The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-12-05
DISCUSSION OF TRUSTS.
Publicity Deemed the Only Sure
Remedy at Present.
MONROE DOCTRINES PURPOSE
Not Intended ns Hostile to Old World
Nations, but step Toward In
AurinE Universal Pence by Se-
curing the Possibility of
Permanent Peace on
This Hemisphere.

Washington, Dec. 3.-The president
In his annual message to congress
says:
The congress assemblies this year un-
der the shadow of a great calamity.
On the 9th Of September President Nc
Kinley was shot by an anarchist while
attending the Pan-American exposi-
ton at Buffalo and died in that city
on the 1ith 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 American citizens. Moreover
the circumstances of this, the third as
sassination of an American president,
have peculiarly sinister significance.
Both President Lincoln and President
Garfield were killed by assassins of
types unfortunately not uncommon in
history, President Lincoln falling a
victim to the terrible passions aroused
by four years of civil war and Presi-
dent Garfield to the revengeful vanity
VA a h4St4 St4lllDlllNNh OlllNt StthtI. resi-
dent Mckinley was killed by an utter
ly depraved criminal belonging TO that
body of criminals who object TO all
governments, good and bad alike who
are against any form of popular lib
erty if 1t is guaranteed by even the
most just and liberal laws and who
are as hostile to the upright exponent
nf n fraa rnay,1a'c ,t-fI1
tyrannical and irresponsible despot.
Anarchy and Anarchists.
The president continues with a
eulogy Of Mr.. Mckinley. then turns to
the subject of anarchy. denouncing its
doctrines and preachers. He says:
| earnestly yrecommend to thecongress
that in the exercise of its wise discre-
ton it should take into consideration
the coming to this country of anarch-
lists or persons processing principles
hostile TO all government and justify
ing the murder of those placed in au-
thority. Such individuals as those who
not long ago gathered in open meeting
to glorify the murder of King Hum
bert of Italy perpetrate crime. and
the law should insure their rigorous
punishment. They and those like them
should be kept out Of this country. and
if found here they should be promptly
deported to the country whence they
came, and farreaching provision should
be made for the punishment of those
who stay. No matter calls more
urgently for the wisest thought of the
congress.
Subject For Federal Courts.
The federal courts should be given
jurisdiction over any man who kills
or attempts to kill the president or any
man who by the constitution or by
law is in line Of succession for the
presidency, while the punishment for
an unsuccessful attempt should be pro,
portioned to the enormity Of the of,
fense against our institutions.
Anarchy is crime against the whole
human race, and all mankind should
band against the anarchist.
The president next considers busi
ness conditions which he finds highly
satisfactory. He continues:
The tremendous and highly complex
industrial development which went OF
with ever accelerated rapidity during
the latter half OF the nineteenth cen
fury brings US face to face at the be
ginning Of the twentieth with very
serious social problems. The old law.
and the old customs which had almos
the binding force of law were ono,
quite sufficient TO regulate the ac
cumulation and distribution of wealth
Since the industrial changes whicl
have so enormously increased the pro
ductive power Of mankind they are n,
longer sufficient.
Trade Combinations.
The growth of cities has gone on be
yond comparison faster than tn
growth of the country, and the up
building of the great industrial center
has meant startling increase no
merely in the aggregate Of wealth, bu
In the number of very large individua
and especially of very large corporal
fortunes. The creation of these grea
corporate fortunes has not been du
TO the tariff nor to any other govern
mental action, but to natural cause
In the business world, operating in otl
er countries as in our own.
The process has aroused much Al
tagonism, a great part of which
wholly without warrant. II is not trt
that as the rich have grown richer IL
poor have grown poorer. On the co
trary, never before has the avera,
man, the wageworKer, the farmer, Il
small trader been so well off as in tn
country and at the present time. The
have been abuses connected with 4
accumulation of wealth, yet it renal
true that fortune accumulated