Evening star., 1901-09-23
DOllVER ON AN RCHY
IOWA SENATOR ADDRESSES LARGE
MEETING IN CHICAGO.
Warns His Hearers Against Spirit Of
Lawlessness-Tribute to the
Late President.

ulSpatcn from CnlCago last night says.
Chicago today paid its second tribute to
the memory of President Mckinley. Memo
rial 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 ad-
mission that an overflow meeting was ar
ranged at Tattersalrs
In the afternoon the services were for
school children. and all the speakers
deavored to impress upon the young peo-
pie the significance of the assassination Of
the President and the condition that ac-
tuated 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 causes of the enor-
nous offense against mankind of which
the President of the United States was
the victim. But 1t cannot be out of the
way, even at such time as this, to rec
ognize that in the midst of modern society
there are thousand forces manifestly
tending toward moral degradation, out of
which this wicked hand was raised to XIII
the chief magistrate of the American
people. The government of the United
States has given no attention, and the
government Of the several states but lit
tie, to the activity in many of our cities
to organizations, inconsiderable in num-
bers, which boldly profess to seek the de-
struction Of all government and all law.
The crime of September 6, though evil
IDENTIFY committed under the influence, IL
not the direction, of others, easily battles
the courts. because, without the common
motives of murder, it leaves no track dis
tinct enough to be followed, and for that
reason 1t escapes through the very ten
derness OF our system Of Jurisprudence
toward persons held under suspicion, how
ever grave.
"a government like ours is always slow
to move, and often awkward in its mo-
tions, but it can be trusted to find effective
remedies 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 liber-
ty which We have inherited from our faith
ers. The bill Of rights. written in tie
English language, stands for too many
centuries Of sacrifice; too many battle
fields sanctified by blood: too many hopes
come, to be mutilated in the least in or
der to meet the case of handful of mis-
creants whose names nobody can pro-
nounce.
spirators, working out their nefarious
plans in secret, in the dens and caves OF
the earth. enjoy an unconscious co-opera-
tion and sidepartnership with every law
less influence abroad in the world. Legis-
lators who betray the commonwealth,
judges who poison the fountains Of JUS
tice. city governments which come to
terms with crime-all these are regular con-
tributors to the campaign fund of anarchy.
THAT bowling mass, whether in Kan
sas or Alabama, that assembly of wild
beasts, dancing in drunken carousal about
the ashes OF some negro malefactor, is not
Is taking away from society the only Sc
curity 1t has. 1t belongs to the unen-
rolled reserve corps Of anarchy in the
United States. The words which came
c n n N fo c1yy lfv1 %
Kinley, as he sank under mortal wounds
and saw the infuriated crowd pressing
about his assailant, ought to be repeated
In the ears Of the officers of the peace
from one end Of the land to the other,
In all the years that are to come-'Let no
one hurt him: let the law take its course
The fatal word In the creed Of anarchy
Is atheism. Until that word is spoken.
until all sense of the moral government
of the universe and the moral significance
OF human life is lost. 1t is impossible to
conceive, much less to execute, this ma
lignant propaganda against the rights of
No man who brings nothing
with him except blind faith in natural
laws, which nobody made and nobody adj
ministers, will ever find a permanent dis
in a world like this. 1t is their
misfortune that their works have had
the most influence among those who have
been least able to understand them.
1T may be an idle imagination, but as
have heard the prayers which have been
offered and the sermons which have been
preached about the dead body of William
Mckinley, 1t has come to look mora and
more rational to me that If indeed his
assassination was an incident of the
challenge Of atheism against the
peace and order Of society, II could not,
now that Gladstone is no more, have
chosen sacrifice more fit to illustrate the
nobility Of human character. nurtured in
the fear of God and trained from infancy
in the law Of Christ.
"a long acquaintance with tn" late
ont in fha init in,a nf q
which ended only with his life.
has always saved me from that error OF
judgment which has in some quarters ur-
derrated his abilities and underestihated
the value Of his public services: but stand
ing here before yet the flowers have with
cred which cast their faded beauty upon
his grave 1 declare my solemn belief
that no achievement Of his great career.
no triumph Of his epoch-making record at
our capital, will weigh so much for the
welfare Of the world as the everlasting
Of the stainless life which he
lived in the faith of the mother who
taught him first to repeat the words of
the Master, Thy will be done ="
Senator Mason, who addressed the after
noon meeting condemned the assassina-
ton Of President Mckinley as the most
cruel. diabolical and cowardly murder
ever recorded. He said that he believed
that the red flag Of anarchy would never
again be permitted to float under the same
sky with the stars and stripes. In closing
his address Mr.. Mason said:
where before in history is that char
acter Of gentleness-of strengthen brav-
ery-of purity? / do not know. History
has not written his name"
Among other speakers were Bishop Sam
uel Fallows, Gov Yates, Mayor Rose or
Milwaukee and Mayor Harrison of Chi
cago.