The Iola register., 1900-12-07
M'KINLEY'S MESSAGE
Affairs of the Nation Discussed by
the Chief Magistrate.
FINANCE AND TRUSTS GET ATTENTION
Mr.. Mckinley Says Combinations in Re-
straint of Trade should be Throttied-
Philippine Question Discussed at
Length-Cuba aud Porto Rico.


Length-Cuba aud Porto Rico.
Washington, Dec. 3.-The president
to-day transmitted his annual message
TO the Fifth-sAxth congress. The sali-
ent features are as follows:
With the outgoing of the old and the
incoming of the new century you begin
the last session of the Flfty-sixth con-
gress with evidences on every hand of
individual and national prosperity, and
with proof of the growing strength and
increasing power for good of republican
institutions. Your country Will join with
you in felicitation that American liberty
is more firmly established than ever be-
fore, and that love for 1t and the deter
mination to preserve IT are more uni
versal than at any former period of our
history. The republic was never so strong,
because never so strongly entrenched in
the hearts of the people as now. The
constitution. with few amendments, eX-
lists as IL left the hands of It's authors.
The additions which have been made to
II proclaim larger freedom and more eX-
tended citizenship. Popular government
has demonstrated in its l24 years of trial
here its stability and security, and its
efficiency 8 the best instrument of ma
tional development and the best safe
guard to human rights.
A GLANCE BACKWARD.
When the Sixth congress assembled In
United States was 5.5OS,iS3 II is now
76,30l, 1893 Then we had 16 states. Now
we have 40. Then our territory consisted
of @9O59 square miles. II is now S,S46,5g5
square miles. Education, religion and
morality have kept pace with our ad-
vancement i'm other directions, and while
extending its power the government has
adhered to its foundation principles and
abated none of them In dealing with our
new peoples and possessions a nation
so preserved and blessed gives reverent
thanks to God and invokes His guidance
and the continuance of his care and
favor.
TROUBLESOME CHINESE PROBLEM
In our foreign intercourse the dominant
question has been the treatment of the
Chinese problem. Apart from this our
relations with the powers have been hap
py The recent troubles in China spring
from the auti-foreign agitation which for
the past three years has gained strength
I'm the northern provinces. Their origin
lies deep I'm the character of the Chinese
races and i,n the traditions Of their gov
CrumoGt inc TAPPING rebellion and the
opening of Chinese ports to foreign trade
ana settlement disturbed alike the homo
gencity ana the seClusion of China. Mean
while foreign activity made itself felt
In all quarters, not alone on the coast,
but along the great river arteries and
in the rcmotcr districts. carrying new
ideas and Introducing new associations
among a primitive people which had pur-
sued for centuries national policy OF
isolation. The telegraph and the railway
spreading over their land, the steamer
plying on their waterways, the merchant
and the missionary penetrating year after
year farther to the interior became to
the Chinese mind types of an alien inva-
sion changing the course of their nation
al life and fraught with vague fOrebOd-
ings of disaster TO their beliefs and their
self-control.
The president then recounts the seri-
Gus uprising last spring, the expedition
of the joint allies TO release the lega-
tions at Pekin and the subsequent
events in diplomacy and warfare. "The
policy of the United States through all
this trying period" he says, was
clearly announced and scrupulously
carried out" He discusses the various
propositions that have been advanced
to terminate the anomalous conditions
and concludes.
l regard as one of the essential factors
of a durable adjustment the securement
Of adequate guarantees FOR liberty OF
faith, since insecurity OF those natives
who may embrace alien creeds is scarcely
less effectual assaults upon the rights Of
foreign worship and teaching than would
be the direct invasion thereof. The mat
ters of indemnity for our wronged cti-
zens Is question of grave concern. Meas
ured in money alone, sufficient repara-
tion may prove to be beyond the ability
of China to meet. All the powers concur
in emphatic disclaimers of any purpose
of Acknowledgement through the dismem-
berment OF the empire. | am disposed
TO think that due compensation may be
made i'm part by increased guarantees
of security for foreign rights and i'm
munities, and most important of all, by
the opening of CHINA to the equal com
merce of all the world. These Views have
been and will be earnestly advocated by
our representatives. The government of
Russia has put forward a suggestion, that
i'm the event of prOtracted divergence of
views in regard to iudemnities the matter
may be releEatod to the court of arbitra-
tion at The Hague, taVorably incline
10 this. believing that high tribunal could
not fail to reach solution no less condu-
Give to the stability and enlarged prosper
fly of China itself than Immediately ben
ehcial to the powers
TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICA.
In the interest of expanding trade be-
tween this country and South America,
efforts have been made during the past
wear to conclude conventions with the
southern republic for the enlargement or
postal facilities.
The long standing contention with Por-
tuEal, growing out Of the seizure of the
Dclagoa how railway, has at last been
determined 10y favorable award of the
tribunal of arbitration at Berne, to whlch
It was submitted. The amount OF the
award which was deposited In London
awaiting arrangements by the govern
ments of the United States and Great
Britain for its disposal, has recently been
paid over To the two governments; A
lately signed convention Of eXtradition
with Peru as amended by the senate has
been ratified by the Peruvian congress.
OUR TRIUMPH At PARIS.
The year of the exposition has been
fruitful in occasions for displaying the
good will that exists between this country
and France. This great competition
brought together from every nation the
best in natural productions industry
science and the arts, submitted in gener-
Gus rivalry to a judgment made all the
more searching because of that rivalry
The extraordinary increase OF eXporta-
tions from this country during the past
three years and the activity with which
our inventions and wares had invaded
new markets caused much interest tc
center upon the American exhibit, and
every encouragement was offered in the
way of space and facilities to permit OF
Its being comprehensive as, whole ano
complete in every part. a criterion OF
the extent and success of our participa
tion and the thoroughness with which OlI
exhibits We're organized Is seen I'm the
awards granted to American exhibitors
by the international jury, manly: Crane
prizes, 2l0; gold medals, 597; silver medals
5,o; bronze medals, SAL; ana honorable
mentions ,322-2,A7G in ALL being the great
est total number given to the exhibit OF
any exhibiting nation, as well as the
largest number in each grade,
GOOD FEELING WITH GERMANY.