Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-05
SYNOPSIS OF MESSAGE.
Brief and Comprehensive Resume @
The Presidents Ideas.

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The Presidents Ideas.
The congress assemblies this year
under the shadow OF a great calamity.
Both President Lincoln and Presi-
dent Garfield were killed by assassins
of types unfortunately not uncommon
in history; President Lincoln falling
victim to the terrible passions arous
ed by four years of civil war, and
President Garfield to the revengeful
vanity of a disappointed office seeker.
President Mckinley was killed by an
utterly depraved criminal belonging TO
that body of criminals who object to
all government, good and bad alike,
who are against any form of popular
liberty if it is guaranteed by even the
most just and liberal laws, and who
are as hostile to the upright exponent
of free peoples sober will as TO the
tyrannical and irresponsible despot.
1t is not too much to say that at the
time of President McKinleys death ne
was the most widely loved man in all
the United States; while We have new
er had any public man of his position
who has been so wholly free from
the bitter animosities of public life.
Dealing With Anarchy.
When we turn from the man to the
nation, the harm done is so great as
to excite our gravest apprehensions
and to demand our wisest and most
resolute action. This criminal was a
professed anarchist, infiamed by the
teachings of protested anarchists, and
probably also by the reckless utter
ances of those who, on the stump and
in the public press, appeal TO the dark
and evil spirits of malice and greed,
envy and sullen hatred. The wind is
sowed by the men who preach such
doctrines, and they cannot escape
their share of responsibility for the
Whirlwind that is reaped. This ap-
plies alike to the deliberate dema-
gogue, to the exploiter of sensational
ism, and to the crude and foolish Wis,
ionary who, for whatever reason, apo
gizes for crime or eXcites aimless dis
content.
I earnestly recommend to the con,
gress that in the exercise of its wise
discretion it should take into consid'
Grafton the coming to this country OF
anarchists or persons processing prin
ciples hostile to all government and
justifying the murder of those placed
in authority.
Business Conditions.
During the last five years business
confidence has been restored, and the
nation is TO be congratulated because
of its present Astounding prosperity
Such prosperity can never be created
by law alone, although it is easy
enough to destroy it by mischevious
laws. Fundamentally the welfare Of
fare of the aggregate of citizens which
makes the nation, must rest upon in
dividual thrift and energy, resolution
and intelligence. Nothing can take
the place of this individual capacity
but wise legislation and honest ant
intelligent administration can give i
the fullest scope, the largest opportu
nifty to work to good effect.
The tremendous and highly complex
industrial development which went OF
with ever accelerated activity during
the later half of the nineteenth cen
fury brings us face to face at the be
ginning of the twentieth with Yer,
serious social problems. The ole
laws, and the old customs which hat
almost the binding force of law, were
once quite sufficient to regulate thu
accumulation and distribution o
wealth. Since the industrial change
which have so enormously increased
the productive power of mankind, the,
Il are no longer sufficient,
Great Corporations.
The creation of great corporate for
tunes has not been due to the tariff
nor to any thersgovernmental action
but to natural causes in the business
world, operating in other countries al
they operate in our own.
The process has aroused much an
tagonism, a great part of which il
wholly without warrant 1t is no
true that as the rich have grown rich
er the poor have grown poorer. o.
the contrary, never before has the av
erage man, the wage worker, the farm
er, the small trader, been so we'll OF
as in this country and at the presen
time. There have been abuses con
nected with the accumulation o
wealth; yet it remains true that
fortune accumulated in legitimate bus
mess can be accumulated by the PEI
son specially benefited only on cond
ton of comforting immense incidenta
benefits upon others. Successful er
terprise, of the type which benefits al
mankind, can only exist if the cond
tions are such as to offer great prize
as the rewards of success.
Publicity the Remedy.
The first essential in determinin
how to deal with the great industrial