The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-08
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1901.
DEFENDS ANARCHISTS.

tacks of mental Jim jams and see
things. To it's feverish mind the re
publican newspapers of the state ar,
responsible for the lynching at Hell
ena. 1t arraigns them as principal!
before the fact and says the com
ments they have made on the assass
ination of President Mckinley have
borne fruit in the hanging of Brady
by the mob.
Were it possible to take the Leader
seriously something might be said in
reply 10 its charge, but the ground
it assume and the course of it's rea.
soning are so absurd and withal its
deductions are so ridiculous that it
would be a waste of time to attempt
to reply. Underneath all it has to
say is observable the blind hatred of
partisanship and unconscionable men
daclty which ever prompts those Of
no greater mental calibre than the
Leader to charge everything bad to
he opposition. The Leader knows
it wilfully distorts facts when it says
the republican newspapers Of the state
have advocated a revival of the in
QUESTION and demanded abrogation of
any of the constitutional rights of
press or person. Equally untruthful
is it when it charges that those
same papers have lauded the unlawful
exercise of brute force, either as ap-
piled to the case Of Czolgosz or any
other person.
What they have demanded is en-
forcement Of the existing laws so
as to prevent the spreading of anar
chism and the suppression of personal
utterances and editorial fulminations
calculated to urge those of weaks
minds on to the commission of crimes
against the rulers and laws of the
land. They have scored the yellow"
press for it's sensationalism and I'M
truthfulness and in this respect have
had the hearty cooperation of all
SAoooCo VI 1CpuJdDlC d1u lcS pCCldDlS
newspapers, regardless of political
affiliations, (the Leader remained sill
ent through it alp and it affords them
not a little pleasure to note that
among the heartiest blows delivered
in the cause they espoused were some
that came from democratic shoulders.
They have protested against the con
struction of liberty as license and the
~preachment Of assassination and in
sisted that if the existing laws were
inadequate for the suppression of
some OF the abuses which have grown
up under the ~perversion of liberty of
speech and press that they be amend
ed so as to cover the ground.
IN ~pleasurable contrast to the Lead
er's efforts to champion the cause of
the Goldmans and others of that ilk
are the patriotic and manly expires
sions or the same subject which find
place in the columns of the Butte
Miner, a newspaper which has never
been honestly accused of harboring
anything akin to love or admiration
for the republican party or the news
papers that support it. Here is what
y has. to say concerning the rights
and liberties guaranteed in the con
stitution' of which the Leader as
sumes to speak:
Under our glorious system OF
freedom of speech and liberty of the
press there is no way that the memory
of the martyred president of this
country can be held sacred from these
alien attacks. There is also no way
by which these people can be prevent
ed from teaching that Czolgosz is ;
hero instead of a loathsome wretch.
"It drives the patriotic person t.
the limits of evaporation to note tina
such creatures as this Goldman VIC
man have the right, and are protect
ed by the laws of the land, in makini
public assaults against our sacred in
situations and in attempting to under
mine the very social fabric. Thes
people are absolutely imperyious t
public sentiment and take pride in tn
fact that the whole better element c
society is arrayed in opposition t
their destructive doctrines. We hav
no desire to be a means of dissemina
ing this woman's perverted views an
would not quote her. even in part.
IL were not for the purpose OF calm
public attention to her reasonable IL
terances and giving the public som
aNna ~ What n allowable In this coul