The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1901, Page 2

[N THE SAN FRA JISCO SJALL, WEDNESDAY, DE CEMBER 4, 1901 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT RECOMMENDS TMORE RIGID CHINESE EXCLUSION, PACIFIC CABLE, ISTHMIAN CANAL AND BUILDING UP OF ATIERICAN MERCHANT T1ARINE B%G ravy 7 o, oyeos’ ZYLL TR e AR SoptD BE | AZFy ovr of 7rE Cosrryys B FIRST MESSAGE URGES ACTION ON NEEDS OF NATION| Eulogizes the Late William T[lc- Kinley and Asks for Law Against Anarchists. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, | mosities incident to public nfe. His political N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. | 9PPonents were the first to bear the heartiest " 2 . Coy ¢ °.|and most generous tribute to the broad kindliness of nature, —President Roosevelt submitted | the sweetness and gen- his first message to Congress | tleness of character which so endeared him . | to his close associates. To a standard of to-day. It was read in the Sen- | jorey integrity in public life he united the ate and House of Representatives, as fol- lows | tender affections and home virtues which are all-fmportant in the makeup of national char- acter. A gallant soldier in the great war for the Union, he also shone as an example to all ssembles this year under the >w of a great calamity On the 6th of | our people because of his conduct in the most mber President McKinley was shot by an | sacred and intimate of home relations, There while attending the Pan-American | could be no personal hatred of him, for he Expositi Buffalo, and died in that city | never acted with aught but consideration for on _the 14th of that month. the welfare of others. No one could fail to Of the last seven elected Presidents, he is| respect him who knew him in public or pri- the third who has beer murdered, and the bare - ~ he bare | Lote life. The defenders of those murderous e T I e e Justify ET&¥¢| criminals who scek to excuse thelr criminal- e circumetances of this. ‘the third | Ity by asserting that it is exercised for politi- cal ends invelgh against wealth and irre- sponsible power. But for this assassination even this base apology cannot be urged. President McKinley 4—————————4 was a man of moderate means, a man whese assassination of an American President, a peculiarly sinister significance. Both Presi- | dent Lincoln and President Garfield were killed | by sssassins of types unfortunately not uncom- | mon in history; President Lincoln falllng a | the terrible passions aroused by four | have | Blow aimed at| years of civil war, and President Garfield to | stock sprang from the the revengeful vanity of a disappointed office- | | ome of strong- | sturdy tillers of the coeker, President McKinley was killed by an| | emt eham-| soll, who had himselr utterly depraved criminal belonging to tha 1abor ments, good and bad alike, g who are against | any form of popular liberty if it is guaranteed by even the most just and liberal laws, and who are as hostile to the upright exponent of @ free people’s sober will as to the tyrannical | and irresponsible despot. It is Dot too much to 4——————————4 say that at the time of ever had. | entered the army as a private soldier. Wealth was not struck at when the President was assassinated, but the honest | toil which is content with moderaté gains atter & lifetime of usremitting labor, largely in the service of the public. Still less was power | President McKinley's | struck at in the sense that power is irre- McKinley the| death he was the wost | sponsible or centered in the hands of any most widely | widely loved man In | one individual. The blow was not aimed at loved man in| all the United States; | tyranny or wealth. It was aimed at one of | t h e United| while we have never | the strongest champions the wage-worker has | States. | had any public man of | ever had; at one of the most faithful repre- | { his position who Las| sentatives of the eystem of public rights 4————————————4been 80 wholly free | and representative government who has ever from the bitter ani- | risen to public office. President McKinley Pianos Until January First, ‘We will sell at our wholesale warergoms, sixth floor (take elevator), 932 Market street, some of the finest planos ever brought to this coast at prices which will capture the shrewdest buyer. You will find in the assortment offered for sale Steck, Everett, Hard- man, Packard, Ludwig, Harrington and many other noted makes, We also_have a number of second hand piancs in splendid condition, con- sisting of the Sohmer, Knabe, Fischer, Smith & Barnes, Emerson and others. We want to close out all of these pianos before January 1, at which time we will take session Of our new retail warerooms at 931 Market street, where now is Fairchild's big San Francisco shoe house. N'T FORGET. ARF NOT GOING TO ALLO: OTH- 3 ) B e s O 10 uABRESRR: S Dol Tl We will hold the piano you select to be delivered Christmas eve if you say so. The WILLY B. ALLEN CO. 933 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO. RAN STORES AT OAKLAND, SAN JOSE, FRESNO A R SACRAMENTO. an L /oy P S A R D S R A L e el fllled that political office for which the entire people vote, and no President—not even Lin- coln himself—was ever more earnestly anxious to represent the well thought out wishes of the people; his one anxlety in every crisls was to keep in closest touch with the people —to find out what they thought and to en- deavor to give expression to their thought, after having endeavored to guide that thought aright. He had just been re-elected to the Presidency because the majority of our citi- zens, the majority of our farmers and wage- workers belleved that he had faithfully up- held their interests for four years. They felt themselves. in close and intimate touch with him. They felt that he represented so well and S0 honorably all their ideals and aspira- tions that they wished him to continue for another four years to represent them. And this was the man at whom the assassin struck! That there might be nothing lacking to complete the Judas-like infamy of his act he took advantage of an occasion when the President was meeting the people generally, and advancing &s if to take the hand out- stretched to him in kindly and brotherly fel- lowship he turned the noble and generous con- fidence of the victim into an opportunity to strike the fatal blow. There is no baser deed in all the annals of crime. The shock, the grief of the country, are bit- ter in the minds of all who saw the dark days, while the President yet novered between life and death. At last the light was stilled in the kindly eyes and the.breath went from the lips that even in mortal agony uttered no words save of forgiveness to his murderer, of love for his friends, and of unfaltering trust in the will of the Most High. Such a death, crowning the glory of such a life, leaves us with infinite sorrow, but with such pride In what he had accomplished and in his own per- sonal character, that we feel the blow not as struck at him, but as struck at the natlon. ‘We mourn a good and great President who is dead; but while we mourn we are lifted up by the splendid achievements of his life and the grand herolsm with which he met his death. ‘When we turn from the man to the nation, the harm done is so great as to excite our gravest apprehensions and to demand our wisest and most reso- lute action. This crim- inal was a professed anarchist, inflamed by the teachings of | pro- fessed anarchists, and probably also by the reckless utterances of those Who, on the stump and in the public press, appeal to the dark and evil spirits of malice and greed, envy and sullen hatred. The wind is sowed by the men who preach such doctrines, and they can- not escape their share of responsibility for the whirlwind that Is reaped. This applies alike to the deliberate demagogue, to the exploiter of sensationalism and to the crude and fool- ish visionary who, for whatever reason, apolo- gizes for crime or excites almless discontent. The blow Wwas aimed not at this President, but at all Presidents; at every symbol of gov- ernment. President McKinley was as emphat- fcally the embodiment of the popular will of the nation expressed through the forms of law as a New England town meeting is in similar fashion the embodiment of the law-abiding pur- pose and practice of the people of the town. ' Anarchist 1is| the type of criminal most danger-| ous. ILLUSTRATION OF IMPORTANT TOPICS IN PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. On no conceivable theory could the murder of the President be accepted as due to protest against “inequalities in the social order,” save as the murder of all the freemen engaged in a town meeting could be accepted as a pro- test against that soclal inequality which puts a malefactor in jail. Anarchy is no more an expression of “'soclal discontent” than picking pockets or wife-beating. The anarchist, and especially the anarch- ist in the United States, is merely one type of criminal, more danger- ous than any other be- cause he represents the same depravity in a greater degree. The man who advocates an- archy directly or indi- rectly, in any shape or fashion, or the man Who apologizes for anarchists and their deeds, makes himself morally accessory to murder be- fore the fact. The anarchist is a criminal whose perverted instincts lead him to prefer confusion and chaos to the most beneficent form of social order. His protest of concern for workingmen is outrageous in its impudent falsity; for it the political Institutions of this country do not afford opportunity to every hon- est and intelligent son of toll, then the door of hope is forever closed against him. The an- archist s everywhere not merely the enemy of system and of progress, but the deadly foe of liberty. 1f ever anarchy is triumphant, its triumph will last for but one red moment, o be succeeded for ages by the gloomy night of despotism, For the anarchist himself, whether he preaches or practices his doctrines, we need not have one particle more concern than for any ordinary murderer. He is not the victim of soclal or political injustice. There are no ‘wrongs to remedy in his case. The cause of his criminality i to be found in his own evil passions and in the evil conduct of those who urge him on, not in any faflure by others or by the State to do justice to him or his. He is a malefactor and nothing else. He is in no sense, in no shape or way, a ‘“‘product of social conditions,” save as a highwayman is ‘‘pro- duced” by the fact that an unarmed man hap- pens to have a purse. It is a travesty upon the great and holy names of liberty and free- dom to permit them to be invoked in such a cause. No man or body of men preaching anarchistic doctrines should be allowed at large any more than it preaching the murder of some specified private individual. Anarchistic speeches, writings and meetings are essentlally seditious and treasonable. 1 earnestly recommend to the Congress that In the exercise of its wise discretion it should take Into consideration the coming to this country of anarchists or persons professing principles hostile to all government and justify- ing the murder of those placed in authority. Such individuals as those who not long ago gathered in open meeting to glority the murder of King Humbert of Italy perpetrate a crime, and the law ehould ensure their rigorous pun- ishment. They and those like them should be kept out of this country; and if found here they should be promptly deported to the coun- try’ whence they came; and far-reaching pro- vision should be made for the punishment of those who stay. No matter calls more urgent- 1y for the wisest thought of Congress. The Federal courts should be given jurisdie- tion over any man who kills or attempts to Kill the President or any man who by the constitu- tion or by law is in line of succession for the Prosidency, while the punishment for an'un- Noman preach- | ing such doc-| trines should | be allowed at | Iarge. successful attempt should be proportioned —_ the enormity of the offense against our institu- ons. Anarchy Is a crime against the whole human race; and all mankind should band against the anarchist. His crime should be made an of- fense against the law of nations, like piracy and that form of manstealing known as the slave trade; for it is of far blacker infamy than either. It should be so declared by trea- ties among all civilized powers. Such treaties would give to the Federal Government the power of dealing with the crime. A grim commentary. 4————————4 upon the folly of the anarchist position was ‘When Ameri- | afforded by the attitude can wrath is| of the law toward this kindled 1t| very criminal who had is a comsum-| just taken the life of ing flame. f the President. The peo- ple would have torn 4—————————4 him limb from limb it it had not been that the law he defled was at once invoked in his behalf. So far from his deed being commit- ted on behalf of the people against the Gov- ernment, the Government was obliged at once to exert its full police power to save him from instant death at the hands of the people. Moreover, his deed worked not the slightest dislocation in our Governmental system, and the danger of a recurrence of such deeds, no matter how great it might grow, would work only in the direction of strengthening and giv- ing harshness to the forces of order. No man will ever be restrained from becoming President by any fear as to his personal safety. If the risk to the President's life became great, it would mean that the office would more and more come to be filled by men of a spirit which | would make them resolute and merciless in dealing with every friend of disorder. This great country will not fall into anarchy, and 1t anarchists should ever become a serious menace to its institutions they would mot merely be stamped out, but would involve In their own ruin every active or passive sympathizer with their doctrines. The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kin. dled it burns like a consuming flame. —_— GREAT GROWTH OF PROSFPERITY President, However, Ad- vises Caution in Dealing With the Captains of In-~ dustry and the Growing Commercial Corporations. e A R A R B R T During the last five years business confidence has been restored, and the nation is to be con- gratulated because of its present abounding prosperity. Such prosperity can never be cre- ated by alone, although it is easy enough to destroy it by mischievous laws. 1f the hand of the Lord is heavy upon any country, if flood or drought comes, human wisdom is powerless to avert the calamity. Moreover, no law can .-l-l-bH—H-l-l-H—l—H—l—l-l—l-l—l-'l-l-l-. Swops the Cough And ks off the cold. La ainiing TTablets ‘cure & col 1a one’ Gy Ho re, No Pay. Price 35 cents, | - CONGRESS SHOULD HAVE CONTROL OF ALL THE “TRUSTS” If Necessary Constitution Ought to Be Amended as to Cor- porations. guard us against the consequences of our own folly. The men who are idle or credulous, the men who-seek gains not by genuine work with | head or hand but by gambiing in any form. are always a source of menace not only to them- selves but to others. If the business world loses its head, it loses what legislation cannot supply. Fundamentally the welfare: of each citizen, and therefore the welfare of the ag- gregate of citizens which makes the nation, must rest upon individual thrift and energy, resolution and intelligence. Nothing can take the place of this individual capacity; but wise legislation and honest and intelligent admin- istration can glive it the fullest scope, the largest opportunity to work to good effect. The tremendous and highly complex indus- trial development which went on with ever ac- celerated rapidity during the latter half of the nineteenth century brings us face to face, at the beginning of the twentleth, with very se- rious social problems. The old laws, and the old customs which had almost the binding force of law, were once quite sufficlent to regulate the accumulation and distribution of wealth. Since the industrial changes which have so enormously increased the productive power of mankind, they are no longer sufficlent. The growth of cities ‘4——————————4 has gone on beyond | comparison faster than Growth of| the growth of the coun- citles is be-| try, and the upbuilding yond eompar- | of the great industrial ison faster| centers has meant a than country. | startling increase, not | merely in the aggre- 4 gate of wealth, but In the number of very large Individual, and especially of very large corporate, fortunes. The creation of these great corporate fortunes has mot been due to the tariff nor to any other Governmental ac- tion, but to natural causes in the business world, operating in other countries as they operate in our own. The process has aroused much antagonism, a great part of which Is wholly without warrant. It is not true that as the rich have grown richer the poor have grown poorer. On the contrary, never before has the average man, the wage-worker, the farmer, the small trader, Dbeen so well off as in this country and at the present time. There have been abuses con- nected with the accumulation of wealth; yet it remains true that a fortune accumulated in le- gitimate business can be accumulated by the person spectally benefited only on condition of conferring immense incidental benefits upon others. Sucessful enterprise, of the type which benefits all mankind, ¢an only exist if the con- ditions are such as to offer great prizes as the rewards of success. The captains of Industry who have driven the rallway systems across this continent, who have developed our manufactures, have on the whole done great good to our people. Without them the material development of which we are so justly proud could never have taken place. Moreover, we should recognize the im- menise importance to this material development of leaving as unhampered as is compatible Wwith the public good the strong and forceful men upon whom the success of business opera- tions inevitably rests. The slightest study of business conditions will satisfy any one capable of forming a judgment that the personal equa- tion is the most important factor in a business operation; that the business ability of the man at the head of any business concern, big or little, is usually the factor which fixes the gulf between striking success and hopeless fail. ure. An additional reason for caution in dealing Wwith corporations Is to be found in the in- ternational commercial conditions of to-day. The same business con- - | It is unwise to cramp or fet- ter youthful strength o f the natio ditions which have produced the great ag- gregations of corporate and individual wealth potent factors in in- have made them very ternational commerclal competition. Business concerns which have the largest means at their dispesal and are managed by the ablest men are naturally thcse which take the lead in the strife for commercial supremacy among the nations of the world. America has only just begun to assume that commanding position in the international business world which we believe will more and more be hers. It is of the utmost importance that this position be not jeoparded, especially at a time when the overflowing abundance of our own natural re- sources and the skill, business energy and me- chanical aptitude of our people make foreign markets essential. Under such conditions it would be most unwise to cramp or to fetter the youthful strength of our nation. Moreover, it cannot too often be pointed out that to strike with ignorant violence at the interests of onme set of men almost inevitably endangers the interests of all. The fundamental rule {n our national life—the rule which under- les all others—is that, on the whole, and in the long run, we shall go up or down together. There are exceptions: and in times of prosper- ity some will prosper far more, and in times of adversity some will suffer far more, than others; but speaking generally, a perfod of good times means that all share more or less in them, and in a period of hard times all feel the stress to a greater or less degree. It surely ought not to be necessary to enter into any proof of this statement; the memory lean years which began in 1393 is still vis and we can contrast them with the conditl In this very year which is now closing. Disas- ter to great busines enterprises can never have its effect limited to the men at the top. It spreads throughout, and while it is bad everybody it is worst for those farthest down | The capitalist may be shorn of his juxuries but the wage worker may be deprived of even bare necessities. The mechanism of 4$—————————+ modern business is so | delicate that extreme Much legisla- | care must be taken not tion directed | to interfere with it in a | at ¢trustm| spirit of rashness or ' no doubt mis-| ignorance. Many of chievous. | those who have made I | it their vocation to de- 4————————¢ nounce the great in- dustrial combinations which are popularly, although with techni- cal inaccuracy, known as “‘trusts,’’ appeal es- pecially to hatred and fear. These are pre- cisely the two emotions, particularly when combined with ignerance, which unfit men for the exercise of cool amd steady judgment. In facing new industrial conditions the whole his- tory of the world shows that legisiation will generally be both unwise and ineffective un- less undertaken after calm inquiry and with sober self-restraint. Much of the legislation di- rected at the trusts would have been exceed- Continued on Page Four. Eczema How it reddens the skin, itches, cozes, dries and scales! Some people call it tetter, milk crust or salt rheum. The suffering from it is sometimes in- tense; local applications are resorted to— they mitigate, but cannot cure. It proceeds from humors inherited or ac- quired and persists until these have been removed. 4 Hood’s Sarsaparilla positively removes them, has radically and permanently cured the worst cases, and 1s without an equal for all cutaneous eruptions. HoOD'S PILLS are the best catbartic, Pricedscanta