The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-10-03
SOURCE or ANARCHY.
It IL Fostered By Political En-.
nifty In America. ~
SAVAGE ATTACKS on PRESIDENT

ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT
BY Political Foes TO Blame For the
Murderous Assault Upon the Head
Of the Nation.
For the terrible calamity which has
befallen the country In the foul
assassination of President Mckinley
the country has laid the responsibility
at the door of the alien anarchists.
But the responsibility for this national
disaster should be Justly apportioned.
The real cause was the unnatural and
hostile course of domestic foes, and
the should share the responsibility
equally With the anarchists.
1t was the savage and relentless at
tacks of the political enemies Of Pres
ident Lincoln which inspired the das-
tardly act OF John Wilkes Booth.
While Lincoln was engaged in q mighty
effort to put effort to put down the re-
bellion and preserve the Union, men
like Vallandigham and other notori-
Gus copperheads waged Q fanatical and
persistent fight against him, and de-
nounced him before the people as an
imperialist, subverter Of the peoples
rights, and sought by every means
known to men of that class to obstruct
the president in his efforts to maintain
the integrity of the Union. 1t cost the
country many thousand lives because
of the traitorous course Of Vallandig-
ham and his colleagues In treason.
The acts Of these arch-traitors finally
deprived the country of the most valu-
able life OF all-that Of the man who
alone was best competent to heal the
breaches caused by the war and effect
rational reconstruction Of the coun-
| try. Booth was the actual assassin Of
Lincoln, but the real criminals we're
not that fanatic-who had no rational
| grievance against Lincoln--but the
traitors like Vallandigham who in
spired in the minds Of men like Booth
a morbid passion to destroy the head
| of the nation.
| The cowardly assassination of Pres
ident Garfield by the idiotic Guiteau
was but the natural outcome of the
savage attacks upon the president by
Unsuitable political enemies, dating
back to the time when Garfield, like
Lincoln, bore distinguished part In
the civil war, and was bitter oppo-
nent of the rebellious states during the
reconstruction period. The hand of
Guiteau was the physical cause of Gar
fields death, but the real, potent cause
was the inspiration to murder gener-
ated in the minds of unbalanced men
like Guiteau by the enemies of the
president. But for the savage assaults
of Garfield's enem,es, Guiteau would
never have dreamed OF the assassina-
ton of the executive.
History has repeated itself: Lincoln
was denounced as a Caesar, tyrant
and ususrper during the civil war, and
the natural fruit of such outrages was
the cruel assassination Of the presi-
dent Just on the eve Of victory. Ever
since President Mckinley assumed his
high office he has been the object OF
the most bitter and uncalled-for at.
tacks by political foes. These foel
first attacked the domestic policy OF
the president; then. unable to impede
his pathway to success. they began 9
nefarious crusade against his policy ir
respect to the Philippines The pres.
ident, while discharging his duty faith
fully under the constitution, was as
sailed, as Lincoln had been In his day
as tyrant, an usurper. and q mur
derer Of the Filipinos. Such attacks
proceeded not from ignorant and de-
graded foreigners or anarchists. bu
from men who had hitherto stood higf
in public estimation. These attacks
have borne their legitimate fruit. -Th'
'attacks on Lincoln by men Of the Val
landigham type inspired Booth with ,
devilish ambition which cost the coun
try its most valued ruler. So the at
tacks of the so-called Anti-Imperialist
have inspired In the mind of the half
witted Czolgosz an inhuman and fiend
ish purpose to destroy the life of Pres
ident Mckinley. The mock-heroic or.
Of "Sic semper tyrannis," after tn
murder OF Abraham Lincoln, was re
echoed by the fanatical assailant O
. William Mckinley. The seeds of trea
son and anarchy sown In the sixtie
has borne fruit thrice-in the murde
Of President Lincoln by Booth, o
President Garfield by the maniac Gui
teau, and In the abhorrent effort O
CzOlgosz to destroy President McKin
ley.
The people are discussing new meth
ods of punishment for the anarchists
and more effective means of prevent
ing assaults against the head of tn
nation. But let them hunt down an
visit, with condign punishment tn
= participants of tle crimes of this char
acter-the men who openly and wan
tonly inspire and encourage the act
of the anarchists--and provide law
to prevent the sowing Of seeds of an
archy and danger among the peopl
by wild and reckless abuse of tn
] chosen rulers of the people. The rem
edy for anarchy should 60 to the yer
root of the evil; 1t should strike q
those who are the real criminals. thos
who aid and inspire the anarchist
with evil purposes as well as thos
who perform the actual criminal acti
The former class are much create
criminals than the latter.
II wish to state shall continue al