The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-23
CHICAGO'S GREAT TRIBUTE.
Special Services Held for the school
Children.

Chicago, Sept. 22.-Chicago to-day
paid its second tribute to the memory
of President Mckinley. Memorial
services were held in all parts of the
city during the day and night. At the
Coliseum, where the principal exercises
were held, SO many people applied for
admission that an overflow meeting
was arranged at Tattersalrs.
In the afternoon the services were
for school children and all the speak
ers endeavored to impress the young
people with the significance of the
assassination of the President and the
conditions that actuated the assassin
Senator Dolliver of Iowa was the prin-
cipal speaker at the evening meeting.
He said in part:
There will be opportunity enough
to make inquiry into the cause of the
enormous offense against mankind, of
which the President of the United
States was the victim. But it cannot
be out Of the way, even at such a time
as this, to recognize that In the midst
of modern society there are a thousand
forces manifestly tending toward the
moral degradation, out of which this
wicked hand was raised to kill the
chief magistrate of the American peo-
pie. The government of the United
States has given no attention, and the
government of the several states but
little, to the activity in many of the
cities, to organizations, inconsiderable
in numbers, which boldly profess to
seek the destruction of all government
and all law. The crime of Sept. g.,
though evidently committed under the
influence, If not the direction of 9TH
ers, easily battles the courts, because
being without the common motives
of murder, it leaves no tracks
distinct enough to be followed. and for
that reason II escapes through the very
tenderness of our system of jurispru-
dence towards persons accused of sus-
picions, however grave. A government
like ours is always slow to move and
often awkward in it's motions, but 1t
can be trusted to find effective reme-
dies for conditions like these, at least,
after they become intolerable But
these remedies, in order to be effective,
must not evade the sense of
justice which is universal, nor
the traditions of civil liberty,
which we have inherited from our
fathers. The bill of rights. written
in the English language, stands for
too many centuries of sacrifice, too
many battlenelds sanctified by blood,
too many hopes of mankind reaching
toward the ages to come, to be mutil-
ated in the least, in order to meet the
case of a handful of miscreants whose
names nobody can pronounce.
Co-Operators with Criminals.
"It ought not to be forgotten that
conspirators, working out their nefari-
Gus plans in secret, in the dens and
caves of the earth. enjoy an uncon-
scious cooperation and side partner
ship with every lawless influence
abroad in the world. Legislators who
betray the commonwealth, judges who
poison the fountains of justice, city
governments which come TO terms
with crime. all these are regular con-
tributors to the campaign fund of an
archy. That bowling mass, whether in
Kansas or Alabama, that assembly of
wild beasts, dancing in drunken carou-
sal about the ashes of some negro
malefactor. Is not contributing to the
security OF society; It is taking away
from society the only security II has.
1t belongs TO the unenrolled reserve
corps OF anarchy in the United States.
The words which came spontaneously
10 the lips Of Wllim Mckinley, as he
sank under the mortal wounds and
saw the infuriated crowd pressing
about his assailant, ought 20 be re-
peated IN the ears of the officers OF
the peace from one end OF the land to
the other, In all years that are to