Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-12-04
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
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was the feature of the day, occupied
over two hours, and 1t was listened to
with respectful interest
The deaths of the late Representa-
tlves Daily, of New Jersey, and Hof-
fecker, of Delaware, and Senators Da-
Wis, of Minnesota, and Gear, of Iowa,
were announced, and as a further mark
of respect to their memories the House
adjourned until tomorrow.
THE MESSAGE.
The Presidents message was very
lengthy. Following are some of the
mcst important parts:
TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES:
coming of the new century you begin
the last session of the Fifty Sixth
Congress with evidence on every hand
of individual and national prosperity
and with proof of the growing strength
and increasing power for good of re-
publican institutions. Your country
men will join you in feliciration that
American liberty is more firmly estab-
lished than ever before and that love
for it and the determination to pre-
serve it are more universal than at any
former period of our history.
REPUBLIC STRONG.
| The republic was never so strong, be-
cause never so strongly intrenched in
the hearts of the people as now. The
constitution, with few amendments, eX-
lists as it left the hands of it's authors.
The additions which have been made
to it proclaim larger freedom and more
ernment has demonstrated in it's one
hundred and twenty-four years of trial
here its stability and security, and its
efficiency as the best instrument of ma
tional development and the best safe
guard to human rights.
GREAT GROWTH
When the Sixth Congress assembled
in November, 1900, the population OF
| The United States was 5,30S,4S5. 1t is
now 76,3O4, 1899. Then we had six
teen states. Now we have forty-five
TLen our territory consisted of 800, $50
square miles. Now it ironglrl nqp9vt
square miles. 1t is now 3,S46,595
square miles. Education, religion and
morality have kept pace with our ad-
vancement in other directions and
while extending its power the govern
ment has adhered to its foundation
principles and abaTed none of them in
dealing with our new peoples and pos
sessions. A nation so preserved and
blessed gives reverent thanks to Cod
and invokes His guidance and the con-
tinuance of His care and fervor.
In our foreign intercourse the domi-
nent question has been the treatment
of the Chinese problem. Apart from
this our relations with the Powers
have been happy.
CHINESE PROBLEM.
The recent troubles in China spring
from the anti-foreign agitation which
for the past three years has gained
strength in the Northern provinces.
Their origin lies deep in the character
of the Chinese races and in the tradi-
tions of their government The Tai
ping rebellion and the opening Of Chi
nese ports in foreign trade and settle
ment disturbed alike the homogenity
and the seclusion of China.
Meanwhile foreign activity made it.
self felt in all quarters not alone on
the coast, but along the great river
Arteries and in the remoter districts,
carrying new ideas and introducing
new associations among primitive
people which had pursued for centuries
national policy of isolation.
The telegraph and the railway
spreading over their land, the steamers
plying on their waterways, the mer-
chant and the missionary penetrating
year by year further into the interior,
became to the Chinese mind types of
an alien invasion, changing the course
of their national life and fraught with
vague forebodings of disaster to their
beliefs and their self control.
For several years before the present
troubles all the resources of foreign
diplomacy, backed by moral demon
strations of the physical force of fleets
and arms, have been needed to secure
due respects for the treaty rights OF
Foreigners and to obtain satisfaction
from the responsible authorities for
the sporadic outrages upon the persons
and property of unoffending sojourn-
ers, which from time to time occurred
at widely separated points in the
Northern provinces, as in the case OF
the outbreaks in Sze-Chuan and Shan.
Tung.
Posting Of anti-forefgn placards be-
came ardaily occurrence, which the re
peated reprobation of the Imperia
| mower failed tn chenk or nuniSh Thac.