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a larger investment of capital in tech-
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dowments of all the distinctly tech-
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The population of the United States
is increasing faster than that or any
other country. This is the richest
country in the world—we are worth at
least fifteen thousand millions more
than Great Britain. Our miles of rail-
road track exceed by more than 10,000
all the tracks of Europe. We manu-
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and Germany combined. .
Airships and under-water craft have
done remarkable things in France in
the first year of this century, but the
vessels which have been careering
about the clouds like comets and the
boats which have been poking their
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yet achieved such triumphs that the
surface of the earth ard the level of
the sea will speedily be abandoned for
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Although there are over 15,000,020
pupils enrolled in the common schools
of the United States—nearly one in
every five of the total population of
the *eountry—and very nearly 17,000,-
000 pupils of all ages securing instruc-
tion in one kind of school or another,
the extent af our MMiterate adult popu-
greeably large. «lhe cen- 4
on the subject justwissue
ates the total number cof males cf
voting age at 21,329,819, and reports
2,326,295 of them to be illiterates.
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In staid Connecticut a murderer wd
was guilty of taking the life of a young
wonian in circumstances of exceptional
ty has been sentenced to life
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THE PR
Recommendations to Congress Concern:
ing Needed Legislation.
WORK OF DEPARTMENTS REVIEWED.
President Roosevelt Pays Glowing Tribute to
the Late President McKinley — Federal
Courts Should Be Given Jurisdiction Over
Any Man Who Kills or Attempts to Kill the
President—Peace and Prosperity—Wage-
Worker and Farmer—Industrial Develop.
ment and the Trusts—Insular Possessions
—Civil Service Law—Peace With All the
Nations.
Following is the first annual message,
in part, of President Roosevelt to the
Congress of the United States:
To the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives:
The Congress assembles this year un-
der a shadow of a great calamity. On
the sixth of September, President Mec-
Kinley was shot by an anarchist while
attending the Pan-American Exposi-
tion at Buffalo, and died in that city
on the fourteenth of that month.
Of the last seven elected Presidents,
he is the ehird who has been murder-
ed, and the bare recital of this fact is
sufficient to justify grave alarm among
all loyal Aemricans_ citizens. Moreover,
the circumstances of this, the third as-
sassination of an American President,
have a peculiarly sinister significance.
Both President Lincoln and President
Garfield were killed by assassins of
types unfortunately not uncommon in
history; President Lincoln falling the
victim to the terrible passions aroused
by four years of civil war, and Presi-
dent Garfield to the revengeful vanity
of a disappointed offiice-seeker. Presi-
dent McKinley was killed by an utterly
depraved criminal belonging to that
body of criminals who object to all gov- |
ernments, good and bad alike, who are
against any form of popular liberty if
it 1s guaranteed by even the most just
and liberal laws, and who are as hos-
tile to the upright exponent of a free
people’s sober will as to the tyrannical
and irresponsible despot.
The anarchist, and especially the an-
archist in the United States, is merely |
one type of criminal, more dangerous |
than any other because he represents
the same depravity in a greater degree,
The man who advocates anarchy direct-
ly or indirectly, in any shape or fash-
lon, or the man who apologizes for an-
wrchists and their deeds, makes him-
elf morally accessory to murder before |
the fact.
I earnestly recommend to the Con-
gress that in the exercise of its wise |
I D into consid- |
eration the coming to this country of |
discretion it should take
anarchists or persons professing prin-
ciples hostile to all governments and jus-
tying the murder of
authority. Such individuals as
who were not long ago gathered in open
meeting to glorify the murder of King |
Humbert of Italy perpetrate a crime,
and the law should ensure their rigor-
ous punishment. They and those like
them should be kept out of this country;
and if found here they should be prompt-
ly deported to the country whence they
came; and far-reaching provision should
be made for the punishment of those
who stay. No matter calls more ur-
gently 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
laws is in line of succession for the
Presidency, while the punishment for |
an unsuccessful attempt should be pro-
portioned to the enormity o
fence against our institygsd
Abounding
gq L
Duri
ESIDENT'S MESSAGE,
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remedies are needed in the way of gov-
ernmental regulation, or taxation, can
only be determined after publicity has
been obtained, by process of law. and in
the course of administration. The first
requisite is knowledge, full and com-
plete—knowledge which may be made
public to the world.
Artificial bodies, such as corporations
and joint stock or other associations,
depending upon any statutory law for
their existence or privileges, should be
subject to proper governmental super- |
vision, and full and accurate informa-
tion as to their operations should be
made public regularly at reasonable in-
tervals.
The large corporations,
called trusts, though organized in one
State, always do business in many
States, often doing very little business
in the State where they are incorpor-
ated. There is utter lack of uniformity
in the State laws about them; and as
no State has any exclusive interest in
or power over their acts, it has in prac-
tice proved impossible to get adequate’
regulation through State acticn. There-
fore, in the interest of the whole peo-
ple, the Nation should, without inter-
fering with the power of the States in
the matter itself, also assume power of
supervision and regulation over all cor-
porations doing an interstate business.
This is especially true where the cor-
poration deives a portion of its wealth
from the existence of some monopo-
listic element or tendency in its busi-;
ness. There would be no hardship in
such supervision; banks are subject to
it, and in their case it is now accepted
as a simple matter of course.
When the Constitution was adopted,
at the end of the eighteenth century,
no human wisdom could foretell the
sweeping changes, alike in industrial
and political conditions, which were to
take place by the beginning of the
twentieth century. At that time it was
accepted as a matter of course that the
several States were the proper author-
ties to regulate, so far as was then
necessary, the comparatively insignifi-
cant and strictly localized corporate
bodies of the day. The conditions are
now wholly different and wholly differ-
ent action is called for. I believe
that a law can be framed which will
enable the National Government to ex-
commonly
submitted to confer the power.
those placed in |
those |
ercise control along the lines above in-
dicated; profitable by the experience
gained through the passage and admin-
istration of the Interstate-Commerce
Act. If, however, the judgment of th
| Congress is that it lacks the constitu-
tional power to pass such an act, then
a constitutional amendment should be
There should be created a Cabinet
officer, to be known as Secretary of
Commerce and Industries, as provided
in the bill introduced at the last ses- |
sion of the Congress. It should be his |
province to deal with commerce in its
broadest sense; including among many
other things whatever concerns labor
and all matters affecting the great
business corporations and our merchant
| marine.
The Farmer and Wage-Worker.
_ With the sole exception of the farm- |
Ing interest, no one matter is of such
vital moment to our whole people as
{ the welfare of the wage-workers. If
| the farmer and the wage-worker are
well off, it is absolutely certain that all
others will be well off, too. It is there-
fore a matter for hearty congratulation
{ that on the whole wages are higher to-
day in the United States than ever be-!
fore in our history, and far higher than
(in any other country. The standard of
living is also higher than ever before. '
Every effort of legislator and adminis- |
trator should be bent to secure the
permanency of this condition of things
and its 1mproveme aL
sible. Nad
"general tariff
"ed by the
{ here and abroad.
mainly bring over the immigrants, and
they should be held to a strict account-
ability for any infraction of the law.
Present Tariff System.
There is general acquiescence in our
present tariff system as a national pol-
icy. The first reqnisite to our prosper-
ity is the continuity and stability of
this economic policy. Nothing could be
more unwise than to disturb the busi-
interests of the country by any
change at this time.
Doubt, apprehension, uncertainty are
exactly what we most wish to avoid in
the interest of our commercial and ma-
teral well-being. Our experience in the
past has shown that sweeping revisions
of the traiff are apt to produce condi-
tions closely approaching panic in the
business world. Yet it is not only: pos-
ness
sible, but eminently desirable, to com-
bine with the stability of our economic
system a supplementary system of re-
ciprecal benefit and obligation with
other nations. Such reciprocity is an
incident and result of the firm estab-
lishment and preservation of our pres- |
ent economic policy.
provided for in the present tariff law.
Reciprocity must be treated as the
handmaiden of protection. Our first
duty is to see that the protection grant-
tariff in every case where
it is needed is maintained, and that
reciprocity be sought for so far as it
can safely be done without injury to
our home industries. Just how far this
is, must be determined according to the |
individual case, remembering always
It was especially |
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that every application of our tariff pol- |
icy to meet our shifting national needs |.
ties on Cuban imports into the United |
must be conditional upon the cardinal
fact that
duced below
the difference between the labor cost
The well-being of the
wage-worker is a prime consideration
of our entire policy of economice legis-
lation.
Subject to this proviso of the proper |
protection necessary to our industrial |
well-bei at home, the principal of
reciprocity must command our hearty
support. The phenomenal growth of ex-
port trade emphasizes the urgency of
the need for wider markets and for a
liberal policy in dealing with foreign
nations.
the duties must never be re- |
the point that will cover |
{ lands, inhabit
|
| make
| of reciprocity.
Insular Possessions,
In Hawaii our aim must be to de-
velop the perritory on the traditional
American lines. We do not wish a
region of large estates tilled by cheap
labor; we wish a healthy American com-
munity of men who themselves till the
farms they own. All our legislation for
the islands should be shaped with this
end in view.
It is a pleasure to say that it is
hardly more necessary to report as to
Porto Rico than as to any State or
territory within our continental limits.
The island is thriving as never before,
and it is being administered efficiently
and honestly. Its people are now en-
joying liberty and order under the pro-
tection of the United States, and upon
this fact we congratulate them and our-
selves. I ask the attention of the Con-
gress to the need of legislation concern-
ing the public lands of Porto Rico.
In Cuba such progress has been made
towards putting the independent gov-
ernment of the island upon a firm foot-
ing that before the present session of
the Congress closes this will be an ac- |
start |
and to the beauti- |
complished fact, Cuba will then
as her own mistress;
ful Queen of the Antilles, as she unfolds |
this new page of her destiny, we extend |
our heartiest greetings and good wishes.
Elsewhere I h: ~ussed the question
case of Cuba, how-
ever, there are we r reasons of mor-
| tions offer the
ality and of national interest why the |
policy should be held to have a pecu-
liar application, and I
ask your attention to the
deed to the vital need, of providing for
a substantial reduction in the tariff du-
wisdom,
States.
In
larger.
i111 1 < A - . 1p1y {
Philippines our problem is
the
ted. by many varying tribes,
representing widely different stages
progress toward civilization.
est effort is to help these people upward
most earnestly |
in- |
Pliny ava: vorv erin tirnnisal 1
ney a € IC: ical 1s- |
1 1ey are very ric. tropical 1s-
among those whose sons go down to the
sea in ships. Unless our commerce is
always to be carried in foreign bottoms
we must have war crafts to protect it
A great debt is owing from the pub:
lic to the men of the Army and Navy.
They should be so treated as to enable
them to reach the highest point of ef- |
ficiency, so that they may be able to re-
spond instantly to any demand made upe
on them to sustain the interests of the
Nation and the honor of the flag. The
individual American enlisted man is pro-
{ bably on the whole a more formidable
fighting man than the regular of any
other army. Every consideration should
be shown him, and in return the highest
standard of usefulness should be exacted
from him. It is well worth while for the
Congress to consider whether the pay of
enlisted men upon second and subsequent
enlistments should not be increased to
| correspond with the increased value of
the veteran soldier.
Civil Service.
The merit system of making appoint-
ments is in its essence as democratic
and American as the common school
system itself. It simply means that in
clerical and other positions where the
duties are entirely non-political, all ap-
plicants should have a fair field and no
| favor, each standing on his merits as
he is able tp show them by practical
Written competitive examina-
only available means in
applying this system In
other cases, as where laborers are em-
ployed, a system of registration un-
doubtedly can be widely extended. There
are, of course, places where the writ-
ten competitive examination cannot be
applied, and others where it offers by no
means an ideal solution, but where under
political conditions it is, though an im-
perfect means, yet the best present means
test.
many cases, for
{of getting satisfactory results.
Our earn- |
along the stormy and difficult path that |
We
vy C
of the islands
to self-government.
our adminis
leads
tion
{ honorable to our Nation by making it of
the highest benefit to the Filipinos them-
| selves ;
Whatever is merely petty and |
vexatious in the way of trade restric- |
tions should be avoided.
The customers |
to whom we dispose of our surplus pro- |
ducts in the long run, directly or indi-
rectly, purchase those surplus products |
by giving us something in return.
Their ability to purchase our products
should as far as possible, be secured
by so arranging our tariff as to enable
us to take from them those products
which we can use without harm to our
own industries and labor, or the use of |
{ which will be of marked benefit to us.
I ask the attention of the Senate to
I hac
the reciprocity treaties laid before it |
by my predecessor.
American Merchant Marine.
chant marine is such as to call for im-
mediate remedial action by the Con-
gress. It is discreditable to us as aNation
that our merchant marine should be ut-
{ terly insignificant in comparison to that
{ of other nations which we overtop in
other fornis of business.
longer submit to conditions
not merely serve to build up our ship-
ping interests, but it would also result |
in benefit to all who are interested in|
the permanent establishment of a wider | should be
{ the Philippines.
| be done for the islands than
market for American products, and
would provide an auxiliary force for the
Navy. ;
Our Government should take such
action as will remedy these inequali-
ties. The American merchant marine
should be restored to the ocean.
The Gold Standard.
The Act of March 14, 1900, intended | in Asia.
unequivocally to establish gold as the | longer
altion of such a cable.
standard money and to maint a
r therewith
Bin
We should not !
under |
which only a trifling portion of our great |
commerce is carried on our own ships. | numbers
. To remedy this state of things would | 1°
| bebes
| their courage and devotion to the flag
there
for |
{ shown by so many commercial
The condition of the American mer- | ON
| evident, unless we ar
| traditions and
i hat have
tend to do, we point to w
done. Already a greater measure
we
material prosperity and of governmental | no
i been attain- | Way 1s a public servant.
honesty and efficiency has
ed in the Philippines than ever before in
their history.
There are still troubles ahead in the
islands.
an affair of
who deserve
he brigands
World.
dire
same footing as encouragement to hos-
tile in the days when we still
1 Indian wars. Exactly as our aim
to give to the Indian who remains
ful the fullest and ai st consid-
but to have it stood - that
show no weakness if he goes
warpath, so we must make it
false to our own
mands of civil-
that while we
local b: ti
no hig
yt
Ol
porti ns of the
direct or
Old
Encouragement, in-
1S
will
the
to the
ization and humanity,
, to these insurrectos stands on the | OT ; 8 : A e
: | ti-foreign uprising in China
hope to |
| rates
S Mis AE ab nl 3 oc
and as an earnest of what we in- (and that all shippers,
ot
The insurrection has become |
and maraud- | ¢
- regard than |
Interstate Commerce.
In 1887 a measure was enacted for
the regulation of interstate railways,
commonly known as the Interstate
Commerce Act. The cardinal provi-
i that act were that railway
just and reasonable
localities, and
commodities should be acoorded equal
treatment.
The act should be amended. The rail-
i Its rates should
be just to and open to all shippers alike.
The Government should see to it, that
within its jurisdiction this is so, and
should provide a speedy, inexpensive
and effective remedy to that end
of
should be
Uprising in China.
The general terms of the settlement
of the questions growing out of the an-
of 1900,
{ having been formulated in a joint note
| ber
| tiaries on
| setts
will do everything in our power for the |
Filipino who is peaceful, we will take
the sternest with the I
pino who follows the path of the
surrecto and the ladrone.
The heartiest praise is due to large
of the natives of the
for their steadfast loyalty. The Maca-
have been conspicuous
measures 1
in-
when
gislation
better
to
duce industrial enterprises. Nc
would benefit them so much throw-
ing them open to industrial development.
I call your attention most
to the ; crying need of a cable
Hawaii and the Philippines, to be con-
has come
additional
Noth
time
be
The
can
ng
1S
tinued from the Philippines to points |
We should not defer a day |rate the One Jdiog
the constryc-
Tt ames
A
than necessary
{the plenipotentiary on behalf
addressed to China by the representa-
tives of the injured powers in Decem-
last, were promptly accepted by the
Chinese Government. After protracted
tonferences the plenipotentiaries of the
several powers were able to sign a final
with the Chinese plenipoten-
the 7th of last September,
g forth the measures taken by
China in compliance with the demands
prot col
lof the joint note, and expressing their
therewith. It will be laid
Congress, with a report of
of the
satisfaction
before the
| United States, Mr. William Woodville
for |
[ized under the provisions of a law pass-
islands | Reckhill.
The Consular Service.
The consular service is now organ-
ed in 1836, which is entirely inadequate
to existing conditions. The interest
bodies
throughout the country in the reorgan-
| ization of the service is heartily com-
carnestly |
to |
|
mended to your attention.
St. Louis Exposition.
I bespeak the most cordial support
from the Congress and the people for
the St. Louis Exposition to commemo-
fal
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