The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-12-03


He UphoIds the Principle Of Reel
procity Advocates Reduction OF
Duty on Cuban Imports Into This
Country y-Gmportance Of Building
the Isthminn canal and the Pacific
Gable Urged-The Philippines and
Other Inssiar Questions.
Washington. Dec. 3.-The president
IN bis annual message 90 congress
says:
The congress assemblies this year uu.
der the shadow of q great calamity.
CA tie 9th Of September President Nc
kinlcy was shot by an anarchist while
attending the Pan-Amer.cuu cNposi-
tion at Buffalo and died iu that city
on the 18th OF that month.
or the last seven elected presidents
be Is the third who has been murdered.
ard the bare recital OF this fact 8,
sufficient TO justify grave alarm among
all loyal American citizens. Moreover.
the circumstances of this. the third as
sassinauOn Of an American president.
have peculiarly sinister significance.
I
Garfield were killed by assassins Of
types unfortunately not uncommon IN
history. President Lincoln falling a
victim 20 the terrible passions aroused
by four years of civil war and Presi-
dent Garfield TO thc rcveEccful vanity
OF a disappointed Office seeker. Prcsl-
dent Mckinley was k.ilcd by au utter
~ depraved criminal belonging TO that
body Of criminals who object 90 all
governments, good aud bad alike. who
are against any form of popular lib
erty n IL j. guaranteed by even tue
most Just aud liberal laws and who
are as hostile 20 the upright exponent
of free peoples sober VIII rs 20 the
tyrannical and irresponsible desp0t.
Anarchy and Anarchists.
The president continues with
eulogy Of Mr.. Mckinley. then turns 70
The subject % anarchy. deuouncins its
doctrines and preachers. He says.
earnestly recommend 10 hecougress
that DO the exercise o. its wise discre-
tioa Il should take into consideration
the comias 20 this country of anarch-
hostile 90 all government and Justify
Ing the murder % those placed in au-
thority. Such individuals as those who
not l5nc ago gathered Go open meeting
10 Glorify the murder o. King Hum
bert of italy rgrpetrate crime. and
the law should insure their rigorous
punishment They and those Ike them
should be kept out of this country. and
II found here they should be promptly
deportcd 20 the country whence they
came. and farreachins provision should
DE- made for the punishment OF those
who stay. No matter calls more
urgently for the wisest thought Of the
congress.
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 the
presidency. while the punishment for
an unsuccessful attempt should be pro-
portloned to the enormity Of the Of
fense 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
law OF nations, like piracy and that
form OF man stealing known as the
slave trade.
The president ext considers bust
ness conditions, which he fnds highly
satisfactory. He continues:
The tremendous aud highly complex
Industrial development which went on
with ever accelerated rapidity 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 20 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 o. cities has gone on be-
yond comparison faster than the
growth OF the country. and the up
building OF the great industrial centers
has meant n 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 10 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. a great part OF which is
wholly without warrant. 1t is 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 OF as in this
couutrV and ~ the DreSanf time ThGre