Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-03
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
MT Roosevelt's Recommendations on
 Many Subjects.

his annual message to congress says:
 The congress assemblies this year un-
 der the shadow of q great calamity.
 On the 9th of September President Me
 Kinley was shot by an anarchist while
 attending fhe Pan-American exposi- ton at Buffalo and died in that city
 on the 14th of that month.
 Or 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 victim to the terrible passions aroused by four years of civil war and Presi- dent Garfield to the reyengeful vanity of a disappointed office seeker Presi- 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 1ib- erty 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 tyrannica1 and irresponsible despot.
 Anarchy and Anarchists.
 The president continues with eulogy of Mir. Mckinley, then turns to .f doctrines and preachers. He says:
 l earnestly to the congress that in the exercise of it's wise discre- tion it should take into consideration the coming to this country of anarch- ists or persons protesting 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 a 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.
 4 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 a 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 on with ever accelerated rapidity during the latter half of the nineteenth cen. tury brings us face to face at the be ginning of the twentieth with very serious social problems. The old laws and the old customs which had almost the binding force of law were once quite sufficient to regulate the ac- cumalation and distribution of wealth. Since the industrial changes which have so enormously increased the pro- ductiye power of mankind they are 10 longer sufficient
 The growth of cities has gone on be- yond comparison faster than the growth of the country, and the up- building of the great industrial centers has meant startling increase not merely in tue aggregate of wealth, but in the number of very large individual and especially of very large corporate fortunes. The creation of these great corporate fortunes has not been due to the tariff nor to any other govern mental action, but to natural causes in the business world. operating in oth- CT countries as in our own
 The process has aroused much an- ka agonism, q great part of which is wholly without warrant It is not true that as the rich have grown richer the poor have grown poorer On the con- trary, never before has the average man, the wageworker, the farmer. the small trader. been so well off as in this country and at the present time. There have been abuseo connected with the accumulation of wealth, yet it remains true that a fortune accumulated iD legitimate business can be accumulat ed by the person specially benefited only on condition of conferring inn mense incidental benefits upon oth- CTS. Successful enterprise of the type which benefits all mankind can only exist if the conditions are such as to offer great prizes as the rewards of success.
 Reasons For Caution.
 The president adds that there are many reasons for caution in dealing with corporations. He says:
 The same business conditions which have produced the great aggregations Of corporate and individual wealth have made them very potent factors in commercial competition.
 Moreover, it cannot too often be pointed out that to strike with ignorant violence at the interests of one set of men almost inevitably endangers the interests of all The fundamental rule in our national life-the rule which un- derlies all Others-is that. on the whole and in the long run, we shall go up or down together.
 The mechanism of modern business