The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-12-04
Recommends the Creation of Another Cabinet
Officer, to Be Called
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
The President Recommends the Irrigation Of the West by
the Government the Tribal Relations Of the
Indians Should Be Broken Up

Washington, Dec. 3.-The president
in his annual message to congress
says:
The congress assemblies this year
under the shadow Of great calam-
ity. On the 9Th Of September Presi-
dent Mckinley was shot by an an
archist while attending the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo and
died in that city OH the 14th Of that
month.
OF the last seven elected presidents
he is te third who has been MUIR
dered, and the bare recital of this
fact is sufficient to justify grave
alarm among all loyal American citi-
zens. Moreover, tfe circumstances
of this, the third assassination of an
American president, have a peculiar
ly sinister significance. Both Pres
ident Lincoln and President Garfield
were killed by assassins of types un-
fortunately not uncommon in history.
President Lincoln falling a victim to
the terrible passions aroused by four
years of civil war and President Gar
field to the revengeful vanity of a
disappointed Office seeker. President
Mckinley was killed by an utterly de-
praved criminal belonging to that
class Of criminals who object to all
governments, good and bad alike,
who are against any form of popular
liberty if it is guaranteed by even
the most just and liberal laws and
who are as hostile to the upright ex-
ponent of a free peoples sober will
as to the tyrannical and irresponsi-
Bile despot.
Anarchy and Anarchists.
The president continues with a
culogy of Mr.. Mckinley, then turns
to the subject of anarchy, denouncing
it's doctrines and preachers. He
says:
l earnestly recommend to the con.
gress that in the exercise of its wise
discretion it should take into consid-
Grafton the coming to this country of
anarchists or persons protesting prin-
ciples hostile to all government and
justifying 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 perpetrate
a crime, and the law should insure
their rigorous 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 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 OF
any man vino by the constitution OF
by law is in line of succession fo1
the presidency, while the punishment
for an unsuccessful attempt should
be proportioned to the enormity 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 law of nations, like piracy
and that form of man stealing known
as the slave trade.
The president next considers bust
ness conditions, which he finds
highly satisfactory. He continues:
The tremendous and highly com
plex industrial development which
went on with ever accelerated rapid
ity during the latter half of the nine
teenth century brings us face to face
at the beginning of the twentieth will
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 accumulation and distribution O.
wealth. Since the industrial change!
which have so enormously increased
the productive power Of mankind
they are no longer sufficient.
Trade Combinations.
The growth of cities has gone OF
beyond comparison faster than th'
growth of the country, and the up
building of the great Industrial cen
ters has meant a startling increas'
not merely in the aggregate Of wealth
but in the number Of very large indi
vidual and especially Of very larg'
corporate fortunes. The creation o