Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-05

MESSAGE
VARIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
THE CONSIDERATION OF
CONGRESS-.
The QUESTION OF RECIPROCITY
FAvORS THE PRINCIPLE, But Or
POSES ANY GENERAL TAR
IFE CHANGE.
WHAT TO DO WITH THE TRUSTS
PUBLICITY THE ONLY SURE REM
EDY THAT CAN NOW BE
EVOKED.

The following is synopsis embodying
the more important topics covered in
president Roosevelt's message:
The untimely death of President Nc
kinley is feelingly alluded to in the OPEN
ing chapters of the message. The presi-
dent says: OF the last seven elected
presidents he is the third who has been
murdered, and the bare recital Of this
tact Is sufficient to justify grave alarm
among all loyal American citizens. :.
PRESIDENT Mckinley was killed by an ut.
terry depraved criminal belonging to that
body of criminals who object to all gov
ernments, good and bad alike, who are
against any form of popular liberty 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 tyrannical and ire
sponsible despot
1T is not too much to say that at the
time Of President Mckinley's death he
was the most widely loved man in all the
United States while we have never had
| any pubic man of his position who has
oeen so widely free from the bitter ami
mosities incident to public life His DO
litlcal opponents were the first to bear
the heartiest and most generous tribute
TO the broad kindness of his nature.
the sweetness and gentleness Of characte
which SO endeared him to his close asso-
GATES. TO standard of lofty integrity
IN public life he united the tender arfec-
| tons and home virtues which are all-im
portant IN the makeup of national char
hcter. There could be no personal
Hatred or him. for he never acted with
augnt but consideration for the welfare
If others"
me president then pays eloquent tribute
10 the career and public services of the
martyred president, whom he characte
Yes as one of the strongest champions
he says:
when we turn from the man to the
nation, the harm done is so great as to
excite our greatest apprehensions and to
uemand our wisest and most resolute
action. This criminal was a professed
anarchist, inf1amed by the teachings of
progressed anarchists, and probably, also.
oy tne reckless utterances of those who
on the stump and in the public press
appeal to the dark and evil spirits of
nance ana greed. envy and sullen ha-
tIeo. The blow was aimed not al
this president, but at all presidents. at
every symbol of government. The
anarchlst Is criminal whose perverted
instincts lead him to prefer confusion and
chaos to the most beneticent form If 60.
cial order. His protest of concern for
workinemen is outrageous in its imnudent
ia!slty, for If the political institutions of
tnls country do not afford opportunity
20 20 every honest and intelligent son of tot,
then the door of hope is forever closed
nsalnst MN. The anarchist is every
Where not merely the enemy of system
liberty" '' lug VI
Inc president recommends to congress-
ina. proper measures be taken for the
exclusion OF anarchists from this coun
Try and for keeping within lawful
bounds such disturbing elements as are
VNl,.
courts, in the presidents opinion. should
ne given control over any man who kills
or attempts to kill the president. and the
punishment should be made proportionate
TO the enormity of the crime. Such a
| CRIME should be made an offense against
the law of nations, like piracy, and all
mankind should band against the an
| orchist
The president next gives his attention
TO the business interests of the country.
ana congratulates the nation on it's pres
emit Astounding prosperity Such prosper
lty' he says, can never be created by law
| alone. although it is easy enough to de-
stroy it by mischevious laws.
| The growth of cities has gone on be-
yond comparison faster than the growth
or the country, and the upbuilding of the
great industrial centers has meant a
startling increase. not merely in the ag-
sregate OF wealth. but in the number of
|
very large corporate fortunes. The Gre
stion OF these great corporate fortunes
has not been due to the tariff nor to any
other governmental action, but to the
natural causes in the business world OBJ
Grating in other countries as they operate
in our own. The process has aroused
much antagonism. 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 before has the average man, the
/ wageworkcr. the farmer, the small trad
CT, been so we'll off as in this country.
| and at the present time. There have
| been abuses connected with the accunu-
lation of wealth, yet it remains true that
a fortune accumulated in legitimate bust
hess can be accumulated by the person
specially benefited only on condition of
comforting immense incidental benefits
upon others. 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"
The president points out reasons for
the exercise of caution in dealing with
corporations. among the more importan nj
OF winch is the International commercial
conoltlons OF the day. America" he saws
mas only just begun to assume that
commanding position in the international
business world which we believe will
more ana more be hers. 1t is of the ut
most importance that this position be not
jeopardized especially at a time when
the overfiowing abundance of our natural
resources and the skill, business energy
and mechanical aptitude of our people
make foreign rlSptS ;ol