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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1901
Page
11
The message urges expanding reciprocity with other nations to secure markets for American goods. It argues for maintaining prosperity, supplying domestic demand, and producing surplus for export. It calls senators to consider reciprocity treaties and using duties only where protection is no longer needed or revenue essential.
The piece urges immediate congressional action to strengthen the American merchant marine. It argues ships serve national interests, calls out subsidies abroad and higher U.S. costs, and promotes making it advantageous to carry American goods on American built ships. It advocates restoring the American merchant marine to the ocean.
The 1909 gold standard act is hailed as wise for establishing gold as money and maintaining parity. Bond prices reflect strong public credit, but safeguards against crises are urged. Revenues from duties and taxes exceed ordinary needs, helped by reduced military costs, yet careful spending and avoidance of waste are essential to prevent deficits.
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 aimed to ensure just and reasonable railway rates and equal treatment for ships localities and commodities. Critics note enforcement flaws rebating and favors to large shippers while railways say the law hinders concerted action and may hinder commerce. Both sides call for a careful balance and effective remedies.
The national government should promote both forests and irrigation as essential to upbuilding homes and trade. The department of agriculture must lead in forestry, river storage, and water conservation, with unified authority and expanded forest reserves to protect wildlife and watersheds.
The text argues for federal irrigation works and arid land reclamation, funded partly by land value gains, to aid settlement. It warns against private water ownership separate from land, urging public rights over streams and calling for careful, nonextravagant government action to develop irrigation with broad public interest.
The speech argues for American development of Hawaii on homestead lines, reports on Porto Rico and Cuba with reduced Cuban duties, and outlines a long term, patient plan for Philippine self government. It urges honest administration, economic development, and laws to encourage industry, land use, banking, and transportation, including a government or contract cable to link Hawaii, the Philippines, and Asia.
The text argues no project equals a canal across the isthmus in importance. It contends the canal's benefits extend beyond material gains and would be profoundly felt across nations and economies in the region and beyond.
The piece argues for continued naval buildup as essential to national honor and safety. It stresses the navy as a deterrent, cites Monroe Doctrine adherence, and calls for further battleships, armored cruisers, and trained officers and men, with reform of academy titles and continuous gunnery and squadron training. The history note recalls 1882 beginnings and Spain’s quick war victory due to preparation.
The speaker announces negotiations with Great Britain yielding a treaty. If ratified, it would let the U S begin canal preparations at any time and guarantee full rights sought. The Clayton Bulwer treaty is abrogated and the United States alone will build safeguard and regulate neutral use on equal terms.
The Monroe doctrine should be the cardinal foreign policy of the two Americas and the United States. It declares no territorial aggrandizement by non American powers on American soil and aims for universal peace in the hemisphere while safeguarding independence of smaller states. It is not hostile to Europe nor tied to commercial relations and supports mutual uplift without becoming a military power.
The board advocates forming a national naval reserve under the navy department to man ships in war. It promotes a two-tier force with state naval militia for coast service and a national reserve drawn from naval academy graduates coast steamer crews and coast population. It warns opulence and aggression without arms risks national disaster.
The essay argues against enlarging the army now, urging instead peak efficiency through trained officers and cavalry, merit-based promotions, and a general staff drawn from the line. It champions annual field drills, civil war veterans’ privileges, and elimination of political pressure, while detailing reforms from the recent army reorganization and the need for improved military education and National Guard integration.
The merit system of appointments is as democratic as the common school and should apply to non political duties with no favoritism. Written exams and extended registrations are proposed, especially for labor and clerical staff, with emphasis on character and capacity over influence in the Philippines, Porto Rico, and insular possessions.
The consular service is deemed insufficient for 1856 needs and a reorganization is urged. Bills proposing a new consular service require fitness tests, merit based promotions, and tenure free of partisan influence. With expanding foreign commerce and citizen protection abroad, consuls must be men of character and enterprise. current service is efficient but unsustainable without enacted laws.
A historical policy vision argues for recognizing Indians as individuals rather than tribes, promoting allotment of lands, housing, and education focused on industrial skills, with limited higher education and tailored reservation teaching. It critiques ration-based aid and seeks reduced liquor issues, noting international cooperation where possible.
The article surveys Federal library support, Census Bureau permanence, and postal expansion. It notes over 5,000 libraries, a potential permanent census bureau, and rapid growth of rural free delivery to 8,600 routes, reaching 5.7 million rural households. It calls reducing second class abuses and preserving open door policy in China. It closes with Theodore Roosevelt's December 3, 1901 White House message referencing international peace and open commerce.
Carlton Wheeler, geologist, reports a 3 by 7 inch fossil footprint resembling an ape, embedded in slate at Grove Springs by Keuka Lake. It shows five toes with two large joints each and a hair-coated bottom. Calculations indicate the impression is not less than 10,000 years old.
The defiant missionary declares his resolve while the opposing savages retort with the proverb that the proof lies in the eating. The exchange highlights a clash of pride and belief in a rugged confrontation.
The Chicago Tribune notes Vatican conspiracies to undermine Pope Leo XIII amid rumors of ill health. It alleges French royalist and republican factions back a plan to influence conclave outcomes, while Rampolla faces false accusations as church leadership battles persistent meddling and misinformation.
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