| Show MATTERS OF DOMESTIC CONCERN ARE DISCUSSED IN THE MESSAGE In my judgment the tha time has arrived when we should make up our minds to recognize the Indian as an In Individual Individual and not as a member of a tribe The general allotment act is a mighty pulverizing engine to break up the tribal mas mass It acts directly upon apon the family and the individual Under Its provisions some MOW Indians have already become citizen tUe United States We should now break up the tribal funds doing for or them what allotment does for the tribal bands that la is they should be divided into individual holdings There will be a transition period during which the funds will In ninny many cases have to be held In trust This is the case also with the lands landsA A stop atop should be put upon the in f ft t 1 discriminate permission to Indians to 4 4 lease leas their allotments The effort f should be steadily to make the In 4 diana work like any other mart mail on 4 4 his own ground The marriage laws laus f of the Indians Indiana should be made the 4 f same as those of the whites 9 In the schools the education should be elementary and largely industrial The need of higher education among the In Indians Indiana diana Is very very limited On the roe res reservations care should be taken to try to suit the teaching to is the needs of the particular Indian There Is no use in at attempting attemptIng tempting to induce agriculture in a country suited only for cattle raising where the Indian should be lid made a stock grower The radon ratten system which Is merely the corral and the reservation system is Ii highly detrimental td tO the In Indians Indiana diana It promotes beggary perpetuates pauperism anti and stifles industry It is an effectual barrier to progress It must continue to a greater or less degree as long Ions as tribes are herded on reservations and have everything In corn com common mon men The should be treated as asan asan an individual like the white man Dur During lag ing the change of treatment inevitable hardships will occur every effort should be made to minimize these hardships but we should because of them heel hesi hesitate tate to make me change There sl be a continuous reduction in the number of agencies Dangers of Liquor Traffic id It dealing with the aboriginal races few things are more important than to pro pre preserve serve then them trout from the terrible physical an and moral degradation resulting from the liquor traffic We are doing all v we o can canto canto to save our oar own Indian tribes from this evil Wherever by International agree agreement meat ment this same end can be attained as regards rates races where we do not possess exclusive control every effort should be made to bring brine it I bespeak toe the most moat cordial support from the congress and the people tor br lh St StLouis StlouIs Louis exposition to commemorate the anniversary of the Louisiana pur purchase cha chase e This purchase was the greatest Instance of expansion in our history It definitely decided that we were vere to be become become come a great continental republic by far farthi the thi foremost power in the western hem hemisphere hemIsphere It is on one of three or four great landmarks in our tho great turn turning lag ing point in our development It is emi eminently neatly fitting that all our oar people should Join with heartiest will In com cent commemorating it and the citizens of St StLouis Louis of Missouri of All 11 the adjacent region are entitled to every aid in mak makI I ig the celebration a noteworthy event In our annals We e earnestly hope that for foreign foreign eign nations will appreciate the deep interest our country tak s In this ex cx exposition position and our view of Importance from every standpoint and that they will nil participate In securing success The national government be b represented seated by a fisH f H and sd set of ex exhibits hibits Charleston Exposition The people of Charleston with great energy and civic spirit are carrying on onan onan an exposition which will continue throughout most of the present session of the congress I commend this to the good will of the pee peo p pie It de deserves erves all ail the encouragement that an be he given It The managers of the Charleston exposition have the cabinet officers to place thereat the government exhibits which have been at Buffalo promising to pay the necessary expenses I 1 have takes take the responsibility of directing that this lie be done for I f feel cl tint that it is duo due to Charleston to help her herin herin in her hir praiseworthy effort In m my opinion the tho management should hould not be required so o pi itay all these expenses I earnestly recommend that the 6 at one oso tile the small sum Mint necessary tor this purpose The at et Buffalo has just closed Both from the Industrial anti and the artistic standpoint Wa dt tion has hae been leen in is a high Adita e and useful not to but o e othe ethe the United States The terrible tragedy of the presidents president s assassination inter interfered interfered materially with Its being a financial success The exposition was peculiarly in harmony with the trend of public policy because it represented an effort to bring rate into closer touch all the peoples of the western hemisphere and them theman an increasing sense of unity Such an ef effort effort fort was a 8 genuine service to the tha entire American public Need of National Museum The advancement of the highest Inter Interests eats ests of national science and learning and the custody of objects of art and of th hip valuable results of scientific ex conducted by the United Stas nave been committed to the In furtherance of its declared purpose for the increase and diffusion of knowl knowledge edge among men meathe the congress has from time to time given it other important functions Such trusts have exe executed by the institution with potable fidelity There should be no halt in the work of the institution in accordance with the plans which its secretary has presented for the preservation of the vanishing races of great o th American animals in the national zoological park The urgent needs of the national mu Mm are recommended to the con consideration of the congress Perhaps the most characteristic educe educational movement of the fifty years is that which has created the tha modern public library Horary awl and developed it Isle into broad and active service There are now over public libraries in the United States the product of this period In addition to ac accumulating accumulating cumulating materiel material they are also striving lag ing by organization organisation by Improvement in method and by cooperation to give greater efficiency to the material they hold to make it more widely useful and by avoidance of unnecessary duplication in Ip process to reduce the cost of its ad administration administration ministration Library of Congress In Is these efforts they naturally lok for assistance to the federal library librat which though still the library of so entitled Is the one national library of the United States Already tie larg largest est eat single collection of books on the Ue west western ern em hemisphere and certain to Increase more rapidly titan than any other through purchase exchange and the operation of the copyright law this library has H e eunique unique opportunity to reader to the libraries of this country to American scholarship service of the highest im tin importance parlance It is housed In Ip a building which is the largest and most magnificent yet erected for library Uses Resources are now being provided which will de develop develop the collection property equip it with apparatus and ami service necessary to Its effective us use render its bibliographic work widely available and enable it to become not merely a center of if research but the chief factor in great grest cooperative efforts for the diffusion of knowledge and aad the advancement ef of For or the sake of good administration sound economy and the advancement of science the census office ae as flOW eon c fl should be made a p government bureau insure better cheaper and mr more satisfactory work in the interest set hat only of at ear o bust busi business ness flees but of statistic science i i f Growth of PostaS Service ilc The Erow service is sho shown n In tile fact t Its revenues have doubled and its Ira lures tures have nearly doubled twelve years Ha its progressive development corn com compels constantly Increasing outlay but in inthis Inthis this period of business i 1 sergy and pros prosper per parity it its receipts grow so much faster than its expenses expanses that the annual deficit has been steadily reduced in 1897 1507 to in 1901 Among Aion rectal postal advances 3 th the success at of cural free delivery deliver wherever established has iste been ao 10 marked and actual experience has hs made its benefits so plain that the de do dem m rd for its exten extensIon on is general and urgent It i Is i t that the great agricultural should ture in 1st the he improve meat ment of the service The number of rural routes now in operation is 6 practical practically ly all established within three ear and there are applications awaiting action It is exp expected that the number m in operation at the close of the current fiscal year will reach The mail will then be daily earned carried to the doors ot of of our people who have hereto heretofore heretofore fore been dependent up upon n il t nt offices office and ot aH all th that u portion of the country which is ada ted to it will be covered by this kind or service Abuses of the Service The full measure ot o postal progress which might be realized realised has las long be been n hampered and obstructed by the heavy burden imposed on the government through the and well under understood understood stood abuses which have grown up in con connection section with Bet m mall til matter The extent of this burden appears when U it Is stated that while the matter makes nearly of the weight of all the nail miI it paid for the last fiscal year only of the aggregate postal revenue of 31 MS If the th pound I Irate rate rait of postage nl h produces produce the largo loss los thus entailed t id ti hii h was fixed b by the congress with Hh the purpose of en encouraging the dissemination of public lm tat were limited to the legitimate newspapers and periodicals actually con contemplated contemplated by the law no just judI exception could be taken Laken That Thai expense wouW be the recognized and accepted cost of a I pulley policy deliberately adopted for tor a a justifiable end Rut But much of the matter enjoys the to is wholly outSide outride of the intent of toe the law and has secured admission only through an evas evasion evasion ion of its requirements or through lax construction Th The proportion of such wrongly matter fat hi estimated by postal expert to be of the whole volume of second clas mall If it be only or the magnitude s eq tb the burden is apparent The department has baa now under undertaken undertaken taken to remove the abuses HO so far as is possible by a stricter of the law and an u it abeaM be sustained sustain ia In its effort egort |
