The National Co-operator and Farm Journal (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1908 Page: 1 of 16
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, DECEMBER 1z, 1908
Number 8
President Roosevelt’s Message,
President Roosevelt’s last annual
message to congress was of the usual
unreadable length. Its chief features
are briefly summarized as follows:
Repeal the provisions of the Sher-
man law denouncing combinations.
Enact law which will expressly permit
combinations which are in the interest
of the public. Give some agency of 'results.
the national government full power of
control and supervision over them.
Have full publicity of all matters the
public has a right to know. Vest
the executive, not the judiciary, with
power to prevent improper favoritism
and w rongdoing.
Put the railways of the country
completely under the interstate com-
merce commission and remove them
from the domain of the anti-trust law.
• Have the commission exercise com-
plete control over the issue of securi-
ties as well as the raising and levying
of rates. The power at least as to
rates should be summary. Railroads
should be expressly given power to
make combinations and traffic agree-
ments, subject to consent of the com-
- mission. The commission should have
complete power to see that the rail-
roads do their duty by the public and
vice versa.
Put telegraph and telephone com-
panies engaged in interstate business
under the jurisdiction of the interstate
commerce commission.
Tax inheritances.
Enlarge the scope of the law ^passed
at the last session of congress for the
protection of wage-workers engaged in
government service so as to include
all such and liberalize its terms.
Pass a model employers’ liability act
for the District of Columbia.
Grant half holidays in summer to
all employes of the government.
Extend the principle of the eight-
hour dap to all work carried on by the
government.
Double the salaries of all federal
Judges.
Provide a method for doing away
with the l°na delays in administra-
tion of justice.
Provide that no injunction shall is-
sue, except on notice, except where ir-
reparable injury would otherwise re-
sult, and sharply define the procedure.
Begin action forthwith for the im-
provement of our inland waterways, so
that we shall have navigation. Pro-
vide for a permanent commission to
frame and supervise a comprehensive
plan. Put the work of supervision
under the reclamation service, or un-
der the military engineers, acting
jointly with the reclamation service or
with civilians, so that the work may
go forward in time of war. Issue
bonds if necessary. Quit playing. Get
Place the national parks adjacent to
national forests completely under con-
trol of forest service.
Repeal the law passed at the last
session prohibiting details from the
secret service or transfers therefrom.
If it is not considered desirable to use
the service in the detection and prose-
cution of congressmen who commit
crimes, make an exception as to the
legislative branch of the government.
Establish postal savings banks. Pro-
vide for experiments in local parcels
post on rural delivery routes.
Increase the appropriation for the
rational bureau of education.
Provide for the next decennial cen-
sus. Place all employes, except su-
pervisors and enumerators, under the
civil service.
Concentrate the bureaus having to
do with public health in one of the
existing departments.
Put the government printing office
under the jurisdiction of the depart-
ment of commerce and labor; the sol-
diers’ homes under the ward depart-
ment; place all existing independent
bureaus and commissions under the
jurisdiction of appropriate executive
departments.
Admit New Mexico and Arizona as
separate states.
Provide for national control of in-
terstate fisheries.
Extend the federal statue regulating
interstate traffic in game so as to in-
clude fish. Establish more fish hatch-
eries. Vest the administration of the
Alaskan fur seal service in the bureau
of fisheries.
Establish satisfactory mail lines to
South America, Asia, the Philippines
and Australasia.
Provide adequate harbors on each
of the Hawaiian Islands. Amend the
coastwise shipping laws to meet their
needs. Amend the contract labor law
so as to permit them to bring in Amer-
ican and European labor. Appropriate
money to quickly make the fortifica-
tions of Pearl Harbor impregnable.
Give the Porto Ricans American
citizenship. .
Abolish the seniority rule in the
army (also the navy). Extend the
scope of retiring boards in order to
secure a more rigid enforcement of
elimination of officers for disabilities.
eRtire officers who fall to attain full
rank by the time they are, say, 45. Pro-
mote officers by selection. Reorgan-
ize the cavalry. Provide more infan-
try. Develop the machine gun. Cre-
ate more officers in the army, so that
a sufficient number shall be available
as instructors of the National Guard
and to train raw levies in case of war.
Give congressional assistance to those
promoting rifle practice, in or out of
the service. Encourage rifle practice
among the schoo hoys and all other
classes.
Provide for 4 x97ed
also for two hos, Vgr
more colliers and destro.
O ships,
a a
oinge
the bureau organization of the
turn the general board into a general
staff. Graduate the midshipment from
Annapolis as ensigns. Appoint the
board of visitors of that school in
January and require each member to
give at least six days’ service.
NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMIT-
TEE
Last week the National Executive
Committee of the Farmers’ Union was
in session at Beebe, Ark., and we pub-
lish below the report of its work which
was sent out by the Associated Press.
That part of the plan for handling
cotton next year through federation of
’warehouses will not likely meet the
approval of the Texas Farmers’ Union.
The Associated Press report follows:
The board of directors of the Na-
tional Farmers’ Union and the mem-
bers of the National Cotton Commit-
tee closed a two days’ meeting here
today, the sessions being held in the
office of R. H. McCulloch, national
secretary. The directors present were
C. S. Barrett of Union City, Ga.; S.
L. Wilson of Van Vleet, Miss.; I. N.
McCallister of Many, La.; W. A. Mor-
ris of Sulligent, Ala and W. T. Lou-
dermilk ' of Comanche, Texas. The
members of the cotton committee
were J: W. Boyett Jr. of New Orleans,
G. S. Hightower of Oxford, Miss.; T.
J. Brooks, of Atwood, Tenn.; J. Y. Cal -
lahan of Enid, Ok., and J. D. Newton
of Jackson, Tenn.
The cotton committee appointed last
November made a report relative to
the handling of cotton for next year.
The plan in brief is a federation of
warehouses, and the outline was ap-
proved by the national board of direc-
tors. The report in part follows:
“Our efforts to hold 1,000,000 bales
of cotton off the market has met with
much favor among members of out
Union, and we have received pledges
for thousands of bales of cotton to be
held.
“We have perfected a plan by which
the next cron-can be handled through
Union channels, that is by the federa-
tion of warehouses, which plan has
been in operation in Mississippi during
the last year and embodies the feature
of the.new plan. It was outlined by
J. Y. Callahan and was indorsed by
the Fort Worth convention. The state
Union of Tennessee at its recent meet-
ing added two essential features and is
now putting the plan into practical
operation.”
The details of this plan will be pre-
sented at an early date, when state
mass meetings will be called in the
various states for the / purpose of
adopting the plan and putting the
same into operation, because of the
fact that the work necessary to be
done will have to be done not later
than March in order to enable the plan
to be most effective. President Barrett
has called the state meeting and they
will be held as follows:
Oklahoma, Jan. 9; Mississippi, Jan.
1; Arkansas, Jan. 14; Texas, Dec. 21;
Alabama, Jan. 16; Georgia, Jan. 18;
Louisiana, Jan. 18; South Carolina,
Jan. 20; North Carolina, Dec. 16;
Florida, Jan. 22; Missouri, Jan 25;’
Illinois, Jan. 27; Kansas, Jan. 29; Colo-
rado, Feb. 1; California, Feb. 3; Ore-
gon, Feb. 5; Washington, Feb. 7; Ken-
tucky, Feb. 3.
The cotton committee’s headquar-
ters will be New Orleans, but that city
has not been chosen as headquarters
for the executive committee.
HOME CANNERS’ ASSOCIATION
The second annual meeting of the
State Home Canners’ Association will
meet at 10 a. m. Jan. 7, 1909, in Jack-
sonville, Texas, the headquarters of
the association. Delegates from all
county and precinct organizations re-
quested to be present; also, every one
interested in home cannin g. Fruit and
truck growers invited tend.”
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