Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-09-12
Belding sentiment.

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my deep sorrow that such good kind
man as President Mckinley should be
shot down by an anarchist. | deeply
deplore the condition which could
prompt such an act. j. ID. MORSE.
The news of the shooting of Presi-
dent Mckinley created universal con-
sternation all over the world. l can
not express the shock the news gave
me. No true American can help feel
ing the deepest sympathy for the
President and Mrs. Mckinley. My
greatest hope is that he may soon re-
cover and live TO serve out his full
term and many long years after. |
believe the shooting of President Nc
Kinley will be a death blow to Anar-
chy in the United States and all over
the world. w. f. BRICKER.
My soul has been stirred within me
at the dastardly deed of the would-be
assassin of President Mckinley. be-
lieve that anarchy should not only be
denounced but should be wiped from
off the face of the earth. 1t is all
we'll to talk about our country being
the asylum of the oppressed, but what
we need is better emigration laws.
Stop the coming of criminals to our
shores. Prohibit and not perpetuate
the places of vice in our cities, which
are the breeding pools of anarchy.
REV. A. O. CARMAN.
The recovery of President McKin-
ley seems providential. The pail of
gloom that shrouded this nation is
lifting with the ever increasing as
surance of his ultimate recovery.
President Mckinley is the embodi-
ment of the highest characteristics
of American citizenship, and an at
tack on his life is an attack upon the
fundamental principles of this demo-
cratic and preeminent nation. Such
an act involved all the criminal ter
pitude of high treason and should be
punished as such.
DWIGHT G. SHELDON.
1t shocks me to think that in this
Free Country of ours, where we are
Democratic to that extent that one
man believes himself to be the equal
of any other man if he behaves him
self, that there should be just one
low-lived heartless villain, who would
try to take the life of the Chief Ex-
ecutive of our Nation. VIM. McKin-
ley has by his wise pacific admins
tration gained the respect, the conf
dence and love of every good citizen
of this country and he has gained the
respect if not the love of every for
eign nation. II. j. LEONARD.
The horror at Buffalo is without
doubt the out cropping of class OF
political teaching which has been
shown altogether too much tolerance
by the American people. The at
tempt to destroy the president was
virtually an attempt to destroy the
government of which he is the chosen
ICpI G6tul ldllNGs nC oilON Ntlo tilhuCN
at the heart of every loyal American
1t seems to me that the time is ripe
i for the enactment of such measures
as will best serve to suppress utterly
every form of writing or speech pub
lie or private that tends to arouse the
passions of the vicious or weak-mind
ed. REV. JNo. J. STALEY.
what can | say better than silence
; is" The nation and the world stand
appalled, before this attempt upon th'
life of the President. The closer th'
President is to the people the neare
| he is TO assassination as witness Lin
coin, Garfield and now Mckinley
What is the impulse behind all this
Here is a question that demands solu
tion. The nature of the impuls
crazy imbecile, frantic. What is tn
remedy? The assassin of Lincoln wa