Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1901-12-05
The PRESIDENTS uESsaGE
Listened to With Marked Respect
by Congress.
GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS
FavOrs exclamation OF Arid Lands-Paclic
Coast Interests Given Most Care
fdI Attention.
jOOD RECOMMENDATIONS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. - The Senate
listened to the first message OF Pes
dent Roosevelt today and adopted a
resolution directing the appointment oi
com mmittee to cooperate with a lise
committee from the House to consid er
by what token of respect and affection
Congress might express the sorrow OF
the Nation upon the tragic death Of the
late President Mckinley. The message
was delivered soon after the Senate
met. The reading occupied nearly two
and half hours and wss listened TO
with marked respect by the Senators.
GEMS FROM THE MASSAGE.
The personal equation is the most
important factor IN business opera
ton.
Prosperity can never be created by
law alone, though it is essv enough to
destroy it by mscL ievous laws
If ever anarchy is triumphant, ts
ttiumph will last but for one red mo-
me1s, to be succeeded for ages by the
gloomy night OF despotism.
The welfare OF each citizen, and there
fore the welfare of the aggregate of
citizens which makes the Nation, must
rest upon individual thrift and energy,
resolution and intelligence.
The reclamation and settlement of
the aid lands will enrich every portion
OF our country, just as the settlement of
the Ohio and Mississippi valleys
brought prosperity to the Atlantic
states.
1t is not true that as the rich have
grown richer the poor haze grown poor
er. On .i,e-eonts.ssH. :. ..,evf before has
the average man, the wageworker, the
farmer, the small trader, been so well
off as in this &C untry and at the present |
time.
ID saster 10 great business enterprises !
can never have it's effects limited to the /
men at the top. 1t spreads throughout, |
and while it is bad for everybody, it is
worse for those farthest down. The |
capitalist may be shorn OF his luxuries;
but the wageworker may be deprived OF
even bare necessities
The preservation OF our forests is an
imperative business necessity.
The peoples OF the Americas can pros
per best II left to work out their own
In their own way.
Combination and con centration should
be, not prohibi ed, but supervised and
within reasonable limits controlled.
We desire the peace which comes as
Of right to the just man armed not the
peace granted on terms of ignominy to
the craven and the weakling.
The forest reserves should be set
apart forever for the use and benefit OF
our people as whole, and not sacri-
seed to the short-sighted greed of few
The effort should be steadily to make
ha Indian work like any other man on
bis own ground. The marriage laws of
he Indians should be made the same
rs those OF the whites.
The American people must either
)uild and maintain an adequate navy or
'lse make up their minds definitely to
accept secondary position in interna-
iona affairs, not merely in political,
out in commercial matters.
No single great material wtich re-
mains to be undertaken on this conti-
lent is OF such consequence to the I
American people as the building Of
'apal across the Isthmus connecting
lo'th and South America
The individual American enlisted man
$ probably on the whole more formid-
hle fighting uan than the regular OF
my other army. Every consideration
hould ha shown him. and in return the
highest standard Of usefulness should
'e pxacted from him.
Our railways are the tie les through
'hlch the commercial liebiood of this
Istion flows. Nothing could be more :
polish than the enactment OF leCisls
ion which would unnecessarily inter |
ere with the development and one A.
ion of these commercial agencies.
American wageworkcrs work with
heir heads as well Il. their hands.
borrower. they take keen pride in !
that they are doing, so that. indie
endent of the reward. they wish to /