Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-10-12

the President was picked out by hidden
councils for the fate which overlook him,
there is a mOurnful satisfaction in the
fact that in his life, as we'll as in his
death, he represented American manhood
at its best. | have studied with some de-
gree of care such literature as the work
ing creed Of anarchy has given to the
modern world, and in all the high places
of the earth it could not have chosen a
victim whose life among men made a
more complete answer to its incoherent
program Of envy and hatred and idleness
and crime. Without intending to do so,
1t has strengthened the whole framework
Of the social system, not only by showing
its own face, but by lifting up before the
eyes of all generations this choice and
master spirit of our times, simple and
beautiful in his life, lofty and serene in
death.
The creed Of anarchy, in common with
all kindred schools of morbid social sci
ence, teaches that only the children Of
the rich find their lives worth living I'M
der our institutions, and therefore, in
order to emancipate the poor, these in
situations must be overthrown The biog-
raphy Of William Mckinley records the
successful battle of at least one young
man in the open arena of the world, and
tells the story of his rise from the little
school house, where he earned the money
to complete his own education, to the
highest civic distinction known among
men. One life like that put into the light
of day, where the young men of America
can see it, will do more for the welfare
of society than all the professions that
ever marched behind beer wagons through
the streets of Chicago, carrying red flags,
can ever do it harm. The creed of an
archy knows no country, feels in it's with
cred heart no pulse of patriotism. sees
under no skies the beauty of any flag
not even ours, that blessed symbol now
draped in mourning which lights I'D this
time of national afliction with the SPLEEN
dor of the great republic.
The Creed of Rebellion,
The creed of anarchy rebels against
the state, and with infinite folly proposes
that every man should be a law unto
himself. 1t is more mischievous because
more pretentious than the common levels
Of crime, for without disdaining the weap-
ons of the ruff1an it does not hesitate to
seek shelter under the responsibility that
belongs to the student and the ref6rmer
1t ought not to be forgotten that these
conspirators, working out their nefarious
plans in secret, in the dens and caves of
the earth, enjoy an unconscious co-opera-
ton and partnership with eyerv
laWless influence which is abroad in the
world. Legislators who betray the com
monWealth, judges who poison the foun-
talns of justice, municipal authorities
which come to terms with crime-all
these are regular contributors to the cam
palgn fund of anarchy
mat bowling mass, whether in Kansas
Or Alabama, that assembly of wild beasts,
dancing in drunken carousal about the
ashes OF some negro malefactor. is not
contributing to the security of society; it
is taking away from society the only Sc
curlty 1t has. 1t belongs to the unen
rolled reserve corps of anarchy in the
United States. Neither individuals nor
corporations nor mobs can take the law
INTO their own hands without identifying
themselves with this more open but hard