The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-12-19
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1901
0xMS FROM PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

It 10 not possible to 'mprovise navy
after war breaks out.
Anarchy Il no more an expression Of
"sociaI discomfort" than picking pock
cts or wife-beating.
Disaster to great business enterprises
can never have its effects limited to the
men At the top.
Anarchy 10 crime against the whole
human race, and all mankind should
band against such anarchists.
The merit system Of making appoint
ments 10 in its essence as democratic
and American rs the common school
system itself.
The national government should de-
Inand the highest quality Of service
from its employees, and in return 1t
should be good employer.
We desire the peace which comes a.
Of right to the just man armed; not the
peace granted OIL terms of ignominy to
the craven and weakiing.
The mechanism Of modern business
Is 30 delicate that extreme care must
b. taken not to interfere with it in q
spirit Of rashness or ignorance.
The pretentious and unmeaning title
Of "naval cadets" should be abolished;
the title Of "midshiprhan," full of his
toric association, should be restored.
The chief factor In the success of each
man-wage-worker, farmer and capt.
talist alike-must ever lie the sum total
of his own individual qualities and
abilities.
It should be - much the aim Of
those who seek for social betterment to
rid the business world Of crimes Of cum
ming - to rid the entire body polite of
crimes Of violence.
All we want is peace, and towards
this end we wish to be able to secure
the same respect for our rights from
Others which we are eager and anxious
to extend to their rights in return.
The western half of tho United States
would sustain . population greater
than that Of our whole country today II
the waters that now run to waste were
saved and used for irrigation.
The anarchist, and especially the an
archist Of the United States, is merely
one type Of criminal, moro dangerous
than any other, because he represents
the same depravity in q greater degree.
The men who are idle or credulous.
the men who seek gains not by genuine
work with head or hand, but by gam
bling in any form, are always q source
Of menace, not only to themselves, but
to others.
Great corporations exist only because
they are created and safeguarded by
our institutions, and Is h, therefore, our
right and our duty to $50 that they
work In harmony with these insti-
tuuons.
The man who advocates anarchy, d.
rectly or indirectly, In any shape or
fashion, or the man who apologies for
anarchists and their deeds, makes him.
self morally accessory to murder before
the fact.
The merit system IL simply ono
method Of securing honest and efficient
administration Of the government, and
In the long run the sole Justification of
any type Of. government lies In its
proving itself both honest and efficient.
It II - right for the national govern
ment to make the streams and rivers
Of the arid region useful BY engineer
Ing works for water storage ~ to make
usefal the rivers aud harbon Of q hu-
mid region BY engineering works Of
another kind.
What has taken us thirty genera.
lions TO achieve We cannot expect 10
go another raoe accomplish out Of
hand, especially when large portions
ofthat race start very far behind the
point which our ancestors had reached
even thirty centuries ago.
Each man must work for b;m..,e
and unles he % works no Outside heln
oan avail him, but each man must =.
member also that be IL indeed n.
brothers keeper and that while no man
! Who Refuses to walk can be carr,.d
with advantage to himself or anvone
cha. yet that each at times stumble q
halts, that each At times needs to have
tho helping hand outstretched to him
Il Wa Scssthought and prepar.t,on
which ssoured u the overwhelming
triumph Of leoG II. W al g sho~
soFethonght and prepasation now ~.
may come > time when disaster vilI
bseAll usinstsad II triumph. and mud
th's time come TIE fhult Win rest -.