Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-12-03
PRESIDENT ROsSEVRLTS MESSAGE.

the most bulky documents ever sent to
Congress by President, and makes
pamphlet Of forly-six pages.
The President begins the document
by saying that Congress assemblies this
year under the shadow OF great calam-
ity and calls attention to the fact that
on the sixth OF September President
Mckinley was shot by an anarchist
while attending the Pan-Americsn
Exposition at Buffalo, and died 10 that
city on the fourteenth OF that month:
"Of the last seven elected Presidents"
the President says, ''he Is the third who
has been murdered, and the bare re-
cital OF this fact Is sufficient to justify
grave alarm among all loyal American
citizens.n Mr.. Roosevelt then devotes
several pages Of the message to the LIE
and public services of the late President
Mckinley and concludes that the blow
was aimed at American institutions by
the assassin. He dweils at length on the
anarchistic doctrines of the present
day, and concludes that no man or
body OF men preaching anarohistic doc
trines should be allowed at large auy
more than If preaching the murder OF
some specified private individual ana
that anarchistio speeches, writings. and
meetings are essentially seditious and
reasonable. Continuing the President
makes sundry recommendations as to
the manner OF keeping such characters
out OF the country and says; THE
federal courts should be given juris'
diction over any man who kills or at
tempts to kill the President or any
mao who by the constitution or by
law Is 10 line OF succession for the
Presidency, while the punishment for
an unsuccessful attempt should be pro-
portioued to the eDormlty OF the Oh
Tense against our institutions. Anar-
| chy is q 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
manstealing known as the slave trade;
for it is OF far blacker iniamy than
either. 1t should be 30 declared by
treaties among ell civilized powers.
Such treaties would give to the federal
government the power OF dealing with
| the crime. This great coun-
try will not fall into anarchy, and II
anarchists should ever become q seri
Gus menace to its Institutions, they
| would involve 10 their own ruin every
active or passive sympathizer with
their doctrines. The American people
are slow to wrath, but when their
wrath is once kindled it buros like o
consuming fame"
| The President next makes an ex-
1 haustive review OF the business OF the
| country and congratulates the United
| States upon the prevailing prosperity
as seen through republican spectsoles
| and, OF course, attributes 1t all to the
methods Of the administration and says
| it is not true that az the rich have
grown richer the poor have grown
poorer. On the contrary he AYERS that
never before has the average man, the
wage worker, the farmer, the small
! trader, been 80 we'll of as In this coun'
try and at TIE present time. de
acknowledges that there have been
abuses connected with the accumula'
ton of wealth; yet he says 1t remains
true that fortune accumulated 10 legiti-
mate business can be accumulated by the
person specially benefited only on con-
ditlon of comforting immense incidental
benefits upon otbeIs. Mr.. Roosevelt
enters into al exhaustive review OF
the growth OF the United States
and possibilities yet to be attain.
ed by the country and says :
THE captains OF industry who have
driven ne railway systems across this
continent, who have built up our COM
merce, who have developed our manu-
features, have on the whole done great
good to our people. Without them the
| material development of which we are
90 justly proud could never have taken
place, Moreover, we should recognize
the immense Importance to this ma
terial development Of leaving as I'M
hampered as lie compatible with the
public good the strong and foroeful men
upon whom the success OF business
operations inevitably rests. The slight
est study OF business conditions will
satisfy anyone capable OF forming o
Judgment that the personal equation Ia
the most important 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.
An additional reason for caution In
dealing with corporations Is to be
found in the international commercial
conditions of today. The same bust
ness conditions which have produced
the great sggregations OF corporate and
individual wealth have made them
very potent factors in international
commercial competition. Business con-
Germs which have the largest means at
their disposal and are managed by the
ablest men are naturally those which
take the lead 10 the strife for COM
merical supremacy among the nations
OF the world. America has only just
begun to assume that commanding
position In the international business
world which we believe will more and
more be hers. IL is of the utmost i'm
portance that this position be not ieop-
arded, especially ct q time when the
OVERLOOKING abundance Of our own nat
ural resources and the skill, business
energy, and mechanical aptitude OF oar
people make foreign markets essential.
Under such conditions it would be
most unwise to crsmp or to fetter the
youthful strength OF our nation. More
over, 1t cannot too often be pointed out
that to strike with ignorant violence at
the interests Of one set Of men almost
inevitably endangers the interests OF
all. The fundamental rule In our
national life-the rule which underlies
all others-ls that, on the whole. and
In the long run. we shall 90 up or down