The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-19
HIGH HOPES FOR RECOVERY
Of NATIONS CHIEF
EXECUTIVE.
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winch all nations can take in concert
which they are now justified In enforc-
ing. The common enemy ought to be ex-s
terminated, as he can be by joint inter-
national action of great nations"
8 The Telegraph says: when the Brit
ish empire was plunged into grief by
the close of the great and glorious reign
of Queen Victoria, the genuine sorrow
manifested by all classes in the United
States proved to as that they felt our
loss as their own. Sympathy can only
be repaid with sympathy. There is moth
Ing in the internal sconditions of the
United States upon whose exuberant
prosperity we dwelt only two days ago
with justifiable pride, or-in its external
relations, which could account for the
existence of the passions that breed as
sassins. Assassination and Indictment to
assassination are not political, but anti
social offenses. Those guilty do not
strike against a particular form of gov
eminent, but at all organized defense of
law and order. In the vast majority of
cases the man who presses the trigger
Is morally less villain than the coward
whose denunciations he translates into
action"
The Mail says: president Mckinley
has been a wise and far-seeing ruler. He
was the first to recognize clearly the
Necessity LOT the expansion OI the OElC-
ed States. His period of office will al
ways be famous as the epoch in which
the foundation of the American empire
began. He is not, perhaps, great
statesman, but is man of plain sterling
sense"
The Mail thinks that 1t Is notoriety and
publicity which In most cases leads a
! criminal to perpetrate such atrocities,
and says that If the criminal could be
dealt with on the spot one great induce
ment to crime would be removed. There
Is no reason why rulers, 1t says, should
not be accompanied by one or two armed
men, who, in such cases. would have
orders to shoot, and shoot at once.
The News, writing under the impress
sion that the presidents wounds are
mortal, says: "a brave, upright gov
ernor eff men perishes in the execution
of his duty He was typical American.
In this country he might have been at
torney- general or director of a big bust
ness. In America he was twice presi-
dent, and his imperturbable self-reliance
and belief in the destiny of his country
! made him the most representative of
presidents. His last speech sounded the
note of commercial empire with which
his name will be associated. He was the
first president to expound the imperial
| idea, which has played havoc with old
party lines IN America, as II mas QOue
here"
The Standard says: "Ar fustian about
vindicating the rights of the poor and
avenging the wrongs done by govern
ment is but vicious gloss to disguise
brutal Instincts and vice. The deaths of
Lincoln and Garfield differ from the
present crime. President Mckinley is
the first who has been marked for doom
in pursuance of a conspiracy which at
one time was supposed to be directed ex-
clusively against inheritors of monarchi-
cal tradition"
/ The Chronicle says that the closest
possible alliance between the police of
all nations and the greatest vigilance
within each country are the only effect
i've weapons society has against the
common enemy.
( 1t adds: ION political grounds as well
as on the grounds of humanity, it would
be grievous calamity If Mckinley does
not recover. The president stands for
a policy and an epoch. His work is not
concluded To the president himself.
who is bearing the blow with SO much
quiet courage, to the devoted wife and
the whole American nation, the sympa-
thy of the British people goes out with
unstinted sincerity in this hour Of griev-
Gus anxiety"
The Graphic declares that President
Mckinley was wounded because his po-
sition. won by sheer hard work and sim
gleness of purpose, marked him as tar
get for a homicidal imbecile.