The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-12-06
THE MESSAGE
What the President Says
on Important Subjects.
TRUSTS AND RECIPROCITY
How He Would Deal With
These Problems.

He DeO1nrcn Publicity Is at PrcHcnt
the Only Suro Remedy AEainst
Evils OF Combinntlons-Whi OPP
posing Amy General Tariff Change.
He Upholds the Principle Of Reel
procity - Advocates Reduction OF
Duty on Cuban Imports Into This
Country - Importance OF building
the Isthminn Canal and tho Pacific
Cable Urgcd--The Philippines and
Sther Insular QucstionS.
Washington. Dec. 3.-The president
in his annual message to congress
says
The congress assemblies this year un-
der the shadow Of Il great calamity.
On the 9th Of September President Nc
Kinlcy was shot by an anarchist while
attending the Pan-Amcrican cxposi-
ton at Buffalo and died in that city
on the 14th Of that month.
or the last seven elected presidents
he Is the third who has been murdered,
and the bare recital Of this fact Ia
sufficient to justify grave alarm among
all loyal American citizens. Moreover,
the circumstances Of this. the third as
sassinntlon OF Hn American president,
have Il peculiarly sinister Significance.
Both President Lincoln and President
Garfield were killed by assasSins OF
types unfortunately not uncommon in
history, President Lincoln failing Il
victim to the terrible passions aroused
by four years Of civil war and Presi-
dent Garfield to the rcvcngeful vanity
of disappointed office seeker. Presi-
dent Mckinley was killed by all utter
ly depravcd criminal belonging to that
body of criminals who object to all
governments, good and bad alike, who
are against any form OF popular lib
erty if 1t Is guaranteed by even the
most just and liberal laws and who
are as hostile to the upright exponent
OF free peoples sober will rs to the
tyrannical and irresponsible dcspot.
Anarchy md Annrchista.
The president continues with
eulogy Of Mr.. Mckinley. then turns to
the subject Of anarchy. dcnouncing its
doctrines and preachers. He says:
earnestly recommend to thecongrcss
that In the exercise or It's wise diScrc-
tlon it should take into consideration
the coming to this country or anarch-
lists or persons protesting principles
hostile to all government and justify
ing the murder Of those placed in au-
thority. Such individuals as those who
not long ago gathered In open meeting
to glorify the murder Of King Hum
bert OF Italy pcrpetrutc crime. and
the law should insure their rigorous
pi.l,p MI I,,p
should be kept out of this country, and
If found here they should be promptly
lcportcd to the country whence they
came. and farreaching provision should
be made for the punishment OF those
who stay. No matter calls more
urgently for the wisest thought Of the
congress.
A Subject For Federal Courts.
The federal courts should be given
Jurisdiction over any man who kills
or attempts to kill the president or any
man who by the constitution or by
law Is in line Of succession for tho
an unsuccessful attempt should be pro-
Portioned to the enormlty Of the Of
Tense against our institutions.
Anarchy Is n crime against the whole
human race. and all mankind should
band against the anarchist His crime
should be made an offense against the
law Of nations, like piracy and that
form of man stealing known as the
slave trade.
The president next considers Dusi-
ness conditions. which he finds highly
satisfactory He cOntinucS.h
The tremendous and highly complex
industrial development which went OH
with ever accelerated rapid'ty during
the latter half Of the nineteenth cen.
tury brings us face to face at the be-
ginning Of the twentieth with very
serious social problems. The old laws
and the old customs which had almost
the binding force Of law were once
quite sufficient to regulate the ac-
cumulation and distribution Of wealth.
Since the Industrial changes which
have so enormously Increased the pro.
ductive power Of mankind they are no
longer sufficient.
Trade Combinations.
The growth Of cities has gone on be-
yond comparison faster than the
6io" I'll VI lhc tHt up-
building Of the great Industrial centers
has meant a startling Increase not
merely In the aggregate Of wealth, but
in the number Of very large individual
and especially Of very large corporate
fortunes The creation Of these great
corporate fortunes has not been due
to the tariff nor to any other govern
mental action. but to natural causes
In the business world. operating In 9th.
er countries as they operate In our
own.
The process has aroused much an
tagonlsm. great part Of which Is
wholly without warrant. 1t ls not true
that as the rich have grown richer the
poor have grown poorer. On the con-
trary, never before has the average
man. the wageworker. the farmer, the
small trader. been so well Off as in this
country and at the present time. There
have been abuses connected with the
accumulation OF wealth, yet 1t remains
true that q fortune accumulated In
legitimate business can be accumulate
ed by the person specially benefited