The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-25

of anarchy which Is a state of society without government, without authority and without law As no such society now exists. I use the word anarchisn | in preference to anarchy to designate | the ideas, the theory of society and the philosophy of life which underlie that state of society which would be called anarchy. William Mckinley, as his
 name shows, sprang from that Scotch ancestry who, whatever may have been their limitations of knowledge and their
 errors of judgment, bowed submissively ] to what they knew to be the will of God and followed In fearless faith in every path of duty where they felt | Christ led. He had his birth in Ohio, that state which has succeeded Virgin | ia as the mother of presidents, state peopled largely in the beginning by Scotch Irish Presbyterians in the south and by Connecticut Congregationalist in the north, both Calvinistic in doc Urine and believing heartily in Gods sovereignty, in divine law,
 in mans responsibility for conduct and character and in the obligation resting
 upon every man to obey God and to
 deal justly and kindly with men. This
 society was also touched and it's reli-
 gious feelings quickened and intensi- fled by the zeal and fervor of early Methodism. William Mckinley grew up in a rural community where the democratic spirit which knows no artl- ficial distinction between men, put which treats all men kindly and judges them by their individual merit ana worth, prevailed. He was educated in those schools whose organization IS most truly democratic, but which en- courages those ambitions which aim at the just recognition and reward of tal- ent, industry and capacity of leader the ship. He was trained in later life by those political principles which give equality before the law and equality or opportunity to all men. In his charac- ter. his conduct and his services he IS an illustrious type of what the rell- gious, domestic, educational and politi-
 cal instit utions of our country can pro- duce. His submission to Gods will, his confession of Christ his devotion to the church, his love of his family, his ser
 vice of his country as private soldier and commissioned officer, his faithful fulfillment of duty as legislator, soVef-
 nor and president, all reveal how truly
 he received, cherished and fulf1lledthe
 spirit of the institutions in the midst
 of which he was born and reared. He
 was fine type of that true American
 character which will serve God and do
 good to men in the humbleet or in the
 highest station, which will dignify the
 simplest private duties and will grace and adorn the most eminent public ser
 vices Much as public opinion in this
 country has differed and may yet differ in respect of certain principles of pub
 lie policy for which MT. Mckinley stood. there is no difference of opinion
 in respect of the virtue and the value
 of his character and of the genuine
 ness of his patriotism and his ph1lan-
 thropy. The things in him on wnlcn
 public opinion Is divided are supernclal and transient things; the things on
 which if agrees are the deep and abld- ing things of human life. Therefore the
 love of the people for this man should
 lead to love and devotion to those ln- stftutions which produced him. You will notice now how these institutions coincide with St. Paul's words quoted in the text which stated the Chr1stlan conception of government. You Will notice this conception. God Is the su- preme ruler and the source of all au- thority and law Government is an 1n-
 stitution ordained of God. Government exists to protect men and to restrain
 the evil and to reward the good. God
 with his truth and his law; the family
 with it's authority for protection ana education; and the state for the con trol of men must all be recognized ana accepted To deny any of these IS to deny God; to attempt to destroy any or
 them is to attempt to dethrone Goo.
 Government may be perverted by the hands of bad men and may need to be
 changed in its form or in it's admlnls- tration. Government may be denied al
 together and men may seek to apolish it and that is anarchy.
 Anarchy is a state of society which IS the opposite of what St. Paul teaches ln
 the text. By his own confession Leon
 Czolgosz. the assassin of President Me-
 Kinley, is an anarchist.
 Now it is very natural under the ex-
 citement produced by great crime to desire sudden and severe revenge; 1t IS easy to indulge in extravagant speech and in violent action. Yielding to this spirit men have said of this murderer,
 "I would have shot him to pieces; he should have been torn limb from limb,
 "No torture would be severe enough for such man." Such speech onathe part of civilized men only reveals that there are vet in the world men who, like the disciples who would have called down fire. know not what manner of spirit they are of. Where law and organized authority exist, the lawless punishment of crime by violence simply gratifies an animal instinct for revenge and rosters the lawless and criminal spirit which if claims it would suppress. The pun ishment of crime by due process Of law which protects the criminal in ms rights carries with it sense of Justlce and mercy which tends to encourage obedience to law on the part of all who are capable of being impressed by JUS tice. Nothing denies so thoroughly the claim of anarchists that government IS only evil and injurious to men; nothing reveals more clearly the wickedness or their method-wlich is murder-than
 the protection which the very govern
 ment which they seek to destroy throws around the murderer. The po-