Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-12-03


 Evils of Combinations-Whf Op- posing Any General Tariff Change. He Tpholds the Principle of Eeci- prOcity Advocates Reduction of Country importance of Building the Isthmian Canal md the Pacific Cable UrGeG-The Philippines and Other InsuIar Questions.
 Washington, Dec. 3.-The president ill his annual message 10 congress says:
 The congress assemblies this year un- Ger the shadow of q great calamity. On the 9th of September President Me kinley was shot by an anarchist while attending the Pan--\merican eXposi- ton at Buffalo and died in that city On the 14th 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 a peculiarly sinister significance. Both President Lincoln and President Garfield were killed by assassins of types unfortunately not uncommon in history, President Lincoln falling q victim to the terrible passions aroused by four years of civil war and Presi- dent Garfield to the revengeful vanity of dent Mckinley was killed by an utter ly 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 q free peoples sober will as to the tyranneal and irresponsible despot.
 Anarchy and Anarchists.
 The president continues With a eulogy of Mr. Mckinley, then turns to the subject of anarchy. denounciny it's doctrines and preachers. He says:
 earnestly recommend to the congress that in the exercise of it's wise lscrc- Aioti II SIoultl tikC lil6 coHSldefatlOu the coming to this country of anarcl,- ists or persons protesting principles hostile to. all government and justify ing the murder of those placed ill au- thority. Such individuals as those who nct long ago gathered i'll open meeting To Glorify the murder of King IIum- bert of Italy pcrpctrate q cfilAe, and tlp law Shaultl iDSIIra tbair ,co punishment. They and these like thcM should he kept out Of this country and if found here they should be promptly deported 10 the country whence they came. and farreachin" provision should be made for the punishment of these who stay. No matter calls more urgently, for the wiscst thought of the congress.
 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 tho constitution or by law is in line of succession for the presidency. while the punishment for :.n unsuccessful attempt should he pro- portioned to the cnormity of the of fense 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 offcnse against the law of nations. like piracy and that form of man stealing known as the slave trade.
 The president next considers busi- 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 tuty 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 the binding force of law were once quite sufficient to regulate the ac- cunulation and distribution of wealth. Since the industrial changes which have so enormously increased the pro- 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 ill 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 10 the tariff nor to any other govern mental action. b2t 10 natural causes