Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-09-19

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Destroyers of Law and Order Has
Aroused the Indignation of Man
kind-Scheme to Pension Govern
ment Clerks - Congressman Gros-
venor's New Hat-Anti-Quay Move
ment In Pennsylvania-Rcpu
Views of Babcockery.
Especial Washington letter.
One touch of nature makes the whole
world kin. The awful news from Buff
falo which the telegraph and telephone
carried into every hamlet betwixt the
two oceans Oh the afternoon of Sept. 6
cast every household in the land into
mourning. Every citizen worthy Of his
birthright Of freedom felt that the as
sassin's assault upon President Nc
Kinley was an assault upon himself,
upon the American home and upon
American Institutions. Those shots
were aimed net at William Mckinley
the man, but at William Mckinley the
elected chief of the most benignant
government under the sun, at law and
order in their most pleasant and invit-
ing form. There is no place in our So
cial or political system for the anarch-
ist, the most pestiferous and inexcusa-
BILE sort Of idiot, and surely some plan
can be devised not inconsistent with
freedom of speech and Of the press to
extirpate him on this continent. Good
citizens will be of one accord on this
point. Anarchy cannot and must not
be permitted to take root and grow in
American soil That President Nc
Kinley, one of the most amiable of
mortals, without a personal enemy in
the world, whose gracious manner and
kindly disposition have made personal
friends and most of those opposed to
him politically, should be the victim Of
gang of criminals whose object is to
destroy all government, all order, all
law, not only surprised but shocked
the world
Attack on the President.
Nowhere has the situation been set
forth better than in the following edi-
torial from the st. Louis Republic:
The Republic need not say, for western Ameri-
cans need reminder, that party feeling disap-
pears in universal indignation at the crime COM
nlitted yesterday at Buffalo. The pistol shots
fred into the body OF our national chief executive
were directed at our American life and our Amer
icaa institutions by the beastly instinct of murder
which unaccountably remains in some human be-
ings. Such frightful deeds threaten to compel
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intercourse of great officials with the people.
No murder or attempt at murder be ex-
cused. Such deeds can, however, usually be ex-
plained by circumstances which arouse passions
common to mankind, but this particular creature
OF blood had no motive which ordinary human
beings could ever share. There Is no public ex-
citement. The period is one of unexampled we'll
being and contentment. The victim as citizen
and president has been man Of singular ami
ability and orderlincss Of life. The scene, pano
rama celebrating progress In the useful and pence
full arts, should have soothed and disarmed frenzy
itself. If the perpetrator Is an anarchist, then
now know that the anarchists are willing slaves
of mere envy and bloodthirstiness, who deserve no
pity and can be the subjects Of no argument.
For them the fundamental law of this free land,
which forbids cruel and unusual punishments,
should be suspended, and the most cruel and
usual punishment that human ingenuity can de-
wise should be relentlessly applied to deter the
devils from the pursuit OF their inhuman lust for
blood.
President Mckinley is known to 100000 in
telligent Americans He has been center of ma
tional discussion ever since his term chairman
of the ways and means committee His opinions
have aroused debate, but his personal character
as a representative American citizen has evoked
nothing but respect from friend enemy. In all
lifes relations he has been sincere, honorable and
generous, a brave soldier, an incorruptible public
officer polished gentleman and self respecting
man.
At this writing the president still lives. ma
tion's hope goes out that he may be spared to fill
out the term for which he was elected. The gov
ernment will continue its functions il that hope
is disappointed, but the whole people will mourn
and be shocked at the thought that the first citi-
zen of free country is more exempt from the
bullets of the seditious than the monarchs of
lands where the commonalty has no protection
against the will of despotism.
Object of Anarchy.
Laying aside the criminal features
Of the vile attack on Mr.. McKin-
ley, the utter idiocy Of the perform
ance-of the system which produced
it's apparent when we consider who
and what we are. The object Of an
archy Is to destroy all government.
Let's see how futile, even for that pur-
pose, is the murder of a president.
Under the law as 1t now stands there
are in existence nine men authorized
to succeed to the president-to wit,
the vice president and the eight men,
bers of the cabinet. 1t is hardly pos
sible that anarchists will ever be able
to kill president and his nine heirs
at law all at once. And suppose these
bloody miscreants had on the 9Th kill
ed the president, the vice president and
all the cabinet officers-what then?
Congress would have assembled in less
than q week >f it's own motion and
would have created temporary ex-
ecutive head for the government until
an election could be held, and the re.
public. freighted with hopes of the
human race, would have gone on to full
fill its destiny. Even during the week
In which congress was getting together
and during which there was no ex-
ecutive head to the government things
would have moved along In an orderly
way, for the American people are
thoroughly law and order people.
Take thousand of them, place them
In the center of the great Sahara. cut
them of from all communion with
their kind, and in fortnight they will
have miniature republic, fashioned
after this, In good running order.
The conclusion of the whole matter
is this-the quicker all the anarchists
are hanged the better for all concern
ed, notwithstanding Bulwer-Lyttoh's
dictum that the worst use you can put
man to is to hang him. Hanging is
the only use to which an anarchist can
be put to promote the interests of hui
manity.
The proposition to pension the de-
partment clerks in Washington bobs
up serenely with the approaching ses-
sion of congress. This time it takes
the shape of law authorizing govern
ment employees to form an association
into whose treasury certain percent
age of their wages shall be paid to
form a fund to furnish pensions to
those incapacitated after a certain
length of service. The government
revenues are not to be drawn upon for
these pensions. If they can present a
feasible scheme so that congress can