The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-12-06
THE MESSAGE
What the President Says
on Important Subjects.
TRUSTS AND RECIPROCITY
How He Would Deal With
These Problems.

He Declares Publicity In NJ Present
the Only sure Remedy Against
Evils of Combinatfons-Whil OPP
posing Amy General TariR Change.
He UphoIds the Principle OF Reel
procity Advocate. Reduction of
Duty ON Cuban Imports Into This
Country - -Importance of BaildinG
Cable Ursed-TAe Philippines and
Other InsuIar Questions.
Washington. Dec. 3.-The president
in his annual message to congress
says:
The congress assemblies this year un-
der tie shadow of a great calamity.
On the 9th of September President Nc
kinley was shot by an anarchist while
attending the Pan-American exposi-
ton at Buffalo and died In that city
ON the 18th of that month.
OF the last seven elected presidents
he Is the third who has been murdered.
and the bare recital Of this fact Is
sufficient to justify grave alarm among
all loyal American citizens. Moreover.
the circumstances of this. the third as
sassination of an American president,
have a peculiarly sinister significance.
Both President Lincoln and President
Garfield were killed by assassins OF
types unfortunately not uncommon In
| history. President Lincoln falling q
victim to the terrible passions aroused
by four years OF. civil war and Presi-
dent Garfield to the revengeful vanity
Of a disappointed office seeker. Presi-
dent Mckinley was killed by an utter
iy depraved criminal belonging to that
body of criminals who object to all
4 governments. good and bad alike. who
| are against any form Of popular lib
erty II 1t Ii guaranteed by even the
most just and liberal laws and who
| are as hostile to the upright exponent
of q free peoples sober will as to the
tyrannical and irresponsible despot-
Anarchy and Anarchists.
| The president continues with q
eulogy Of Mr.. Mckinley. then turns to
the subject OF anarchy. denouncing Its
doctrines and preachers. He says:
4 earnestly recommend to the congress
that in the exercise Of its wise discre-
ton it should take into consideration
the coming to this country Of anarch-
lists or persons protesting principles
hostile to all government and justify.
ing the murder of those placed In au.
thority. Such Individuals as those who
not long ago gathered in open meeting
to glorify the murder OF King Hum.
bert 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
deportcd to the country whence they
came. and farreaching 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 giveI
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 thu
presidency. while the punishment fol
an unsuccessful attempt should be pro
portioned to the enormity of the Of
Tense against our institutions.
Anarchy is crime against the whole
human race and all mankind shoult
band against the anarchist. His crim'
| should be made an offense against tn,
I law of nations. like piracy and tina
orm of man stealing known as tn,
slave trade.
The president next considers busl
ness conditions. which he finds highl.
satisfactory. He continues:
The tremendous and highly compile,
industrial development which went 0l
with ever accelerated rapidity durini
the latter half of the nineteenth cen
tury brings us face to face at the be
ginning of the twentieth with yer.
serious social problems. The old law
and the old customs which had almos
the binding force of law were ono
II quite sufficient to regulate the &C
III cumulation and distribution of wealth
| Since the Industrial changes whic
l have so enormously increased the pro
ductive power of mankind they are n
! longer sufficient.
Trade Combinations.
The growth Of cities has gone on b.
yond comparison faster than th
growth of the country. and the vi
building of the great Industrial center
has meant a startling increase nc
merely In the aggregate Of wealth. bt
in the number of very large individu'
| and especially Of very large corporal
fortunes. The creation of these gres
. corporate fortunes has not been dr
= to the tariff nor to any other goverl
=, mental action. but to natural cause
In the business world. operating In OF
er countries as they operate in OF
4 own.
The process has aroused much a
tagonism. q great part of which
wholly without warrant. 1t Is not trl
that as the rich have grown richer Il
o. poor have grown poorer. On the CO
5 trary. never before has the averai
e man. the wageworker. the farmer. Il
small trader. been so well or as In tn
country and ut the present time. The
have been abuses connected with Z
accumulation Of wealth. yet 1t remat
8. / true that q fortune accuuDulafed