Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-03

trial Affairs.
Washington, Dec president Nc
Kinley's message to congress is an
exhaustive state paper, containing
about $4,000 words, each subject being
treated with carefully collated detail.
The ensuing abstract gives the salient
features of the message. while the
most important portions of the mes
sage are given verbatim:
THE MESSAGE
To the Senate and House Of Representa-
tiyes. At the outgoing of the old and
the incoming Of the new century you be-
! gin the last session of the Fifty-slxth con-
! gress with evidences on every hand of
] individual and national prosperity and
| proof of growing strength and in
ereasing power for the good of repub-
lican Institutions Your countrymen will
/ join with you in felieitatlon that Ameri-
can liberty Is more firmly established than
| ever before, and that love for 1t and the
| determination to preserve 1t more uni
versal than at any former period of our
! history.
/ The republic was never strong, be-
cause never so strongly entrenohed In the
hearts Of the people as now. The eonsti-
| tuition. with few amendments, exists as 1t
| left the hands of its authors. The addi-
lions which have been made to it proclaim
| larger freedom and more extended citizen
ship. Popular government has demonstrated
! In its ia years of trial here its stability
and it's efficiency as the best instrument
of national development and the best safe
| guard to human rights.
Progress of Century.
When the Sixth congress assembled in
| November. 1900. the population of the
/ United States was 5.30S, 1888 1t is now
! T6.3o4. 709 Then we had 16 states. Now,
| we have Is. Then our territory consisted
| of a09,o5o square miles. 1t is now 1885,
500 square miles. Education, religion and
morality have kept pace with our advance
ment in other directions and while extend
ing lis power The government has adhered
to its foundation principles and abated
none Of them in dealing with our peoples
and possessions, A nation so preserved
and blessed gives reverent thanks to God
and inFokes His guidance and the contin-
uanee of his care and favor
In our foreign intercourse the dominant
| question has been the treatment of the
! Chinese problem. Apart from this our re-
latlons with the powers have been happy
The Chinese Question.
The recent troubles in China spring from
| the auti-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
ana in the traditions of their government
| The TAPPING rebellion and the opening Of
| Chinese ports to foreign trade aud settle
ment disturbed alike the homogeneity and
the seclusion of China
Meanwhile foreign activity made itself
! 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
/ For several years before the present fron-
bles all the resources of foreign diplomacy
| backed by moral demonstrations of the
physical force of fleets and arms have been
needed 10 secure due respect of treaty
rights of foreigners to obtain satisfaction
from responsible authorities for the spor-
| adic outrages upon the persons and property
/ OF unofendlng sojourners, which from time
to time occurred at widely separated points
| In the northern provinces. as in the ease
of the outbreaks in Sze-Chuan and Shan
! Tung. Posting of ant-foreign placards be-
came daily occurrence. which the repeat
ed reprobation of the imperial power failed
| to check or punish. These infammatory
| appeals to the ignorance and superstition
| of the masses, mendacious and absurd in
| their accusations and deeply hostile in
| their spirit, could not but work cumulative
| harm. They aimed at no particular class
! of foreigners; they were impartial in at
lacking everything foreign
An outbreak in Shan Tung, in which Ger
| man missionaries were slain was the too
! ings. The posting of sedtious placards.
exhorting to the utter destruction of for
! eigners and of every foreign thing, contin-
ued unrebuked. Hostile demonstrations
toward the stranger gained strength by
organization.
The sect, commonly styled the Boxers,
! developed greatly in the provinces north
| of the Yang-tse and with the collision
OF many notable officials, including some
/ in the immediate councils of the throne
/ itself, became alarmingly aggressive. No
| foreigners life, outside of the protected
! treaty ports, was safe. No foreign interest
! was secured from spoliation.
The increasing gravity of the conditions
/ IN China and the immnence of peril to our
! own diversified interests in the empire, as
/ well to those of all the other treaty
/ governments, were soon appreciated by
4 this government, causing it profound So
i lcitude. The United States from the earli-
/ est Of foreign intercourse with China had
! followed a policy of peace, emitting no oc-
4 casions to testify good will, to further the
4 extensions Of lawful trade, to respect the
4 sovereignty of Its government, and to in
4 sure by all legitimate and kindly but earn
/ est means the fullest measure of protec-
4 tion for the lives and property Of our law
i abiding citizens and for the exercise of
their benefcent calings among the Chinese
1 people
The Open Door.
Here follows a resume of negotiations
with the powers occupying spheres of In
| huenee in China, which resulted in the
"opendoor' agreement announced March
20, 1900, which, 1t was hoped, would allay
the troubled state of affairs in China,
and was followed by withdra wing the