The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-12-12
PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE
VARIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
THE CONSIDERATIONS OF
CONGRESS.
The QUESTION OF RECIPROCITY
FAvoRs THE PRINCIPLE, But or
POSES ANY GENERAL TAR
IFF CHANGE.
THE QUESTION OF RECIPROCITY
WHAT TO DO WITH THE TRUSTS
PUBLICITY THE ONLY SURE REM
EDY THAT CAN NOW BE
EVOKED.

The following is a synopsis embodying
the more important topics covered in
President Rooseyelt's messenger.
Tie untimely death of President Nc
Kinley is feelingly alluded to in the open
Ing chapters of the message. The presi-
dent says: "Of the last seven elected
presidents he is the third who has been
murdered, and the bare recital OF this
fact is sufficient to justify grave alarm
among all loyal American citizens.
President Mckinley was killed by an ut,
terIy depraved criminal belonging to that
body OF criminals who object TO all gov
ernments, good and bad alike. who are
against any form of popular liberty IL it
Is guaranteed by even the most just and
li1eral laws ana who are as hostile to
the upright EXPONENT of a free peoples
sober will as to the tyrannical and ire
sponsible despot.
1T is not too much to say that at the
time Of President Mchinleys death he
was the most widely loved man in all the
United States. while we have never had
any public man of his position who has
been so widely free from the bitter ami
mosities incident to public life. His po-
ltical opponents We're the first to bear
the hoartiest and most generous tribute
TO the broad kindness of his nature,
the sweetness and gentleness of character
which so endeared him to his close asso-
ciatos. To a standard of lofty integrity
In public life he united the tender arfec-
tions and home virtues which are all-im-
portant in the makeup of national char
Rcter. /. There could be no personal
hatred of him, for he never acted with
aught but consideration for the welfare
of others"
The president then pays eloquent tribute
20 the career and public services of the
martyred president. whom he character.
ties as one of the strongest champions
a. n,
ne says.
When we turn from the man to the
cation, the harm done is so great as to
excite our greatest apprehensions and to
demand our wisest and most resolute
action. This criminal was a professed
anarchist. iniamed by the teachings of
profe5sed anarchists, and probably, also.
by the reckless utterances of those who
on the stump and I'm the public press
appeal to the dark ard evil spirits of
malice and greed, envy and sullen ha-
tired. The blow was aimed not at
this president, but at all presidents, at
every symbol Of government. The
anarchist Is criminal whose perverted
Instincts lead him TO prefer confusion and
chaos to the most beneficent form of so,
cial order. His protest OF concern for
workingmen is outrageous In its irnpudent
falsity, for il the political institutions OF
this country do not afford opportunity
10 every honest and intelligent son OF toll
then the door of hope is forever closed
against him. The anarchist Ia every
where not merely the enemy of system
and of progress. but the deadly foe OF
liberty"
The president recommends to congress,
that proper measures be taken for tn,
exclusion OF anarchists from this coun
try, and for keeping within Lawful
bounds sch disturbing elements as ar
now within our borders. The fedora
&tx.e1
be given control over any man who kill
or attempts to kill the president, and tn
punishment should be made proportional
10 the enormity of the crime Such
crime should be made an offense agains
the law OF nations, like piracy. and al
mankind should band against the an
archist.
The president next gives his attention
90 the business interests OF the country
and congratulates tho nation on It's pres
emit Astounding prosperity. Such prosper
tty, he says, can never be created by Lax
alone, although 1t Is easy enough TO de
stroy II by mischevious laws
THE growth of cities has gone on be
yond comparison faster than the growt
of the country, and the npbuilding or tn
great Industrial centers has meant
startling increase. not merely In the az
gregate of wealth, but in the number
very large individual and especially G
very large corporate fortunes. The ere
alton OF these great corporate fortune
has not been due to the tariff nor to an
other governmental action, but to tn
natural causes in the business world, or
Grating In other countries as they operat
In our own The process has arouse
much tagonsm. great part or whic
Is wholly without warrant. 1t Is not tru
that as the rich have grown richer tn
poor have grown poorer. On the contrar
never before has the average man, IN
wageworker, the farmer, the small trat
err been so we'll or as In this countr.
and at the present time. There hay
been abuses connected with the accum'
gation of wealth, yet it remains true ths
a fortune accumulated In legitimate bus
ness can be accumulated by the perso
suecially benefited only on condition
conferring immense incidental beneh
anon others. Successful enterprise
the type which benefits all mankind ca
only exist IL the conditions are such {
to offer great prizes as the rewards
success"
The president points out reasons Il
tho exercise of caution In dealing Wit
corporations, among the more importal
of which is the international commerce
conditions OF the day. America ne say
''has only just begun to assume tn
commanding position in the Information
business world which we believe w
more and more be hers. 1t Is or the u
most Importance that this position De n
jeopardized. especially at a time wh'
the overfowing abundance or our natur
resources and the skill, business enert
and mechanical aptitude OF our Peep
make foreign markets essential