THE UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 287, 8 December 1904, Page 2

THE UNITED STATES.

♦ THE OPENING OE CONGRESS AT WASHINGTON. I'RESIDENTIAL MESSAGE. (Received fee, 8, 1.11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. President Roosevelt's message to Congress stated that labour organisations deserved encouragement while they exhibited a decent regard for the rights of others. The stringent employers' liability law ought to apply to Government as well as to others. It was a grave impropriety for Government employees to bund together for the purpose of extorting improperly high salaries. The National Government alone was able to deal with aliases by the great corporations ; constructive legislation, not destructive persecution, should be the aim of the Bureau of Corporations. The message advocated severe child labour and factory inspection laws ; and stated that married women ought not to work in factories, but should do their duty as mothers and housewives. The President urged attention to the currency tpiestion, securing its elasticity, consistent with safety ; he advocated legislation for the encouragement of the merchant marine, promising to refer to the tariff question later. It was impossible to conduct a strong foreign policy without an adequate army and navy. The national idtul ought to be peace with justice, each nation being safeguarded in its own right and scrupulously performing its duty to the others. It would be wicked to be made to disarm until some international control was established over offending nations. The Monroe doctrine might forco the United States into the exercise of intei national police duty in flagrant cases. The message expressed horror at the Kishineff massacres and the cruel oppression of Armenians, and concluded by stating that the war In the Par East showed the necessity for mow 'battleships,