Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-06
MKINLEY'S MESSAGE
affairs of the Nation Discussed by
the Chief Magistrate.
FINANCE AND TRUSTS GET ATTENTION

SMEr. Mckinley Says Combinations In Re-
atraint OF Trade Should be ThrOttIed-
Philippine Question Discussed at
Length-Cuba aud Porto Rico.
Washington, Dec. 3.-The president
To-day transmitted his annual message
90 the Fifth-sixth congress The sail
cent features are as follows:
With the outgoing of the old and the
Whe last session of the Fifty-sixth con-
zEgreSS with evidences every hand of
with proof of the growing strength and
increasing power for good OF republican
institutions Your country will joinT! with
ms more firmly established than ever be-
Fore, and that love for it and the deter
animation to preserve 1T are more uni
.Nersal than at any former period of our
9aistory. The republic was never so strong,
che 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
ct proclaim larger freedom and more ex-
.eended citizenship. Popular government
Haas demonstrated in it's 124 years of trial
efficiency as the best instrument of ma
E1onal development and the best safe
-ESuard to human rights.
A GLANCE BACKWARD.
When the Sixth congress assembled in
EIoVember, 1900, the population of the
Emitted States was 5,308, 483. 1t is now
zTs.3O4. 799. Then we had 16 states Now
we have 45. Then our territory consisted
. aIG 909.059 square miles. 1t is now 3,846,595
square miles. Education, religion and
morality have kept pace with our ad-
VEancement in other directions, and while
~s>21tending its power the government has
g. Ssdhered to it's foundation principles and
=s1ated none of them in dealing with our
nEeW peoples and possessions. A nation
$50 preserved and blessed gives reVerent
dZhanl1s to God and invokes His guidance
1End the continuance of his care and
Favor
~EROUBLESOME CHINESE PROBLEM.
In our foreign intercourse the dominant
opposition has been the treatment of the
SShinese problem. Apart from this, our
Eoaia tons with the powers have been hap
BT0- The recent troubles in China spring
Prom the anti-foreigu agitation which for
N1kIe past three years has gained strength
2fD the northern provinces. Their origin
-fs1es deep in the character of the Chinese
2IGaces and in the traditions of their gov
-Esrnment. The TAPPING rebellion and the
1spening of Chinese ports to foreign trade
Sz2aE settlement disturbed alike the homo
FSaeeity and the seclusion of China. Mean
while foreign activity made itself felt
9GIt along the great river arteries and
SIN the remOtGr districts. carrying
ideas and introducing new associations
as1gnong a primitive people which had pur-
-SsS1ed for centuries a national policy of
HsSelation. The telegraph and the railway
spreading over their land, the steamer
Iz4ying on their waterways, the merchant
zAzId the missionary penetrating year after
the Chinese mind types of an alien inva-
F." saSon, changing the course of their nation
longs of disaster to their beliefs and their
[ Eself-control.
The president then recounts the seri-
9s5us uprising last spring, the expedition
<8f the joint allies to release the lega-
1zi0ns at Pekin and the subsequent
CsVen is in diplomacy and warfare. ''The
.HSOlicy of the United States through all
THGhis trying PERIOD" he says, was
.sclearly announced and scrupulously
i
propositions that have been advanced
$50 terminate the anomalous conditions
sEAnd concludes.
.Csf a durable adjustment the Securement
-~Saf adequate guarantees for liberty of
Gath since insecurity of those natives
NEho may embrace alien creeds is scarcely
. Hes effectual assaults upon the rights of
Foreign worship and teaching than would
ave the direct invasion thereof. The mat
tiers of indemnity for our WrOnged citi-
Jared in money alone, sufficient repara-
zion may prove to be beyond the ability
lisa emphatic disclaimers of any purpose
SAE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT through the dismem-
tSerment of the empire. l am disposed
rNnade in part by increased guarantees
,tsf security for foreign rights and i'm
SIl2unities, and most important of ALL by
the opening of China to the equal COM
xz1erce of all the world. These views have
hzseen and will be earnestly advocated by
zsur representatives. The government of
KSussia has put forward suggestion, that
Ain the event of protracted divergence of
views in regard to indemnities the matter
: ETnay be relegated to the court of arbitra-
G1ion at The Hague 1 favorably incline
= tsO this, believing that high tribunal could
mot fail to reach a solution no less condu-
= srive to the stability and enlarged prosper
- Sailcial 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
scar, to conclude conventions with the
FGoStal facilities.
The long standing contention with Por-
'1tugal, growing out of the seizure of the
-E0elagoa bay railway, has at last been
9sr5bunal of arbitration at Berne. to which
Et was submitted. The amount of the
zAwaiting arrangements by. the govern
,ERentS of the United states and Great
paid over to the two governments: A
sGztely signed convention Of extradition
EIDeen ratified by the Peruvian congress.
OUR TRIUMPH AT PARIS.
The year of the exposition has been
srgood will that exists between this country
sand France This great competition
brought together from every nation the
90est in natural productions, industry
z.science and the arts, submitted in gener-
%ous rivalry to judgment made all the
more searching because of that rivalry.
The extraordinary increase of eXporta-
tfions from this country during the past
three years and the activity with which
our inventions and wares had invaded
new markets caused much interest to
>acenter upon the American exhibit and
every encouragement was offered in the
way of space and facilities to permit of
sUts being comprehensive as a whole and
complete in every part A criterion of
the extent and success of our participa Il
ttion and the thoroughness with which our
exhibits were organized is seen in the
awards granted to American exhibitors
10y the international jury, manly: Grand
prizes 24O; gold medals, 597; silver medals.
20: bronze medals, Sal; and honorable
unentions, 322-2,476 in all, being the great