Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1901-12-05
THE MESSAGE
What the President Says
on Important Subjects.
TRUSTS AND RECIPROCITY
How He Would Deal With
These Problems.
TRUSTS AND RECIPROCITY

No Declares Publicity 10 st Present
the 0nIy sure Remedy Against
EwIIs of CsnsInations-whi Op-
Moaimw Amy GemeraI Tariff Change
ne UwhoIds the Principle OF Rect
pv~etty - Advocates Reduetion OF
Duty ~m CshaM ImpeYts IntO This
Cowmtry 500 im portnnce of BaildIn1
ahe IstAnian Canal aad the Paciac
Cable Urged-The Philippines and
other IAsuIaF QaestiOns.
Washington. Dec. 3.-The president
In his annual message 70 congress
says:
The congress assemblies this year un-
der the shadow OF great calamity.
On the 9th OF September President Nc
kinley was shot by an anarchist while
attending the Pan-American exposi-
tion at Buffalo and died In that city
Oh the 18th 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 10 justify grave alarm among
nll 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 n
victim to the terrible passions aroused
by four years OF civil war and Presi-
dent Garfield to the revengeful vanity
OF 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 lib
erty II IL is guaranteed by even the
most Just and liberal laws and who
are az hostile TO the upright exponent
OF free peoples sober will as to the
tyrannical and irresponsible despot.
Anarchy and Anarchista.
The president continues with a
euloGy OF Mr.. Mckinley. then turns to
the subject of anarchy. denouncIng itB
doctrines and preachers. He says:
earnestly recommend to thecongress
that in the exercise Of Its wise dlscre-
tion II should take into conslderat ton
the coming 10 this country Of anarch-
lists or persons processing principles
hostile to all government and Justify
Ing the murder Of those placed in au-
ihority. Such individuals as those who
not long ago gathered In open meeting
10 glorify the murder OF King Hum
bert OF Italy perpetrate a crime, and
the law should Insure their rigorous
punishment. They and those Ike them
should be kept out OF this country. and
" found here they should be- promptly
deported TO the country whence they
came. and farreaching provision should
b~ 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 I've given
Jurisdiction over any man who kills
or attempts TO Kill the president or any
man who by the constitution or by
law IL iu line Of succession for the
presidency. while the punishment for
an unsuccessful attempt should be pro-
portionpd to the enormity OF the Of
Tense against our institutions
Anarchy is n crime against the whole
n
baud against the anarchist. His crime
should he made an otfense against the
law OF nations. like piracy aud that
form OF man stealing known as the
slave trade
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
fury brings us face to face at the be-
ginning Of the twentieth with very
serious social Problems The old laws
aud the old customs which had almost
the binding force OF law were once
quite sufficient TO regulate the &C.
emulation and distribution Of wealth.
Since the industrial changes which
have 20 enormously Increased the pro-
ductive power OF mankind they are no
longer sufficient
Trade CenbiAattoRs.
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 a startling increase not
merely In the 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
60 the tariff nor 10 any other govern
mental action. but to natural causes
Ia the business world. operating 10 9th
er countries az they operate In our
own.
The process has aroused much an.
tAgOuiSm. a great part OF which is
wholly without warrant. 1t IL not true
that ns the rich have grown richer the
poor have grown poorer. On the co1-
trary never before has the average
man the wagpwOrkPr the farmer. the
GnaIi trader. been so web or an In this