ITEMS OF INTEREST June 22, 1907 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Protection for the people was the topic of President Roosevelt's speeches at the Jamestown Exposition last week. Taxation and reclamation he regarded as important questions to be considered in the near future. Speaking of these he said: "One of two great movements in our public life is the question of, in certain ways, reshaping our system of taxation so as to make it bear most heavily on those most capable of sustaining the strain. The other is the question of utilizing the natural resources of the nation in the way that will be of most benefit to the nation as a whole. The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life."

Visitors at the Charlestown (Mass) Navy Yard nearly all walk the length of the reservation to get an opportunity to see the Constitution, which is being restored to her old-time fighting appearance, and now have a fine chance to view the guns which will constitute the frigate's armament. There are fifty-four of these guns, and they follow as closely as possible the style used on the ship at the time of her world-famous battle with the Guerriere. They were cast at the foundry at the local yard from models made after plans taken from old prints and drawings of the ship's armament.

Export returns of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor show that wheat exports in the ten months ending with April aggregated about 66,000,000 bushels, while flour exports also show an increase. This is the natural sequence of the large crop of 1906, which was the second largest ever produced in the United States. The total shipments during the entire fiscal year, wheat and flour combined, may be estimated at about 140,000,000 bushels. Thus it appears that the United States has regained, in part at least, its position as one of the important wheat-exporting countries of the world.

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