The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-10

| To the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives: The Congress assemblies this
year under the shadow of a great calam-
| iity. on the 9th of September President
| Mckinley was shot by an anarchist while
attending the Pan-American Exposition
at Buffalo. and died in that city on the
I4th of that month.
OF the last seven elected presidents he
| is the third who has been murdered. and
the bare recital of this fact is sufficient
| to Justify grave alarm among all loyal
american citizens. Moreover, the circum-
stances of this, the third assassination
| of American president. have a pecu-
liarly sinister Significance. Both Presi-
dent Lincoln and President Garneld We're
killed by assassins of types un- ortunately
not uncommon in history; President Lin
coin falling victim to the terrible pas
sions caused by four years of civil war.
and President Garfield TO the revengeful
vanity of disappointed office seeker.
President Mckinley was killed by an ut
terly deprayed criminal belonging to that
body Of criminals who object to all gov
ernments good and bad alike, who are
against any form of popular liberty if it
is guaranteed by even the most just and
liberal laws. and who are as hostile to
the upright exponent of a free peoples
sober will to the tyrannicaI and ire
sponsible deSpot
1t is not too much to say that at the
time of President McKinley's death he
was the most widely loved man in all
the United States; while We have never
had any public man in his position who
has been so wholly free from the bitter
animosities incident to public life. His
political opponents We're the first to bear
the heartiest and most generous tribute
to the broad kindness of nature the
sweetness and gentIeness of character
which so endeared him to his close asso-
ciates. To a standard of lofty integrity
in public lie, he united the tender affec-
tons and home virtues which are all
important in the makeup of a national
character A gallant soldier in the great
war for the Union. he also shone as an
example to all our people because OF his
conduct in the most sacred and intimate
of home relations. There could be no
personal hatred of him. for he never
acted with aught but consideration for
the welfare of others. No one could fail
to respect him who knew him in public
and private life. The defenders of those
mu- derous criminals who seek to excuse
their criminality by asserting that it is
exercised for political ends inveigh
against wealth and irresponsible power
But for this assassination even those
base apologies cannot be urged.
President Roosevelt then devotes much
space TO his eulogy upon the dead pres
iGent and to reflections upon anarchy
and anarchists. saying in one place:
When We turn from the man TO the
nation, the harm done is 50 great as to
excite our gravest apprehensions and to
demand our wisest and most resolute ac-
ton This criminal vas a professcd an
archist, infiamed by the teachings of pro-
fessed anarchists, and probably also by
reckless utterances of those who. on the
stump and in the public press, appeal 70
the dark and evil spirits of malice and
greed. envy and sullen hatred The wind
EOWnd Y1l
doctrines and they cannot escape their
share of responsibility for the whirIwind
that is reaped.) This applies alike to the
dehnerate demagogue, to the exploiter
OF Sensationalism and the the crude and
foolish visionary. who, for whatever rea-
son, apologies for crime or excites aim
less discomfort
After further comment, this recon-
mendatiCn IL made:
1 earnestly recommend TO the Con
sress that In the exercise OF its wise dis
Cret.on it should take into consideration