The age-herald., 1901-09-23
Memorial Services Held Through out the Country Through
 Respect to President
ATHEISM AGAINST SOCIETY
No More Fitting Sacrifice to Illustrate Nobility of Christian Character Could Have Been Chosen
 Than the Assassination

Chicago. September 22.-Chicago today paid its second tribute to the memory of President Mckinley.
 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 Tattersalls.
 In the afternoon the services were for school children and all the speakers en- deavored to impress upon the young peo- pie the significance of the assassination of the President and that of the condi- tions that actuated the assassin. Senator Deliver of Iowa was the principal speaker at the evening meeting. He said in part:
 There will be opportunity enough to make inquiry into the cause of offense against mankind, of which the President of the United States was the victim But it cannot be opt of the way, even at such time as this, to recognize that in the midst of the modern society are thousand forces manifestly tending to- ward moral degredation, out of which this unchecked hand raised to kill the Chief Magistrate of the American people. The crime of Czolgosz, though evidently committed under the influence, If not the direction of others, easily baffies the courts, because being without the com- mon motives of murder, 1t leaves no tracks distinct enough to be followed and for that reason 1t escapes through the very tenderness of our system of juris- prudence towards persons accused of sus- picions, however great.
 Too Much Sacrifice.
 "The bill of rights, written in the Eng fish language, stands for too many cen- turies of of sacrifice, too many battle fields sanctified by blood too many hopes of mankind reaching toward the ages to come, to be mutilated in the least in order to meet the case of handful of mis- creants, whose names nobody can pro- nounce.
 'Legislat ors who betray the common wealth, judges who poison the fountains of justice, city governments which come to terms with crime-all these are regu- lar contributors to the campaign fund of anarchy. The bowling mass, whether in Kansas or Alabama, that assembly of wild beasts dancing in drunken carousal about the ashes of some negro malefac- tor, is not contributing to the security of society; 1t is taking away from so- ciety the only security it has. It belongs to the unenroled reserved corps of an- archy in the United States. The words which came spontaneously to the lips of William Mckinley 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 it's course.'
 "The fatal word in the creed of an- archy is atheism Until that word is spoken, until all sense of the moral gov ernment of the universe and the moral significance of human life Is lost; 1t is impossible to conceive, much less to ex- ecute, this malignant propaganda against the rights of mankind. No man who brings nothing with him except blind faith in natural laws, which nobody made and nobody administers, will ever find permanent discipleship in a world like this. It is their misfortune that their works have had the most influence among those who have been least able to understand them
 Atheism Against Peace.
 "It may be an idle imagination, but as I 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 more and more rational to me- that if, indeed, his assassination was an incident of the standing challenge of atheism against the peace and order of society it could not now, that Gladstone is no more have chosen sacrifice more fit to illustrate the nobility of human charac- ter, nutured in the fear of God and train ed from infancy in the law of Christ
 "A long acquaintance with the late President in the intimacy of a personal friendship which ended only with his life, has always saved me from that error of judgment which has in some quarters underrated his abilities and un- der estimated the value of his public services, but standing here before the flowers have yet withered which cast tnelr lrdSTdnl beauty upou grave, 1 declare solemn belief that no achieve ment of his great career, no triumph of his speech will weigh so much for the welfare of the world as the everlasting ministry 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 af- ternoon meeting, condemned the assas- sination of President Mckinley as the most cruel diabolical and cowardly mur- der ever re corded. He said that he be- lieved that the red flag of anarchy would never again be permitted to float under the same sky with the Stars and