Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-09-30

he COHlitl UGlNECM AMCIlGa anu
anarchy became awfully distinct the
black Friday of September when Presi-
dent Mckinley was shot by cold
blooded villain. While the people were
aghast. with horror and were moved by
the million to tears, bands of foreign
anarchists were having time Of cheer
and rejoicing at Paterson, n. j., and
Chicago in honor Of the assassin! For
the tears of the American people they
held the trimming bumper aloft, and,
devil like, toasted this wretch for his
deed of blood. There is very general
opinion that he had lost opportunity
because of the geography Of his crime
of discovering the weight of popular,
might in the south. Down here he
would have been saved from eon1ne-
+ ment, and would certainly have gotten
justice in 80 minutesl
1t is quite time for America to ask
herself if she intends to harbor profess
sional cutthroats under her benignant
institutions and foster villains that are
never content except when plotting
treason, and never soQhappy as when
they startle earth with their butchery.
Rufflanism, whether afrarchic or polit-
zeal or religious, claiming its ends
justify whatever means 1t may employ,
ought to get legal or an Illegal kick
ing out of our country. Liberty Of
speech is not license. We can tolerate
the .rabid utterances of the Boston
''grass-widow," hoteaches thatno real
bullet went through the presidents
stomach, and really that he had no
stomach to be perforated by lead. be-
cause her idiocy is harmless. But an
archists have more intellect and de-
structiveness than this eastern fad
NJ q
monstrous that such predestined hab-
itues Of the future pit have full
chance in this land, secretly or OPEN
ly, to exploit their murderousI propa-
ganda and plot the assassination Of
anybody.
Every anarchist ought to be declared
an outlaw. He deserves not even suf-
ference. Mafiaism has but one right,
that of being killed. For life under
such heartless instigation is more I'M
desirable than is extinction. Anarchic
Malta are next to the brutes that hida
in swamps to assault defenseless wom-
en-, and deserve like them extermina-
ton. Atrocious as 1t is to murder
rulers. Sam Hose and his followers
are meriters of eondigner vengeance
than even McKinley's assassin de-
serves. He should be hanged by law or
without it. And every villain, black or
white, that assaults or tries to as
sault a woman, ought to leave Ameri-
ca by the fire route, and. upon proof
of act, statute of authorization ought
to provide for the shifty transporta-
ton!
What are we going to do about Il?
Is foreign brutality to reinforce domes-
tic beastliness and make our country
the hiding place OF assassins and
brutes? Let our people demand legis-
lative interference with such immi-
grant rufiianism. Swear every foreign
suspect upon the word Of God before he
is allowed to disembark, and IL he be-
lieves in neither bar him out and send
him back to the land that gave him
a birthplace. Citizenship and suffer-
ance are both far too good for Malta,
atheists and anarchists. We have a
great reservation in this country for
English, Irish, Scotch, German and
French, but the other kinds are
often so tainted with their Iawless
principles and so open to treachery by.
their disregard Of the eternal that a
dozen of them would crowd us to suf-
location. Dixie against the oncoming
flood of these plotters against the pub
lie welfare They don't believe in our
form OF government Then assist
them to keep outside of its robjection-
able" boundaries. Every assault upon
a benevolent ruler, springing out of
hatred of him merely because he is the
chief magistrate, carries in its feelings
capacity to attack the King OF Heaven
If His throne could be reached, and
His person were vulnerable. Below
such -lawlessness, itself appalling be-
cause of its crimson dye, there lies
volcano of madness and widespread de-
structiveness. Turn the hose of legal
preventive into the smoking crater and
exhaust the ocean depths or extinguish
the great conhagration.
Lawless brutality and bloodthirstiness
of mankind give indirect emphasis to
the truth of revelation and the univer-
sal need Of its remedy. Shall we delude
ourselves with the anticipation that the
gallows brings all t! penalty wretch
deserves, or that burning scOrches all
a brute's villainy demands? The only
Just balance to the crime OF rape is
the hottest hell fire! If murder and
outrage are not hell deserving, virtue
deserves no reward and righteousness
is a delusion. The bads and the good
can't mix. The moral certainty of hell
lies in all persisting unrighteousness.
Can Sam Hose feast at the same table
with the citizen he murdered to furtlis-
er more Internal deed? There mus
be- and there is, blood poison in the
veins of heredity. The gospel alone is
equal to its arrest and eradication. and
on the principles of temporal salvation,
five COMO further, it Is the part Of good
citizenship, 30 infiltrate into the whole