Arizona republican., 1902-12-03

Washington, December 2.-The fol- lowing is the text of the presidents message submitted to both houses of congress today:
 To the senate and house of representa-
 tives:
 We still continue in a period of un- bounded prosperity. This prosperity is not the creature of law, but undoubt edly the laws under which we work have been instrumental in creating the conditions which make it possible, and by unwise legislation it would be easy enough to destroy it. There will un- doubtedly be periods of depression. The wave will recede; but the tide will ad vance. This nation is seated on a con tinent fianked by two great oceans. It is composed of men the descendants Os pioneers, or, in a sense, pioneers them selves; of men winnowed cut from among the nations of the old world by the enrgy, boldness, and love of ad venture found in their own eager hearts. Such a nation, SO placed, will surely wrest success from fortune.
 As a people we have played large part in the world, and we are bent up on making cur future even larger than the past. Tn particular, the events of the last four years have definitely de Cided that, for woe or for veal, our place must be great among the nations. We may either fail greatly or succeed greatly; but we can not avoid the CT deavOr from which either great failure or great success must come. Even if we would, we can not play small part If We should try, all that would follow would be that we should play a large part ignoblX and shamefully.
 But our people, the sens of the men of the civil war. the sons of the men who had iron in the ir blood, rejoice in the present and face the future high of heart and resolute of will. Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the cow ard; ours is the gospel of hope and of triumphant endeavor. We do not shrink from the struggle before us. There are many problems for us to face at the outset of the twentieth century grave problems abroad and still gray CT at home; but we know that we can solve them and solve them we'll pro- vided only that we bring to the solu- tion the qualities of head and heart which were shown by the men who, in the days of Washington, founded this government, and, in the days of Lin coin, preserved it.
 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
 No country has ever occupied high CT plane of material well-being than ours at the present moment. This we'll being is due to no sudden or accidental causes, but to the play of the econom- ic forces in this country for over a cen tury; to our laws, our sustained and continuous policies; above all, to the high individual average of our citizen ship. Great fortunes have been won by those who have taken the lead in this phenomenal industrial develop ment, and most of these fortunes have been won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefit ed the community as a whole. Never before has material we'll being been SC widely diffused among our people Great fortunes have been accumula ted and yet in the aggregate these fortunes are small indeed when compared to the wealth of the people as a whole. The plain people are better off than they have ever been before. The insurance companies, which are practically mu- tual benefit societies-especially helpful to men of moderate means-represent accumulations of capital which arc among the largest in this country