Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-10-18
" les. oaiou. attack upon the fortre.. .,

" leG0 0d1ou0 attack upon the fortress o.
the social order.
The creed Of anarchy teaches that popu.
lar government is q fraud and that en-.
actments made by the people for them.
selves are no more sacred han arbi.
trary DEGREES promulgated by tyrants and
enforced by %bayonets. Anarchy says,
Vote no more" The example of Will
liam Mckinley, who in a public service Of
more than a quarter of a century, half of
it in the field of controversial politics,
never once disparaged the motives Of
those who did not agree with him, nor
spoke an unkind word of an opponent,
who allowed neither the cares of business
nor the fatigue of travel to nullify his in
fiuence as u citizen, and never failed at
any election to stand uncovered before
the ballot box in the precinct where he
had the right to vote, already has fa.
miliarized his c%Ountrymen with the high
CIR ideals of civic duty which dedicate the
heart and brain and conscience of Amer
ica to an intelligent interest in public
affairs.
The creed of anarchy despises the OBJ.
legations Of the marriage contract, inn.
peaches the integrity of domestic life.
enters into the homes of the people to pull
down their affairs and subject the family
relation, which is the chief bond of So
ciety, to the capriccs of the loafer and
the hbertine. In all these things it has
an alliance, implied if not expressed, with
every variation of that rotten public
opinion which in many American States
has turned the court of equity into a
daily scene of perjury and treason against
the hearthstones of the community, a
treason so fragrant that IL year ago, for
the accommodation of a single man, the
Legislature of Florida was induced to de-
scend below the level of all organisms
and all barbarisms by so amending the
laws of divorce as to permit n winter
resident to legally desert the wife of his
youth, not on account of any fault OF
hers. but because of the pathetic burdens
Which she bore.
l count it of infinite value to every de.
cent form of civilization that against this
background of unworthy living, from the
front porch of a little cottage covered
with vines. yondel' Mt Canton, the out.
line sketch of two lives has been thrown,
so beautiful in their loyalty to one an
other that good men everywhere stand
In silence before it. while the woman.
hood of the world. seeing the knightli
ness of love which alters not. draw near.
from stations high and low, to salute the
picture with the benediction of their
tears.
Atheism Its keystone.
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 spiritual signiti-
canoe of human life is lost, it is impossi-
Bile to conceive. much less to execute,
tbs malignant propaganda against the
rights of mankind. 1t is pot necessary to
think or speak unkindly of the noted
men, many of them living a life of schol-
arly Seciusion, remote from the practical,
everyday problems which confront the
police of all countries. who in the last
generation have made the most influential
contributions to the speculative litera-
ture OF atheism. l doubt whether their
influence will be permanent, either for
good or evil.
No man who brings nothing with him
except a blind faith in natural laws,
which nobody made and nobody admin
listers, will ever find a permanent disciple
ship in Il world like this. 1t is their mis-
euuL luclf MufkS nave mad the
most influence among those who have
been least able to understand them.
look upon it ut least as a passing
misfortune for lis that they have been
translated into the language of common
life by a famous American. now dead and
gone, who i'll the days of his strength was
the most captivating popular orator who
ever spoke our tongue. On taking the
chair as president of the American Secu-
lar Union he uttered these words: "Away
with the old nonsense about free moral
agency; a man is no more responsible for
his character than for his height; for his
conduct than for his Dreams" 1t lie.
quires no very deep investigation to find
in such a sentiment the seed of all an.
arches, beginning with the bombshells
in the streets of Chicago and ending
with chaos come again.
Going to a Better Country.
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