The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-12-06

deed was the hatred which the An
bear against the heads OF all
civilized Governments. He dwells at
large upon the dangers of Anarchy
andsuggests that remediallegislation
should be passed which would give
the Federal Courts the right to
punish any one who should take the
life or attempt to kill the President
or any man who by law is in the line
of succession for the Presidency, and
that the punishment for an attempted
assault should be proportionate to
the enormity of the offense against
our public institutions. He compli-
ments the strength ofthe Government
in regard to Imposition it was placed
Immediately after the commission of
the crime. "The people would have
torn him the assassin limb from limb
lift had not been that the law he dehed
was at once invoked in his behalf
So far from his deed being aimed on
behalf of the people against the
Government, the Government was
obliged at once to exert its full police
power to save him from instant death
at the hands of the people. More
over, his deed worked not the
slightest dislocation in our Govern
mental system and the danger of a
recurrence of such deeds, no matter
how great it would grow, would
work only in the direction of
strengthening and giving harshness
to the forces of order. No man will
ever be restrained from becoming
President by any fear as to his
personal safety. If the risk to the
Presidents life became great it would
mean that the office would more and
more come to be filled by men of a
spirit which would make them reso-
lutte and merciless in dealing with
every friend of dishonor. This great
country will not fall into Anarchy
and if Anarchists should ever become
a serious menace to its institutions
they would not merely be stamped
out, but would involve in their own
ruin every active or passive sympa-
thizer with their doctrines. The
American people are slow to wrath,
but when their wrath is once kindled
it burns like consuming flame"
The subject ofanti-trust legislation
is handled in a very cautious manner.
From the Presidents previous utter
ances on this important matter the
foes of the illegal aggregation of
money had hoped that he would
take strong and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
against the corporate greeds. How
ever, as this criticism is intended to
be entirely non-partisan we willpass
by without further discussing the
matter. He warns against any
thoughtless action and points out the
dangers of haste and endeavors to
show that industrial corporations
have a good side as we'll as a bad
side. On one point however, he does
unloosen himself and that is the evils
ofover-capitalization. Heexpresses
the mild opinion that trusts should
be supervised and controlled within
limits.
Mr.. Roosevelt thinks that the time
has now approached when an ad-
ditional cabinet portfolio should be
established, which would have au-
thority to deal directly with our
commerce and industries and that
the question of trusts should be put
in charge of this branch Of the public
service. All contests between labor
and capital should also be embodied
within the scope gifts authority. He
expresses the greatest interest in the
welfare of the wage Garner. eff the
farmer and the wage Garner are we'll
off it is absolutely certain that all
others will be well off too" He re-
commends the re-enactment of the
law excluding Chinese labor and to
strengthen it wherever necessary in
order to make it's enforcement entire
ly effective. He also recommends
that the eight hour law for Govern
ment labor be strictly enforced so far
as practicable.
He says that the great secret ofsuc-
cess of American wage earners is that
they work with their heads as well
as their hands. Moreover, they take
keen pride in what they are doing
so that independent of reward they
wish to turn out perfectjob. This is
the great secret of success in COMPETE
ton with the labor of foreign coun-
tries. "The chieffeature in the success
of each man-wage worker, farmer
and capitalist alike-must ever be
a sum total of his own Individual
qualities and abilities" He also
recognized the wisdom of labor
unions.
The President calls attention to our
present immigration laws and says
that they are unsatisfactory and
need changing. He also recommends
the exclusion of the densely ignorant
as they are so potent in producing
envy, suspicion, malignant passion
and hatred of order out of which
Anarchistic sentiment inevitably
springs. Both the educational and
economic tests in a wise immigration