The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1901-10-24
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Barlow Man On Assassination of
President Mckinley.
EXTOLLS MANHOOD OF DEAD LEADER
William 10 Well Acquainted With
Some Of Roosevelt's Relatives
and Hints For a Government
Job on that Account.

shock that made the nation tremble
has passed away. Editors and preach.
ers have had their say and the wheels
Of government roll on in their estab.
lished way. Not for q day was there
any Interruption to commerce or az.
riculture. Party and partlsans soft
ened down and paid regard to the
time-honored maxim, de martimus nil
nisibonum"-say nothing but good Of
the dead. Even the yellow Journals
stopped their cartoons and gave their
readers rest. But one extreme al
ways follows another and so idolatry
began as soon as the resident was
assasslnated. He would havo been
sainted II sainting was revived. Now
that he is dead he is everybody's presi-
dent, But time is a good leveler, and
history Is beginning to be made. Mr..
Mckinley was no demigod nor will he
be written down as a great statesman.
He was Christian gentleman-a bet
ter man than his party-but was car
rled along with 1t into an unjust war
that will not bear the scrutiny of time.
He had to fall into line with the greed
Of commerce, and the consequence is
there are thousands Of widows and
mothers silently mourning for hus-
bands AMI sons killed in battle or died
In hospitals in a foreign land. There
Ia no lamentAtion over them.
But as Governor Oates said, what
are We going 10 do about IT. nothing?
Some preachers say 1t is the will OF
God and the way to spread the gospel,
don't believe II; and have not much
regard for the preacher who does. 1t
takeG more faith than l have got to
see the hand Of God In any war for
dominion or the acquisition Of terri.
tory. For more than a hundred years
Ireland has been held In vassalage
against her will. So were the Ameri-
can colonies held until our fathers
rebelled. Napoleon coveted the earth
and our government coveted Cuba and
found a casus belli in pretense Of
feeding her starving people, but never
fed them. Then our commercial greed
crossed the ocean to the Philippines
and bought them for a song with ten
millions of negroes thrown In. Eng
land coveted South Africa and has
already spent millions of money and
rivers Of blood in an effort to subdue
a free people and get possession of their
gold mines don't believe that any Of
this is Gods will. Greece and Rome
and Carthage and Napoleon all came
to grief 0ffense must needs come,
but. woe unto those by whom they
come. don't believe that any war Of
aggression has tho favor of God, but
sooner or later the aggressor will
reap what he mas sown. John Brown
was backed by Henry Ward Beecher
and other preachers who thought they
saw the will of God in an uprising of
the slaves against their masters, no
matter " It resulted In murder and ar
son and other outrages too horrible to
mention. He was as much an anarch-
list as Czolgosz, anc his Infamous
scheme a thousand times more horri-
BILE; but last year they removed his
bones to Connecticut and reinterred
them with honors and a monument.
No, / am still the same old rebel
unreconstructed, unrepentant, and
am lncredulous of any real or last
ing harmony between the north and the
south as long as the pension grab goes
on and gets bigger every year and we
have TO pay a third of It for being con-
quered. II peace and love and har-
mony prevail, why bleed us forever?
Why take our hard earnings to sup.
puft the children and grandchildren o.
union soldiers, one-third Of whom were
Hessians and hirelings who were fight
ing for $40 month and ratlons, with
no thought Of patriotlsmY From that
imported class, no doubt sprang these
anarchists that breed discord and dis
content among our people. Czolgosz
was no foreigner. He was born In
Detroit, went TO school there, learned
his trade there, and his elder brother
was q soldier in the union army, and
he IS Just as much an American citi-
zen as 81 per cent of the population Of
New York City-native-born, but Of
foreign parents. The seeds Of anarchy
were sown long ago, and 1t is too late
to drive 1t out by any legislation. The
assassins Of our presidents we're all
natiye-born American citizens. In
deed, 1t is not surprising that among
75,0OO,0OO OF people there are 70 be
found few men Of such abnormal
mind as to glory in killing president.
AS Roosevelt said a president must
take his chances Uneasy lies the
head that wears . crown" Why that
wretch should wish to kill such q