Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-09-26
GREAT MEMORIAL
MEETINGS ARE HELD
Senator DoIIiv.r One Of the Princi-
pal Speakers at a Chicago
Gathering.
TRIBUTE TO SLAIN cHlEFrA'a
Ills Dying Words an Eternal Testimony
Against Anarchy aud Atheism
senntor Mason and Others Make
Eloquent Addresses.

Chicago, Sept. 24.-Chicago Sunday
paid its second tribute to the memory
of President Mckinley. Memorial SER
vices We're held in all parts of the city
during the day and night. At the
coliseum. where the principal exercises
We're held, so many people applied for
admIttance that an overflow meeting
was arranged at Tnttersalla.
In the afternoon the services We're for
school children, and all the speakers
endeaNored to impress upon the young
people the significance of the assassin
alton of the president and the condi-
tions that actuated the assassin.
Delivers Address.
Senator Doiliver, of Iowa. was the
principal speaker at the evening meet
ing. lic said. in part:
There will be opportunity enough
to make inquiry into the causes of the
enormous offcnse against mankind, of
which the president of the United
states was the victim. But it cannot
he out of the Nay, even at such time
rs this, to recognize that in the midst
of modern society there are a thousand
forces mainly tending to moral degra-
dation, out of which the third wicked
A't'iu w stS ltliSet lt' NH inc Cnlcl HaSlS-
trate OF the American people. The gov
eminent of the United States has given
no attention and the several states but
little to the activity. in many of our
cil!es, OF organizations, inconSiderabie
In numbers, which boldly profess to
Seek the destruction of all government
and all law. The crime of September
y. though evidently committed under
the influence III not the direction OF
| s llDf1 1pc l,n 1,
cause being without the common mo-
tiN"S of murder it leaves no track dis
tinct enough to be followed and for that
reason 1T escapes. through the Very
tenderness Of our system of jurispru-
denoe toward persons accused of sus-
plcions, however grave. a government
like ours is always slow to move. and
often awkward in its motions, but 1t can
be trusted to hnd effective remedies
for cases like these, at least after they
become intolerable These remedies
must be effective, but not evade the
sense of justice, which is universal, nor
the traditions of civil liberty, which
we have Inherited from our fathers.
The bin of rights. written in the Eng
fish language. Stands for too many CEN
turtles of sacrifice. too many battletields
Eanctiiied 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
miscreants whose names nobody car
pronounce.
Altos of Anarchy.
ut ought not to be forgotten THAI
conspirators working out their nefari-
Gus plans IN secret, in the dens and
caves of the Garth, enjoy an uncon-
seious cooperation and side partnership
with every lawless influence abroad In
the world. Legislators who betray the
commonwealth Judges who poison the
fountains of justice, city governments
Which come to terms With crime all
| these are regular contributors to the
campaign fund of anarchy. That howl
ing mass, whether In Kansas or Ala
bana. that assembly of wild beasts
dancing in Il drunken carousal about
the ashes OF some negro nalefactor is
rot contributing to the security of So
clety; 1t is taking away from society
the only security II has. 1t belongs to
the unenrolled reserve corps of anar-
chy I'm the United States The words
which came spontaneously to the lips
of William Mckinley as he sank UNI
der mortal wounds and saw the in
furiattd crowd pressing about his as
sailant, 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--I4et
course
The fatal word in the creed of an
archy 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 malignant propaganda
against the rights of mankind. No
man who brings nothing With him OK
cept n blind faith In natural laws, which
nobody made and nobody administers.
Win ever find permanent discipleship
In world like this. 1t is their mis-
fortune that their works have had the
most influence among those who have
been least able to understand them.
His Influence Eternal.
1T may be 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 II indeed his assassination was an
incident of the standing challenge Of
atheism against the peace and order
of society, it could not. now that Glad
stone is no more have chosen a sub
ject more fit to illustrato the nobility
! OF human character, matured In the
fear of God and trained from infancy
in the law of Christ.
"A long acquaintance with the late
president in the intimacy of a per
sonal friendship which ended only With
his life, has always saved me from that
error of Judgment which has In some
quarters moderated his abilities and
underestimated the value of his public
ger. ices: but, standing here, before yet
the flowers have witherod 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
ihe United States capitol, Will weigh so
much for the welfare Of the world as
the everlasting influence of the stain
less life which he lived IN the faith of
| Tie mother who taught hiln first to re-
i,.at the words of the Master. Thy VIII
\ De done
F's-ator Mason, who addressed the
| afternoon meeting, condemned the as
| sassination OF President Mckinley AZ
the most cruel. diabolical md aowardly
| murder ever recorded. He said that nc
| 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..
| Maaoa said.
where before In history is that
character OF Rentleness OF strength
Of bravery Of purity? / do not know
| History has not Written his name"
| Among other Epealsera were Bishop
| Samuel Ifaiio"s, Governor Yates,
| Mayor Rose of Milwaukee and Mayor
| Harrison of Chicago.
| PHI lips REcIIMEc