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?, DECEMBER ?t 1906, lug fellows that is,, upon our nation as a whole. Good manners should be an International no less than an In dividual attribute. I ask fair treat ment for the Japanese as I would ask fair treatment for Germans or Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, or Italians. I ask it as due to humanity and civilization. I ask it as due to ourselves because we must act up rightly toward all men. "I recommend to the congress that an act be passed specifically provid ing for the naturalization of Japanese who come here -intending to become. American citizens. One of the great embarrassments attending the per formance of our international obliga tions is the fact that the statutes of the United States are entirely Inade quate. They fail to give to the na tional government sufficiently ample power, through United States courts and by the use of the army and navy, to protect aliens in the rights secured to them under solemn treaties which ara the law of the land. I therefore earnestly recommend that the criminal and civil statutes of the United States he so. amended and added to as to en able the president, acting for the' United States government, which is responsible in our international rela tions, to enforce the rights of aliens under, treaties. Even as the law now Is something can be done by the fed eral government toward this end, and in the matter now before me affecting the Japanese, everything that it is in my power to ,do will be done, and all of the -forces, military and civil, of the Unltpd States -which -I may lawfully employ will- be so employed. There should, however, be no particle of doubt as to the power of the national government completely to perform and enforce its own obligations to oth er nations. The mob of a single city .may afc aiiy time perform acjs of law 'less violence 'against some class of foreigners, which would plunge us into war. That city by itself would be pow- The Commoner. 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The president says that things are progressing well in Cuba and promises that "when tho election has been held and the new government inaugurated in peaceful and orderly fashion the provisional government will come to an end." He devotes considerable space to the third conference of American re publics held in Rio do Janerio in July, 1906. He attaches as an appendix to his message a copy of the address de livered at that conference by Secre tary Boot. He promises to deal with his Pan ama trip in a later message. In a chapter entitled "Peace and Righteousness" the president says: "The United States navy is the sur est guarantor of peace which this country possesses." "While he says he will not ask that we "continue to in crease our navy" he asks that it be "maintained at its present strength" and adds: "This can be done only if we replace the obsolete and worn out ships by new and good ones, the equals of any afloat in any navy." 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