needs, relieve their immediate wants, and help them adapt themselves to the
new conditions.
The commission appointed to investigate, during the season of escort en newark new yersey 1903, the
condition and needs of the Alaskan salmon fisheries, has finished its work
in the field, and is preparing a detailed report thereon. A preliminary
report reciting the measures immediately required for the escort en newark new yersey protection and
preservation of the salmon industry has already been submitted to the
escort en newark new yersey Secretary of Commerce and Labor for his attention and for the needed
action.
I recommend that an appropriation be made escort en newark new yersey for building light-houses in
Hawaii, and taking possession of escort en newark new yersey those already built. The Territory should
be reimbursed for whatever amounts it has already expended for
light-houses. The governor should be empowered to suspend or remove any
official appointed by escort en newark new yersey him, without submitting the matter to the
escort en newark new yersey legislature.
Of our insular possessions the Philippines and Porto Rico it is gratifying
to say that escort en newark new yersey their steady progress has been such as to make it unnecessary
to spend much time in discussing escort en newark new yersey them. Yet the Congress should ever keep in
mind that a peculiar obligation rests upon us to further in every escort en newark new yersey way the
welfare of these communities. The Philippines should escort en newark new yersey be knit closer to us
by tariff arrangements. It would, of course, be impossible suddenly to
raise escort en newark new yersey the people of the islands to the high pitch
of industrial prosperity
and of governmental efficiency to which they will in the end by degrees
escort en newark new yersey attain; and the escort en newark new yersey caution and moderation shown in developing escort en newark new yersey them have been
among the main reasons why this development has hitherto gone on so
smoothly. Scrupulous care has been taken in the choice of governmental
agents, and the entire escort en newark new yersey elimination of partisan politics from the public
service. The condition of the islanders is in material things far better
than ever before, while their governmental, intellectual, and moral