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Show The President's Message WE are told that the president is preparing his forthcoming message, and some hints are given of the topics on which he places the most emphasis. Indeed, a few extracts have already al-ready been flashed by the wireless, though no connected sections have been given. Here are some of them: "My lords and gentlemen: While the outside world is being convulsed by the most sanguinary of wars, it has seemed good to mo to devote most time to my domestic relations. It is a pleasure to me to report that all my negotiations thus far have heen as successful as they have been delicious. "From my experience I am convinced that had more patience and friendly solicitude been exercised in the past all our Indian wars would have been avoided and an offensive and defensive alliances would have been made with all our red brethren from the Pequods of New England and the 'Creeks, Chocktaws, Cherokees and Seminoles of the south, across the empire of the Five Nations, Na-tions, the Winnebagos, the Chippewas, the Potta-watomies, Potta-watomies, the great Shawnees and Pawnees, the Sioux, the Shoshones, the Flatheads, even to the Nez Perces and Plutes. "The secret was left to me to discover. The Indian man receives his character from his Indian In-dian mother and I have discovered that the Indian In-dian lady is not essentially different from her blonde sister you can easily manage her by letting her have her own way. "My lords and gentlemen, your admiration of th- great work that I have performed I am sure will grow upon you the more you see of it. "Turning to less important questions I beg to remind you that while the ships of other nations are being mined and toFpedoed, through our wisdom wis-dom we have been able, up to date, to avoid loss by having no ships, a most venerable and wise condition, which was originated in the administration adminis-tration of that great and wise Democratic statesman, states-man, James Buchanan. True some Americans Uiave been killed on foreign ships, but that has saved large sums usually spent by American tourists in foreign countries. "My 'waiting and watching policy' in Mexico is proving to be most wise. "True a good many Americans have been mur- M dered and robbed, but I recognized the meanest bandit in the bunch as (president, have sent him war munitions and I am confident he will soon j kill every miscreant who has ever maltreated any American. I H "I have perused a different policy in Haytl. frihere I put down a rebellion with all the vigor H of the earlier and purer days of our republic. j "My lords and gentlemen: It is a pleasure to M assure you that the marvelous wisdom and Jus- tice of the Underwood tariff law is being daily ' vindicated. That there has bee a most serious i falling off of revenue under it, does not alter its principles in the least, but I recommend that H some of the best revenue getters be selected and a light tax laid upon them for revenue only. "I have1 been pained to see that some people H are so lacking in sympathy as to call up the H reminder that in the platform on which Col. H Roosevelt carried our party to victory three years H ago, there was a promise of economy from the H extravagance that had come through the long H rule of our opponents. "It grieves me that such critics cannot com- H prehend that Ibecause of that long rule, how B hu-agry our statesmen had ibecomo, and like the H multitude on the shore of Galilee they took to the H loaves and fishes confident that the supply was H inexhaustible. H "There are others, too, I am Borry to note, who H point to our promise that the cost of living should H be reduced to the people. H "Of course while making that promise we had H no knowledge that a great war would come upon H the old world and shut off our exports thus leav- ing our people to the tender mercies of the theiv- H ing middlemen. H "My lords and gentlemen: May I hope that outside of providing for an immense campaign H fund next year under the guise of "needed ap- H proprlations," your legislation will during the short term be mostly "glittering generalities," H that your best efforts will be devoted to a catch- H ing program for next summer's campaign, and that as much of the overbearing burden of government gov-ernment as possible, may be taken from me for .you all must realize how strenuous my duties must necessarily be." |