Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-12-03

The message opens with an extens-
i've reference to the tragic death OF
President Mckinley and tribute tc
the martyred president. The necessity
of curbing and stamping out anarcn!
is insisted upon. 1t then continues:
I earnestly recommend to the con-
gress that in the exercise of it's wise
discretion it should take into considera-
tion the coming to this country or an
archists or persons protesting prlncl-
ples hostile to all government and JUS
tifying the murder of those placed IN
authority. Such individuals as those
who not long ago gathered in open
meeting to glorify the murder OF King
Humbert of Italy perpetrated crime,
and the law should ensure their rig
orous punishment. They and those
like them should be kept out of this
country; and if found here they
should be promptly deported to the
country whence they came; and far
reaching provision should be made for
those who stay.
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 the presi-
dency, while the punishment for an
unsuccessful attempt should be propor-
toned to the normity of the offense
against our institutions.
Anarchy is crime against the whole
human race; and all mankind should
band against the anarchist. His crime
should be made an offense against the
laws of nations, like piracy and that
form of manstealing known as the
slave trade; for it is of far blacker In
fanny than either. 1t should be so de-
clared by treaties among all civilized
powers. Such treaties would give the
federal government the power of deal
ing with the crime.
THE NATIONS PROSPERITY.
During the last five years business
confidence has been restored, and the
nation is to be congratulated because
of it's present abounding prosperity.
Such prosperity can never be created
by law alone, although it is easy
enough to destroy it by mischievous
laws. If the hand of the Lord is heavy
upon any country, if flood or drought
comes, human wisdom is powerless to
avert the calamity. Moreover, no law
can guard against the consequences or
our own folly. The men who are idle
or credulous, the men who seek gains
rot by genuine work with head or hand
but by gambling in any form. are al
ways a source of menace not only TO
themselves but to others. If the busi-
ness world loses it's head, 1T loses what
legislation cannot supply. Fundamen-
tally the welfare of each citizen, and
therefore the welfare Of the aggregate
of citizens which makes the nation,
must rest upon individual thrift and
energy, resolution and intelligence.
Nothing can take the place OF this IN
dividual capacity: but wise legislation
and honest and intelligent administra-
tion can give it the fullest scope, the
largest opportunity to work to good er-
feet.
TRUSTS
The growth of cities has gone on be-
yond comparison faster than the
growth Of the country, and the upbuild-
ing of the great industrial centers has
meant startling increase, not merely.
in the aggregate Of wealth, but in the
number of very large individual, ana
especially Of very large corporate 1or-
tunes, The creation of great corpor-
ate fortunes has not been due to the
tariff nor to any other governmental
action, but to natural causes IN the
business world, operating in otner
countries as they operate in our own
The process has aroused much an
tagonism, a great part of which Is
wholly without warrant. 1t IS not true
that as the rich have grown richer the
moor have grown poorer. On the con-
trary, never before has the average
man. the wage-worker, the farmer,
the small trader been so well off as IN
this country and at the present time.
There have been abuses connected Win
the accumulation of wealth; YET II re-
mains true that a fortune accumuia TED
in legitimate business can pe accuniu-
lated by the person specially benefited
on1v on condition of conferr1ng I'M
mense incidental benefits upon others.
Successful enterprise, of the type Whlcn
benefits all mankind, can only exist IL
the conditions are such as to offer great
prizes as the rewards of success.
The captains of industry who have
driven the railway systems across the
continent, who have built up our COM
merce. who have developed our manu-
factures, have on the whole done great
good to our people. Without them the
material development of which we are
SO Justly proud could never have taken
place. Moreover, we should recognize
the immense importance to this mate
rial development Of leaving as unham-
pered as is compatible with the public
good and forceful men upon whom
the success of business operations In
evitably rests. The slightest study OF
business conditions will satisfy anyone
capable of forming a judgment that
the personal equation Is the most im-
portant factor in business operation;
that the business ability of the man at
the head of any business concern, big
or little, is usually the factor which
fixes the gulf between striking success
and hopeless failure.
Business concerns which have the
largest means at their disposal and are
managed by the ablest men are natur-
ally those which take the lead In the
strife for commercial supremacy