Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-09-23

regime with grief. Nobody seems
to have any disposition except to hon
or the departed statesman. People
felt tender love for the man mingled
with reverential awe for the Presi-
dent whose life was sacrificed for his
exalted position. Politics. and the
strife for official places under the new
administration stand abashed, and the
population of the land as single
voice repeats the soul stirring Incl
dents at the death bed of Mr.. McKin-
ley,
God works in "A mysterious way to
perform his wonders. 1t seems al
most impossible that a day so bright
and so fun of plaudits, should drop the
shadow OF such a great sorrow as did
the day two weeks ago tomorrow
People go home from church with Il
skeptlcal smiles on their faces, when
a minister discourses on the subject.
none eau tell what an hour may
bring forth" but an occasion like the
present thrusts the truth upon the
! world with irresistible energy.
| Strange portents vibrate through the
air. Men trembe with an emotion
| like fear. Uncertainty is all that
seems to be certain.
Assassination suggests n frightful
condition. Today men and women
suffer from the righteous anger
which follows the commission of an
outrage. Mob law seems too good for
the wretch. But the accutest pain of
tho nntinn N
shame over the fact that when the
earth was at peace. when the heavens
were fun of good will, such an act
could be done in land where the in
terest of one is the interest of all and
where the common veal touches all
alike. Who can dream that death lies
In ambush amid the congratulations
of the throug? Who can believe that
any human being is so altogether a
bastard as to offer one hand in the
grasp of hypocritical friendship and
WELD with the other murderous
weapon? One almost concludes, when
such a thing is possible, that civliza-
ton. chlvalry and Justice, aud even
the religion OF which men are wont
to boast are in the swaddling clothes
of childhood, and the talk of the man
hood of the race Is an ecstatic proph
ecy far beyond the horizon line of the
future.
Fellow citizens, not the least cle-
ment in the horror and grief, felt over
the death of our president, is Il sense
!, of impotency. Here Is great people
| with all the resources and power
to defend its chief executive
against the allied armies of the world,
and yet helpless and woe-strickcn be-
fore the momentary act of an insig-
niiciant miscreanL The Louisville
Courier-Journal asks certain pertin-
ent questions as follows:
rs it not time that this nation of
dearly won freedom should stamp out
the claimants OF the rights or free
thought and free speech who would
only employ them to deny a free peo.
pie their rights, to choose and estab-
lish their own form of government
and institution" is 1t not time that
the brood of foreign riff-raff and their
domestic fellow consplrators. who took
refuge under our free government
only to plan and direct destruction
of all governments our own included,
should be crushed" Today the in
terrrogation should appeal to every
American as the heart OF the nation
throbs In anguish over the death of Its
honored citizen and president. vii
liam Mckinley. Shall patriotic citi
zens continue to wait until the sedi
tious have executed their criminal plots
against public order and life before
an attempt Is made to take them into
hand? oh. no; 1t is too late to DC
aught else than consign their car
cases to the worms. Arouse. men
arouse Men do not wait to Kin Q
rattlesnake unil It's deadly fangs have
struck; and much less should ther'
be any hesitation to strange anarch
ism before 1t has accomplished II,
openly avowed ends OF assassination
''Breathes there man, with soul Sc
dead.
who never to himself hath sail.
This Is my own my native land?
= Whose heart has ne'er within hin
= burned,
As home his footsteps he has turnc'
From wanderings on foreign strand
/, If such there breathe. go. mark hin
WELL
& The wretch concentrated all in sell
l. Living. shall forfeit fair renown.
d And doubly dying, shall GO down