Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-18
THEY'RE AFTER HIM.
CRlGGs OUTLINES REMEDY.

What are law, government and soci-
ETY. going to do to protect themselves?"
aska the Hon. John w. Griggs. former
attorney general in President McKin-
ley's cabinet, in an article in the current
number of Leslie's Weekly. For answer
he suggests numerous stringent laws
and declares that: Human nature
could almost be- justified in wishing
that, for crime SO senseless, so brutal,
SO universal in its results of lamenta-
tion and woe as the murder of William
Mckinley, there yet remained from the
chamber of horrors of the old criminal
law some legal method of slow and lin
gering torturous execution that would
wreak upon the miscreant some small
proportion of the anguish he SO wicked
ly brought upon our whole people"
MIR. Griggs' article continues:
Here in America with our perfect
faith in popular government and our
complete satisfaction at the liberty se-
cured to every inhabitant under our
constitution, we have INDUCED in the
delusion that il was not our institutions
nor our rulers that We're the objects of
anarchistic conspiracy. We know bet
ter now. We know, as all the world
knows, that to the perverted minds of
the men and women who call them
selves anarchists one form of law is just
as offensive as another; that crowned
king is no more the favorite object of
these classes than the chosen ruler of
the people in the freest land on earth.
So we may we'll ask, as every consider
ate citizen is now asking, what can be
done to eXterminate this horrible thing
mar hoo q r. Tor
constitution to his own opinions. But
no man has a right to teach or advise
the overthrow or alteration of the forms
regular and lawful method provided for
,,ty of an offence against constituted so
ciety that is akin to treason.
Let congress. therefore. declare that
to teach or advice the overthrow or de-
| struction of the federal government by
murder. assassination, or any other vio-
lent or unlawful means. shall constitute
a punishable offence against the United
States. Let the states do the same with
respect to the state governments. Let
it be made an offence punishable by i'm
prisonment for life to belong to OF
knowingly participate in the proceed
ings of any organization, society. group
or circle. which holds as one of its
tenets that it is justihable to assassl.
nate public officers. Let the publica.
tons of all such societies wherein such
doctrines are taught be denied carriage
thru the mails, and be made lawful OBJ
jects of police suppression, and the
i publishers subjected in indictment.
Congress should amend the immigra.
ton laws 80 as to provide for the exam.
ination or certfication of every immi.
grant as to his belief in anarchistic doc.
4 time and his connection with societie.
of anarchists. All falling within the
dangerous class should be denied admis.
sion to this country. We might go fur.
ther and deport all aliens already within
! our confines who should be found to be,
long to the class of dangerous anar.
! chists. Congress would have undoubtet
power to pass such a statute.
There is no law which makes 1t al
especially heinous offence TO assault OF
murder president or other high Office
of the government. AS the law nov
!. stands the monstrous crime against TIL,
government and all the people which
8 Czolgosz committed when he fired hi
) murderous shots at the breast of Presi
dent Mckinley will rank no higher AMI
: draw down no heavier penalty than IL 1