Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-04 | Page 14 | Matters of Domestic Concern Are Discussed in the Message

MATTERS OF f DOMESTIC CONCERN I IARE f V V ARE DISCUSSED IN THE MESSAGE In my Judgment jud t the Hut time has arrived when we should deA make up our minds mind to recognise the Indian as an in individual Individual individual and not as a member of a tribe The general allotment allot 1 Rt act is a mighty pulverizing engine e to break up the tribal mass mast It acts directly upon the family and the individual Under its provisions I some me MOW Indians have already become citizens clUse bf fUle United States s We should I Inow now break up the tribal funds doing for them theta what allotment does for the tribal bands that Is thy tIey y should be divided into individual There will cill be a I transition period during which welch the funds will win In many cases hive he to be held In trust This is the Use case e also with the tha lands landsA A stop should be Ife put pat upon the in int 4 4 t discriminate permission penni to Indians to 4 f lease leaM their allotments The effort 4 f should be steadily to make the In Indiana f diana work like Jib any other mart on 4 V his hIa own ground The marriage laws 4 4 of the Indians lau In should be made the 4 4 same as aa those of the whites In lit the schools the education should be elementary and largely Industrial The need of higher education among the In Indians Indians Indians is very very vary limited On the res roe reservations care be taken to try to suit the teaching to till the th neda s of the particular Indian There is no rip use In at attempting attempting attempting tempting to induce agriculture in a country suited only for cattle raising where the Indian should be hO made ma e a stock grower The ratin R etem which hieb is 18 merely the corral aad and the reservation system Is highly detrimental to the In Indians Indians diane It promotes beggary be perpetuates pauperism and aud stifles Industry guyl ry It is an effectual barrier ba to progress It must continue co ue U to a greater or less degree as long as tribes are herded on reservations and have bave everything in com corn common mon men The Indian I V should be treated as asan asan asan an individual lite the white man Dur During DurIng ing lag the change of fit treatment Inevitable hardships will wUl scour occur every effort should be made to minimize these hardships but w woe we shOUld ot because of or them hesi heel hesitate hesItate tate to make change ge There be a continuous reduction redu in tn the number of agencies Dangers of o Liquor Traffic id I lt dealing with th UI tile aboriginal races few things are more important than to pre pm preserve serve erve them thea from the terrible physical and moral moal degradation resulting from the liquor traffic We are doing all we can canto canto n nto to save our own Indian tribes from this evil Wherever by DY international Jn agree asree agreement ment this same end eM can be attained as regards regard rat races where r w we do not possess exclusive control every v effort should be made to bring it about I bespeak the most cordial support from the congress and the people for th St StLouis StLouis Louis exposition to the lOOth anniversary of the Louisiana pur purchase purchase purchase chase This purchase puTeh e was the greatest Instance of or expansion on In 11 our history It definitely decided that we were to be become become come a great continental republic by b far th the foremost power In the western hem Item hemisphere It is one ORe of three or four great landmarks In ow our history the groat turn turning tu ing point In our development It Is emi eminently eminently fitting that all our ocr people should join with heartiest good will in com cent commemorating it and sad the citizens of St StLouis Loui Louis of o Missouri I of ef all the adjacent region are entitled to every aid in mak making making ing log the celebration a noteworthy event In our annals We earnestly hope that for foreign foreign foreign eign nations will appreciate a te the deep interest our country takes in this ex cx exposition exposition position and our view of ot Its ife Importance I from every standpoint ty and that they the will in lit securing Its success cc The I national government ba b represented pre seated by a full IOU agid Bd eom e set se Of ot ex ox Charleston 0 n Exposition ion The people of Charleston Charston ton with great energy and civic spirit are aro carrying on onan onan onan an exposition which will continue throughout most moat of the present session sealon of the congress co I heartily commend this to the good will of the pee peo people pIe It deserves all ail the encouragement that ran can an be b given it The managers of or orthe o othe the Charleston exposition have h ve requested the cabinet officers to tg place thereat the Ute gov tOv ment exhibits which have been at Buff Burrl a 3 promising to pay the necessary expenses expanse I have taken the responsibility j j of directing that this be done for I l feet feel that lh t it is due to Charleston ston to help her heri i i her hr praiseworthy effort Jn tn my opinion hp management should not be he required to pay all ail these expenses I earnestly c i 4 recommend that the engross appropriate ap e eat at nese ence the Ute small sum necessary for fior this purpose The I H at 8 Buffalo has Just Jutt pieced closed ed B iron fron tit t industrial t minI and a d th tIl artistic standpoint t Ihli Fa opposition tion has beet been n itt Ill a ft high d gr J and useful eul u not merely mer y to n tv but o e othe ethe I the United States Staten Sta es The Th terrible tragedy of the presidents inter interfered Interfered interfered materially with Us lie being In a financial I success The exposition was peculiarly in harmony with th the trend of our public because it represented an n effort to too bring inte into closer er touch all the he peoples t les of the western hemisphere phere sad and gIve gf them theman an increasing of 0 unity Such an ef effort effort effort fort was a genuine service to the entire American public Need of National Museum Tile The advancement of the tIle highest h t inter interests Interests ests eats of national science and learning the custody of objects of 81 art and anil of the tle tl valuable results of scientific expeditions conducted by the United States S Ul have IJ li vo o been boon committed to the Smithsonian Institution In furtherance of its declared purpose ur ose for the increase and aad diffusion of knowl knowledge knowledge edge among men menthe the congress has from time to time given glnn it other Important functions Such trusts trust hav V b n exe executed executed by the institution with notable potable fidelity There should be no halt hair in the work of the institution in iR accordance with the plans which its secretary has as presented for the preservation of the Ute VaniShing races of oC great ar t American animals in the national zoological perk park The urgent needs of the national museum are recommended to the V eon con consideration of the congress conlO Perhaps the most moat characteristic educe educational educational movement of the fifty years is that which has baa created the tn modern madera public library and developed it into bread end and active service There are nOW frow ow over 5 public libraries in the United States the product of this period In addition to ac accumulating accumulating I cumulating cul material they are also striving ing hag by organisation by improvement in I method and by y cooperation to give ghe I greater efficiency to the material they I hold to make it more widely useful u by avoidance of unnecessary ary duplication in Ip process to reduce the cost coot of its ad administration administratIon ministration tIon Library of Congress In these theae efforts ort they hey naturally look l k for Cor assistance to the federal library which though still K lt tb the e library of so 80 entitled is bs the one national library of o the United States Already the we larg largest largest est single collection of books hooks on the Ute west western western ern era hemisphere and certain to more rapidly y titan than any other through purchase e exchange and the operation of the copyright ht law this library has a unique opportunity opp to reader to the libraries of o this country to American scholarship service of the tile highest hl im importance J It is housed in a building which is the largest large t and most moot magnificent yet et erected for library uses a are now ROW being provided Which will de develop develop the collection properly equip it with it apparatus and aad service e eary to its effective tive use render its Us work widely available and enable it to become not merely a 1 center if f Search research but the chief factor in l great gre t co efforts for the diffusion ot of knowing and Aad ad the advancement of et lane For Por the sake of good ml Uon sound MUnd economy and the of science the census censul office lee o as aw eon cnn Stunted should be made mad a It permanent p t government bureau insure better hetter cheaper and more satisfactory I work in the interest t not hOt only eniy of O f egr bud busi business bU budness I Iness ness but of statistic Om ero science I i I Growth of o Postal Posta S Se I IThe The o Ut service If is I shown In tle tIte fact t t tt f Its Jie revenues have doubled and slid Its ibi expendi expenditures dl tures tu s have nearly doubled within twelve vo years rears Its Ha progressive e deH development pm nt com compels pole constantly increasing outlay but in inthis Inthis this period rio of business energy and nd pros pro prosperity proper prosperity per y its receipts grow so 80 much faster than its Ita expenses that the annual annval deficit baa has been steadily reduced from in liST to 3 in 1511 Among ree re recant ent nt postal po tal advances the tb success oi of I rural Ural free delivery wherever established esta lisa has t s been b n so marked and actual actus I experience ha hamade h hs made Its ity it Benefits FO so lain that Pat the tin de tie demand d mand for tor its It extension 1 l general and nd urgent V It i is Ju Jut t that haf t the t he groat r t agricultural population should share In Iz Jio ilo Improve d z meat ment of the service e The number of rural i routes now in operation is practical practically ly Iy all aU established within three years and there are are applications awaiting awal ng action It is bs expected that the number iu in operation at the close of the current I fiscal al year will reach The mali mail will wt V then be dally daily carried to h doors of t ot dt of our people who 0 have hereto heretofore heretofore fore been dependent ck distant tant offices officer and ot or all aJi thu portion of ot the tM I country which is adapted to it will be covered by this kind ot ox service j Abuses of the Service The full measure ot 0 postal progress which willett might be realized realised has baa long been Il V hampered and obstructed by b the tile heavy i burden Imposed on n the government ov through the and well under understood I f stood abuses abu es which have hae grown up in con I section with set mail maLl matter matterI I The extent of ot this burden appears when I it j is stated that while th the c matter makes mains nearly aearl tb of 01 the I weight of l all the matt mall it paid for the last fiscal 1 year only oaly 1 of oi UM the aggregate postal revenue of If the pound rate of postage produce the I r lose thus thua entailed tn l which was fixed by b the t e congress w with th the th purpose iu of en tn the dissemination of public in mm information Imf formation f were limited to IS tb t legitimate newspapers rs and ami periodicals p actually con eon contemplated tepa l by the law no just t exception be lie token taken That expense wooK be the recognized recognised recQ nJ and nd accepted cost t of t a liberaL liber j I public pu policy deliberately or adopted for or a justifiable le tad end ad Out flut muck much muc of f the tW matter which enjoys the Ut privilege at is wholly outside outride out f of the intent of the law and has secured admission only through an eves evas evasIon Ion of its Ita requirements or r through isa construction Th rho proportion of such wrongly w ly matter batter fat is estimated by byl postal l exports experts to be te aalf Of tIn whole of mail JUaU If It b be only onI or the i magnitude et at the burden Is ia apparent The po omo department depar eDt has lies now DeW under undertaken undertaken taken to V tensor 01 the a abuses ewa no se fa far as U is Ide pos H le e fey hy yo a stricter of ot the law Jaw and a it U be m lai in iii its V