Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-09-28

mourning is for Mckinley, the Presidentof
our country. Occupying that position, be
held the highest secular trust which ahy
man on earth can hold-l The chief executive
of the greatest people God has ever deyel.
oped in this world-the people who stand
highest for christian character, for progress
sive civilization, for intellectual attainments
and for moral culture. say he occupied
the highest station which any man on earth
can occupy
We hay seen a contrast. Mckinley rep
resents the best element OF the American
people. He meets another man who is
type of another element. To Us Czogosz is
a type. There was no enmlty between the
two men. The one did not strike his blow
at the other as man, but at the Once which
the other held. and at the people and goy.
eminent which he represented. The assass-
in represents that element which hates civ
iization; which has a horror Of progress,
which has a contempt for all that is COED
and pure, which stands for assassination
and for anarchy. They met, apparently as
friends, almost greeting him with a kiss,
the fatal shot was fired and Mckinley il
dead. Does that mean that the assassin has
won? There are millions Of voices which
TO day send back an answering mo" We
draw some comfort from the incident. Here
is man that has undertaken to undermine
onr civilization and overthrow our govern.
ment. We see in this incident profound
respect for law dwelling in the minds of the
American people. This assassin, without
provocation, without justification, attempt
ed to destroy the government which pro-
tectcd him, and still, Notwithstanding the
intensity of public sentiment. notwithsian-
ding his fouting his assassination and an
archy in the faces of the American people,
those who surround him pause and give
him a fair tTlal they give him due process
of law; they give him the benefit OF every
doubt. Is there any more magnificent trib-
ute to the law-abidlng qualities of our PEG.
pie than the fact that they gave such a man
as this a trial? Than the fact that they will
present his case to jury to determine upon
the question of his guilt or innocence p
That nation which stands up for law like
this is perpetual in its power and stability.
1t is comforting thought for Is to-day to
think, in the midst OF our grief, that this
man. deprayed though he be, is to be given
the benefit Of the law which protects him
and the man he slew. Another reflection
which brings comfort TO us as American
citizens, is this Notwithstanding the death
OF that great man, that man who will take
his place in history alongside other magnif
icent presdents-notwiths that this
man, great in his private life, great in his
public life, magnificent as man and as a
president, has, with one fell swoop, beer
stricken from the oils of our citizenship
the government moves steadily forward
without pause, without rupture, without Z
hitch. without the jar of a wheel, Mr. An.
archist can you destroy that government
Has not your most fatal blow been like 9
puff oil wind against monument? Is Their,
any success to the assassin in that assassi
nation? Is not our government stronger
than it was ten days ago? Is there not
greater determination on the part of tht
American people to stamp out the enemy o
law and order and Of progress and enlght
eminent known as anarchism, than Their,
has ever been befOre7 / say, my friends
without forgetting our loss and grief, w
can felicitate ourselves in a mournful wa.
| for this incident, which. while it has tori
our hearts with renewed force, has demon
strated the loyalty of our people to the Law
and their affection for the American GOV
| eminent.