AMERICAN POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 138, 8 December 1904, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE. THE NATIONAL IDEAL. "PEACE WITH JUSTICE." [press association.] WASHINGTON, 7th December. President Roosevelt's message to Congress states that labour organisations deserve encouragement while they exhibit a decent regard for the rights of others. A stringent employers' liability law ought to be passed, to apply to the Government as well as others. It was a grave impropriety for Government employees to band together and extort, improperly, high salarjes. " The national Government alone was able to deal with the abuses of great corporations. Constructive legislation, not destructive persecution, should be its aim. A Bureau of Corporations should be established. He advocates the adoption of severe child labour and factory inspection laws. Married women ought not to work in factories. Their duty was to be mothers and housewives. The message urges attention being given to the currency in order to secure elasticity consistent with safety, advocates legislation for the encouragement of, the merchant marine, and promises to refer to the tariff later. It was impossible to conduct a strong foreign . policy without an adequate army and navy. The national ideal ought to be peace with justice, each nation safeguarded in its own rights, scrupulously /performing its duty to others, and the wicked made to disarm until some international control was established over offending nations. Monroeism might force the United States to exercise international police duty in flagrant cases. The message expresses 'horror at the Kishineff massacre and the cruel oppression of Armenians. The war in the Far East, it is remarked, shows the necessity for more battleships.