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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. FI, i (Continued from page six.) ti is ITi (1 1 d(W1 Iul i'op,7 in II Constantly Increasing measure) also toll with his brain. Under the constitu tion the national legislature can do but N little of direct importance for his wel fare Save where he is engaged in work whih permits it to- act under the in terstate commerce clause of the consti tution, and this Is one reason why I So earnestly hope that both the legis lative and judicial branches of the gov 'ernmeit will construe this clause of the constitution in the broadest possi ble nanner. The Farmer. The only other persons whose wel Xare ij as vital to the welfare of the wrtOle comtr3, as is the welfare of the wageworkers are the tillers of the soll. the frarmers. Sev -ral factors must co-operate in the in .provement of the farmer's con dition. iIe iust have the chance to be edu '1ated in the widest possible sense, in the sense which keeps ever in view the 'iltnit relatiolnship between the theory of education and the facts of life. Organizatio has become necessary in the bisinesskvorld, and it has ac collplished m1uchl or good in the world of labor. It is no less necessary for farmers. Such a movement as the grange movement is good in Itself and is capable of a well nigh Infinite fur ther extension for good so long as It is kept to its own legitimate business. The benefits to be derived by the as sociation of farmers for mutual ad vantage are partly economic and part ly sociological. Irrigation and Forest PreserVation. Much is now being done for the states of the Rocky mountains and great plains through the development of the national policy of irrigation and forest preservation. No government policy for the betterilmit of our lnter nal conditions has been more fruitful of good than this. Divoree I.egisintoni. I am well avare of how dilIcult it is to pass a constitutional IImellnimelt. Nevertheless, In my judgment, the Wihole question of nmrrIlage and di vorce shjoul(i be relegated to the au thority of the national congress. The ,channge would be good from every standpoint. In partieular It woul(1 he good because It would confer on the congress the power at once to de'al radically and elilciently with polygamy, and this sholid be done whether or iot marriage and divorce are dealt with. It is neither safe nor proper to eave the question of polygamy to be dealt with by the several states. Merchant 1nrine. Let in once again call the attention f the congress to two subjects con cerning whilh I have freutiently be ore communicated with them. One is he Iuestion of developing American hipping. I trust that a law embody g In substance the views or a major art of the vIiews expressed in the re ort on this subject laid before the o11q, at its last session will be passed. t seems ne m that the proposed micas rb is as nearl) unobjectionable as any an be. The Currency. I especIally call your attention -to the *econdl subj.ect, the condiltion of our currency lawvs. ThIe national bank act has ably served a great purpose ini aid ing the enormous businless dlevelop) ment of tile country, and within tenl years there has bieeni an increase in .circulation per capita from $21.411 to $33.08. For several years evidence has ~een accumulating that addlitional leg Islation is needed. The recurrence of 4each crop season emphlasizes the de ets-of the preselnt lawvs. There must onm be a revision of them, because to leave them as they are means to In dur liabIlity of business disaster. Since tour body adjourned there has been a ~uctulation in the interest on call .oney from 2 per cent to 80 per cent. nd the fluctuation was even greater * ring the precedIng six months. The ecretary of the treasury had to step nand by wvise action put a stop to the ost violent period of oscillation. I do niot press any especial plan. -Va Ious plans hav'e recently been. pro osed by explert conmmittees of' bank rs. Amng the plans which arc possi ly feasible and which certainly, should coive your consideration is that re eatedly brought to your attention by he present secretary of the treasury, o essential features of which have been ap)proved by many prioinlenlt bankers and1( business meni. Accord Ing to this plan, national banks should be permitted to issue a speeified plropor tion of tiheir cauital ini notes of a given kind, the issue to be taxed at so high a rate as to drive the notes back whmen not wanlted in legitimate tradle. This plan would not permnit tile issue of currenicy to give banks additional prof 'its, but to meet tihe emergency present ed by times of stringency. *I do not say that tis is tihe right sys temi. I only advance it to emuphasize mny belief that there is need for the adoption of some system which shall b' automatic and open to all sound banks so as to avoid all possibility of 4lAerlminatton and favoritism. The .law should be amended so as specifically to provide 'that tihe fu6nds derIved from customs dulties may be reated by the seeretary of thle treas iy as hIe treats funds(1 ob)tainled under e internal revenue laws. . There ~houlid be a considerable increase in bills of smalli denonminations. Permis 10on should be giveni banks, if necessa under settled restrictions, to retire their _irculation to a larger amount than three millions a, month. 01r Outlyllin flossexxion". I most earnestly hope that the bill to provide a lower tarlif for or else abso lute free trade 'ii Plillippine products will become a law. No iarim will come to any Anerlean industry, and, while tiere-6ill b solie sinalil but real mntte rial benefit to the Filipinos, the main benefit will collie by the showing made as to our purpose to do all in our power for their welfare. Porto Rican Affairs. American citizenship fould be cop ferred on the citizens of Porto Rico. The harbor of San Juan, in Porto Rico. should be dredged and improvel. The expenses of the federal court of Porto Rico should be met from the federal treasury. IEnwvaIi. The needs of Ilawall are peculiar. Every aid should be given the Islands, and our efforts should be unceasing to develop them along the lines of a con munity of small freeholders, not of great planters with cooly tilled es tates. Alaska. Alaska's needs have been partIally met, but there must be i complete re organization of the goverinimental sys temi, as I have before indicated to you. I ask your especial. attention to this. Our fellow citizens who dwell oil the shores of Puget sound with character istic enOrgy are arranging to hoild in Seattle the Alaska-Yukon-Pacilc ex position. Tlls exposition in its pur poses ald scope Should appeal not only to the people of the Paiefic slope, but to the people of the' United States at I large. Rights of Aliens. Not only must we treat all nations fairly, but we must treat wvith justice and good will all immigrants who coic here under the law. Whether they are Catholic or Protestant. Jew or gentile. whether they come from England or Germany, Russia, Japan or Italy, mat ters nothing. All we have a right to question is the manl's conduct. If he is honiest and i *pright in his dealings Nvitll Ills neighor ad with the state. tile! he Is entiti1 to respect and0 goodl treatmelont. -,peeially do we need to relwnllmber olr, duty to tihe straligor within our gates. It is tile sure mllark of a low clvilizatioll, a low morality. to abuse o- discriminate against or In any I way 1umiliate suell stranger wIlo has colie Ilere lawfully and wIo is con ducting Illmself properly. To remem ber tills is incumnllt onl Overy Amer lei ci tizenl, and it is of' course pecul larly iclulubelt Oil every governillent oflicial, Iietier of the nation or of the several states. I am) prompted to say this by the attitude of hostility here and] there is sulied toward tile' Japanese in this country. This hostility is sporadIle al( is limited to a very few places. Never theless It is most disereditable to us as a people, and It Ilay be fraught With tile tgravest colsequences to the nation. I ask fair treatmnent for the Jnpanese as I wouldi ask fair treatment for Ger- I mans Or Englishmen. Frenchinmen, Rus sians or Italians. I ask it as due to humanity anil civilization. I ask it as due to ourselves, because we must act uprightly toward all mien. I recoi mend to tihe congress that an act be passed specifically providing for the naturalization of Japanese who come here Intending to become American cit izens. One of the great embar-rass ments attending tihe performance of our internautional olilgations is the fact that tihe statutes of the United States are enitirely inadequate. They fail to gIv-e to tile nIatonal government sufileitly ample power-, thurouigh Unit ed States cour-ts and by tihe use of tihe army and naivy, to protect alienis in tihe righlts secured to them) under solemn treaties which are tihe law of tihe land. I therefore earnestly recommend that the crimial and civil statutes of the United States be so amended and add ed to as to enable the president, acting for the United States government, which is responsible in our interna tional relations, to enforce the rights of aliens under treaties, The Cuban Mattese. Last August an insurrection broke out in Cuba which it speedily grew evi dent that the existing Cuban govern ment was powerless to quell. Thanks to the preparednless of our navy, I was able immediately to send enough ships to Cuba to prevent tile situation from becoming hlopeless, and I fur thermore dispatched to Cuba the sec retary oil war anid tile assistant secre tary of state in ordler tha.t they mIght grapple with the situation on tile grounid. In accordance withl tile so called I?latt amlendmluent, whlich was emhod led in the constitutIon of' Cuba, T there upon01 proclaimed a provisional govern ment for tile islanId, tile secretary of war' acting as provisional governor un til heC could be replaced by Mr. Magoon, the late minister to Panama and gov ernor of tile canlal zonle on the isthmnus. Troops were senut to sulppor~t thmem and to relieve thue navy, the expedition be ing hanldled withl most satIsfactory sp)eed anld efflqiency-. Peace hlas comel ini tile island, anid tile harvesting of tile sugar cane crop, the great crop of tile island, is about to proceed. When the election has been held and the now government inaugurated in peaceful and orderly fashion the provisional government will corne to an enId. The United States wishes nothing of Cuba except that it shall prosper mor ally and materially anId wishles nothing of tIle Cubans stave that thecy shall be able to p)reservue order among them selves and thlerefore to preserve thleir independ1ence. If the electionls become Ulnarceuf'd if tile lusurrectionary habit becoihes conflrnied on the island it is absolutely out of the question -that the islad shuld coantnna Inu4nanamn n4 %C! tRiifed ible-s, whid- lIMS ns milied the spollsorshllp before the ev ilized World for Cbla's c:arver ats a til ion, would again have to Iatervenv md to see that tile goverlnlent was mInalaged in such orderly faslhion as to recuretlhe ia ety of life -1 na pi'operty. The ItIo Conference. The second international conference Df American republics, 'held in Mexi co In the years 1901-02, provided for the holding of the third conference within flive years and committed the f1xing of the time and place and the irrangements for the conference to the governing hoard of the bureau of Amerlean republics, composed of the *epresentAtives of all the American iations in Washington. That board 1lscharged the duty imposed upon t with marked fidelity and pains takiig cre, and upon lithe courteous invitation of th'e United States of Bra F.t the conference was held lit io do JnIclro, continuing from the 23d of July to the 29th of August last. Many subjects of collimoln iiterest to aill the Amerlean nations were disessed by the conferenl'e. and4 the conlcliIsIloils reached. Vimbodivid InI a s rivs ot rcso hitionis :1i141 proposled col .vntiislls, will be laid before yf 1n ololIn the coiing of the fi-111 report of tle Aierleanl dele ga tes. i'anmtm~in 'Trip. I have .,w-zt returned I'rom a1 trip to Pama Id Hhall rellort to you it lengtiih ter ol the wholo subject of the Panlam e111tIIn:1. The Algec-IN Convention. 'the Algviras convention, which Awas sigiied by the Unitel States as vell as by Illost of the powers of Europe, su p'edes tile prev0ous Convention of 1880, whileh vas also signed both by the United States and a majority of the Europonii powers. This treaty c!onfers upon us equal commercial rights with all European countries and does not elitall a single obligation of an11y kIind uponls us, anld I earnestly hope it many ie speedily raitlfed. Senuling. The destructin of tile Pribilof Is Inn I ur siI is byv ila ie II ln still to th veirvc y im lin iS71 by direc Riol of tho ie congese, 1bred -1,700, 11M). atnd which, nccording to the sir vvy of both Alit-rieanl and Caladian con) lilissiollers in 1891, almoulted tc l,(_ljIo.(0, lmts now heeni redleed tc allout 180.00. This re-silt has beien brolgit nlaiRt by Canudian and somcllic otilet' setling vessels killing the tealtl seals while inl tie n\ater (1uiing t1heh annuaIiill pilgr"-Ilige to an1d from tll( satII Or Ill Searlcl of food. The process of (lestrition has beet nlecelerated, (i'Ing recent years by thx appearance of i' minier of Japanes Vessels engaged in p"lgle sealing. Suitable representations regarding the incident have beenl Imade to till governmet of .Japan, and we ar ie as suiredl that all practienble mleasulres Wil be takenl Iy that country to prevenl anyI. recujrr(.nIce of thle ouItrag.r. We have lot rel;axed ouir efforts t< secure fill agreement with Great li'it ain for adeuInate protection of tile sca herd, and nvgotlations with Japan fo1 the same purpose are in progress. The laws for tile protection of th< seals within the Jurisdiction of th< United States need revision aln( amendment. ' Second Hague Conference, In my13 last melssage 1 adlvlsed you that tile emp)er'or of iiiussia hadl ta)ket~ tile inlitiaiti've in brtiniging abl.out a see 01nd p)ealce conf'erence at 'The ligue Und(er the gulidanlce of ilussiai the air trangemnt of the pr'elliminlaries fo: such a conferenee hlas been prlogr'essingJ durinlg tihe Past year'. Pr'ogtress hn5: necessarily' been slow, owing to th<i great nllumber of counitries to be conl suIted upon01 ever'y quelstionl that ila) arisen. It is a mlatter of satisfactiot that all of tile American r'epulblics havei now, for tile first tIme, been invited t< join in the proposed conference. Army and Navy. It must ever be kept In mind thta War is not merely Justifiable, butt imr perative upon honorable men, upon ai honorable nation, whlere peace car only be obtained by the sacrifice o: Conscientious conviction or of niationa welfarle. Tile UnIted States navy Is the sures guaratntotr of peace which tis counRtr'y possesses. I (10 not ask that we COnl tinule to inicreaise our navy. I ash mer'eiy that it be mialatainledi at iti presenlt str'engthl, anld this can be done only if we repliace tile obsolete and out worn ships) by newv and good ones, thi equ~alls of any3 aifoait ini lany nalvy. Ti stop) bilidinig shipls f'or one( yeari meanil: inteadSit of forwvar d. InI both1 the army1i3 anld the navy'3 thier' is urgent nee1r1 thasit (every3'til pl ossib I should lie done1 to maliRitain the ligIh's Mtanldard'l for thie personneiiil aill e as re gar'ds the ohilers andli the enl1iste'd 1wn I dho not believe thait ini any1 seri''i' there'L is ai lineri body13 of olis teO mie:' atlul of Jilnhiu' olicers' thani we l'.ve lI turi' out exce.(llenlt oilceers. We do nio i:e'l to have1 4. these5( schools made m110n sc'lhhistle. Oni the contrarliy, we shou1k uever' lose sighlt of the fact that tiii aim11 of eachl school Is to turn out man who shall be above everything else a fighting mian. Th'iere shiould soon1 be an increaise iR the numlIber' of m~en for our coast de fenlses. These men shiotuld be of thi rIght typeO andl prloperly tr'ained, an11 there should ther'efor'e be ani increasi of pay for cer'tainl skilled gradi(es, espeO eily in the coast ar'tiller'y. Mlone: should be appropriated to permit troop): to be massed in body and exorcised ii aneuavers particnlarly in marching. o,Thie Pacific Mutual Lifeb Its peculiar legal orgaiziiznio inkes it the stroigest ife vio years old, It gives the greatest guairantees writlen in th cost. Its n6n participating rates are less than any other cO lowing are the rates per $1,ooo on non-participating plans. VHIOLE 20 PAVMEN1T WH1OI AGE 1,1FE. L1I1FIC. AG1' LI-F. 20 $14 65 $22 6o 35 21 70 21 I5 00 22 95 36 22 40 22 15 35 22 30 37 23 15 23 15 70 23 70 38 23 90 24 16 05 24 10 39 24 75 25 16 45 24 55 40 25 00 26 16 85 25 00 41 26 55 27 17 30 25 45 42 27 55 28 17 75 25 90 43 28 60 29 I8 25 26 4o 44 29 70 30 18 75 26 95 45 30 90 31 19 25 27 50 46 32 15 32 19 84 28 05 47 32 50 33 20 40 28 6o a8 31 95 34 21 05 29 20 19 36 50 $40,000,000 Besides Ass( The "Pacific Mutual Life' $o,o0o,ooo of its stockholders' private fortunes is, by tl Fund for every policy holder of this Company. Stockhold< profit from what policy holders pay in. It is 40 ycars old. It has over $i(),o0),O)O of business i the most liberal policies of any Lite Company. It writes i more cash and more paid up Insurance at end of premiunim largest dividends of any company doing business in South ( Call to see us. Olice over old Post Office. TIURNIANI Will soon be at hand ai market, with t] CHATTANOOGAI I /Chille Comt CHATTANOOGADic Doubl Plow Corn I-WANT TO SELL YOU S4 I have been in the b)usiness a long time, and am a good Send mec an order and let mec prove it. Mly p)rices are as; low as good whiskey cani be sold for. mneet the competition of unscrupulous dealers, I'll retire. I am doing business on the squaro, an< prepay expressage, but secure you the lowest My prices are as low as you can expect N siip All O-des a in, PIE Wes,t Point Sie, sylvania I Monodrami Bye Victor Rye-Exc Private Stock C lamorla Corn Mountain Corn Sweet Mash Co '- ~Ask forme B. EHL isurance Company. insurance Coipany in America. It is nearly e Policies of any I usuralnce Companly at less ipay doing busine,ss in this section. The fol 20 PAV MENT Wiolu' 20 PAYMMN'I f.Fi. AGIH LIFPH.. 141PH. 29 85 50 38 15 44 50 30 50 51 39 90 46 oo 31 20 52 41 75 47 60 31 95 53 43 75 49 30 32 70 54 45 85 51 15 33 50 55 48 1o 53 10 34 35 56 50 50 55 20 35 25 57 53 10 57 .15 36 20 58 5585 5985 37 20 59 58 'o 62 45 38 25 6o 61 95 65 25 39 35 61 65 30 6S 16 40 50 62 68 92 71 -5 .1; 75 63 73 8o 74 95 43 10 64 78 35 78 76 Pts of the Company. 'is the Company. Ie State Law of CaIliforlia, a guaranteed Safety -rs, according to IL:aw and Charter, derive no n1 force in .1c) States and Territories. It writes 11 Corms of policies. It guarantees in the policy paying period khall any Company, I t pays jaroli na. ROBERT NORRIS, Gen. Agt. for South Carolina. -d we are still in the -ie goods. HATTAGOkA1 d Plows. ination Plows. Dlows. e Shovel Plows. Repairs. and Cotton Planters. )ME PUREh WiME jud(ge of whiskey. Everyting I Se! I is good and pure. W~hen it b)ecomes necessary to offer chleap) mixtutres to I won't have your orders on any other basis. I do not possible rate. to pay for reliable goods. LInl [ntkage b,V I Tirs-t I presa ltin Rye, Our Loader-A pure ol Pen Quart 4 Full Quarts Gallon tre ...........................................$d.() $3.3() $3.00 -*Absolutely pure ..........................1.00 .73 3.00 eptionally end.............................. .73 2'.73 2.30 urn (7 years old), none better............. 1.00 3.73 3.80 Superifor quality, recommended high tecinaltuseo................................... .73 2.78 2.80 -Absolutely Dure.......................... .63 ,,.. 2.80 rn ............................................ .3 ..... 2.00 Irands are Pure and Good. Age and Quality govern Price. mplete Catalog. Remit by Money order or Registered Letter. CHLi Prorior MONTI D2ICLL C. : ATLATA OA g HNTE AN AIo V. L