Warren sheaf., 1901-09-12


IHE country was greatly shocked
and mortified when the doleful new.
OF the attempted assassination O
OF President Mckinley were flashed
over the wires late last Friday after
noon. That such good, kind and
amiable man as President Mckinley
should be singled out as a mark
for the assassin's bullet, was
so unexpected that people at
first we're inclined to dis
credit the news. On Thursday the
President had delivered his great
speech on the Exposition grounds,
a aspeech that had been widely CON-
mented upon, and in which he strong
1y urged the opening up OF new mar
kets for American products, the up
building of our merchant marine,
and had also in eloquent and i'm
passioned terms referred to the
scheme OF reciprocity with South
American countries, advocated by
the illustrious Blaine. On Friday he
visited the Exposition, receiving the
honors and plaudits OF the people
wherever he went. Little did he, nor
anyone else, suspect that the bastard
ly assassin, like viper, was lurking
aaear, and that tragedy was about
to be enacted, which in dramatic in.
tensity, has seldom been equaled on
earth. With the deadly weapon con-
cealed in a handkerchief in his hand,
the fiend in human form, Judas-like,
advances as if to greet the president,
and deliberatel y fires the ominous
shots, which were intended to kill the
peoples chosen ruler, the chief mag
istrate OF the nation. 1t is
sad to think that human
being, supposed to be endowed
by reason and soul, can
sink to such depths Of depravity,
and allow the powers OF evil such un-
limited control over his thoughts
and actions, pervert his Judgment
and Danish all human instincts, that
it was possible for him deliberately
to attempt to take the life Of one who
had never harmed him IN the world.
But such are the fruits of anarchy and
anarchistic teachings. The scofing
and disregard OF law order, govern
ment and religion, which we hear so
much OF in our day, also tends in the
same direction. 1t poisons the
minds of the young, same as the
mind OF this wretch had been poison
eG b.J tie anarchistic rawlings of
Emma Goldman. 1t is time that we
awake to the dangers which threaten
society and the state by such teach
ings. If we believe that governments
are instituted among men for the
purpose ofpromoting their happiness
and welfare, and preserving their IL
berties, then it is our duty to throt-
tie anarchy wherever it appears, as
it's deluded followers believe in no
government, no laws and no re-
straints. 1t teaches and counte-
nances murder OF those in authority.
That such a course would lead back
to barbarism and despotism, most
people realize. Anarchy has no
place on free American soil. 1t is
from the large cities, the cess pools
OF the body polite, that these dan.
gerous tendencies mostly emanate.
There, if anywhere, is to be found a
real menace to our liberty and our
free institutions. Municipal govern
ment in the United States needs a
general publication, and when that
is done many slums of aharchy will
disappear. The people OF the United
States, regardless OF party and past
differences, have anxiously watched
the bulletins that come from the bed.
side OF the wounded president, and it
is a matter OF universal gra tifcation
that the reports are favorable and
the chances OF ultimate recovery
hopeful.
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