Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-12-08
THE MESSAGE
President FaVors Reduction Of
War Taxation and Increase
Of Regular Army.
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VIII BE Organized ~ Soon ms Cond''
tions viii Allow - The Message Re
news Pledge to Oppose All Schemes
of Territorial Conquest, Demands th'
Open Door In China. Favors Ship Sub
slides For Fostering the American
Merchant Marine, Recommends the
Construction of M Interoceanic Canal
Comincnds the Financial Iegisla
tion OF Last Session, and Reviews Gu,
Relations with Foreign Powers - 4
Promise Tina, Cuba IL soon to BE
Turned Over to the Cubans.
WnShing,on ID. c. lSpeciah. ~-PreSl
dent McKinley's message. transmitted
apA ef t@fgffSessss" i Is s"f IN part, ~ n
follows:
"'ro the Senate and House of Repre-
sentativeS:
AT the outgoing of the old and in
coming of the new century you begin
The last session of the Fifty-siXth Con
gress with evidences on every hand
of individual and national prosperity
an with proof of the growing
strength and increasing power for good
of republican institutions. Your c0uu.
trymen will join with You in felicia.
ton that American liberty is moro
firmly established than ever before
and that love for it aud the determine
tiOn to preserve it are more universal
than at any former period in our his,
tory.
"Thc Republic was never so strong.
because never so strongly intrenchell
IN the hearts of the people as now,
The Constitution. with few amend.
mcnts. exists as it left the hands Of
its authors. The additions which have
been made to II proclaim larger FREQ
dom and more extended citizenship
Popular government has demonstrated
in its one hundred and twenty-four
years of trial here it's stability and
security. and It's efficiency as the best
instrument Of national development
and the hest safeguard to human
rights
The President refers to the growth
of the population of the country and
then takes up the Chinese problem
which he says is the dominant u,,cs-
tion IN our foreign relations. Apart
from this. our relations with other
Powers have been happy.
Th" President tells at great length
til" story of the uprising In China,
which he says had been f0menting
for three years, He rccites the meas.
ures taken to protect the legations in
Pckin. the attack upon the ENJOYS. lie
taking of the Tako forts. the siege If
the legations and their relief. with
the fighting ut Tien-Tsn. Hc then
states the policy of the United States.
Our declared aims. he says. involved
no war against the Chinese nation. H.
continues:
I'VE adhered to the legitimate otiicr
of rescuing the imperiled legation OBJ
tanning redress for wrongs already SUI.
fered. securing wherever possible the
safety of American life and property
in China, and preventing a spread Of
the disorders or their recurrence
After reviewing the negotiations
with the Powers for the purpose of re-
storing peace to China. 10 preserve
Chinese territorial entity and to pro-
tert all trade and treaty rights, tho.
President says:
THE matter OF indemnity for ollr
wronged citizens is question Of
grave concern. Measured in money
alone. Il sufficient reparat,Un may
prove to he beyond he ability of Chi.
Ila to meet. All the Powers concur in
emphatic disclaimers of any purpose
Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT through the dis
of the Empire. am dis
posed to think that due compensation
may be made in part by Increased
of security for foreign
rights and immunities. and, most I'M.
portant of all, by the opening of China
10 the equal commerce of all the world.
These views have been and will he
earnestly advocated by our reprcsen.
Iatives.'
The year of the Paris Exposition"
is referred TO as fruitful in occasions
for displaying the good will that TX.
lists between this country and France
He adds: Apart from the Exposition
several occasions for showing inter.
national good will occurred. Tho ill.,
nuguration in Paris of the Lafayette
presented by the school
children of the United States. and the
designing of n commemorative coin
by our mint and the presentation OF
he first piece struck to the President
IF the Republic: were marked by nn-
propriatc ceremonies, and the Fourth
If July was especially observed in iii"
French capital"
The President then says that good
will prevails in our relations with the
German Empire. Our relations with
Great Britain continue friendly. While
ieXatiouS questions arose through tEr
war in South Africa they We're Ill
settled amicably. He then takes M
he Alaska boundary dispute and says
hat the mOdus vivendi of October,
lSG. is at best an unsatisfactory
which should not be SUI.
fcred to delay the speedy and com.
pletc establishment of the frontier line
to which the United States are entitled
under the Russo merican treaty for
The ccsSion of Alaska. '.3
I'm this relation" he continues, II
may refer again to The need of definite.
" marking the Alaskan boundary
where it follows the enc hundred AMI
'orty.hrSt meridian. \ convention 20
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