The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
Lying Issues.
PRESIDENT ROesEVELTs MESSAGE TO
CONGRESS.

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Our New Possessions, The Army and Navy,
The Isthmian Canal and Other Matters
Discussed
To the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiUes:
The Congress assemblies this year
under a shadow of a great calamity.
On the 9Th of September, President
Mckinley was shot by an anarchist
while attending the Pan American
Exposition at Buffalo, and died in
that city on the fourteenth of that
month.
Of the last seven elected Presi
dents, he is the third who has been
murdered, and the bare recital of
this fact is suficieot to justify grave
alarm among all loyal American citi
zehs.
ANTI-ANARCHIST LEGISLATION RECOU
MENDED.
earnestly recommend TO the Con
gress that in the exercise of its wise
direction it should take into oOnsid
Grafton the coming to this country
of anarchists or persons processing
principles hostile TO all government
and justifying the murder of those
placed in authority. Such individ
uals as those who not long ago gath
cred in open meetings to glorify the
murder of King Humbert of Italy
perpetrate a crime, and the law
should ensure their rigorous punish
ment. They and those like them
should be kept out of this country s;
and if found here they should be
promptly deported TO the country
whence they came and far-reaohing
provision should be made for the
punishment of those who stay. No
matter calls more urgently for the
wisest thought of the Congress.
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 Presidency, while the punish
ment for an unsuccessful attempts
should be proportional TO the enor
nifty of the offense against our in
situations.
THE NATIONS ABOUNDING PROSPERITY
During the last five years business
confidence has been restored, and
the nation is to be congratulated be-
cause of it's present Astounding pros
perity. It is not true that as the
rich have grown richer the poor
have grown poorer. On the con
trary, V before has the average
man, the wage worker, the farmer,
the small trader, been so we'll off as
in this country and at the present
time. There have been abuses con
nected with the accumulation of
wealth yet it remains true that a
fortune accumulated in legitimate
business can be accumulated by the
person specially benefited only on
conditions of comforting immense in
oidental benefits upon others.
THE EVILS CONNECTED Wit TRUSTS
The mechanism of modern business
is so delicate that extreme care must
be taken not to interfere with it in a
spirit of rashness or ignorance.
Many of those who have made it
their vocation to denounce the great
industrial combination which are
popularity, although with technical
inaccuracy, known as "trusts," ap
peal especially TO hatred and fear.
These are precisely the two emotions,
particularly when combined with
ignorance, which unfit men for the
exercise of cool and steady judg-
ment. In facing new industrial con-
ditions, the whole history of the
world shows that legislation will
generally be both unwise and in
effective unless undertaken after
calm inquiry and with sober self,
respect. Yet it is also true that
there are real and grave evils, one
of the chief being over capitalization
because of it's many baneful oonse-
quences; and a result and practical
effort must be made to correct these
evils.
There is a widespread conviction
in the minds of the American people
that the great corporations known
as trusts are in certain of their fea.
lures and tendencies hurtful to the
general welfare. This springs from
no spirit of envy or uncharitableness,
nor lack of pride in the great indus.
trial achievements that have placed
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