ROOSEVElT L I a t II fiRST MESSAGE T TO CONGRESS I PAYS FINE TRIBUTE OF I RESPECT TO J Says Congress Should Pass Laws Looking g to Sup Suppression Suppression Suppression of Anarchism J Recommends That Government Be Given Supervision of All Great GreatS S Corporations o D O Co Dec D I The Ld Il V president nt ent to congress today hi hla fg message menace as follows follow To the Senate and House Hou e of R Rr r I tentative The congress congre assemble a this thie tb t YeN year under the shadow abado of a great calamity On the sixth of September r V J President lre Ident McKinley was waa shot by aa as 1 anarchist while attending the Pan Fan Pank k American exposition expo at Buffalo and F died in ft that city on the fourteenth of o that month Of the last seven levelt elected presidents pre he hp ia is the Ui third who has bas been murdered and the bare recital of this tact fact ia j i sufficient to Justify grave alp in among all loyal American citizens Moreover V the circumstances of this the third as a l of an American president J r ident have bave a peculiarly sinister significance gj Beth President Lincoln and President Garti ld were killed by assassins as al of types unfortunately not uncommon in Inh h story President Lincoln falling a victim to the ter bl passions aroused by four years of civil war and Pros Pre 1 J nt Ga to the revengeful vanity c 4 r a disappointed orn om seeker Pres Pros President ident McKinley was waa killed by an ut utterly criminal belonging to terly t depraved that body of criminals wo object to all ail governments good and bad alike who vho are against any form of popular P pular liberty if it it is guaranteed by even the most mort just and liberal laws arid and who are ale 1 ie as hostile to the upright ht exponent to the th of If a trio free peoples sober r will as tyrannical and irresponsible despot desp t Tribute to McKinley It is not too much to say that at atthe atthe the time of President death lie te was ras as the most widely loved man in all the Ignited States while we have never had any public man roan of his poal on who has baa be n so 80 wholly free from the bitter anim animosities incident to pub public pUblic lic lie life His Ills political opponents were and most the first to bear ar the heartiest generous tribute to the broad 1084 1 hindu kindliness ness flees of nature ns ture the sweetness and gen gentleness genI I of f character which so endeared ared him to his rinse close associates To a standard of f lofty integrity in public life ift he united the tender af at and home virtues which are in the makeup of na national national character A gallant soldier in inthe the groat war for the Union he be also alao hone as IH an example to all our people because of his conduct in the most sa sacred 8 tied cred rt and aid intimate of home relations There could be no personal hatred of ot him for tor he never acted with aught bu buon consideration on for the welfare of others No o one could fall faU to respect him who knew him in public or private life U e The of or m he h seek to excuse their criminality by hy asserting that it is exercised for ends inveigh against wealth and irresponsible i power But for tor this tW assassination even this base ba apology carnot cannot be urged S President McKinley was a man of moderate m means moans a man whose stock sprang from the sturdy tillers of the soil who had himself belonged among the th who had entered the army as a private soldier Wealth was I not struck at when wen the president was assassinated aM but bet the honest toil which a is content with moderate gains gain after a lifetime of unremitting labor largely ir iT the th service of the public Still less J i was wall struck at in the sense that power is irresponsible or ot centered In Inthe Inthe the hands of any anyone one individual mow Blow Aimed at Free Pree Government The blow was not nol aimed at tyranny or wealth It ft was aimed at one of the th strongest champions ham the wage worker has ever had at one of the most faithful representatives of the 1 system stem of or public rights and represent representative representative 11 government who ho has ever eyer risen to public office President Me Kinky filled that poUt 1 ital Ual office for which the entire Popl Pw S v vote ote and no president not even eyen Lin IAn Lincoln coln oln himself was ever more earnestly anxious to represent the well wen thought out wishes of the people his one oe anxiety in every crisis cri is was as to keep in Ind closest d st touch t uch with the people to find ou n what nat they thought and to en trao ravo to give expression to their thought after having endeavored to guide that thought aright He had just been reelected to the lr i 1 because the llie majority of f our the majority of our farmers and a believed that he had hadr r ii upheld their interest for tor torea o ofir fir years ea They rhey felt themselves them es in i Hose OSE and find intimate touch with him They felt that he represented no so well welland welland welland and IH so honorably all their ideals and j aspirations that they wished him hm to continue for another four tour ear eft to rep leP represent resent t them I And this was UK thc man Yuan at whom m t tt 5 assassin ln struck That there might Je e nothing lacking to th tb Juda Judas Ith infamy of his hiR act he t ti tf k at a antage of an occasion when whon the pres that was WIS meeting m tin the tb people gener goner generally generally ally and advancing as a if it to tn take the hand outstretched to him in kindly and brotherly fellowship he be turned the noble and generous confidence of f the victim into an opportunity to strike u the fatal blow There in is no baser deed in jn ri all the annals of crime rim Grief of the Country Count Th shock the grief ol oi i toe tile country nun try are l Uter i ter ir it the of all who saw l lW the dark days das while the th president yet hovered ho ed between life and death dath ath At AtI I last the light was wa a stilled in Uk kindly eyes and the breath br went from rem the lips that een even in mortal agony a ony uttered no words ord saY sav of r forgiveness to his hili murderer o 0 10 love fir fr his hlf friends friend and ando of o unfaltering tm tru in the th will of the Most High Suii Su il a death deal h crowning the glory glur of such uch a 1 life ice leaves us with h infinite sorrow with such Itch prid pride in what he be had ac n hii and in hs lis on on n personal character chara ter that we feel the t hI blow not as 8 struck at aim lim rut tut ut t struck at the th nation We W mourn 3 gOd food and great president who is isdee isdee dee dea hut but we WC mourA mourn we are lift lia lifted ed pd ip Ii i by the thO splendid achievements of nt his hi U Ic I aini t Ii I 2 ri 11 heroism th rA he me met his death Whom we turn tarn from front the man to the ue nation the harm barm done i is so eo gre great t as aso asto to o excite our gravest veat apprehension and ond to our wisest and most moat resolute action This Thi criminal was a J professed prot anarchist inflamed ned by the I teachings of professed anarchists and probably also abo by tt the reckless utter utterances J ances of ot O those who on Oft the stump and andin andIn andIn in Ute the public press p appeal to the dark and ev evil spirits of malice and greed envy and ud sullen hatred The wind is sowed by the men mED who preach such doctrines and they cannot escape their share are of responsibility tty for tor the whirlwind that is reaped rea peel This ap applies applies applies plies alike aUke to the deliberate dema demagogue rogue gogue to the exploiter of sensational sensationalism ism laIn and to the te crude and foolish vis vie visionary visIonary who ho for whatever reason spot apol apologizes for crime or excites aimless die dis The Crime of Anarchism The blow blo was aimed a not at this president but at all aU presidents pr at ev cv every every ery symbol of government President McKinley was as emphatically the embodiment of the popular will of the I nation expressed through the forms of law as 88 a New E land town meet meeting ink ing is in similar fashion the embodiment I ment of the purpose and practice of ot the people of the town On no conceivable theory could the I murder of th the president be accepted as due to protest pretest against inequalities in the social order save as the lour mur murder der r of all the freemen engaged in a town meeting could be accepted al as an 3 a protest against that social inequality which puts a malefactor in jail An Anarchy Anarchy Anarchy archy is ia no more an aB expression of so iO social social cial discontent than picking pockets or The anarchist and especially the anarchist in the United States is merely one type of criminal more dangerous than Un any other because he be represents the same depravity depra ty in a aI I greater degree de The man who advocates cates estee anarchy directly or indirectly I in any shape or fashion or the man who woo apologises a aes for anarchists and their deeds makes himself morally ac accessory ceory to murder before the fact The anarchist is I a criminal whose w ose pervert perverted ed ott instincts I ad M g r to prefer preter con confusion C n fusion and chaos to t the most moat benefi beneficent beneficent cent form forts of social order orcIer or er His pro f st of concern tot for workingmen is I outrageous in its Ita impudent falsity for if It the political institutions of this I f II country do not afford opportunity to every honest and intelligent son of toil then the door of hope tope is forever closed dosed against him bins bI L The anarchist ts Is everywhere not merely rely the enemy of system stem sad and of progress p 88 but the deadly foe of liberty If lC ever anarchy is tri tn triumphant triumphant its It triumph will last for but butone butone butone one red moment momentS to be succeeded ded for forages forages I ages by the gloomy night of despotism de Remedy for the Evil For the anarchist himself elf whether he be preaches or his hia doctrines doctrine we need not have one particle more concern than for tor any an ordinary mur mar murderer murderer derer He is not n t of or social or political injustice There are no DO wrongs to remedy in his case The cause of his criminality is to be found in his own evil passions and in ia the tile evil conduct of those who urge him himon himon on not in any failure by b others or by bythe It bythe the state to do justice to him or 01 his da daHe He is a malefactor and nothing else He is in no sense in no shape or way waya a a product of social conditions save ye yeas as a highwayman is produced by bythe b bythe the fact feet that an unarmed man happens I to have a purse It is a travesty upon the great at and holy names of liberty and freedom to permit them to be in ID invoked yoked in such a case No man or body y of men preaching anarchistic doctrines should be allowed at large any more moret than t n if preaching the murder of some specified private Individual Anarchistic itic l tlc speeches writings and meet meetings meetings ings logs are essentially seditious and trea treasonable I I earnestly recommend nd to the con eon gess that in the exercise t x of its wise tise discretion it should take into consid consideration consideration consideration I the coming to this country of I anarchists or persons professing prin prinI I hostile to all government and I justifying toe tile murder of those placed in authority Such individuals as asI those tho who not long Jong ago gathered in I open meeting to glorify the murder of King Ing Humbert of Italy perpetrate a aI I trim and the law la should ensure their rigorous punishment They and those I like them should be kept out of this thi country and if found here they should I I be promptly deported to the tbt country 1 I whence they came cam and farn provision pro lion should be c made for the pun I of those who stay No mat matter matter matter I ter calls ails more urgently ur for the wise niso thought of the to Deal D With Crime 4 The federal fedora courts should be 4 given jurisdiction over any man 4 1 4 who kills kUl or 05 attempts to A kill the 4 I 4 president or any man who by hy the 4 4 constitution or o bylaws tv is in line 4 I 4 of or uc for fI 1 r the presidency prE 4 4 while the punishment for an un u 4 i 4 sue suc attempt should be pro 4 I 4 portioned to the enormity of the 4 I 4 offense against our Institutions 4 4 Anarchy is i a rime crime against the th 4 4 whole w hole human race raCi and all man maD 4 I j 4 kind should t ho ld band against the an anarchist 4 4 His crime should be made 4 4 on sri n offense against a the law of na ma 4 4 Ol f liko Ilk piracy pira tend and that form of 4 4 mn known a WI as the slave 4 f trade Jot for lor it is of far blacker in Infamy 4 4 famy amy than either cither It should be so iO 4 4 declared by treaties among all 4 4 civilised powers Such treaties 4 4 would give to the federal govern goven 4 i I 4 p Meet the power of dealing with 4 4 the crime crimeA 4 A gin commentary upon the folly of the anarchist was afforded j by the attitude of the law toward this very criminal who had Just taken the life of If the 1 The people t op would have torn him limb fr fron ir limb if it Iud hid not been that the law J defied was wa at t tonce once invoked in hi his behalf hf half So 80 n far fa r from his bis deed being committed on behalf of i again apin the government gov the I government was obliged at once to ex exert ext exert I ert t rt its fuji police pollee power to b t save him from Instant death at the hands binds of 01 the I people popie Moreover his deed dero worked not riot the th M sl dislocation in Konn 1 Jaent t system Iy t m and the d tig l of vI a au ai t u i i 7 u recurrence of o such deeds no matter I how great it might grow would work w I only in the direction of strengthening tr hening and giving harshness to the forces of I order No o man will ever be restrained from becoming president by any aay tear fear as to I his personal safety If It the risk t to the presidents life lire became became great t it would I mean that the office omee would wo ld more and i imore of a I more come to be filled by men spirit which would make them theta resolute re I and aDd merciless in dealing with every friend of disorder This Thi great country I will not fall tall into anarchy and U if an anarchists n should ever become be ome a serious fI menace to its Ita institutions they would w uld not merely be stamped put out but bat involve in their own ruin ru D every or passive sympathizer with their doctrines doc trines The American people are ar Slow alow to wrath but when their theft wrath is once kindled it burns like a name flame