Free press., 1901-12-07


ing of q Cable to Hawaii and the
AiIitia Laws Recommended-The Navy.
comprehensive synopsis OF President
Toosevelt's message to Congress is given be-
low:
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
The Congress assemblies this year under
the shadow of a great calamity On the sixth
OF September. President Mckinley was shot
by an anarchist while attending the Pan
american Exposition at Buffalo, aad died in
that city on the fourteenth of that month.
''Of the last seven elected Presidents he is
the third who has been murdered and the
bare recital of this fact is sufficient to JUS
thy grave alarm among all loyal American
citzens Moreover, the circumstances of this,
the third assassination of an American Presi-
dent, have peculiarly sinister significance
Both President Lincoln and President Gar
field were killed by assassins of types unfor-
tunately not uncommon in history, President
slons aroused by four years of civil war,
and President Garfield to the revengefuI van
ity of disappointed Office seeker. President
hckInley was killed by an utterly depraVed
criminal belonging to that body of criminals
who object to all governments, good and bad
alike, who ara against any form of popular
liberty If it is guaranteed by even the most
Just and liberal laws, and who hostile
to the upright exponent of a free peoples
sober will as to the tyrannical and irresponsi-
bic 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 public
free from the bitter animosities incident to
public life. There could be no personal
hatred Of him, for he never acted with aught
but consideration for the welfare of others.
No one could fail to respect him who knew
OF those murdererous criminals who seek to
excuse their crimnality by asserting that ii
is exercised for political ends, inveigh against
wealth and irresponsible power. But for this
assassination even this base apology can
not be urged
The President speaks in the highest terms
OF the personal and public virtues of MI Nc
Kinley. Describing the nature of the assas-
sination and the motive that inspired it, the
message continues:
Motive of the Assassin.
1.-THE blow was aimed not at this Presi-
dent, but at ali Presidents at every symbol of
government. The anarchist and especially
the anarchist in the United States. is merely
one type of criminal, more dangerous than
any other because he represents the same
deprayity in q greater degree The who
advocates anarchy directly or indirectly in
any shape or fashion, the man who apollo
gizes for anarchists and their deeds, makes
himself morally accessory to murder before
the fact. The anarchist is a criminal whose
perverted instincts lead him to prefer confu-
sion and chaos to the most benefceut form
OF social order. His protest of concern for
fsIstx For II fe nnIiti In 5 pf @
country do not afford opportunity to every
honest and intelligent son of toll. then the
door OF hope is forever closed against him
The anarchist is everywhere not merely the
enemy of system and progress, but the dead
ly foe of liberty. If ever anarchy is triumph
ant its triumph will last for but red
m10meRt, R10onR t9 be @ Sg05fids6 for ages by the
Would Exclude Anarchists.
II earnestly recommend to the Congress
that in the exercise of it's wise discretion it
should take into consideration the coming
to this country of anarchists or persons pro-
Tossing principles hostile to all government
and Justifying the murder of those placed
in authority. No matter calls more urgently
WlS6St thought n - CnulJr
The Federal courts should be given juris-
diction over any man who kills attempts
TO XIII the President or any man who by the
Constitution or bylaw is in line of success
sion for the Presidency. while the punish
proportioned to the enormity of the offense
against institutions.
Anarchy is a crime against the whole
human rsce; and all mankind should band
against tie anarchist. His crime should be
like piracy and that form of mansteaIng g
known as the slave trade for it is of far
blacker infamy than either. 1t should be so
declared BY treaties among ali civilized pow
ers.
Trhe Trust Problem.
THE tremendous and highly complex
Industrial development which went on with
ever accelerated rapidity during the latter
half of the nineteenth century brings US face
to face, at the beginning of the twentieth
with very serious social problems The old
laws, and the old customs which had almost
the binding force of law, were quite
sGGient 10 guisfg the aeeumui9ti9n t and
changes which have enormously increased
the productive power of mankind, they no
longer sufficient.
''The creation of great corporate fortunes
has not been due to the tariff to any
causes in the business world operating in
other countries as they operate in our own
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,
er, been so well OF as in this country and
at the present time. There have been abuses
connected with the accumulation of wealth; ;
yet 1t remains true that q fortune accumu-
lated only condition of conferring i'm
mense incidental benefits upon others. Sue
cessful enterprise, of the type which benefits
all mankind, only exist if the conditions
are such as to offer great prizes as the re-
wards of success.
THE captains of industry who have driven
| the railway systems across this continent
| who have built up our commerce, who have
| developed our manufactures, have on the
| whole done great good to our people. With
| out them the material development OF which
J we are so justly proud could never have
| taken place. Moreover, we should recognize
| the immense Importance to this material
| is compatible with the public good the strong g
| and forceful men upon whom the success
| OF business operations inevitably rests.
Caution Is Urged.
IAN additional reason for caution in deal
Ing with corporations is to be found in the
international commercial conditions of to-
| nay The same business conditions which
| have produced the great aggregations of cor
/ porate and individual wealth have made them
| very potent factors in international CONNER
| cial competition. America has only just
begun to assume that commanding position
/ in the international business world which we
| believe will more and more be hers It is
| of the utmost Importance that this position
| be not jeoparded, especially at a time when
the overiowing abundance of our own natu-
| raj resources and the skill. business energy,
! and mechanical aptitude of our people make
! foreign markets essential Under such con-
ditions 1t would be most unwise to cramp
or to fetter the youthful strength of our
Nation
! Disaster to great business enterprises can
never have its effects limited to the at
the top 1t spreads throughout, and while it
| Is bad for everybody. it is worst for those
! taTtkest down The capitalist may be shorn
| of his luxuTies; but the wage-worker may
! be deprived of even bare necessities.
| In facing new industrial conditions, the
| whole history of the world shows that legis-
| effective unless undertaken after calm inquiry
J and with sober self-Testraint Much of the
1 legislation directed at the trusts would have
| been exceedingly mischieyous had it not also
| been entirely ineffective IN dealing with
| business interests. for the government to ua-
! dertake by crude and il-considered Iegisla-
/ ton to do what may turn out 10 be bad.
would be to incur the risk OF such faT-reach-
] ing national disaster that it would be prefer
J able to undertake nothing at all
/ ''Ail this is true; and yet il is also true
that there are real and grave evils, OF
/ the chief being eveS-ca pitalization because
/ CT its many baIeful consequences; and reso-
/ lutte and practical effort must be made &c
correct these evils
| Government Supervision.