The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-04

more urgently for the wisest thought O the Congress.
 The Federal courts should be givel | Jurisdiction over any man who kills o l attempts to kill the President or an.
 man who by the Constitution or by law is in line of succession for the Presi l dency, while the punishment for an un successful attempt should be propor toned to the enormity of the offense against our institutions.
 | Anarchy is a crime against the whole | human race; and all mankind should l band against the anarchist. His crime should be made an offense against the | law of nations, like piracy and that l form of manstealing known as the slave | trade; for it is of far blacker infamy than either. It should be so declared by treaties among all civilized powers. Such treaties would give to the Federal Government the power of dealing with the crime.
 A grim commentary upon the folly of the anarchist position was afforded by the attitude of the law toward this very criminal who had just taken the life of the President The people would have torn him limb from limb if it had not been that the law he deted was at once invoked in his behalf. So far from his deed being committed on behalf of
 the people against the Government, the Government was obliged at once to ex-
 ert it's full police power to save him
 from instant death at the hands Of the
 people. Moreover, his deed worked not
 the slightest dislocation in our govern-
 mental system and the danger of re-
 currence of such deeds, no matter how great it might 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 fears as to
 his personal safety. If the risk to the
 Presidents life became great, 1t would
 mean that the office would more and
 more come to be filled by men of a spirit which would make them resolute and merciless in dealing with every friend of disorder. This great country
 will not fall into anarchy, and if arl- archists should ever become serious menace to it's institutions, they would not merely be stamped out, but would inolve In their own ruin every active or passive sympat thizer with their doc trines. The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
 The Business situation.
 During the last five years business confidence has been restored, and the Nation is to be congratulated because of it's present abounding prosperity. Such prosperity can never be created by law alone, although it is easy enough to destroy it by mischievous laws. If the hand of the Lord is heavy upon any country, if flood or drought comes, hu- man wisdom is powerless to avert the calamity Moreover, no law can guard us against the consequences of our own folly The men who are idle or credu- lous, the men who seek gains not by genuine work with head or hand but by gambling in any form, are always a source of menace not only to them selves but to others. If the business world loses it's head. it loses what legis- lation cannot supply. Fundamentally the welfare of each citizen, and there fore the welfare of the aggregate of tlllLtllS WIlCii ulthtsS lilt INdlibU, IlluSl rest upon individual thrift and energy. resolution and intelligence. Nothing can take the place of this individual capacity; but wise legislation and hon. est and intelligent administration can give it the fullest scope, the largest op- portunity to work to good effect
 The Trusts.
 The tremendous and highly complex development which went on with ever accelerated rapidity during the latter half of the nineteenth century brings us face to face at the beginning of the twentieth, with very serious so- cial problems. The old laws, and the | old customs which had almost the bind l ing force of law, were once quite suffi- cient to regulate the accumulation and [ of wealth. Since the indus trial changes which have SO enormously | increased the productive power of man kind, they are no longer sufficient.
 The growth of cities has gone on be- yond comparison faster than the growth of the country, and the upbuild- ng of the great industrial centers has meant a startling increase, not merely n the aggregate of wealth, but in the number of very large individual, and especially of very large corporate, for .unes. The creation of these great cor oorate fortunes has not been due to the ariff nor to any other governmental ac- ion, but to natural causes in the busi- less world, operating in other countries IS they operate in our own.
 The process has aroused much antag- nism, a great part of which is wholly without warrant. It is not true that as he rich have grown richer the poor lave grown poorer. On the contrary, lever before has the average man, the wage worker, the farmer, the small rader, been so we'll off as in this coun- ry and at the present time There have ,een abuses connected with the ac- of wealth; yet it remains rue that d fortune accumulated in egitimate business can be accumulated " the person specially benefited only n condition of comforting immense in- idental benefits upon others. Success lll enterprise, of the type which bene- ts all mankind, can only exist if the onditions are such as to offer great rizes as the rewards of success.
 The captains of industry who have riven the railway systems across this ointment who have built up commerce,