The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-09

would be better If the President could be
free TO meet the public whenever he likes,
but since We have such lunatics or criml-
nails as Anarchists among US who are ike
IS To kill a President If they can get close
enough TO him. wouldn't il be better TO re-
move the temptation from their way?
"A point about these assassinations OF
public officials that is worthy ofa note.
continued MIR. Miller, lis that they always
or almost always take place in pubic; IL
seems tnat Jour Anarchist Is, as RUE,
fellow who dearly loves nOtOriety and also
something OF an actor. witness the sen
sational manner in which John Wilkes
Booth shot President Lincoln in Ford
Theater before a large audience, and note
MS dramatic exclamation, Sic semper
tyrannis! Guiteau assassinated Garfield
In the waiting room of the railroad sta
ton at Washington. and ne, too, gave ut
terance 10 d dramatic cry, i am stat
Wart and Arthur is President, l believe
1t was. The attack on President Carnot,
that upon the Prince of Wales and the
one upon the Empress of Austria were all
made in public places. and l think each
was accompanied by some would-be impres,
Sive utterance by the man who committed
the dastardly crime. President Harrison
walked about Washington with perfect
impunity and was not molested. The av-
erage Anarchist does not care to kill
President when he is alone. There must
be a crowd about that the affair viii
have a tinge of the spectacular So | say
that these public receptions ought to be
abandoned They afford the idiot who
thinks his mission is to slay public OF
ficials too great an opportunity TO crafty
his infamous passion
Henry y. Spaan favors deportation of
Anarchists. From my reading of his
tory" he said. Il am inclined TO the opin-
ion that TO put Anarchists in Jail or prison
simply causes them to regard themselves
as martyrs and enables them 10 spread
the gospel they term the incubation
of their internal doctrines. There Is no
doubt in my mind that statute could be
enacted making deportation a part of the
punishment OF such people. The Consti-
tuition provides that there shall be no cruel
= fral
deportation would be held to be cruel or
unusual punishment. | am firmly OF opln-
ion that we ought to have more stringent
immigration laws We ought to allow no.
body to come over here or to become citi-
zens and remain here that agitates against
the government. At the same time
no law passed under the guise
of which free speech or free meeting
could be suppressed. The provisions of the
law ought TO be very clearly defined. L DO
not believe in making any laws for the
especial protection of public officers: Such
legislation would not be wise under our
form of government, for il would certainly
be abused. Why, right here in lndlanapo-
lis, we have a city ordinance making II an
Offense to resist an officer, and whenever
man talks back TO policeman ne Is
forthwith arrested and charged with re-
sisting an officer. 1t is so easy to resist an
officer, you know. l am personally In favor
of making the human race better by Sc
questering such fellows as Czolgocz ana
making il impossible for more or them TO
come into existence. L think that anarchy
and other forms of insanity are the results
of civilization, and that we who are CIV
ilzed must wrestle with these problems as
best we may. Savages scarcely know what
insanity is, but with civilization conditions
seem to grow up that encourage various
forms of insanity and degeneration Cool
gocZ, in my opinion, is type or degenerate
/ do not believe that he is the central inquire
of conspiracy at ALL.
TALK WITH A. L. MASON.
- Augustus L. Mason has given consider
able thought to the subject of how best to
suppress anarchy and last night he gave
expression of his views to a Journal man.
81 would think the United States ought"
he said. ito take exclusive jurisdiction of
attempts to injure the person of any fed
as that committed by Czolgocz, it seems
to me. is treason and whoever advises or
encourages the crime is equally guilty with
the one who actually commits it. An act
of Congress might define this crime as be-
ing an attempt to injure the person of any
federal official out of malice toward the
government the execution of its laws.
L think too that the States might do well
TO enact laws for the protection of their
ofhcials. As to punishment, L think there
ought to be maximum and minimum
penalty. the maximum to be either life
imprisonment or death. Certainly the pun
ishment ought to be death when an assault
Is made upon a President. Then, too
would have suitable APPROXIMATIONS made
could hunt out these people of anarchistic
sentiments and who teach that it is right
and proper to injure the persons of of
hcialS and they could be unprecedented and
and punished. In that way | think this
evil could be rooted out of the country