Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-17
.DENOUNCE ANARCHY
Ringing Resolutions by Socialist
County Club.
TO OPEN CAMPAIGN At BLADENSBURG
Chairman Baker and Candidate Fer
guson to Speak There Saturday Ev-
eninu, September 21-Eldon Soon to
Be Organized-The Resolutions.

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Be Organized-The Resolutions.
The socialists county club held a
very interesting meeting at its rooms
on Church street Saturday Ringing
resolutions were adopted denouncing
anarchy, and deploring the death of
President Mckinley. Reports of the
officers showed conditions in Wapello
county to be very satisfactory. The
delegate to the state convention made
his report. 1t was decided to place
candidate for state senator upon the
socialistieS ticket if suitable man
could be found. 1t was decided to hold
the next club meeting Saturday even
ing, September % at 5 o'clock. Chair
man N. A. Baker and G. w. Ferguson,
candidate for sheriff will speak at
Bladensburg on the evening of Sep
TENDER Fl, and complete the organiza-
ton there. Eldon will then be the
next objective point. The following
ringing resolutions Were passed by the
county club by unanimous vote:
| Be it resolved; That we as a body
of American socialists deeply deplore,
denounce and condemn the brutal and
unprovoked crime of the anarchist,
Czolgosz in his murderous assault up
on the President of our country, re,
sulting in the death of one of the most
conservative, inoffensfve and capable
rulers that ever administered the af-
fairs of state for "a free people" We
look with alarm upon that insane the
DRY of social life that would abrogate
all laws and defies punishment and
certain death and defeat in the wild
and unphilosophic attempt manifest
its utter disregard for authority and
law. We behold in all nature and n
our own bodies law of being and rule
of activities Tor actions) the violation
of, or deviation from which brings dis
ease and ultimately dissolution or
death and in this are we admonished
that all things are governed by law
and that therefore the social life and
| we'll being of men demands that So
ciety as whole or as a government
or governments should be governed
by the laws of being, construction and
| sppportive, which of necessity underly
and support the existence of the body
4 politics and the operation and enforce
ment OF which are ever necessary in
order to the perpetuity of government
tai or social life among men.
We believe that the teachers of an
archy are subyersive of true liberty
of government and of order that by its
| lawlessness it turns loose inordinate
passions and produces an insane hat
red of authority and law and so ere
atee unhallowed demons who imagine
themselves heroes and fnartys for the
cause they have espoused and who in
order to show their hatred, contempt
and defiance of law, authority and
/ penalty commit the most shocking
atrocious and CALLING of crimes-pur-
| posely directed and perpetrated
agains the heads of nations in order
to emphasize their insane hatred and
contempt of all government by muir
dering the heads of state.
1t is therefore manifest that while
anarchists infest our country. safety
| is no where to- be found for any whom
| they select as victims to the fires of
anarchial hate and rage. 1t is hence
a needful thing that federal statute
| be enacted making the teaching, as
sorting or publishing of anarchy a
crime punishable by Punishment for
| life to one of our remote islands where
| the devotees of this doctrine can with
out danger to others inaugurate and
carry out their lawless schemes of life
where none but ar archists are allowed
| to remain or go. Thus would society
be free from the menace of their pres
ence and they be free to be in prac-
tice anarchists until by experience and
trial of their schemes they shall have
proven lheir idea false and abortive
| and be compelled to set up rules to
govern in their own domain and so
have forever their theories disproved
and the foolishness of their conten-
ton.
We, as socialists declare: THAT in
dividual rights and ideas must give
way socially to social rights and
IDEAS" "That all men know more
than any one man" That the govern
ment should be supreme in all things
and should be fully and absolutely
trusted with the adjustment of all our
social and industrial relations. THAT
the doctrine of popular sovereignty"
should be applied to every one of po-
litical character and that when a ma
jority have acted upon any matter the
result should be accepted and the or
der we mandate obeyed until repealed
by a majority action thereon
We declare our support to all le-
gally constituted authority and refer
all interested in our position to the
last plank in our county platform as
an expression of patriotism and love
of "the blood sanctified and freedom
christened Stars and Stripes"
We ever say:
Move on sacred emblem of peace,
Move on till thy enemies fail
Thy conquest for liberty ever increase
| Triumphant-wh assailed."
Resolved, That this resolution be
sent to the Daily Courier with the re-
guest for publication
By order of Wapello County Social
list club.
(signed) N A. Baker,
Madison Warden,
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