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What the President Says
on Important Subjects.
TRUSTS AND RECIPROCITY
How
He Would Deal With
These Problems.
He Declares Publicity la at Present
<Jie Only Sure Remedy Against
Evils of Combinations—Wbile Op
posing Any General TurlfT Change.
He Upholds the Principle of Reci
procity — Advocates Reduction of
Duty on Cuban Imports Into Tills
Country — Importance of Building
the Isthmian Canal and tlie Pacific
Cable Urged—Tlie Philippines and
Other Insular Questions.
not Ions'" ago gathered in open meeting j or corporate and individual
to glorify the murder of King Hum- j have made them very potent factors in
bert of Italy perpetrate a crime, and i international commercial competition,
the law should insure their rigorous! Moreover, it cannot too often be
punishment. They and those like them I pointed out that to strike with ignorant
should be kept out of this country, and i violence at the interests of one set of
Washington, Dec. 3.—The president
in his annual message to congress
says:
The congress assembles this year un
der the shadow of a great calamity.
On tlie Cth of September President Me- j
Kinley was shot by an anarchist while ;
attending the Pan-American exposi
tion at Buffalo and died in that city
on the 1-lth of that month. j
Of the last seven elected presidents j
lie is the third who has been murdered, ;
and the bare recital of this fact is
sufficient to justify grave alarm among j
all loyal American citizens. Moreover, j
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 a
victim to the terrible passions aroused
by four years of civil war and Presi
dent Garfield to the revengeful vanity
of a disappointed office seeker. Presi-
dent McKinley was killed by an utter- j
ly depraved criminal belonging to that |
body of criminals who object to all j
governments, good and bad alike, who | ^
are against any form of popular lib- j
erty if it is guaranteed by even the
most just and liberal laws and who
are as hostile to the upright exponent
of a free people’s sober will as to tlie
tyrannical and irresponsible despot.
Anarchy and Anarchists.
The president continues with a
eulogy of Mr. McKinley, then turns to
the subject of anarchy, denouncing its
doctrines and preachers. He says:
I earnestly recommend to tliecongress
that in the exercise of its wise discre
tion it should take into consideration
the coming to this country of anarch
ists or persons professing principles
hostile to all government and justify
ing the murder of those placed in au-
thoriiy. Such individuals as those who
if found here they should be promptly
deported to the country whence they
came, and farreaching provision should
be made for the punishment of those
who stay. No matter calls more
urgently for the wisest thought of the
congress.
A Subject For Federal Courts.
Tlie 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
law Is in line of succession for the
presidency, while the punishment for
an unsuccessful attempt should he pro-
i portioned to the enormity of the of
fense against our institutions.
Anarchy is a crime against the whole
human race, and all mankind should
band against the anarchist. His crime
should be made an offense against the
law of nations, like piracy and that
form of man stealing known as the
slave trade.
j The president next considers busi-
! ness conditions, which he finds highly
! satisfactory. He continues:
The tremendous and highly complex
industrial development which went on
with ever accelerated rapidity during
the latter half of the nineteenth cen
tury brings'us face to face at the be
ginning of the twentieth with very
serious social problems. The old laws
and the old customs which had almost
the binding force of law were once
quite sufficient to regulate the ac
cumulation and distribution of wealth.
Since the industrial changes which
have so enormously increased the pro
ductive power of mankind they are no
longer sufficient.
Trade Combinations.
The growth of cities has gone on be-
| yond comparison faster than the
growth of the country, and the up-
I building of the great industrial centers
has meant a startling increase not
| merely in the aggregate of wealth, but
i in the number of very large individual
I and especially of very large corporate
j fortunes. The creation of these great
j corporate fortunes has not been due
I to the tariff nor to any other govern-j
j mental action, but to natural causes j
In the business world, operating in otb- j
countries as they operate in our j
own.
The process has aroused much
Itigonisra. a great part of
wholly without warrant,
that as the rich have grown richer the
poor have grown poorer. On the con-
men almost inevitably endangers the
interests of all. The fundamental rule
In our national life—the rule which un
derlies all others—is that, on the whole
and in the long run, we shall go up or
down together.
The mechanism of modern business
is so delicate that extreme care must
be taken not to interfere with it in
a spirit of rashness or ignorance. In
dealing with business interests, for
the government to undertake by crude
and ill considered legislation to do
what may turn out to be bad, would
be to incur the risk of such farreach-
ing national disaster that it. would be
preferable to undertake nothing at all.
The men wbo demand tlie impossible
or the undesirable serve as the allies
of the forces with which they are nom
inally at war, for they hamper those
who would endeavor to find out in ra
tional fashion what tlie wrongs really
are and to what extent and in what
manner it is practicable to apply reme
dies.
How to Correct tlie Evil*.
All this is true, and yet it is also
true that there are real and grave evils,
one of the chief being overcapitaliza
tion because of its many baleful con
sequences, and a resolute and practical
effort must be made to correct these
evils.
It is no limitation upon property
rights or freedom of contract to re
quire that when men receive from gov
ernment the privilege of doing busi
ness under corporate form, which frees
them from individual responsibility
and enables them to call into their en
terprises the capital of the public, they
shall do so upon absolutely truthful
representations as to the value of the
property in which the capital is to be
invested. Corporations engaged in in
terstate commerce should be regulated
if they are found to exercise a license
working to the public injury. It should
be as much the aim of those who seek
for social betterment to rid the busi- | then
ness world of crimes of cunning as to I should
wealth ! 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
intervals.
The large corporations, commonly
anarenists, but persons of a low moral
tendency or of unsavory reputation
and those who are below a certain
standard of economic fitness to enter
our industrial field as competitors with
American labor.
The Tariff and Reciprocity.
The president declares that nothin
could be more unwise than to disturb
the business interests of the country by
any general tariff change at this time.
He adds:
Yet it is not only possible, but emi
nently desirable, to combine with the
called trusts, though organized in one i stability of our economic system a sup
state, always do business in many
states, often doing very little business
in the state where they are incorpo
rated. There is utter lack of uniform
ity ^n the state laws about them, and,
as no state has any exclusive interest
in or power over their acts, it has in
practice proved impossible to get ade
quate regulation through state action.
Therefore, in the interest of the whole
people, the nation should, without in
terfering with the power of the states
in the matter itself, also assume power
of supervision and regulation over all
corporations doing an interstate busi
ness.
Amend Constitution if Necessary.
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 vrfte 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
authorities to regulate, so far as was
then necessary, the comparatively in
significant and strictly localized cor
porate bodies of the day. The condi
tions are now wholly different, and
wholly different action is called for.
I believe that a law can be framed
which will enable the national govern
ment to exercise control along the lines
above indicated, profiting by the expe
dience gained through the passage and
administration of the interstate com
merce act. If, however, the judgment
of the congress is that it lacks the con
stitutional power to pass such an act,
constitutional amendment
be submitted to confer the
rid the entire body politic of crimes of { power.
There should be created a cabinet of-
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with chronic indigestion and nervous
debilitv.” writes S’. J. Green, of Lan
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an-1 until I began using Electric Bitters,
which is I which did me more good than all the
T* nnt mi p I medicines I ever used. They have also
! kept my wile in excellent health for
years, bhe says Electric Bitters are just
! splendid for female troubles; that they
trary, never before has the average : are a g ranc i tonic and iuvigorator tor
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small trader, been so well off as in this medicine can take its place in our taui-
. ’ , ^ I. *■ Tl-inro ilv ” TrY fhi
country and at the present time. There , ily-” Try them.
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abuses I «■» guaranteed by H. B. McMasteb.
accumulation of wealth, yet it remains
that a fortune accumulated in
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violence. Great corporations exist omy
because they are created and safe
guarded by our institutions, and it is
therefore our right and our duty to
see that they work in harmony with
these institutions.
Publicity tlie First Essential.
The first essential in determining
how to deal with the great industrial
ficer. to be known as secretary of
commerce and industries, as provided
In the bill introduced at the last ses
sion of the congiiess. 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 mer
chant marine.
Labor.
The president declares that he re
gards it necessary to re-enact the Chi
nese exclusion law. In regard to labor
he says that the government should
provide in its contracts that all work
should be done under “fair” conditions
and that all night work should he for
bidden for women and children as well
as excessive overtime. He continues:
Very great good has been and will be
accomplished by associations or unions
of wageworkers when managed with
j plemeutary system of reciprocal bene-
: fit iind obligation with other nations.
Such reciprocity is an incident and re
I suit of the firm establishment and
< preservation of our present economic-
policy. It was specially provided for
1 in the present tariff law.
Reciprocity must he treated as the
! handmaiden of protection. Our first-
duty is to see that the protection graut-
1 ed by the tariff in every case where it
is needed is maintained, and that reci
procity be sought for so far as it can
safely be done without injury to our
j home industries. Just how far this is
| must be determined according to the
j individual case, remembering always
I that every application of our tariff pol-
j Icy to meet our shifting national needs
must be conditioned upon the cardinal
fact that the duties must never be
reduced below the point that will cover
the difference between the labor cost
j here and abroad. The well being of
1 the wageworker is a prime considera
tion of our entire policy of economic
legislation.
Need For Wider Markets.
Subject to this proviso of the proper
protection necessary to our industrial
well being at home, the principle of
reciprocity must command our hearty
support. The phenomenal growth of
our export trade emphasizes the ur
gency of the need for wider markets
and for a liberal policy in dealing with
m nation*. Whatever is merely
Modern Surgery Surpass'd.
“While suffering from a bad cast
of piles I consulted a physician who
advised me to try a box of DeWittV
Witch Hazel Salve,” says G. F. Car
ter. Atlanta. Ga. “I procured a box
and was entirely cured. De Witt’s
Witch Haze! Salve is a splendid
cure for piles, giving relief instant
ly, and I heartily recommend it to
all sufferers” Surgery is unneces
sary to cure piies. De Witt’s Witch
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burns, bruises, and all other wounds
are also quickly cured by it Beware
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isfaction or refund mouey Large bot-
tles 50c and §1.00. Inal bottles free.
legitimate business can be accumulat
ed by the person specially benefited
only on condition of conferring im
mense incidental benefits upon oth
ers Successful enterprise of the type
which benefits all mankind can only
exist if the conditions are such as to
offer great prizes as the rewards of
success.
Reaxons For Caution.
The president adds that there are
many reasons for caution in dealing
with corporations. He says.
The same business conditions which
have nrnrlneed the great aggregations
Not a Dissenting Vote.
A perfect laxative! That is the
unanimous verdict of the people
who Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pep
sin. 50c and $1 00 fuzes.
Sold by H- b. McMaster, Wayues-
boro, Ga. H. Q. Bell, Millen, Ga,
. , , , „ .. forethought and when they combine m-
eomb mat ous s knowledge of the facts ; a ... . , ...
comm p : sistenee upon their own rights with
—Dubl eitv. In the interest of the pub-1 .... . , ...... ,
f* ■ . , .. ' law abiding respect for the rights of
lie the government should have the, ® 1 65
uc in . others. The display of these qualities
right to inspect and examine the work-1 J J
ings of the great corporations engaged
in interstate business. Publicity is the
only sure remedy which we can now j
invoke. What further remedies are | ......
1U> . , i ment in order to safeguard the rights
needed in the way of governmental . „ „ T - j ..
m : anu interests of all. Lnder onr eonsti-
regulation or taxation can only be de- .
.. , tution there is much more scope for
teriniued after publicity has been ob- , . , . ,.
1 • such action by the state and the munic
ipality than by the nation. But on
in such bodies is a duty to the nation
no less than to the associations them
selves. Finally, there must also ir
further remedies are j man y eases be action b * tbe & overn "
toinoA hr nrncess of law and in the
hjsician Testifies,
‘•I have taken Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure and have never used anything
in my life that did me the good that
did,” says County Physician Geo W.
Scroggs of Hail county,Ga , “Being
a physician I have prescribed it and
found it to give the best results.” If
the food you eat remains undigest
ed in your stomach it decays there
and poisons the system. You can
prevent this by dieting but that
means starvation. Kodol Dyspep
sia Cure digests what you eat. You
need suffer from neither dyspepsia
nor starvation. The worst cases
quickly cured. Never fails. H. B.
McMaster.
points such as those touched on above
the national government can act.
He asserts that the immigration laws
are unsatisfactory and ijat a law
should be enacted to keep Girt not on3y
Reliable and Gentle.
“A pill’s a pill,” says the saw. But
there are pills and pills. You want
a pill which is certain, thorough and
gentle. Mustn’t gripe. De Wilts’s
Little Early Risers fill the bill,Pure
ly vegetable. Do not force but as
sist the bowels to act. Strengthen
and invigorate. Small and easy to
take. h. b. MCMaster.
petty and vexatious in the way of
trade restrictions should be avoided:
The customers to whom we dispose of
our surplus products in the long run,
directly or indirectly, purchase those
surplus products by giving us some
thing in return. Their ability to pur
chase our products should as far as
possible he 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.
It is most important that we should
maintain the high level of our present
prosperity. We have now reached the
point in the development of our in
terests where we are not only able to
supply our own markets' but to pro
duce a constantly growing surplus for
which we must find markets abroad.
To secure these markets we can util-
5 ~“ duties in any case where
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It is very pleasant to the taste and
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and she went to sleep. When she
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The Artistic
Woodworkers.
they are no longer needed for the pur
pose of protection, or in any case
where the article is not produced here
and the duty is no longer necessary
for revenue, as giving us something tc
offer in exchange for what we ask.
The cordial relations with other na
tions which are so desirable will nat
urally be promoted by the course thus
required by our own interests.
The natural line of development for a
policy cf reciprocity will be in connec
tion with those of our productions
which no longer require all of the sup
port once needed to establish them
upon a sound basis and with those oth
ers where either because of natural or
of economic causes we are beyond the
reach of successful competition.
I ask the attention of the senate tc
the reciprocity treaties laid before it bj
iv nredecessor.
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The old idea that the body sometimes
needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill
has been exploded; for Dr.’ King’s New
Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless,
gently stimulate liver and bowels to ex-
peJ poisonous matter, cleanse the sys
tem and absolutely cure Constipation
and Sick Headache. Ouly 25c at Mc-
Mastek’s drug store.
The Merchant Marine.
The condition of the American mer
chant marine is such as to call for im
mediate remedial action by the con
gress. It is discreditable to us as s
nation that our merchant marine
should be utterly insignificant in com
parison to that of other nations which
we overtop in other forms of business,
We should not longer submit to condi
tions under which only a trifling por
tion of our great commerce is carried
In our own ships. To remedy this state
cf tilings would not merely serve to
build up our shipping interests, but it
would also result in benefit to all who
are interested in the permanent estab
lishment of a wider market for Amer
ican products and would provide an
auxiliary force for the navy. Ships
Personal
Will the lady who fell in a swoon
last Thursday, in front of the post-
liiee, call at our store? She suffer,-
from Biliiousness. Dr. Caldwell’s
Syrup Pepsin will surely cure her.
Sold oy h. B. MCMaster, Waynes
boro; H.Q Bell, Millen.
ork for their own countries just as
railroads work for their terminal
points. Shipping lines, if established to
the principal countries with which we
have dealings, would be of political as
well as commercial benefit. From ev
ery standpoint it is unwise for the
United States to continue to rely upon
the ships of competing nations for the
distribution of our goods. It should be
made advantageous to carry American
sroods in American built ships.
8100 Reward 8100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
earn that there is at least < ne dreaded dis
ease that science has been aoie to cure In all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hail’s Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a consti
tutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system,, thereby de
stroying the foundation of the disease, and
giving tlie patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers, that they offer
one hundred dollars for any case that it tails
tocure. Send for list, of testimonials. Ad
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Bgs“- Sold by druggists 7oc.
At present American shipping is un
der certain great disadvantages when
put in competition with tk-s shipping
of foreign countries. Many of the fast
foreign steamships, at a spend of four
teen knots or above, are subsidized,
and all our ships, sailing wssels and
steamers alike, cargo carrier* of slow
speed and mail carriers of elah speed,
have to meet the fact that tee original
cost of building American chips is
greater than is the case al>ror.«I: that the
wages paid American office/* and sea
men are very much higher fium those
paid tlie officers and seamen cf foreign
competing countries, and that the
standard of living on our riMps Is far
superior to the standard cC fcving on
the ships of our commercial rivals. Our
government should take suCi> action as
will remedy these inequalities. The
American merchant marine should be
restored to the ocean.
Financial.
The passage of the act establishing
gold as the standard money fins, it is
declared, been shown to be timely and
judicious. The president adds:
In many respects the nat.uar.1 hank
ing law furnishes sufficient CSserty for
the proper exercise of th-s banking
function, but there seems 10 bo need
of better safeguards against the de
ranging influence of commercial crises
and financial panics. Moreover, the
currency of the country should be
made responsive to the denmeds of our
domestic trade and commerce.
Economy in expenditure.- Is urged.
Amendment of tlie interstate- commerce
act is advised to insure tb* -mrdinal
provisions of that act. The- work car
ried on by the department r-s agricul
ture is next considered and praised
highly. The president then turns to
forest preservation and irrigation of
arid lands, saying that both highly
necessary. lie would put aJ the work
in connection with the forert “eserves
in charge of the bureau of forestry.
Irrigation.
The president continues rrr tracing
the connection between the »orest re
serves and the water supply. He says;
The forests are natural reservoirs.
By restraining the streams-- *t» flood
and replenishing them in drought they
mou-o nnecihie the use of wniars other-
Rpiirf In Six Honrs.
Distressing Kidney and Bladdt- r**eease re
lieved in six hours by New Gr—-t South-
Ainerican Kidney Cure. It is a gtv=» -urprise
on account of its exceeding prom i-tness in re
lieving pain in bladder, kidneys &/■-' back. In
male or female. Relieves reten'^-.- wafer
almost immediately. Ifyouwaz. .nick re
lief a d cure this is the remedy. **''■’d by H.
8 McMaster. Druggist Waynesooro Ga.
wise wasted. They prove... the soil
from washing and so protec-' the stor
age reservoirs from filling op with
silt. Forest conservation is, therefore,
an essential condition of wtite? conser
vation.
The forests alone cannol, however,
fully regulate and conserve the waters
of the arid region. Great storage works
are necessary to equalize Cio*> flow of
streams and to save the flood waters.
Their construction has been conclu
sively shown to be an undertaking
too vn~f for private effort. Nor can it
be best accomplished by tho individual
states acting alone. The gn-ernment
should construct and maintain these
reservoirs as it does other pu»fic works.
Where their purpose Is to ragulate the
flow of streams, the watei ehould be
turned freely into the channels In the
dry season to take the sams course
under the same laws as the natural
fiAW.
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