The Penn's Grove record., 1901-12-06

Treaty-The Monroe Doctrine-Becom-
incndations About Cuba, Hawaii, Porto
Rico aud the Phiiippines-The Army
The Other Topics Discussed.
Washington, d. C.-President Roose-
velt's first annualm message, which was read
before the Senate and House Of Represen-
~tatives, is, in part, as follows:
The Congress assemblies this year under
the shadow of a 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 that city on the 18th 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 Amer
lean citizens. Moreover, the circumstances
Of this, the third assassination of an Amer
lean President have a PECULIARLY sinister
significance. Both President Lincoln and
President Garfield were killed by assass-
ms 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 %revengefui vanity Of a dis
appointed oficeseeker. President McKin-
ley was killed by an utterly depraved Grim
lldl DelUlSluB 10 tudb DOuy VI criiIilldiS
who object to all governments, 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
a free peoples sober will as to the tyran-
nical and irresponsible despot.
President Roosevelt then pays a nigh
tribute to the late President as a man, a
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 by
the splendid achievements of his life and
the grand heroism with which he met Lis
DEATH"
The President, in referring to the crime
which so shocked the community, said
that the blow was aimed not at the Presi-l
dent, but at every symbol of government.
1t was the bold defiance OF anarchy Of all
law and order. The Anarchist is a Grim
inal whose perverted instincts lead him
to prefer confusion and chaos to the most
beneficent form of social order.
President Roosevelt then declares that
anarchistic speeches, writings and meet
ings are essentially seditious and treason
able. He urges Congress to enact such
legislation as will bar all Anarchists or
persons justifying the murder of those
placed in authority from entering he
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 the
Constitution or by laws, is in line OF sue
cession for the Presidency, while the pun
isEnent for an unsuccessful attempt
should be proportional to the enormity OF
the offence against our institutions.
Anarchy is a 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, for it
is of far blacker infamy than either. 1t
should be so declared by treaties among
all civilized powers. Such treaties would
give to the Federal Government the pow
er Of dealing with the crime.
President Roosevelt refers in congratula-
tory terms to the prosperity of the nation,
but utters a warning TO the men who seek
to add to their possessions by gambling IN
any form and unwise speculation, as they
are a source of menace not only to them
selves, but to others. Ii the business
world loses its head it loses what legisla'
tiol cannot supply.
The President then considers the great
~accumulations of wealth and large indus
trial corporations. He says that the ere,
alton Of great corporate fortunes has not
been 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, a great part OF
which is wholly without warrant. There
have been abuses connected with the ac-
emulation OF wealth, vet it remains true
that q fortune &C .umulated in legitimate
business can be accumulated by the person
specially benefited only on condition OF
comforting immense incidental benefits
upon Others. Successful enterprise, OF
the tyne which benefits all mankind, 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 the
question Of industrial combinations. He
remarks: It cannot too often be pointed
out that to strike with ignorant violence
at the interests OF one set of men almost
inevitably e~ndangers the interests OF all
The fundamental rule in our national life
the rule which underlie5 all others-is
that, on the whole, and in the long. run,
we shall go up or down together. There
are exceptions, and in TIM of prosperity
some will prosper far more, and in times
of adversely some viii suffer far more than
others, but speaking generally, a period {
good times means that all share more or less
in them, and in a period OF hard times all
feel the stress to a greater or less degree.
Disaster to great business enterprises can
never have its effects limited to the men
at the top. 1t spreads throughout, and
while it is bad for everybody it is worst
for those farthest down. The capitalist
NAV be shorn OF his luxuries, but the
w~age-worker RAY be deprived Of even bare
necessities,
President Roosevelt says that there are
real aud grave evils connected with trusts,
one OF the chief being over-eapitalizatlon
because Of It's many baleful consequences,
and q resolntA and practical effort must be
made 10 Get these evils. He continues:
There IS a widespread conviction IN
the minds OF the American people that the
eee7t corporations known as trusts are IN
certain Of their features and tendencies
hufsful to the general welfare. Tbs
SPRINGS from no spirit OF envy or unchaOt..
ableuess. 1t does not rest upon a lack OF
Intelligent appreciation Of the necessity of
meeting changing and changed conditions
Of trade with new methods, nor upon ig..
torrance Of the fact that combination OF
eanital in the effort to accomplish great
things is necessary when the worlds pro-
ness demands that great things be done.
II is based upon sincere conviction that
combination and concentration should be,
not prohibited, but supervised, and within
reasonable limits controlled, and IN ny
Judgment this conviction is right.
TIE President believes that the first es-
sential in determining how to deal with
the great industrial combinations is knowl-
cdcc-ef the facts. Publicity is the only
sure remedy that can be invoked. The
Government, be declares, should have the