The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-04
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N. Nj. MURDOCH. Editor.
PRESIDENT RoosEvELTs FIRST MESSAGE.

PRESIDENT RoosEvELTs FIRST MESSAGE.
Despite its great length President Roosevelts mes
sage will have wide reading. If not as exciting as
romance or as cougar hunt is intense history OF the
veliest character impregnated by conclusions and
convictions intense American upon whom has fallen
and all 50 unexpectedly the gravest greatest of re
sponsbiItcs responsibilities which he has resolved &c
be equal TO- even to commentator of his feIlowct
fzens to seventysx millions them, counting those
of recent nsuar annexaons without regard to party
predictions.
President Roosevelt having briefly rected the details
of the awful tragedy of PanAmercan Exposition opens
his message with the declaration that the victim of that
tragedy was the most widely loved all the United
States following beautiful and truthful tribute
to the lamented Mckinley tribute which win be read
with interest by patriots everywhere Before quitting the
question of the presidents assassination his successor de-
cares that the anarchist criminal who must be sum-
rnariIy dealt with as SUCH by law criminal whom no
form Of government could prove acceptable, and who if
not suppressed will annihilate all government He there
fore, urges congressional action
The next problem taken up the is one which
has been concerning every obsevant business Every
body is DESTROYS for continuance of the present prosper
Gus conditions The president the people against
the possible calamous consequences Of speculative folly
Giving due credit financial captains who have headed
great enterprises couples such credit with warning
and the accommodation that legal restraints be thrown
around the trust evil which restraints should be made
effective through governmental supervision in which con-
necton he advises additional cabinet officer to be known
as the secretary of and industries In fact
running through the questions of business Of industries
Of trusts immigration and of the Chinese question the
president makes the of the farmer and of the
laborer prominent, if not paramount
The message declares against any general change in
the laws holding that reciprocity must be treated as
the handmaiden of protection both being Republican pol
icies and principles.
The west or in fact all the interior portions of the
country will glad that President Roosevelt is
aware OF the neciency lameness Of the interstate
the regulation of equitable rates and the
lack power in the commissioners under that law to
crush determinations The railroad in being public
servant should compelled to all like terms,
other things being equal He stands for the upbuldng
merchant marine for the construction Of the sthman
canal the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine and
for all the advocated by the Republican party
and with the like spirit and earnestness of Mckinley. AS
for the Philippines he says hold very rich
tropical both legal and moral necessity as
duty to humanity to the islanders and to ourselves
The president stands firmly by the civil service law
convinced that in the merit system alone is efficiency in
public service possible There must not be- he urges any
parisanship in the governing and control of the Philip
pines. other colonies. AS for the Indian long
domestic and expensive ward Of the nation the president
holds that the time has finally arrived when Mr. 10 must
be recognized individual and made take the part
of citizen to the born. Tribal relations. and
reservation holdings in longer feasible
The Indian must line to the front fall back to the
his responsibility. and not expect to dawdle
his life waiting for the payment Of his annuity
Commenting the St Louis Exposition in commemora-
ton of the greatest single expansion the country
good word for the results of the PanAmerican and
sympathetic ausion to the death of Queen Victoria the
message closes.