Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-05
TIL: MESSAGE.
What the President Says on I'm
portant Subjects.
TRUSTS AND RECIPROCITY
Publicity Ia the Only Sure Remedy
Against the Evils of Combinations
Advocates Reduction of Duty on
Cuban Imports Inlo This
Country.

says:
The congress assemblies this year TN.
der the snadUV Of a great calamity.
ON the 9Th Of September President Nc
Kinley was shot by an anarchist while
| attending the Pan-Amcrican exposi-
| ton at Buffalo and died in that city
on the 14th 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 assassns of
types unfortunately not uncommon in
| history. President Lincoln falling a
victim to the terrible passions aroused
by four years of civil war and Pres-
dent Garfield to the reveugeful vanity
of Il disappointed office seeker. Pres-
dent Mckinley was killed by an utter
" depraved criminal belonging to that
| body of criminals who object to all
governments. good and bad alike. who
are against any form of popular lib
erty if it is guaranteed by even the
most just and liberal laws and who
are as hostile to the upright expone
/ OF free peoples sober will as to the
tyranncal and irresponsible despot.
Anarchy and Arnrchi.ts.
The president continues with
euloGy Of Mr.. Mckinley, then turns TO
the subject Of anarchy, denouncing its
| doctrines and preachers. He says:
| earnestly recommend to the congress
that in til, exercise of its wise discre-
ton it should take into consideration
the coming to this country of anarch-
lists or persons processing principles
hostile to all government and justify
ing the murder of those placed in au-
thority. Such individuals rs those who
not long ago gathered in open meeting
to gloriy the murder of King Hum
bert of Italy perpetrate 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
deported 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 given
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 the
presidency, while the punishment for
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 should
band against the anarchist. His crime
should be made an offense against the
law Of nations, like piracy and that
form OF man stealing known as the
slave trade.
The president next considers bust
ness conditions which he fnds highly
satisfactory. He continues:
The tremendous and highly complex
industrial development which went on
with ever accelerated rapidty during
the latter half of the nineteenth CEN
fury brings US face to face at the be-
ginning Of the twentieth 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 ac-
emulation and distribution of wealth.
Since the industrial changes which
have so enormously increased the pro-
ductive power of mankind they are no
longer sufficient.
Trad. COmbiBations.
The growth of cities has gone on be-
yond comparison faster than the
growth of the country, and the up
building OF the great Industrial centers
has meant startling increase not
merely in the aggregate Of wealth. but
In the number OF very large individual
and especially Of very large corporate
fortunes, The creation of these great
corporate fortunes has not been due
10 the tariff nor to any other govern
mental acton, but to natural causes
in the business world. operating in 9TH
er countries as they operate in our
own.
The process has aroused much an
taGonsm, great part of which il
wholly without warrant. 1t is not true
that as the rich have grown richer the
poor have grown poorer. On the con-
trary, never before has the average
man, the waGeworker. the farmer. the
small trader been so well off as in this
country and at the present time. There
have been abuses connected with the
accumulation Of wealth, yet it remains
true that a fortune accumulated in
*, ,tl4..".c uuslneSs can be accumulate
ed by the person specially benefited
only an condition OF comforting i'm
mense incidental benefits upon 9th
ers. Successful enterprise OF the type
which benefits all mankind can only
exist If the conditions are such rs to
offer great prizes as the rewards of
success.
Reasons For Caution.
The president adds that there are
many reasons for caution in dealing
with corporations. lie says
The same business conditions which
have lroiu"cd the great aggrcgations
OF corporate and individual wealth
have made them very potent factors in
intprpn inDnI ppnpprpiul coInnpi ition