| Show I PRESIDENT V THEODORE ROOSEVEL S TO I I i iI First Refers R fers to Assassination of Late President Most Mot Widely Loved Man in All the United Stat Murder Was a Blow Aimed At All AH the Presidents at Every Symbol of Government Anarchists Not a Product of ol Our Social Should e Kept Out feder 1 Courts Should be e Given Jurisdiction O Over Oer e Any Man Who Kills or Attempts to Kill the President or Any Man M In in Suc Succession Succession Succession I cession to the Presidency 1 Business of the Country Nation is Congratulated Because of Its Abounding Prosperity Not True That l Rich ich Have Grown Richer Richerd and d Poor Poorer Capitalist and Worker Go Up and Down Together Corporations Engaged in Interstate Commerce Should be b Regulated Government Should Have Right to Examine and Inspect Working Worling of Great Corporations The Trusts Their Benefits and Dangers Pointed Out Overcapitalization an Evil Creation of ofa a Department of Commerce and Industries Recommended Ex Exclusion of Chinese and Strengthening of Geary Law Favored Immigration Laws Unsatisfactory Continuity and Stability of ofT Tariff T arif System Requisite to Our Prosperity Reciprocity is Its Handmaiden Subsidies to Ships Favored I I Gold Standard Has Been Beneficial Interstate Commerce Act Should be Amended Government Should Construct and Main Maintain Maintain tain fain Storage Reservoirs in the Arid Regions Hawaii awall Should be Developed on Traditional American Lines LinesA A Very Substantial Reduction in Tariff Duties son on Cuban Imports Recommended Re In n the Philippines the Hope is to Make the People P ople Pit Fit for Self Government Work of Up building the Navy Must be Steadily Continued Not 1 Necessary t to Increase the Army Beyond Its Present Size Consular Agents Should be Men of Charac Indians Should be Recognized as Individuals and Not as Members of 01 Tribes Touching Reference Iter rence to Queen Victoria and tier Her Daughter the Dowager Empress of Germany To tho Senate to and House of ot Representatives tn tI vel i iThe Tho The Congress Con cross assembles this year un tier dor tho the shadow of a great calamity H ri the tho th sixth ot of September President I i t US ts shot by an anarchist while attending tho tito ex cx exposition position at Buffalo and died In that city on Oft the fourteenth of that month Of Ot the last Just seven oven elected Presidents ho lie Is s third who has ha been murdered and the tho bare barc of this fact tact l Is Slit suf to grave gravo alarm among amons n American citizens Moreover tia thu circumstances of ot this the third as aD a of pt an nn American President a peculiarly sinister significance Joth Doth President Lincoln and amI President were weEp killed by assassins o 0 In unfortunately not uncommon es types history President Lincoln falling a n vie vic victim tim thu to tho the terrible passions aroused i by four tour years of o civil war var and President President dent to the tho revengeful vanity President sl tt It f disappointed Pr I a n tent dent McKInley y was killed by on an utterly depraved criminal belonging to te that I Lady body of ot criminals als who object to nil all gov goy governments t bad alike allO who are aro and good I against any form to Im of ot popular liberty If it l Is guaranteed guarantee by even evon the most moat just and liberal laws and who are as ns hot hos hostile hottle tile tle to the upright exponent of ot a free tr e peoples sober will as all n to tho the tyrannical nid Irresponsible despot A WIDELY LY LOVED LOViD MAN MANIt It Is IB not too much to say Bay that nt at the of ot President s death ho was the most widely loved man In all the tho United States while wo we have never had any public man of his position who has hall been boon so wholly free treo front from the bitter animosities Incident to public life lIfo Ills His political opponents were the tho first to bear th heartiest and nn most mont generous tribute to the tho broad boad kindliness of ot na nature nature ture nire tho the sweetness and gentleness of ot character which so endeared him to his close clone associates To a standard of ot lofty Integrity In public lIfo life he ho united tho tender affections and hume homo virtues which are arc In the make makeup makeUp up lip of or national character A gallant sol soldier dar dier lor In tho the treat great war for tor the tho Union ho he i also shone hono lonO ns rin example to nil all our peo pee because of ot his conduct In the most sacred and nn Intimate of ot home rela rein relations relations There could be bc no personal ha hatred hatred hatred tred of ot him for tor he ho never acted with aught but consideration for tor the tho wel welfare welfare welfare fare of ot others No one could fall fail to rt rc rb him who knew him In public or private to lire lifo Tho The defenders of ot those murderous criminals who sho seek seck to ex ox ru rUle cuse e their criminality by asserting that it l Is exercised for tor political ends In against wealth and power lower nut Hut for Or this thin assassination even this thU base apology cannot be Urged Urge A MAN OF OP MODERATE President McKinley was a n man of or moderate means a n man whoso whose stock S sprang from the sturdy tillers of oC tho the toll neil who hail had himself belonged among the who had entered 5 the thc army as n a ft private soldier Wealth was not nol struck at nt when the tIm President was assassinated but the honest toll which Is content with wih moderate mo rile gains after nn r a n lifetime of ot unremitting labor largely In the service of tho the public Still less was waR power struck at nt In the tho sense that power Is Irresponsible or ot centered In the th hands of nf any one In Individual Individual The T blow hlo was wan not at tranny tyranny or wealth It wu was aimed at t one of ot tho the strongest champions tho the wage vage worker has ever had at nt ono one of the most faithful representatives of the system of ot public rights and representative tive tivo government who line hag over ever risen to public President McKinley tilled hued that political office for which the tho entire people veoPle vote anti and no President not even Lincoln himself was ever more moro earn earnestly earnestly estly anxious to represent the well wishes of at the tho people oele his one ono anxiety In a 0 very crisis was to keep keel keepIn keelin In closest touch with the tM people to find out what they the thought and to endeavor or to give expression to their thought after having endeavored to guide that thought He lie had Just been re ye reelected reelected elected to tho the Presidency because the majority of our citizens the majority of our farmers and be he believed hewed that ho he had faithfully upheld their Interest for tor four years ars They Thoy felt themselves In close and ull Intimate touch with him They felt that ho represented no so welt well wel and so o honorably alt all al their Ideals and Ild aspirations 10 that they the wished him him to continue for tor another r four tour years tu to represent them NO BASER DEED DICED And this was wal the tho man at whom tho the assassin struck kl That there thoro might bo be nothing lacking to complete com pIc to the tho Judas like of his hla act net ho be took advantage tage tago IgO of ot an occasion when shen tho the President was vas meeting tho the people generally i and advancing as If It to take the tM hand out to him In kindly and brother brotherly ly fellowship ho he turned tUl d tho the noble and generous confidence of ot tho the victim Into an to strike tho tim blow There Is no baser deed Ice In all ni the time annals an annals nals of crime Tho shock tho the grief of at the tho country countr are bitter biter In tho the minds of all ni who saw the dark darl days while the President yet darl hovered hovore between life o anti and nOl death At last the tho light l was wal stilled In tho the kindly ores eyes and the t tI breath went from the tho lips that even cven In mortal uttered no words save of ot forgiveness to his mur murderer murderer derer of ot lovo love for tor his friends and of ot un unfaltering Unfaltering faltering trust In the will wl of or the Most High Such a f lOath death crowning the glory of ot such a n leaves us with wih Infinite sorrow loro b but t with wih such pride In what he ho Iud had accomplished In his own personal character that we wi feel tee I the blow not as R struck at nt him bin but as Hiluck at nt the tho nation We Wo mourn mour a Q good goll and great President vho ho IB Is II dead but iut t while we wo mourn mour we ve are lifted up by bythe b bythe the splendid of ot his life lite and the grand heroism with which homet ho homet hl met his death lath DEMANDS RESOLUTE ACTION When wa wo turn tur from the tha man to the nation nUon the harm done dono cone Is II so 80 great as to our gravest apprehensions and to demand our wisest and most moat resolute action This criminal was a a n professed anarchist Inflamed by the teachings of or I professed anarchists probably also by the reckless utterances of those who vIm on the stump l and In the public prose pros appeal to the durk dark and evil evi spirits spirit spirit of ot malice and ami nOi greed envy on and nd sullen hatred The Thc wind Is 11 h sowed by the tho men who preach such such doctrines and they cannot escape their share of at responsibility responsibility for tor the ther the whirlwind that Is reaped This hilty applies apples alike alte to the deliberate dem tiem demagogue demag ag ge to the exploiter of sensational sensationalism ism and to the Um crude and foolish vis visionary who for tor or whatever reason apolo apologizes for crime or excites aimless dis dla discontent discontent content contentA A BLOW AT ALL PRESIDENTS The blow was aimed not at It this President but bit at tt al all Presidents at every evory symbol of government President McKinley was as emphatically tho the em embodiment emb b of ot the popular will wi of ot the tho na nation naton nation tion expressed through the thu forms torms O of ot law ton as a New Now England town meeting Is II In similar fashion the embodiment of o othe tho the la purpose and practice of ot the people of tho the town tOW On no con conceivable theory could coull the tho murder murdel of ot the tin President bo be as M duo due to pro protest protest test against Inequalities In the social soda order save as time the t 10 murder of If nIL all ni tho tin freemen engaged In a 1 town meeting could o ld bo be as I a protest against that social Inequality which puts a n malefactor In Jail jai Anarchy la lii II no mord lore lorenn nn an expression llon of social discontent than picking pockets or ANARCHIST A DANGEROUS CRIM CRIMINAL CIU INAL The anarchist and especially the an nn anarchist anarchist In hi the United 1 States Is II merely one on typo of ot criminal more moro dangerous than any other othel because he represents Vie he same saro depravity In a 1 greater degree he ho man who advocates anarchy dl di or Indirectly I 11 rec t y In any shape or om fashion or the man who for tor anarchists and their ther deeds makes him bUn himself self morally accessory to murder munter before betor the tho fact tact The he anarchist Is a criminal whoso whose perverted Instincts lead lend him lo to prefer preter confusion and chaos to the most I form torm of social order His Is Ili protest of ot concern for tor workIngmen Is l I outrageous In Its Is Impudent falsity for fez forIt If It the political Institutions of ot this thi country do not afford aloId opportunity to tr every honest and Intelligent son eon of ot toll tol then the tho door of ot hope hop Is in forever against him The anarchist Is II every everywhere whore where not nol merely the tho enemy of system and of ot progress but tho the deadly foe too of ol liberty If I any anarchy In II triumph triumphant ant Its 11 triumph will wi last for but ono OM on red reu moment to be ho succeeded ed for tor ages by the gloomy night of ot despotism NOT NOI A PRODUCT OF 0 SOCIAL CON CONDITIONS CONDITIONS For the tho anarchist himself whether hu ho preaches or practices his bin doctrines wo we need not have hll 0 one ono moro more 1010 con von concern cern corn than for tor any ordinary murderer He lie le Is not the victim of lt social or at political tt cal Injustice There Thero are no wrongs to remedy In his case The Tha cause of his hla hi criminality Is to be found fourni In his own evil ovll passions and In the tho evil conduct of ot those who urge him on not nt In the fall fail failure ure uro by b others or by tho the state to do justice to him or his He lie le Is a n male malo malefactor malefactor factor and nothing else elso Ho Ito 10 IB is I In la no sense Bonse In no shape shapo or way ay a n product of ot nodal conditions savo save as ns a high highwayman highwayman highwayman wayman Is produced d by the fact that an unarmed man happens to have lavo a n purse pure It I Is a n travesty tresty upon the great and ancl holy names of ot liberty and freedom treed om to permit them to be In such Ruch a cause Na mOn men or body of men preaching anarchistic doctrines should be bo allowed el at a largo large any more than If It preaching the murder of ot some fomo specified private Individual Anarchistic tic tc speeches writings wring and meetings are arc seditious and treasonable ANARCHISTS SHOULD BE DE KEPT OUT OUTI I J earnestly recommend to gress gross that In the exercise of ot Us its Is wise discretion It I should take Into consid consideration oration the coming to this country ot of or persons professing prin principles hostile to all a government and Justifying the tho murder of ot those placed ced In authority Such Individuals as nH those who not long ago gathered In open meeting to glorify the murder of Ring King Humbert of Italy Ia perpetrate a n crime and the law In should Insure their rigorous punishment They nail th R like them should bo ho kept out of ot this timis country and If I found here th they y should hould bo be promptly deported to tho the country whence they came caine eal and ant lag Ing provision should bo b made male tar for the tha pun of ot those who stay lay No mutter rails calls 11 more urgently for tor tho the wisest thought of ot the Congress GIVE OtE FEDERAL COURTS COUnTS JURIS JURISDICTION DICTION The Tho federal courts should houM be given chen Jurisdiction over any an man who kills kis kisor or attempts to kill ki the President or any man who by hy the constitution or by law lawIs Is In line lino Ine of or succession for the Prest Presidency done dency while the punishment for nn an un attempt should be proper proportioned pro or tinned to the tU enormity eMr II of the offense against our Institutions CRIME AGAINST HUMAN RACE RACE Anarchy Is II a crime against the whole and all mankind shoula human tac raw race band bond against a tho the anarchist Ills crime be made an fin against tho time law of ot nations like Ilko piracy and that form farm known as us tho the slave trade 1 for tor It Is of ar tar far blacker Infamy than either It I should be ho HO fO declared by h treaties among all al civilized powers Buch tuch would give Ivo to tu tho time fed federal COl eral oral government the power of ot dealing with tho tha crime COUNTRY wiLt WILL N FALL I ALT INTO INfO ANARCHY tY A grim commentary upon the folly taly of or tho the anarchist position afforded by tho the attitude of ot tho the law toward this very criminal who lma Just taken the tho thele life le of ot tho the President Pro Tho ho people would have torn him limb from froni limb If it I It I had hal not been leen that the law hw ho he do fled fed was Wil at Invoked invoiced In II his behalf bohal Bo So o far tar from his hla deed being committed on behalf of ot the people against the tho gov government Q the thu government was waa ns obliged at lIt once to exert Its ItA full tul police polee 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