Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-12-11
Keynotes OF President Roosevelt's
Message 10 Congress.

Message 10 Congress.
At the time of President McKin-
ley's death be was the most widely
loved msn Ia the United States; while
We have never had anv pu olic man OF
his position who has been 80 wholly
Tree from tue bitter snimosity mol
dent 10 public lite.
We should aim 10 exclude absolute.
ly from this country rot only all per-
sons who are known TO be believers In
Anarchlstlc principles or members of
AnsrchIsuc societies, but also all
persons who are of low moral ten
dency or of unsavory reputation.
The creation OF great corporate
fortunes has not been due TO the tar
III, nor to any other governmental &C
ton, but To natural causes In the
business world operating Ia other
countries as they operate In our own.
Corporations engaged in inter State
Commerce should be REQUESTED if
they are found to exercise y license
working to the public injury.
Publicity ls the only sure remedy
which We can now invoke.
1t Is not true that ss the rich have
grown richer the poor have grown
poorer. A fortune accumulated In
legitimate business can be sccumulat-
ed oy the persons especially benefited
only on condition of comforting i'm
mense Incidental benefits upon others.
regard 1t ~ necessary to re enact
Immediately the law excluding Chi
nese lsoorers, and to strengthen it
wherever necessary in order TO make
Is enforcement entirely effective.
All persons should be excluded
who are below d certain standard of
economic illness TO enter our indus
trial field as competitors with Amer
lean labor.
The condition of the American
merchant marine is such as to call
for Immediate remedial action by the
Congress.
1t should be made advantageous
tocarry American goods in American
built ships.
Reciprocity must be treated rs the
hsndmaIden of protection. 1t is not
only possible but eminently desirable
to combine with the stability of our
economic system supplementary
system or benefit and obligation with
other nations.
The duties must never be reduced
below the point that will cover the
difference between the labor cost here
and abroad.
The forest preserves should be set
apart forever for the use and benefit
OF our people as u whole, aud not
sacrificed TO the shortsighted greed
OF few.
The government should construct
and maintain irrigation reservoirs as
1t does other public works.
We hope to make our administra-
ton of the Philippines honorable to
our nation by making it of the high
est benefit to the Fillipinos them
selves.
To leave the islands at this time
would mean that they would fall into
a welter of murderous Anarchy.
No single great material work
which remains to be undertaken on
this continent is of such consequence
to the American people as the build
ing of a canal across the isthmus
connecting North and South Amer
lea.
The Monroe Doctrine should be
the cardinal feature of the foreign
policy of all the nations of the two
Americas IS it is of the United |
States.
The navy offers US the only means
of making our insistance upon the
Monroe Doctrine anything but q
subject of derision to whatever ma
ton chooses to disregard it.
1t is not necessary to increase our
army beyond its present size at this
time. But it is necessary to keep it
st the highest point of efficiency.
We desire the peace which comes
as right to the just man armed; not
the peace granted on terms of igno-
miny to the cravin and the weakling.
Every promotion and every detail
under the War Department must be
made solely in regard to the good of
the service and to the capacity and
merit of the man himself.
The merit system of making ap-
polntments is in it's essence az dem
ocratic and American as the common.
school system itself.
The Indian should be treated IS an
indlvidual-like white man.
We advocate in China the "open
door" with all that it implies; not
merely the procurement of enlarged
commercial opportunities on the
coasts, but access to the interior by
the waterways with which China has
been 80 extraordinarily favored.
No other citizens deserve 90 we'll
OF the Republic as the veterans, the
survivors of those who saved the
Union.
The General Assembly of Virginia
went into eXacutive aaaaion laet Wod