Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-12-03
BAKKB, VT, DECEMBER 3, 1901
THE MESSAGE
Continued From First Page J

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gnoulu De Kept Out OF luls v0uhelJ, e,.,.
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.
A 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.
tense against our institutions.
Anarchy is 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.
The president next considers bust
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-
~p;rr of ho fyunrtinth with
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 &C.
emulation and distribution of wea'4...
Since the industrial changes winch
have so enormously increased the r.p-
ductive power of mankind they are no
longer sufficient.
Trade Combinations.
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 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
to the tariff nor to any other govern
mental action, but to natural causes
in the business world, operating in 9th.
er countries as they operate in our
own.
The process has aroused much an.
tagonism, 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 con-
trary, never before has the average
man. the wageworker, the farmer, the
small trader, been so we'll off as in this
country and at the present time. There
have been abuses connected with the
accumulation Of wealth, yet 1t remains
true that fortune accumulated In
legitimate business can be Accumulate
ed by the person specially benefited
only on condition of comforting i'm
mense incidental benefits upon 9TH
ers. 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:
Pie same business conditions which
have produced the great aggregations
Of corporate and individual wealth
have made them very potent factors In
international commercial competition.
Moreover. it cannot too often be
pointed out that 10 strike with ignorant
violence ut the interests Of one set Of
men almost inevitably endangers the
interests Of all. The fundamental rule
In our national nfe-the rule which un-
derlies all others-is that on the whnla