Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-12-06
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE,

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THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
:, President Roosevelt message t
Congress was read Tuesday. 1t is Oh
OF the most bulky documents ever sen
| to Congress by President, and make
pamphlet of forty six pages.
The President begins his message b
recital OF the assassination of Presi
dent Mckinley at Buffalo, calling at
!, tentlon to the fact that he is the thirt
OF the last seven elected Presidents t,
be killed. The circumstances of hi
murder, he declares. has "a pecuIiarl,
sinister Significance.
After high tribute to the lat,
PRESIDENT and an exposition of the ma
ture of anarchy, he says:
II 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
clples hostile to all government and
Justlfylng 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 ensure their rigor.
Gus punishment. They and those like
them should be kept out of this couu
Try; and II found here they should be
promptly deported to the country
whence they came; and far-reaching
provision should be made for the pun
lshment of those who stay. No mat.
ter calls more urgently for the wisest
thought of the Congress.
The great prosperity of the nation is
the next subject treated OF by the mes.
sage: In this connection 1t says:
1.-The tremendous and highly COM
pick Industrial development which went
on with ever accelerated rapidity du.
ring the latter half of the nineteenth
century brings us face to face, at the
beginning of the twent ieth, with 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 accumu-
latlon and distribution of wealth. Since
the Industrial changes which have SO
enormously increased the productive
power OF mankind they are no longer
sufficient.
The portion of PresidentRoosevelt7s
message dealing with what is known
as the trusts" is of peculiar interest.
He says:
IAN additional reason for caution in
dealing with corporations is to be |
found in the international commercial
conditions of to-day. The same BUSH
ness conditions which have produced |
the great aggregations of corporate and |
Individual wealth have made them
very potent factors in International
commercial competition. Business
concerns which have the largest means
at their disposal and are managed by
me ablest men are naturally those
which take the lead in the strife for
commercial supremacy among the ma
ions OF the world. America has only
ust begun to assume that command /
ng position in the International bust
less world which we believe will more
nd more be hers. 1t is of the utmost
Importance that this position be not
especially at time when
be overlooking abundance of our own
resources and the skill, bust |
ess energy, and mechanical aptitude
our people make foreign markets es- I
entail. Under such conditions it would s
70 most unwise to cramp or to fetter '
be youthful streng tn of our Nation, v
Moreover, it cannot too often be
ointed out that to strike with ignor- 4
az violence at the interests of one set t
men almost inevitably endangers the y
lterests OF all. The fundam entail rule I
our national life-the rule which 1
oerlles all others-is that, On the G.
mole. and IN the long run, we shall 60 A
or down together. There are ex- p
ptlons; and in times of prosperity o.
me Will prosper far more, and in times lie
adversely some will suffer far more. h
an others, but speaking generally. a N
Rod OF good times means that all b.
are more or less in them, and in a ii
ROD of hard times all feel the stress d.
greater or less degree. It surely N
gnu not to be necessary to enter Into dc
y proof OF this statement; the mem 81
OF the lean years which began in th
% is still vivid, and we can contrast hi
EN- with the conditions in this very tn
ar which is now closing. Disaster m
great business enterprises can never -
We Its effect limited to the men at n
> Top. 1t spreads throughout, and II
lie 1t Is bad for everybody, it is
rst Tor those farthest down. The
'ltal1st may be shorn of his luxuries:
the wage worker may be deprived ~.
wen bare necessities. M
The mechanism of modern business
o delicate that extreme care must
taken not to interfere with it in a pa
ut OF rashness or ignorance. Many
hose who have made 1t their yOca'-
to denounce the great Industrial X
LIMITATIONS which are popularity. al y
ugh with technical inaccuracv 4
'Wn as trusts" appeal especially II
latred and fear. These are precise. IN
ne Two emotions, particularly when Ik
bIned with ignorance, which until ldE
Tor the exercise of cool and steady 4
sment. In facing new industrial H.
iltions. the whole history of the 1
Id shows that legislation will gen. wol
ly be both unwise and Ineffective IAN
IS undertaken after calm iponirv pies
with sober self restraint. 1orn
The first essential in determining u
to deal with the great industrial olnr
blnatlons is knowledge OF the facts ney'
lbllcity. In the interest of the nnh. Just
me Government should have the III SC
TO Inspect and examine the work. plac
OF the great corporations engaged clas
lterstate business. Publicity is EVER Ever
'nly sure remedy which We can DIeh
invoke. What further remedies VINO
leeded in the. away of governmental SAM SAM
alton, or Il Sation, can only be en- ea,lil II
mined aft.f publicity has been Was l,i1a
ned, by process of law, and in the wne'
'e OF aG+nlL istration. The first re ol1er
Ge is knowledge, full and Complete Send
'Wledge which may be made pub Pr pr. X
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