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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TO
FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.—Following
Is an abstract of the message of the
president to the Second session of the
Fifty-eighth congress:
The president begins by saying the
nation continues to enjoy noteworthy
prosperity. While admitting that the
development of the nation Involves In
crease of expense, he protests against
extravagance saying the cost of doing
government business should be regu
lated with the same rigid scrutiny as
the cost of doing private business.
Capital and Labor.
He then proceeds to the discussion
of capital and labor. He says that
th^ abuses in great corporations by
slate action. It is difficult to be pa
tient with an argument that such mat
ters should be left to the states, be
cause more than one **aie pursues the
policy of creating on e*isy terms cor
porations which are never operated
within that state at all, but In other
states whose laws they ignore. The
rational government alone can dea;
adequately with these great corpora
tions. To try to deal with them in
un Intemperate, destructive,'or dema
gogic spirit would. In all probability,
mean that nothing whatever would be
accomplished, and. with absolute cer
tainty, that If anything were accom*
pllshed It would be of a harmful na
ture. The American people need to
under present relations of state and continue to show the very qualities
un icr . that they have shown—that Is, modcr-
federal governments. Interference by
the latter should only be in extreme
case. He says:
“Wage-workers have an entire right
to organize and by all peaceful and
honorable means to endeavor to per
suade their fellows to Join with them
In organizations. They have a legal
right, which, according to circum
stances, may or may not be a moral
right, to refuse to work In company
with men who decline to Join their or
ganisations. They have under no cir
cumstances the right to commit vio
lence upon those, whether capitalists
or wage-workers, who refuse to sup
port their organizations, or who side
with those with whom they are nt
odds: for mob rule is Intolerable In
nny form.
Employer's Liability Law.
The wage-workers are peculiarly en
titled to the protection and the en
couragement of the law. From the
very nature of their occupation rail
road men. for Instance, are liable to
be maimed In doing the legitimate
work of their profession, unless the
railroad companies are required by
law to make ample provision for their
safety. The administration has been
sealous In enforcing the existing law
for this purpose. That law should be
amended and strengthened. Wherever
the national government has power
there should be a stringent employer's
liability law, which should apply to the
government Itself where the govern
ment Is an employer of labor."
He favors medals of honor for life
savers, commends the safety appliance
f law. “There Is no objection,” he soys,
“to employes of the government form
ing or belonging to unions: but the
government can neither discriminate
for nor discriminate agslnst non-union
men who are In Its employment, or
who seek to be employed under
Moreover, it Is a very grave Improprie
ty for government employes to band
themselves together for the purpose of
extorting Improperly high salaries
from the government."
He says he will presently send a ape
clnl message dealing with the affairs
of the Bureau of Labor.
Corporation!.
As to corporations he says.
“When we come to deal with great
corporations the need for the govern
ment to act directly is far greater than
in the case of labor, because great cor
porations can become such only by
engaging In Interstate commerce, and
interstate commerce Is peculiarly the
field of the general government,
ie an absurdity to expect to eliminate
they
atlon, good sense, the earnest desire
to avoid doing any damage, and yet
the quiet determination to proceed,
step by step, without halt and without
hurry. In eliminating or at least in
minimizing whatever of mischief or
of evil there Is to Interstate commerce
In the conduct of great corpora*‘one.
Thfcy are acting in no spirit of hostility
to wealth, either Individual or cor
porate. They nre not against the rich
man any more than ngalnst the poor
man. On the contrary, they aie
friendly alike toward rich man and to
ward poor man. provided only that
each nets In a spirit of Justice and
decency toward his fellows. Greajt
corporations are necessary, and only
men of great and singular mental
power can msnnge such corporation*
successfully, and such men must have
great reward*. But these corporations
should be managed with due regard
to the Interest of the public as a whole.
Where this can be done under tho
present laws It must be done. Where
these laws come short others should
be enacted to supplement them."
Suggestions nre made as to the
lines upon which the bur^u of corpor
ations be extended, especially In the
matter of Insurance, rebates of all
kinds. He says:
“The government must In Increasing
degree supervise and regulate the
workings of the railways engnged In
Interstate commerce; and such In
creased supervision Is the only alter-
native to an Increase of the present
evils on the one hand or &' still more
radical policy on the other. In my
Judgment the most Important leglsln
tlve act now needed as regards the
regulation of corporations Is this net
to confer on the Interstate commerce
commission the power to revise rates
and regulations, the revised rnte to at
once go Into effect, and to stay In
effect unless and until the court of re
view reverses It."
City of Washington.
He cites many things that should be
done by congress for the Improvement
and further adornment of the city of
Washington and the betterment
conditions in the District of Colum
bla generally.
Agriculture.
He reviews at length the work of
the department of agriculture in Its
various branches and points out nu
merous Instances of benefits to farm
era obtained through the study and
experimentation of specialists. In re
sp^ct to the soil, the forests and the
Irrigation lands. He desires more
game and forest reserves in order that
the fauna of the country may be pre
served for posterity.
Pensions.
As to pensions he simply says:
‘The veterans of the civil war have
claim upon the nation such as no
other body of our citizens possess.
The pension bureau has never In Its
history been managed In a more sat
isfactory manner than Is now the
case."
Postoffice.
In the postoffice department the ser
vice has increased =n efficiency, and
conditions as to revenue and expen
diture continue satisfactory. The in
crease In revenue during the year was
$0,858,181.10, or 6.9 per cent., the total
receipts amounting to $148,882,624.34.
The expenditures were $162,362,116.70.
an Increase of about 0 per cent, over
the previous year, being thus $8,979,-
492.36 In excess of the current revenue.
Included in these expedttures was a
total appropriation of $12,956,637.86 for
the continuation and extension of tho
rural free-dellvery service, which was
an Increase of $4,902,237.36 over tho
amount expended for this purpose In
the preceding fiscal year. Large ns
this expenditure has been the beneft
cent results attained in extending tha
free distribution of malls to the resi
dents of rural districts have Justified
the wisdom of the outlay. Statistics
brought down to October 1, 1904, show
that on that date there were 27,138
rural routes established, serving ap
proximately 12,000.000 of people In ru
ral districts remote from postoffices,
and that there were pending at that
time 8.869 petitions for the establish
ment of new rural routes. Unques
tionably some part of the general In
crease In receipts Is due to the In
creased postal facilities which the ru
ral service hns afforded. The revenues
have also been aided greatly by
amendments In the classification of
mail matter, and the curtailment of
abuses of the second-class mailing
privilege. The average Increase in the
olume of mall matter for the period
beginning with 1902 nnd ending June.
1905 (that portion for 1906 being esti
mated), Is 40.47 per cent., ns com
pared with 25.46 per cent, for the pe
riod Immediately preceding, nnd 15.92
for the four-year period immediately
preceding that.
The Currenoy*
The attention of the congress should
be especially given to the currency
question, and that the standing com
mittees oi) tho matter In the iwo
houses charged with the duty, take
up the matter of our currency nnd see
whether it Is not possible to secure
an agreement In the business world
for bettering the system; the commit
tees should consider the question of
the retirement of the greenbacks end
tho problem of securing In our cur
rency such elasticity as Is consistent
with safety. Every silver dollar
should be made by law redeemable In
gold nt the option of the holder.
Merchant Marine,
especially commend to your im
mediate attention the encouragement
of our merchant marine by appropriate
legislation.
Oriental Markets.
“The Importance of securing proper
Information and data with a view to
the enlargement of our trade with
Asia Is undlmtnlahed. Our consular
representatives In Chinn hnve strongly
urged a plnce for permanent display of
American product* In some prominent
trade center of that empire, under
government control nnd management,
ns an effective means of advancing our
export trade therein. I call the atten
tion of the congress to the desirability
of carrying out these suggestions.*
Immigration.
"There Is no danger of having too
many Immigrants of the right kind.
It makes no difference from what
country they come. If they nre sound
In body and In mind. nnd. nbove all,
If they are of good character, so thnt
we can rest assured thnt their chil
dren. and grandchildren will he worthy
fellow-citizens of our children nnd
grandchildren, then we should wel
come them with cordial hospltnllty.
“But the citizenship of this country
should not be debased. It is vital thnt
we should keep high the stnndnrd of
well-being nmong our wsge-workers,
and therefore we should not admit
masses of men whose standards of liv
ing snd whose persons! customs and
habits are such that they tend to
lower the level of the American wage
worker: and above all we should not
admit any man of an unworthy type,
any man concerning whom wo can
say that he will himself he a bad eltl-
or that his children and grand
children will detract from Instead of
adding to the sum of the good citizen
ship of the country. Similarly we
should take the greatest care about
naturalization. Fraudulent naturali
zation. the naturalization of Improper
persons, is s curse to our government;
snd It Is the affair of every honest
voter, wherever born, to see that no
fraudulent voting Is allowed, that no
fraud In connection with naturallza*
tlon la permitted."
Delays in Prosecutions.
“No subject Is better worthy the at
tention of the congress than that por
tion of the report of the attorney gen
eral dealing with the long delays and
the great obstruction to Justice expe
rienced In the cases of Beavers. Green
snd Gaynor, and Benson. Were these
Isolated and apeclal cases. I should not
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call your attention to them; hut the
difficulties encountered a* rcgnrdn
these men who hnve been, indicted for
criminal practices are not exceptional;
they nre precisely similar in kttwl lo
what occurs again and ngaln In the
case of criminals who have sufficient
means to enable them to take advan
tage of a system of procedure which
hns grown up In the federal courts and
which amountH in effect to making the
lnw easy of enforcement agslnst the
man who has no money, nnd difficult
of enforcement, even to the point of
sometimes securing Immunity, ns re
gards the man who hns money. In
criminal cnees the writ of the United
States should run throughout Its bor*
dors."
Forsign Polioy.
He wants generous treatment to he
extended to the people of Alaska and
the Insular possessions and then goes
over the range of foreign relations,
The Hague conference, etc., and suys:
“In treating of our foreign policy and
of the attitude that this great Nntlnn
should assume In the world at large,
it Is absolutely necessary to consider
the army and the navy, nnd the
gress, through which the thought of
the nation finds Its expression, should
keep ever vividly In mind the funda
mental fact that It Is Impossible to
treat our foreign policy, whether this
policy takes shape In the effort to se
cure Justice for others or Justice for
ourselves, save as conditioned upon
the attitude we nre willing to take to
ward our army, and especially toward
our navy. It 1s not merely unwise. It
Is contemptible, for a nation, ns for an
Individual, to use hlgh-aounding lan
guage to proclaim Its purposes, or to
take positions which are ridiculous If
unsupported by potential force, and
then to refuse to provide this force. If
there Is no lotent’en of nrovfdlnv end
of keeping the forec necessary to hficJc
up a strong altitude, then It Is fur bet- j
ter not to assume such an attitude." {
He makes n lengthy appeal for the
support of the army and navy and
closes with a discussion of the Philip
pine question, saying:
At present they nre utterly Incapa
ble of existing In Independence nt all
or of building up a civilization of their
own. I firmly believe that we can help
them to rise higher and higher In the
scale of civilisation and of capacity for
self-government, and I most earnestly
hope that In the end they will be able
to stand, If not entirely alone. Vet In
some such relation to tho United Htates
ns Cuba r.ow stands. This end In not
yet In sight, and It may be Indefinitely
postponed If our people nrt foollnh
enough to turn the attention of tho
Flliplnofc nwny from the problems of
achieving moral and material prosper- j
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'On the other hand our people must
keep steadily before their minds th«
fact that the Justification for our stay
In the Philippines must ultimately rest [
chiefly upon the good we art able to
do In the Islands."
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