The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-12-18
Presidents Review Of National
Affairs Read to Congress.
URGES WAR ON ANARCHISTS
Believes No Changes Should Be Made
in the Tariff and Advocates
Reciprocity.
PUBLICITY A CHECK ON TRUSTS

The President Favors National supervision
and Control of Industrial Combinations
Urges tho Re-enac:ment of the Chi
neso Exclusion Law-RecoInmends the
Amendment of the Immigration Laws
Pleads For tho Up Building of the
of the Navy - Tho IsthInian Canal
Trcaty-The Monroe Doctr,ne-Eeco:n.
Incndations About Cuba, Hawaii, Porto
Rico and the Philippines-The Army
Tho Other Topics Discussed.
Washington, D. C.-President Roose.
yelt's first annual message, which was read
before the Senate and House OF Represen'
tatlres, Is, IN pGrt, as follows:
The Congress assemblies this year under
the shadow of great calamity: On the
9Th of September President Mckinley was
shot by an Anarchist while attending the
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, and
died in thai city on the 14th of that
month.
Of the last seven elected Presidents he
is the third who has been murdered, and
LuS DdiC 1SClIdl "a Iulo 1dSI - ouAASAShS w
justify grave alarm among al loyal Amer
lean citizens. Moreovcr, the circumstances
of this, the third assassination of an Amer
ican President have PECULIARLY sinister
significance. Both President Lincoln and
President Garfield were killed by assass-
ins of types unfortunately not uncommon
in history; President Lincoln falling the
victim to the terrible passions aroused by
four years of Civil War, and President
Garfield to the revengeful vanity Of dis
appointed offceseeker. President McKin-
le, was killed by an utterly depraved Grim
iaal belonging to that body Of criminals
who object to all governments, good and
bad alike, who are against any, form OF
popular liberty if it is guaranteed by even
tic most Just and hbera! laws, and Wh9 no
are as hostile to the upright exponent OF
free peoples sober will as to the tyran-
nical and irresponsible despot.
President Roosevelt then pays nigh
tribute to the late President as man,
citizen and a statesman. In concluding
his eulogy the President said: We mourn
e good and great President who IS dead,
but while we mourn we are lifted up oy
the splendid achievements Of his life and
ssat6.S
The President, in referring to the crime
which so shocked the community, said
that the blow was aimed not at the Presl-
dent, but at every symbol of government;
It was the bold defiance of ANARCHY. OF all
law and order The Anarchist IS Grim
inal whose perverted instincts lead him
to prefer confusion and chaos to the most
beneGcent form of social order.
President Roosevelt then declares that
anarchstic speeches, writings and meet
ings are essentially seditious and treason
able He urges Congress to enact such
legislation as will bor all Anarchists or
persons justifying tae murder OF those
placed in authority from entering ne
country. The President continues: The
Federal courts should be given jurisdiction
over any man who kills or attempts to
kill the President CT any man WHO, by tie
Constitution or by laws, is in line OF sue
.cessiCn for the Presidency, while the pun
isEnent for an unsuccessful attempt
should be proportioned to the enormlty OF
the offence 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 offence against the law OF ma
tions, like piracy and that form. OF man
stealing known as the slave trade, tor 1t
is of far blacker infamy than either. II
should be so declared by treatie: among
all civilized powers Such treaties would
give to the Federal Government the pow
er of dealing with the crime.
freSlQenC hOOSeEelC refers III COuSld uio
tory terms to the prosperity of the nation,
but utters a warning to the men VINO seek
to adj to their possessions by gambling IN
any form and unwisc speculation, as they
are a source of menace not only to tnem-
selves, but to others. II the business
world loses its head it loses what legis!a'
tior cannot supply.
The President then considers the great
accumulations Of wealth and large indus
He Says that the
alton of great corporate fortunes has not
beer due to the tariff nor to any other
governmental action. but to natural causes
in the business world, operating in other
countries as they operate in our own
The process has aroused much antagonism:
the President observes, great part OF
which is wholly without warrant. There
have been abuses connected with the ac-
~cumulation of wealth, yet i remains true
that fortune &C umuiated in legitimate
business can be accumulated by the person
specially benefited onl on condition OF
conierring immense incidental benefits
upon others. Successful enterprise, OF
the tyne which benefits al man!:lnd, can
only exist if the conditions are such as to
offer great prizes as the rewards OF sue
cess.
President Roosevelt advises caution in
dealing with the abuses involved in tine
question Of industrial combinations. lie
remarks: It cannot too often be pointed
out that to strike with ignorant violence
at the interests of one set of men almost
inevitably cndangers the interests OF al.
The fundamental rule in our national lic
the rule which underle5 all others-!s
that. on the whole, and in the long run,
we shall 90 up or down together. There
are exceptions, and in times of prosperity
some will prosper far more, and IN times
OF adversely some vii suifer, far more THAI!
Others. but speaking generally. period r
good times means that all share more or less
In them, and in period OF hard tunes al
feel the stress to a greater or less degree
Disaster to great business enterprises ca3
never have It's effects limited to the Eler
at the too. It spreads throughout, and
while it is bad for everybody 1t Is wors
for those farthest down. The capitalist
may be shorn of his luxrries. but the
wage-worker may be deprived OF even bare
necessities.
President Roosevelt sa.-s that there are
real and grave evils connected with trusts
one of the chief being over-captaiizatior
. because of its many baleful consequences
and a reso!ute and practical effort must bt
Iaade.to correct these evils He continues
There is a widespread convlction II
the minds of the American people that th'
great corporations, known as trusts are IL
certain Of their features and tendenClc
hUrtful to the general welfare. I'M
springs from no spirit of envy or uncharlt
ab,eness. It does rot rest upon lack o
iate;igeat appreciation Of the necessity g "
meeting changing and changed condition @ m
OF trade with new methods, nor upon le
no-ance of the fact that co-nbnation o
capital in the effort to accomplish, grea
things is necessary when the world pre-
pr.ss demands that great things be do1c
It is based upon sincere convlctlon, tina
combination and concentration should be
not prohibited, but supervised, ard within
reasonable limits controlled. and In n