authorize the issuing of a re
straining order or injunction in any case
in which it is not already authorized by
existing law.
Probe Child Labor.
I renew the recommendation I made
in my last annual message for an in1
vestigation by the department of com
merce and labor of general labor con
ditions, especial attention to be paid to
the conditions of child labor and child
labor legislation in the several states.
Such an* investigation should take into
account the various problems with
which the question of child labor is con
nected. It is true that these problems
can be actually met in most cases only
bv the states themselves, but it would
be well for the nation to endeavor to se
cure and publish comprehensive inform
ation as to the conditions of the labor
of children in' the different states, so as
to spur up those that are behindhand,
and to secure approximately uniform
legislation of a high character among
the several states. In such a republic
as ours the on thing that we can not
afford to neglect *8 the problem of turn
ing out decent citizens. The future of
the nation depends upon the citizen
ship of the generations to come the
children of today are those who tomor
row will shape the destinv of our land,
and we cannot afford to neglect them.
The legislature of Colorado has recom
mended that the national government
provide some general measure for the
protection from abuse of children an-d
dumb animals thruout the United
States. I lay the matter before you for
what I trust will be your favorable con
sideration.
Women Toilers.
The department of commerce and
labor should also make, a thoro investi
gation of the conditions of women in
industry. Over five million American
women are now engaged in gainful oc
cupations yet there is an almost com
plete dearth of data upon which to base
any trustworthy conclusions as regards
a subiect as important as it is vast and
complicated. There is need of full
knowledge on which to base action look
ing toward state and municipal legis
lation for the protection of working
women. The of
lQto industry iintroduction working changwomen and
disturbance in the domestic and social
hte of the nation. The decrease in mar
riage^ and especially in the birth rate,
has been coincident with it. We must
face accomplished facts, and the ad
justment to factory conditions must be
made but surely it can be made with
less friction and lessharmful effects on
-amily life than is now the case. This
whole matter in reality forms one of
the greatest sociological phenomena of
our time it is a social question of the
trst importance, of far greater im
portance than any merely political or
economic question can be and to solve
it we need ample data, gathered in a
sane and scientific spirit in the course
of an exhaustive investigation.
Rights of Public.
In any great labor disturbance not
only are employer and employee inter
ested, but also a third partythegen-
%l public. TEvery considerable labor
difficulty in which interstate commerce
is involved should be investigated by
the government and the facts officially
reported to the public.
The question of securing a healthy,
self-respecting, and mutually sympa
thetic attitude as between employer
and employee capitalist and wage
worker, is a difficult one. All phases
of the labor problem prove difficult
when approached. But the underlying
principles, the root principles, in ac
cordance with which the problem must
be solved are entirely simple. We can
get justice and right dealing only if
we put as of paramount importance the
principle of treating a man on his
worth as a man rather than with refer
ence to his social position, his occupa
tion, or the class to which he belongs.
There are selfish and brutal men in all
ranks of life. If they are capitalists
their selfishness and brutality may
take the form of hard indifference to
suffering, greedy disregard of every
moral restraint which interferes with
the accumulation of wealth, and cold
pjooded exploitation of the weak or,
If they are laborers, the form of lazi
ness, of sullen envy of the more fortu
nate, and of willingness to perform
deeds of murderous violence. Such
conduct is just as reprehensible in one
case as the other, and all honest and
farseeing men should join in warring
against it wherever it becomes man?
fest. Individual capitalist and individual
wageworker, corporation and union, are
alike entitled to the protection of the
law, and must alike obey the law.
Moreover in addition to mere obedi
ence to the law, each man, if he be
really a good citizen, must show broad
sympathy for his neighbor and genuine
desire to look at any question arising
between them from the standpoint of
that neighbor no less tha from his
own and to this end it is essential that
capitalist and wage-worker should con
sult freely one with the other, should
strive to bring closer the day when
both shall realize that they are prop
erly partners and not enemies. To ap
proach the questions which inevitably
arise between them solely from the
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standpoint which treats each side in
the mass as the enemy of the other
side in the mass is both wicked and
foolish. In the past the most direful
among the influences which have
brought about the downfall of repub
lics has ever been the growth of ttfe
class spirit, the growth of the spirit
which tends to make a man subordin
ate the welfare of the public as a
whole to the welfare of the particular
class to which .he belongs, the substi
tution of loyalty to a class for loy
alty to the nation. This inevitably
brings about a tendency to treat each
man not on his merits as an individual,
but on his position as belonging to a
certain class in the community. If
such a spirit grows up in this repub
lic it will ultimately prove fatal to us,
as in the past it has proved fatal to
every community in which it has
beOKI
come dominant. Unless we continue to
keep a quick and lively sense
of the great fundamental
truth that our concern is with the indi
vidual worth cf the individual man,
this government cannot permanently
hold the place which it has achieved
among the nations. The vital lines of
cleavage among our people do not cor
respond, and indeed run at right angles
to, the lines of cleavage which divide
occupation from occupation, which di
vide wage-workers from capitalists,
farmers from bankers, men of small
means from men of large mdans, men
who live in the towns from men who
live in the country for the vital line
of cleavage is the line which divides
the honest man who tries to do well
by his neighbor from the dishonest
man who does ill by his neighbor.
The Bight Standard.
In other words, the standard we should
establish is the standard of conduct,
not the standard of occupation, or
means, or of social position. It is the
man's moral quality, his attitude to
ward the great questions which con
cern ail humanity, HIS cleanliness qf
life, his power to do his duty to
ward himself and toward others, which
really e^unt and if we substitute for
the standard of personal judgment
which treats each man according to
his merits, another standard in accord
ance with which all men of one class
are favored and all men of another
class discriminated against, we shall
de irreparable damage to the body
politic. I believe that our people are
too sane, too self-respecting, too fit for
self-government, ever to adopt such an
attitude. This government is not and
never shall be government by a plutoc
racy. This government is not and
never shall be government by a mob.
It shall continue to be in the future
what it has been in the past, a gov
ernment based on the theory that each
man, rich or poor, is to be treated sim
ply and solely on his worth as a man,
that all his personal and property
rights are to be safeguarded, and that
he is neither to wrong others nor to
suffer wrong from others.
Self Government.
The noblest of all forms of govern
ment is self-government but it is also
the most difficult. We who possess
this priceless boon, and who desire to
hand it on to our children and our
children's children, should ever bear in
mind the thought so finely expressed
by Burke: "Men are ^qualified for
civil liberty in exact proportion to
their disposition to put moral chains
upon their own appetites in propor
tion as they are disposed to listen to
the counsels of the wise and good in
preference to the flattery of knaves
Society cannot exist unless a control
ing power upon will and appetite be
placed somewhere, and the less of it
there be within the more there must
be without. It is ordained in the eter
nal constitution of things that men of
intemperate minds cannot be free.
Their passions forge their fetters."
INDIAN CITIZEN
AS NEW PROBLEM
Liquor Question in Its Applica
tion to Red Men Needs Some
New Solution.
During the year just past, the phase
of the Indian question which has been
most sharply brought to public atten
tion is the larger legal significance of
the Indian's induction into citizenship.
This has made itself manifest not only
in a great access of litigation in which
the citizen Indian figures as a party
defendant and in a more widespread
disposition to levy local taxation upon
his personality, but in a decision of the
United States supreme court which
struck away the main prop on which
has hitherto rested the government's
benevolent effort to protect him against
the evils of intemperance. The court
holds, in effect, that when an Indian be
comes, by virtue of an allotment of
land to him, a citizen of the state in
which his land is situated, he passes
from under federal control in such mat
ters as this, and the acts of congress
prohibiting the sale or gift to him of
intoxicants become substantially inop
erative. It is gratifying to note that
the states and municipalities of the
west which have most at stake in the
welfare %i the Indians are taking up
this subject and are trying to supply,
in a measure at least, the abdication of
its trusteeship forced upon the federal
government. Nevertheless, I would ur
gently press upon the attention of the
congress the question whether some
amnedment of the internal-revenue
laws might not be of aid in prosecut
ing those malefactors known in the In
dian country as "bootleggers," who
are engaged at once in defrauding the
United States treasury of taxes and,
what is far more important, debauch
ing the Indians by carrying liquors
illicitly into territory still completely
under federal jurisdiction.
Among the crying present needs of
the Indians are more day schools situ
ated in the midst of i^heir settlements,
more effective instruction in the indus
tries pursued on their own farms, and
a more liberal extension of the field
matron service, which means the edu
cation-of the Indian women in the aits
of home making. Until the mothers
are well started in the right direction
we can not reasonably expect much
from the children who are soon to form
an integral part of our American citi
zenship. Moreover, the excuse, con
tinually advanced by male adult Indians
for refusing offers of remunerative em
Eloyment
at a distance from their
omes is that they dare not leave their
families too long out of their sight.
One effectual remedy for this state of
things is to employ the minds and
strengthen the moral fiber of the Indian
womenthe end to which the work of
the field matron is especially directed.
I trust that the congress will make its
appropriations for Indian day schools
and field matrons as generous as may
consist with the other pressing demands
upon its providence.
The viceroy of the Two Kuang prov
inces, China, recently put out a procla
mation that no pawnshop wis to take
arms in pawn. Being later himself in
need of funds, he sent his own agents
with arms to pledge. Five shojw ac
cepted them and these afterward paid
fines in the amount of ,$7,250 each.
SEEKS RIGHT KIND
OF ALIEN INFLUX
Raise No Unfair Race Bar to Im
migration, but Require Fit
ness, Says President
The question of immigration is of
vital interest to this country. In the
year ending June 30, 1905, there came
to the United States 1,026,000 alien
immigrants. In other words, in the sin
gl year that has just elapsed there came
to this country a greater number of
people than came here during the 169
ears of our colonial life which inter
vened between the first landing nt
Jamestown and the Declaration of In
dependence. It is clearly shown in the
report of the commissioner general of
immigration that while much of this
enormous immigration is undoubtedlv
healthy and natural, a considerable pro
portion is undesirable from one reason
or another moreover, a considerable
proportion of it, probably a very large
proportion, including most of the un
desirable class, does not come here of
its own initiative, but because of the
activity of the agents of the great
transportation companies. These agents
are distributed thruout Europe, and by
the offer of all kinds of inducements
they wheedle and cajole many immi
grants, often against "their best inter
ests, tp come here. The most serious
obstacle we have to encounter in the
effort to secure a proper regulation nf
the immigration to these shores arises
from the determined opposition of the
foreign steamship lines, who have no
interest whatever in the matter save
to increase the returns on their capital
by carrying masses of immigrants
hither in the steerage quarters of their
ships.
Influx of Bight Sort.
As I said in my last message to
congress, we cannot haVe too much im
migration of the right sort, and we
should have none whatever of the
wrong sort. Of course it is desirable
that even the right kind of immigra
tion should be properly distributed in
this country. We need more of such
immigration for the south and special
effort should be made to secure it. Per
haps it would be possible to limit the
the number allowed to come to the
any one year to New York and other
northern cities, while leaving unlimited
the number allowed to come to the
south always provided, however, that
a stricter effort is made to see that only
immigrants of the right kind come to
our country anywhere. In actual prac
tice it has proved so difficult to en
force the immigration laws where long
stretches of frontier marked by an im
aginary line alone intervene, between us
and our neighbors that I recommend
that no immigrants be allowed to come
in from Canada and Mexico, save na
tives of the two countries themselves.
As much as possible should be done to
distribute these immigrants upon the
land and keep them away from the
congested tenement-house districts of
the great cities. But distribution is a
palliative, not a cure. The prime need
is to keep out all immigrants who will
not make good American citizens. The
laws now existing for the exclusion of
undesirable immigrants should be
strengthened. Adequate means should
be adopted, enforced by sufficient
penalties, to compel steamship com.
panies engaged in the passenger busi
ness to observe in good faith the law
which forbids them to encourage or so
licit immigration to the United States.
Moreover, there should be a sharp lim
itation imposed upon all vessels com
ing to our ports as to the number .of
immigrants in ratio to the tonnage
which each vessel can carry. This ratio
should be high enough' to insure the
coming hither of as good a class of
aliens as possible. Provision should be
made for the surer punishment of those
who induce aliens to come to this coun
try under promise or assurance of em
ployment. It should be made possible
to inflict a sufficiently heavy penalty'
on any employer jgnlating this law to
deter him from ffpcing the risk. It
seems to me wise that there should be
an international conference held to deal
with this question of immigration,
which has more than a merely national
significance such a conference could,
among other things, enter at length into
the methods for securing a thoro in
spection of would-be immigrants at the
ports from wvhich they desire to em
bark before permitting them to embark.
Stick to Tradition.
In dealing with this question it is
unwise to depart from the old Ameri
can tradition and to discriminate for
or against any man who desires to come
here and become a citizen, save on the
ground of that man's fitness for citi
zenship. It is our right and duty to
consider his moral and social quality.
His standard of living should be such
that he will not, by pressure of compe
tition, lower the standard of living of
our own wageworkers for it must ever
be a prime obiect of our legislation to
keep their high standard of living. If
the man who seeks to come here is
from the moral and soeial standpoint
of such a character as to bid fair to
and value to the community he should
be heartily welcomed. We cannot af
ford to pay heed to whether he is of
one creed or another, of one nation or
another. We cannot afford to consider
whether he is Catholic or Protestanj
Jew or gentile whether he is English
man or Irishman, Frenchman or Ger
man, Japanese, Italian, Scandinavian,
Slav, or Magyar. What we should de
sire to find out is the individual qual
ity of the individual man. In my judg
ment, with this end in view, w'et shall
have to prepare thru our own agents a
far more rigid inspection in the coun
tries from which the immigrants come.
It will be a great deal better to have
fewer immigrants, but all of the right
kind, than a great number of immi
grants, many of whom are necessarily
of the wrong kind. As far as possible
we wish to limit the immigration to
this country to persons who propose to
become citizens of this country, and
we can well afford to insist upon ade
quate scrutiny of the character of those
who are thus proposed for future citi
zenship. There should be no increase
in the stringency of the laws to keep
out insane, idiotic, epileptic, and pau
per immigrants. But this is by no
means enough. Not merely the anar
chist, but every man of' anarchistic
tendencies, all violent and disorderly
people, all people of bad character, the
incompetent, the lazy, the vicious, the
physically unfit, defective, or degen
erate should be kept out. The stocks
out of which American citizenship is
to be built should be strong and healthy,
sound in body, mind and character. If
it be objected that the government
agents would not always select well, the
answer is that they would certainly se
lect better than do the agents and bro
kers of foreign steamship companies,
the people who now do whatever selec
tion is done.
Chinese Exclusion.
The questions arising in connection
with Chinese immigration stand by
themselves. The conditions in China are
such that the entire Chinese coolie
class, that is, the class of Chinese
laborers, skilled and unskilled, legiti
mately come under the head of unde
sirable immigrants to this country, be
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cause of their numbers, the low wages
for which they work, and their low
standard of living. Not only is it to
the interest of this country to keep
them out, but the Chinese authorities
do not desire that they should be ad
mitted. At present their entrance is
prohibited by laws amply adequate to
accomplish this purpose. These laws
have been, are being and will be
thoroly enforced. Th]e violations of*
them are so few in number as to be
infinitesimal and can be entirely dis
regarded. There is no serious proposal
to alter the immigration law as regards
the Chinese laborer, skilled or un
skilled, and there,is no excuse for any
man feeling or affecting to feel the
slightest alarm on the subject.
But in the effort to carry out the
policy of excluding Chinese laborers,
Chinese coolies, grave injustice and
wrong have been done by this nation
to the people of China, and therefore
ultimately to this nation itself. Chi
nese students, business and profes
sional men of all kindsnot only mer
chants, but bankers, doctors,1
iJut
manufac
turers, professors, travelers, and the
likeshould be encouraged to come
here and treated on precisely the same
footing that we treat students, business
men, travelers and the like of other na
tions. Our laws and treaties should be
framed, not so as to put these people
in the excepted classes, but to state
that we will admit all Chinese, except
Chinese of the coolie class, Chinese
skilled or unskilled laborers. There
would not be the least danger that any
such provision would result in any re
laxation of the law about laborers.
These will, under all conditions, be kept
out absolutely. But it will be more easy
to see that both justice and courtesy
are shown, as they ought to be shown,
to other Chinese, if the law or treaty
is framed as above suggested. Exami
nations should be completed at the port
of departure from China. For this pur
pose there should be provided a more
adequate consular service in China
than we now have. The appropriations,
both for the offices of the consuls and
for the office forces in the consulates,
should be increased.
Open Door in China.
As a people we have talked much of
the open door in China, and we expect,
and quite rightly intend to insist upon,
ustice being shown us by the Chinese.
we cannot expect to receive equity
unless we do equity. We cannot ask
the Chinese to do to us what we are
unwilling to do to them. They would
have a perfect right to exclude our
laboring men if our laboring men
threatened to come into their country
in such numbers as to jeopardize the
well-being of the Chinese population
and as, mutatis mutandis, these were
the conditions with which Chinese im
migration actually brought this people
face to face, we had and have a perfect
right, whieh the Chinese government in
no way contests, to act as we have
acted in the matter of restricting coolie
immigration. That this right exists for
each country was explicitly acknowl
edged in the last treaty between the
two countries. But we must treat the
Chinese student, traveler, and business
man in a spirit of the broadest justice
and courtesy if we expect similar treat
ment to be accorded to our own people
of similar rank who go to China. Much
trouble has come during the past sum
mer from the organized boycott against
American goods which has been started
in China. The main factor in produc
ing this boycott has been the resent
ment felt by the students and business
people of China, by all the Chinese
leaders, against the harshness of our
law toward educated Chinamen of the
professional and business classes.
This government has the friendliest
feeling for Ohiga and desires China's
wellbemg. We cordially sympathize
with the annoiftiCted" purpose of Japan
to stand for the integrity of China.
Such an attitude tends to the peace of
the world.
When the volunteer fire department
of Tunbridge Wells, England, was on
parade the other day a spark from one
of the engines set fire to a haystack,
and the fiye burned itself out, for the
volunteers proved unable to extinguish
it.
Stanford University is in trouble be
cause among thirty-eight students
whose registration in the university was
canceled because of deficiencies in schol
arship are the best football players.
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ANSWERING SANTO.
DOMINGO'S APPEAL
President Roosevelt Furnishes
Statement of America's Re
lation with Island.
Santo Domingo, in her turn, has now
made an appeal to us to Kelp her, and
not only every principle of wisdom but
every generous instinct within us bids
us respond to the appeal. It is not of
the slightest, consequence whether we
grant the aid needed by Santo Domingo
as an incident to the wise development
of the Monroe doctrine,, or because we
regard the case of Santo Domingo as
standing wholly by itself, and to be
treated as such, and not on general prin
ciples or with any reference to the Mon
roe doctrine. The important point is to
give the needed aid, and the case is cer
tainly sufficiently peculiar to deserve
to be judged purely on its own merits.
The conditions in Santo Domingo have
for a number of years grown from bad
to worse until a year ago all society was
on the verge of dissolution. Fortunate
ly, just at this tinie a ruler sprang up
in Santo Domingo, who, with his col
leagues, saw the dangers threatening
their country and appealed to the
friendship of the only great and power
ful neighbor who possessed the power,
and as they hoped, also the will to help
them. There was imminent danger of
foreign intervention. The previous rul
ers of Santo Domingo had recklessly in
curred debts, and owing to her internal
disorders she had ceased to be able to
provide means of paying the debts. The
patience of her foreign creditors had
become exhausted, and at least two for
eign nations were on the point of inter
vention, and were only prevented from
intervening by the unofficial assurance
of this government that it would itself
strive to help Santo Domingo in her
hour of need. In the case of one of
these nations, only the actual opening
of negotiations to this end by our gov
ernment prevented the seizure of terri
tory in Santo Domingo by a European
power. Of the debts incurred some
were just, while some were not of a
character which really renders it obliga
tory on, or proper for, Santo Domingo
to pay them*in full. But she could not
pay any of them unless some stability
was assured her government and people.
Accordingly the executive depart
ment of the government negotiated a
treaty under which we are to try to
help the Dominican people to straighten
put their finances. This treaty is pend
ing before the senate. In the meantime
a temporary arrangement had been
made which will last until the senate
has had time to take action upon the
treaty. Under this arrangement the
Dominican government has appointed
Americans to all the important posi
tions in the customs service, and they
are seeing to the honest collection of
the revenues, turning over 45 per cent
to the government for running expenses
and putting the other 55 per cent into
a, safe depositary for equitable division
in case the treaty shall be ratified,
among the various creditors, whether
European or American.
Sources of Revenue.
The custom-houses offer well nigh the
only sources of revenue in Santo Do
mingo, and the different revolutions
usually have as their real aim the ob
taining possession of these custom
houses. The mere fact that the col
lectors of customs are Americans, that
they are performing their duties with
efficiency and honesty, and that the
treaty is pending in the senate, gives
a certain moral power to the g6vern
ment of Santo Domingo which it has
not had before. This has completely
discouraged all revolutionary move
ment, while it has already produced
such an increase in the revenues that
the government is actually getting more
from the 45 per cent that the American
collectors turn over to it than it got
formerly when it took the entire revo
nue. It is enabling the poor harassed
people of Santo Domingo once more
to turn their attention to industry and
to be free from the curse of inter
minable revolutionary disturbance. It
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WYMAN, PARTRIDGE & CO.
WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.
First av N and Fourth st.
PITTSBURG PLATE GLASS*
COMPANY
MINNEAPOLIS.
Largest producer! of Plate Glass 1B the
world. We carry a complete stock ot
WINDOW AND ORNAMENTAL GLASS.
Northwestern Distributing Agents of PAT
TON'S PAINTS( and carry a full line of
Painters' Sundries.
BEMIS BROS. BAG
COMPANY.
612, 614, 616 Fourth St S.
LINK BELT SUPPLY CO.
Manufacturers Flour and Saw Mill
Machinery. Complete Elevator
Equipment a Specialty.
Salesroom 418-420 Third st S.
Factory, 200-204 Lyndale av N.
December 5, 1905.
TH5 JOBBING,
MANUFACTURING
AND WHOLESALE
INTERESTS
OF MINNEAPOLIS
Are the Greatest in the
Whole Northwest.
J. H. Kerrick.
Engines, Boil
ers, Wood and
Iron Working
Machinery.
126 Third Av. N.
offers to all bonafide creditois,
American and European, the only
really good chance to .obtain that to
which they are justly entitled, while
it in return gives to Santo Domingo
the only opportunity of defense against
claims which it ought not to pay, for
now if it meets the views of the sen
ate we shall ourselves thoroly examine
all these claims, whether American or
foreign, and see that none that are
improper are paid. There is, of course,
opposition to the treaty from dishon
est creditors, foreign and American,
and from the profession's! revolution
ists on the island itself. We have al
ready reason to believe that some of
the creditors who do not dare expose
their claims to honest scrutiny are en
deavoring to stir up sedition in the
island opposition to the treaty. In
the meantime I have exercised the au
thority vested in me by the joint reso
lution of the congress to prevent the
introduction of arms into the island
for revolutionary purposes.
Stability and Order.
Under the course taken, stability and
order and all the benefits of peace are
at last coming to Santo Domingo, dan
ger of foreign intervention has been
suspended, and there is at last a pros
pect that all creditors will get jus
tice, no more and no less. If the'ar
rangement is terminated by the fail
ure the treaty chaos will follow and
if chaos follows, sooner or later this
government may be involved in seri
ous difficulties with foreign govern
ments over the island, or else may be
forced itself to intervene in the island
some unpleasant fashion. Under the
proposed treaty the independence of
the island is scrupulously respected, the
danger of violation of the Monroe doc
trine by the intervention of foreign
powers vanishes, and the interference
of our government is minimized, so
that we shall only act in conjunc
tion with the Santo Domingo authori
ties to secure the proper administra
tion of the customs, and therefore *o
secure the payment of just debts and
to secure the Dominican government
against demands for unjust debts. The
proposed method will give th people
of Santo Domingo the same chance to
move onward and upward which we
have already given to the people of
Ouba. It will be doubly to our discredit
as a nation if we fail to take advantage
of chance it bebof
affiethis
^ourselves,for and iwill will odam- in
calculable damage to Santo Domingo.
.Every consideration of wise policy, an-i,
above all, every consideration of large
generosity bids us meet-the request cf
Santo Domingo as we are now trying
to meet it.
LAW ENFORCEMENT PAYS
Polk's Crusade forjBood Government
Advantageous in Every Way.
Since the election of Folk as circuit
attorney of St. Louis, the value ot
land in the state has increased 20 per
cent. Tho annual immigration to the
state* has increased 25 per cent. The
railroads announce that after a sum
mer of Sunday closing the Sunday ex
cursions into the three first-class cities
ci the state have increased nearly 10
p cent, showing that it pays cater
to the sober anr1
industriousto rather
then to the lawless The Sunday busi
ness of the local streetcars has in
creased 25 per cent, and the Monday
deposits in the banks of the cities have
increased remarkably, while the number
of a'Tfcsts in the three cities where
statistics are available, has decreased
20 per cent, and the Sunday arrests
have diminished 40 per cent.
More than this, the trade of the gro
cers and small merchants has increased
so materially that they are making a
sentiment for Sunday closing strong
enough to maintain it when Folk leaves
the governor's office at the end of his
term in 1909. Similarly the commercial
clubs and business men's clubs in the
Missouri cities have generally indorsed
the enforcement of the antigambling
law, on the ground that clerks and
employees are no longer tempted to tap
til's and gamble.
A wholesome sentiment for the en
forcement of law, as the sensible busi
ness, thing, is growing up all over Mis
souri. It has its mainspring in the
religious morality of the governor
his_ attitude toward his official duty,
aud it is appearing among citizens not
as a moral principle but as a business
conviction.
CITY SASH & DOOR CO.
Wholesale Sealers in
All Kinds of Sash, Doors,
Mouldings and Millwork.
4th St. and 3d Av. So.
MINNEAPOLIS FLORAL CO.
Wholesale Growers and Deal
ers in Plants and Flowers.
Special Attention to Funeral Orders.
36th St. and Calhoun Boulev'rd
GLUEK BREWING CO.
Brewers and Bottlers of
HIGH GRADE BEERS.
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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NON-CUNKERINa
WHITE ASH ANTHRACITE.
THE BEST HARD GOAL
for Domestic Use.
THJE PIONEER FUEL CO.,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
245-247-249 First Avenue North^f
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HELP THE CONSOLS,
AND DIPLOMATS
Congress Is Appealed to for More
Provision for the State
Department.
Otoe of the most curious orders given
in the British navy is All hands black
faces," a supply of pigment for the
purpose being carried By each warship.
When a night surprise is intended it is
not only^ the vessels that are made as
little visible as possible, even the faces
of the men must be blackened.
Becently the stock was sold on a
farm in Dumfriesshire. Scotland,
which had been held by a family named
Moffatt since the year 1300, when King
Robert Bruce made a grant of the land
to the Moffats. They held it for 300
years as owners, and the rest of the
time as tenants of the Dukes of Buc
cleuch.
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i. recommend more adequate provi
sion than has been made heretofore for
the work of the department of state.
Within a few years there has been a
very great increase in the amount nnd
importance of the work to be done by
that department, both in Washington
and abroad. This has been caused* by
the great increase of our foreign trade,
the increase of wealth among our peo
ple, which enables them to travel more
generally than heretofore, the increase
of American capital which is seeking,
investment in foreign countries, and the
growth of our power and weight in the
councils of the civilized world. There
nas been no corresponding increase of
facilities for doing the work afforded
to the department having charge of our
foreign relations.
Neither at home nor abroad is there
a sufficient working force to do the
business properly. In manv respects
the system which was adequate to the
work of twenty-five, or even ten, year*
ago, is inadequate now, and should be
changed. Our consular force should be
classified and appointments should be
made to the several classes, with au
thority to the executive to assign the
members of each class to duty at such
posts as the interests of the service
require, instead of the appointments
being made as at present to specified
posts. There should be an adequate in
spection service, so that the depart
ment may be able to inform itself how
the business of each consulate is being
done, instead of depending upon casual
private information or rumor. The fee
system should be entirely abolished,
and a due equivalent made in salary to
the officers who now eke out their sub
sistence by means of fees. Sufficient
provision should be made for a clerical
force in every consulate, composed en
tirely of Americans, instead of the in
sufficient provision now made, whieh
compels the employment of great num
bers of citizens of foreign countries
whose services can be obtained for less
money. At a large part of our con
sulates the office quartert and the
clerical force are inadequate to the
performance of the onerous duties im
posed by the recent previsions of our
immigration laws as well as bv our
increasing trade. In many parts of the
world the'lack of suitable quarters in
our embassies, legations and consulates
detracts from the respect in which our
officers ought to be held, and seriously
impairs their weight and influence.
Suitable provision should be made
for the expense of keeping our diplo
matic officers more fully informed of
what is being done from day to dav
in the progress of our diplomatic af
fairs with other countries. The lack of
such information, caused by insuffi
cient appropriations available for cable
tolls and for clerical and messenger
service, frequently puts our officers at
a great disadvantage and detracts from
their usefulness. The salary list should
be readjusted. It does not now corre
spond either to the importance of the
service to be rendered and the degrees
of ability' and experience required in
the different positions, or to the differ
ences in the cost of living. In many
cases the salaries are quite inadequate.
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JANNEY, SEMPLE, HILL &
COMPANY,
Wholesale Hardware.
30, 32, 34, 36 Second avenue S.
Corner First Avenue S.
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Biryers of Hides, Furs, Wool, Etc.
NORTHWESTERN HIDE &
FUR COMPANY,
Established 1890.
200-202-204 First Street N.
GEO. R. NEWELL & CO.
Wholesale Grocers,
Cor. First%v N and Third st.
$
OYEN MANUFACTURING CO
Manufacturers of Fine Cabinet Work.
Bank, Office and 8tore Fixtures, Detail
Sash, Doors and Ornamental Staircases
209-211 So. Second Street.
STOVES
GREAT WESTERN STOVE
AND REPAIR OO.. ~-J
Stoves and Repairs.
812 Hennepin Av. Minneapolis.
WILLIAMS HARDWARE CO.
100-2-4 Second Avenue N.
Wholesale Iron and Steel Carriage
and Wagon Stock, etc.
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YOUR FURS, PELTS, WOOL, ETC.
To MCMIUAN FUR & WOOL GO,
M/N.VK.\]'OI.IS,
*RIT FOR CIRCULA RS
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