The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-12-06

Inc FOLLOWING Is q comprehensive sum-
mary of President Roosevelt's message to
congress:
The president begins his first annual
communication with an official announce
ment of the death of the late President
Mckinley, and a eulogy of his former
chief in which he says:
1T is not too much to say that at the
time of President McKinleys death he
was the most widely-loved man in all the
United States, while we have never had
any public man of his position who has
been so wholly free from the bitter ami
mosities incident to public life. His. po-
Itical opponents were the first to pear
the heartiest and most generous tribute
to the broad kindness of nature, the
sweetness and gentleness of character
which so endeared him to his close assoc
ciates. To standard of lofty integrity
in public life he united the tender affec,
tons and home virtues which are all
important in the makeup OF national
character. A gallant soldier in the great
war for the union, he also shone as an
conduct in the most sacred and intimate
of home relations. There could be no
personal hatred of him, for he never act
ed with aught but consideration for the
respect him who knew him in public or
private life The defenders of those muir
criminality by asserting that it is exer-
cised for political ends inveigh against
wealth and irresponsible power. But for
this assassination even this base apology
q. cannot be urged"
1.-The shock, the grief of the country, are
bitter in the minds of all who saw the
dark days while the president yet hoversd
between life and death. At last the light
was stilled in the kindly eyes. and the
breath went from the lips that even in
mortal agony uttered no words save of
forgiveness to his murderer, of love for
his friends and of unfaltering trust in the
will of the Most High Such death
browning the glory of such life leaves
us with infinite sorrow, but with such
pride in what he had accomplished and in
his own personal character that we feel
the blow not as struck at him, but as
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 his
de ath."
In the same connection he makes
T.; strong recommendations as to how the
nation should deal with anarchy: He
anarchy be not permitted, and requests
congress to enact legislation that Will
prevent anarchists from foreign countries
landing upon our shores. He would also
have the federal courts given jurisdiction
over any man who kills, or attempts to
kill. the pr Isident Of the country. or any
the presidel cy. He has no fear, however
that the country will ever fall into an
archy.
isdiction over any man who kills or at
tempts 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 proportional to the
. enormity of the offense against our in
Anarchy is a crime against the whole
human race, and all mankind should band
against the anarchist. His crime should
be made an offenSe against the law of
nations, like piracy and that form of man
stealing known as the slave trade. for it
is of far blacker infamy than either. 1t
all civilized powers. Such treaties would
give to the federal government the power
CT dealing with the crime"
The Trusts.
The president sees cause for congratu-
lation Tor the nation in the business condi-
tions of the present, but sees in the tire
mendous and highly complex industrial
development which went on with ever ac
CELEBRATED rapidly during. the latter half
of the nineteenth century a serious social
problem for the present and future. He
{ Goes not believe that the old laws and old
customs are sufficient to regulate the ac-
. cumula ton and distribution of wealth of
the present time. He does not attribute
the creation of great corporate fortunes
to the existence of protective tariff, NOR
to any other governmental action, but to
natural causes in the business world, OPP
d. Grating in other countries as they operate
in our own" In this connection he says:
THE process has aroused much antago-
nism, a great part of which is wholly
without warrant. 1t is not true that as
the rich have grown richer the poor have
grown poorer. On the contrary, never be-
fore. has the average man, the wage
worker, the farmer, the small trader
been so well off as in this country and
abuses connected with the accumulation
of wealth. yet it remains true that for
tune accumulated in legitimate business
can be accumulated by the person spe-
'cially benefited only on condition of con-
ferring immense incidental benefits upon
others. Successful enterprise of the type
Whlch benehts all mankind can only ex-
list if the conditions are such as to offer
great prizes as the rewards of success"
But while he realizes existing condi-
lions, he emphasizes the fact that Congress
In providing remedies must act with can
ton, as the men and corporations "who
have built up our commerce and driven our
great good to our people, and without
them the material development of which
we are so justly proud could never have
taken place Moreover. we should recog-
terial development of leaving as unham-
pered as is compatible with the public
good the strong and forceful men upon
whom the success of business operations
inevitably rests. The slightest study of
business conditions will satisfy anyone
capable. of forming a judgment that the
personal equation is the most important
factor in a business operation: that the
business ability of the man at the head of
any business concern, big or little, is usual
ly the factor which fixes the gulf between
striking success and hopeless failure"
Another reason for caution in trust legis-
lation which he gives sis to be found in the
international commercial conditions of to-
day. The same business conditions which
have produced the great aggregations of
corporate and individual wealth have
made them very potent factors in inter-
national commercial competition. Bust
ness concerns which have the largest
means at their disposal and are managed
by the ablest men are naturally those
which take the lead in the strife for COM
mercial supremacy among the nations of
the world. America has only just begun
to assume that commanding position in
the International business world which
we believe will more and more be hers 1t
is of the utmost Importance that this po-
sition be not jeoparded, especially at a time
when the OVERLOOKING abundance of our
own natural resources and the skill, bust
ness energy and mechanical aptitude of
our people make foreign markets essen
tial. Under such conditions 1t would be
most unwise to cramp or to fetter the
youthful strength of our nation.
Moreover, it cannot too often be pointed
out that to strike with ignorant violence
Mt the interests of one set of men almost