The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-09-19


law and that all persons should do as
they please. But see how quickly
she shelters herself behind the very
law that she has taught her votaries
to despise.
She said to a reporter when told
that the president was dead, do
not see how that can effect my case
lawfully, legally" She who was ifitis
tried willing that the will of the society
which she belonged should know no
law but it's own imp ulses, was prompt
enough in placing her reliance upon
that law and order which she had
sought to overthrow.
When a secret society DEGREES the
death of the head of any people with
out trial and in secret, that society
becomes more dangerous than den
of rattle snakes. Unlike the snakes
they rike without giving any note
of warning "
Without responsibility and without
consideration they blindly and per-
versely condemn that which. the re-
mainder of mankind holds good.
Such a society is the bloodiest of all
tyrants 1t is a thousand headed
Tiberius without judgment and with
out heart or moral responsibility.
They assume the infallibility of the
Judgment of their deprayed and
liberated minds, and assume to sit
in jud gment upon the rights of other
men to live
And worst of all, we are not simply
importing these disreputable and I'M
desirable people from abroad, but are
raising them at home.
The man whose unpronouneeable
name leads us to at once conclude
that he is the product of some other
country, first saw the light in our own
American city of Detroit.
Law and order is taught by all
nature. 1t is an immutable law that
forms the snow fake into crystals.
Everything that lives and moves is
subservient to NATURES laws. Man g
moral nature requires laws for its
governance, and society is the
creature OF the laws it makes. The
! man who violates the laws of nature
must suffer the penalty of violated
law. There Is no appeal.
They who violate the laws of the
land must take the consequences. An
association which teaches the re-
pudiation of all lawful obligations, is
in and of itself crime against human
society.
The apologists for anarchy say that
such men as this assassin are driven
by hardships to revolt against all es-
tablished authority.
What better illustration can be given
of the boundless opportunities of our
land than in the case of our three
martyred Presidents. What boy had
so hard a lot as Lincoln, whose life
was begun in misery and want?
Garfield trudged the tow path ofthe
canal in his beginning of life's jour
ney.
The assassin of President Mckinley
began his life with as unfavorable an
oUport unity to rise in the world as
did his victim. The one put his
shoulder to the wheel and resolved to
help himself. The other listened to
the pleasing teachings of those who
preached the doctrine that the world
owes every man living, whether he
works for it or not.
The one raised his murderous hand
against his fellow man; the other de-
voted his life to his country's service.
A good son makes a good ruler.
Garfield kissed the bible at his in
auguration and then turned and kiss
ed his loving old mother who stood
proudly by his side.
At McKinley's first Inauguration
his widowed mother too stood by and
saw her son elevated to the lofty
place viii CHI he has filed so well. She
died leaving him at the summit Of his
greatness.
Alexander the emancipation was
treated as if he had been Commodus
and Lincoln was slaughtered 'as if he
had been another Nero.
Humbert, the good King, went down
into the slums of Naples when thu
cholera was at it's height, and defyine
death ministered to his suffering peo
pie, only to fall by the hand of the
anarchist who loved to strike
shining mark.
Worst of all it is that anarchy otter
leads to tyranny. From too mucf
license under the name of.freedom
there is a reaction which goes too
far.
1t is time that the form of freedom
of speech which teaches murder anC
ruin should be abridged. 1t is higl
time that the annual pilgri images tx
the tombs of the Haymarket boml
throwers should come to an end.
Ever since Erostratus fred thu
Ephesian dome in order that his nam'
might become Immortality infamous
men have been found to emulate hi
unworthy ambition.
1 am glad that few can pronounce
the name of this assassin.
1t is hard to turn away from thu
natural Indignation excited by thi
most cruel and dastardly murder t.