Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1901-12-07

What the. President Says
On Inqa eans Subjects.
TRUSTS And RECIPROCITY



Evils OF COGnlSfna6fOns-WhAle OPP
poaing Amy General TartR Change
He Upholds the Principle OF Reel
prOcity Advocates Reduction q
Duty en- Cuban Imports into Thii
Country - Importance OF Building
the Isthnnaan Canal and the Pacific
Cable Urged-The Philippines and
Other Tnsular Qaesttons.
Washington, Dec. 8.-The president
in his annual message to congress
says:
The congress assemblies this year IN
der the shadow Of a great calamity
On. the 9Th Of September President Nc
Kinley was shot by an anarchist while
attending the Pan-American exposi-
ton at Buffalo and died in that city
on the 18th 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 justify grave alarm among
all 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 a
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
~ 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 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 irresponsible despot.
Anarchy and Anarchists.
The president continues with a
eulogy of Mr.. Mckinley, then turns to
the subject Of anarchy, denonncing its
doctrines and preachers. He says:
L
that in the exercise of its wise discre-
ton it should take into consideration
the coming to this country of anarch-
lists or persons protesting principles
hostile to all government and justify
ing the murder of those placed In au-
thority. Such individuals as those who
not long ago gathered in open meeting
to glorifys the murder Of King Hum
bert Of Italy perpetrate a crime, and
the law should insure their rigorous
punishment. They and those like them
should be kept out of this country, and
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
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
while the punishment for
an unsuccessful attempt should be pro-
portioned to the enormity Of the Of
Tense against our institutions.
Anarchy is a 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
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
and the old customs which had almost
he binding force Of law were once
quite sufficient to regulate the ac-
and distribution of wealth.
Since the industrial changes which
nave so enormously increased the pro-
luctive power of mankind they are no
onger sufficient.
Trade Combinations.
The growth of cities has gone on be-
,ond comparison faster than the
;rowth of the country, and the up
building of the great industrial centersI
las meant a startling increase not
merely in the aggregate of wealth, but
n the number of very large individual
nd especially of very large corporate
ortunes. The creation of these great
orporate fortunes has not been due
o the tariff nor to any other govern
mental action, but to natural causes
q the business world, operating in 9th
r countries as they operate in our
wn.
The process has aroused much an f
agonism. a great part of which is
7holIy without warrant. 1t is not true
hat as the rich have grown richer the
DOR have grown poorer. On the con-
rary. never before has the average
ian. the wageworker the farmer. the