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DECEMBER 11, 1903.
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The President's Message.
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cising care and economy in appropria
tions and scanning sharply any
chango in our fiscal revenue system
which may reduce our income:
Tho president did not devote great
attention to the currency question.
On this point, he said: "Tho integrity
of our currency is beyond question
and under present conditions, it would
v.a iiTTwiRo and unnecessary to at
tempt reconstruction of our entire
monetary system. The same liberty
should be granted the secretary of
the treasury to deposit customs re
ceipts as is granted him in tho depos
iting of receipts from other sources.
In my message of December 2, 1902, I
called attention to certain needs of
the financial situation, and I again
ask the consideration of congress for
these questions."
The president then referred to the
commission appointed to confer with
the principal European countries in
the hope that some plan might be de
vised whereby a fixed rate of ex
change could be assured, between gold
standard countries and silver stand
ard countries. He said that the pre
liminary report of this commission
had been filed and he deemed it im
portant that the commission bo con
tinued and that a sum of money be
appropriated sufficient to pay the ex
penses of its future members.
Referring to the merchant marine,
the president said: "A majority of
our people desire that steps be taken
in the interests of American shipping
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL,
Few People Know How Useful It is In Pre
serving Health and Beauty.
Nearly cverytody lenows that char
coal is tno 'safest and most efficient
disinfectant "and purifier in nature, but
few realize its value when taken into
the human system for the same cleans
iDg purpose.
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of it tn: better; it is not a
drug at all, but simply absorbs tho
gases and impurities always present
in the stomac . and 'ntestines and car
ries them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or, after eating
onions and ottrr odorous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and im
proves tho complexion, it whitens the
teeth and further acts as a natural
and eminently safe cathartic.
It absorbs the injurious gases which
collect in the stomach and bowels; it
disinfects the irouth and throat from
the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one
fcrm or another, but probably tho best
charcoal and the most for the money
if in Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges;
tbey are composed of the finest pow
dered Willow charcoal, and othor
harmless antiseptics in tablet form or
rather in tho fcrm of large, pleasant
tasting lozenges, the charcoal being
mixed with honey.
The daily use of these lozenges will
soon tell in a muchi Improved condi
tion of the general health, better com
plexion, sfeeter breath and purpr
blood, and the beauty of it is, that
no possible harm can result from their
continued uso, but on the contrary,
great 4benefit.
A Buffalo phypician in speaking of
the benefits of c-arcoal, says "I ad
vise Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges to
sll patients sufficing from ?as in the
Etomach and bowels, and to clear the
complexion and purify the breath
mouth and throat; I also believe the
liver is greatly benefited by the daily
use of them; th " cost but 25 cents a
box at drug stores, and although in
some sense a patsnt preparation, yet I
believe I get more and better charcoal
in Stuart's Absc-bent Lozenges than In
ny of the ordinary cha'reoal tablets."
so that wo may onco more resume our
former position in tho ocean-carrying
trade, but hitherto the differences
of opinion as to tho proper manner to
reach this end have been so wide that
it is probably impossible to secure the
adoption of any particular scheme.
Having in view these facts, I recom
mend that tho congress direct the sec
retary of tho navy, the postmaster
general, and the secretary of com
merce and labor, associated with such
representation from tho senate and
the house of representatives as the
congress in its wisdom may designate,
to serve as a commission for tho pur
pose of investigating and reporting
to tho congress at its next session
what may be desirable or necessary
for the development of the American
merchant marine and American com
merce, and incidentally, of a national
ocean mail service of adequate auxil
iary naval crujsers and naval reserves.
"While such a'measuro is desirable in
any event, It is especially desirable
at this time in view of the fact that
our present governmental contract for
ocean mail with the American lino
will expire in 1905. Our ocean mail
act was passed in 1891. In 1895 our 20
Knot trans-Atlantic mail line was
eaual to anv foreisn line. Since then.
the Germans have put on a 23 knot
steamer and the British have con
tracted for a 24 knot steamer. Our ser
vice should equal the best, if it does
not the commercial public will aban
don it. If we are to stay in the busi
ness, it ought to bo with tho full
understanding of tho advantages to
the country on one hand and on the
other with exact knowledge of the
cost and proper methods of carrying it
on. Moreover, lines of cargo ships are
of even more importance than fast
mail lines; save so far as the latter
can be depended upon to furnish swift
auxiliary cruisers in time of war. The
establishment of new lines of cargo
ships to South America, to Asia, and
elsewhere will be much in the inter
ests of. our commercial expansion."
Referring to immigration, tho presi
dent said: "We cannot have too much
immigration of the right kind and we
should have none at all of the wrong
kind," He pointed out the necessity
for devising some system by which
undesirable immigrants shall be kept
out entirely while desirable immi
grants aro properly distributed
throughout tho country, and he said
that at present some districts which
need immigrants have none and in
others where the population is al
ready congested, immigrants come in
such numbers as to depress the con
ditions of life for those already there.
He added that during the last two
years the immigration service in New
York has been greatly improved and
that the corruption and inefficiency
which formerly obtained there have
been eradicated.
The president directed special at
tention to the subject of naturalization
and said that an investigation by the
attorney general has revealed a con
dition of affairs calling for tho imme
diate attention of congress. He de
clared that "forgeries and perjuries of
a shameless and flagrant character
have been perpetrated not only in the
dense centers of population, but
throughout the country; and it is es
tablished beyond doubt that very
many so-called citizens of the United
States have no title whatever to that
icri,f nnri nro nssertine and enjoying
the benefits of the same through the
grossest frauds."
Tho president directed attention to
the recommendation made in his last
annual message In connection with
tho subject of the regulation of com
binations of capital wherein he sug
gested a special appropriation for the
better enforcement of the anti-trust
law In response to that suggestion,
tho' congress appropriated $500,000,
and in the present message the presi
dent recommended as a matter of the
utmost Importance the urgency of ex
tending the purpose of this appro
priation so that it may be available
under tho direction of tho attornoy
general and until used (pr tho duo en
forcement of the laws of the United
States in general and especially of
civil and criminal laws relating to
public lands and the laws relating to
postal crimes and offonscs and tho
subject of naturalization. "Recent In
vestigations have shown a deplorablo
state of affairs in these thrco matters
of vital concern. By various frauds
and by forgeries and perjuries thou
sands of acres of the public domain,
embracing lands of diffcront character
and extending through various sec
tions of the country havo been dis
honestly acquired."
In tho same connection, the presi
dent said that "through frauds, for
geries and perjuries and by shameless
uriuenes tno laws relating to tho pro
per conduct of tho public service in
general and to tho duo administration
of tho postofllce department have been
notoriously violated, and many In
dictments have been found and con
sequent prosecutions are in course of
hearing or on the eve thereof." The
president then said that because of
these conditions it is important that
the government may be prepared to
enforce promptly and with tho great
est effect tho duo penalties for such
violations of the law.
The action taken by the state de
partment looking to the making of
bribery an extraditable offense with
foreign powers was referred to ap
provingly. Tho president pointed to tho rapid
development of Alaska, to tho estab
lishment of growing American inter
ests in regions heretofore unsurveyed,
and imperfectly known, and said tiiat
this development brought Into promi
nence tho urgent necessity of the pro
posed demarcation of the boundary
between the jurisdiction of the United
States and Great Britain. Ho de
scribed the results of the joint high
commission with respect to tho Alas
kan boundary' as being "satisfactory
in every way," and said that it only
remains for tho two governments to
appoint each on its own behalf, one or
more scientific experts who will pro
ceed to lay down the boundary line In
accordance with the decision of the
majority in tho tribunal. Ho asked
congress to make an appropriation to
pay the expenses and salaries of the
members who servo on this joint
boundary commission on tho part of
tho United States.
Referring to tho claims against
Venezuela growing out of the alliance
between Great Britain, Germany and
Italy for the purpose of blockading
Venezuelan ports, the president said
that these claims had been submitted
to the permanent court of arbitration
at The Hague, and that this "triumph
of the principle of international arbi
tration Is a subject of warm congrat
ulation and offers a happy augury for
the peace of the world." Ho took oc
casion to say also that there seems
good ground for the belief that there
has been a real growth among, civil
ized nations of a sentiment which will
permit a gradual substitution of oth
er methods than tho method of war
in the settlement of disputes.
Ho renewed the recommendation
made by President McKinley in his
message of December 5, 1898, suggest
ing an international agreement where
by all private property at sea would
be regarded as exempt from capture
or destruction by the forces of bellig
erent powers. The president said he
advocated this "as a matter of human
ity and morals," and he added: "It
is anachronistic when private property
Is respected on land that it should not
bo respected on sea."
The president asked congress to ex
tend to the interparliamentary union
for international arbitration which
met at Vienna last year an invitation
to meet in the United States and at
St. Louis in 1904.
Referring to the late unpleasantness
with Turkey, tho president says that
our present relations with that gov
ernment are friendly and that our
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claims appear to bo in process of
amicablo adjustment.
Tho president pointed with prldo to
the now commercial treaty with Chi
na, where ho says larger facilities aro
to he given to our citizens who desire
to carry on enterprises in China, and
that the development of our commerce
in Manchuria Is assured by the open
ing to foreign commerce of the cities
of Mukden and Antung.
Attention was directed to the re
duced cost In maintaining the consular
service for the fiscal year ending Juno
30, 1903. The present year's excess of
expenditures over receipts on account
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