The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-10
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Advocates strict Exclusion of Chinese.
Legislation Against Anarchsts-ship
Subsidies Protective Tariff

President Roosevelt i'm his message
TO Congress says of Hawai-.
In Hawaii our aim must be To de-
Velop the Territory ON the traditional
American lines. We do not wish a re-
gion of large estates titled by cheap la
Dor; we wish a healthy American COM
munity Of men, who themselves til the
farms they own. All our legislation for
the islands should be shaped with this
end in view; the we'll being of the ave-
rage home-maker must afford the true
test of the healthy development Of the
islands. The land policy should, as
nearly as possible, be modelled on our
homestead system
Other matters of special interest TO
this territory treated of i'm the message
are the following:
81 call your attention most earnestly
to the crying need of a cable to Hav ali
and the Philippines, to be continued
from the Philippines to points in Asia.
We should not defer a day longer than
necessary the construction of such a
cable. 1t is demanded, not merely for
commercial, but for political and mill
tary considerations.
Either Congress should Immediately
provide for the construction of a gov
eminent cable or else an arrangement
should be made by which like adyan-
tages to those accruing from a govern
ment cable may be secured by the gov
tIOllenl DN contract WIN a private
cable company.
mo single great material work which
remains to be undertaken on this con-
tinent is of such consequence to the
American people as the building of a
canal across the isthmus connecting
North and South America. It's import
anCe to the nation is by no means linn
tied merely to it's material effects upon
our business prosperity; and yet, with
view to these facts alone, it would he
to the last degree important for us inn
mediately to begin it. While iIs Denef-
cial effects would perhaps be most
marked upon the Pacific Coast ana the
Gulf and South Atlantic States it would
also greatly benefit other sections. 1t
is emphatically a work which 1t is for
the interest of the entire country to be-
gin and complete as soon as possible;
1t is one of these great works which
only a great nation can undertake with
prospects of success, and which, when
done, are not only permanent assets il
the nations material interests, but
standing monuments to it's constructive
ability.
The new treaty with Great Britain is
commended as giving the nation all ,he
power needed to care for The canal as
it would"
OF the assassination of President
Mckinley, the message says:
The Congress assemblies this year
under the shadow of a great calamity
On the 9th of September President Me
Kinley was shot by an anarchist while
attending the Pan-American Exposition
at Buffalo, and died in that city on the
l4th of that month.
OF the last seven elected Presidents
he is the third who has been murde,-
ed, and the bare reC,.l of this f..t
is su,nclent to jus grave ia
MnpANN-ar hA at. q
II third assassinau-4 of an American
President, have peculiarly sinister
significance.
Wealth was not struck al when the
President was assassinated, but the
honest toll which is content with mod
crate gains alter a lifetime of unre-
hitting labor, largely in the service of
the public. Still less was power
struck at in the sense that power is
irresponsible or centered in the hands
of any one individual. The blow was
not aimed at tyranny or wealth. IT
was aimed at one of the strongest
champions the wage worker has ever
had, at one of the most faithful repre-
sentatives of the system of public
rights and representative government
who has ever risen to public office
President Mckinley filled the political
office for which the entire people vote
and no President-not even Lincoln
ious to represent the we'll thought-out
wishes of tn people; his one anxiety
in every crisis was to keep in touch
with the people-to find out what they
thought ana to endeavOr to give ex-
preston to their thought, after haV-
ing endeaVored to guide that thought
Alright.
Il earnestly recommend to the Con-
gress that in the exercise of its wise
discretion 1t should take into consid-
Grafton the coming to this country of
anarchists or persons protesting
principles hostile to all those placed
in authority. They should be kept
out of this country; and If found here
they should be promptly deported to
the country whence they came; and
far-seeing provisions should be made
for the punishment for those who stay.
NO matter calls more urgently for the
wisest thought of Congress.
THE Federal courts should be given
Jurisdiction over any man who kills or
attempts to kill the President or any
man Who by constitution or by law. is
in line of succession for the Presidency.
While the punishment of an unsuccess-
full attempt should be proportioned to
the enormity of the offense against our
institutions"
OF ship subsidies he says:
THE condition of the American mer-
chant marine is such as to call for
immediate remedial action by the Con-
gress. 1t is discreditable to us as a ma
ton that our merchant marine should
be utterly insignificant in comparison to
that of other nations which we oVertop
in other forms of business. We should
not longer submit to conditions under
which only a trifiing portion of our
commerce is carried in our own ships.
To remedy this state of things would
not merely serve to build up our ship
ping interests, but ii would also result
in benefit to all who are interested in
the permanent establishment of a wider
market for American products and
would provide an auxiliary force for the
navy. From every standpoint it is I'M
wise for the United States to continue
to rely upon the ships of competing ma
tions for the distribution of our goods.
1t should be made advantageous to car
ry American goods IN American ships"
OF the tariff and reciprocity he says:
There is general acquiscense in
our resent tariff system as a national
policy. The first requisite to our pros
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