Daily camera., 1901-09-26
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EDITOR CAMkRA:-
Just now II il appropriate to call =
halt in the wrecklessly indiscriminate
manner Of expression used BY many
who justly seek to condemn the aSsass-
nation OF President Mckinley. It Is
always right 70 condemn wrong but to
indiscriminAtely mix up anarchists
and socialists In the same breath Of
condemnation shows both dense ignor-
ance and an inexcusable malice in the
ono who writes or speaks In that man
ncr.
The dispatches quoted General Miles
- saying, when the sad news reached
him in the far west that "these Anar-
chists and Socialists must be stamped
out" He was either mifquoted by the
reporter or 10 malicious, for such igno.
rance Of the meaning Of language In
him is inexeusable.
Almost every paper that ono picks
up nowadays blindly repeats tho same
general blunder and in doing 90 does .
very large and respectable class of citi.
zens = great injustice. On Monday the
Herald published . Cleveland. O, dis
patch from which the following is
clipped. 1t said:
Detective Schmunk today learned
from neighboring farmers that the
Czolgosz boys, Leonard and Waldeck,
have been readers of Socialist papers
for several yeara John D. Knox, an
aged farmer, who lives in the vicinity
Of the former Czolgosz farm, said to-
day: The two boys, the one that shot
this president and Waldeck, used to
come to my house and talk to me about
their Socialist paperA They brought
their papers to me and tried to get me
to read them"
Such . remark should brand that
aged farmer" Is being too ignorant
to be quoted and the Associated Press
Is too much interested bin the monopo-
listic trust system Of the day to permit
their reporters to write anything fav-
crsble Of socialistic system
Now listen to what Webster says OF
the two systems:
| ''SocIALlsM. A theory or system of
social reform which contemplates
\ complete reconstruction Of so
ciety, with more just and equit-
able distribution OF property and
labor. general tendency is TO
regard Is socialistic any interfer-
ence undertaken by society on be.
half Of tho poor. The tendency Of
the present socialism is more and
more to ally itself with the most
advanced democracy. The science
of all that relates to the social
conditions; the relations and insti-
tusions which are involved In
mans existence and his we'll being
Is . member OF an organized COM
munity; it concerns itself with the
question Of public health, eduea-
ton, labor, punishment Of crime,
reformation Of criminals" etc.
Is that what General Miles and the
Associated Press trust would have
stamped out?"
Is il that kind Of papers and that
kind Of literature that so diseased the
brain of Czolgosz Is TO cause his dAs-
tardly crime?.
Christ WAS the first Socialist teacher
Of whom history relates and His COM
mand to "love thy neighbor IS thy
SELF was not so bad, while yet \ bit
out OF date as measured by modern in
depreciation to do your neighbor be-
fore lie gets . chance to do you"
Now. il you appreciate wha: social
ism means, turn your optics on Web
ster again for . definition OF Anarchist
| ANARCHIST. One who advocates
anarchy ~ aims at the overthrow
Of civil government Anarchy;
absence Of government; the state
OF society where there is no law or
supreme power; . state OF iawless-
ness; political confusion"
Czolg osz when he gave as his reason
for assassinating President Mckinley
that The was the president and an
enemy to mankind"
Socialist literature does not rant
| AGAINST government but advocates the
broadening of the funstions Of govern
ment 10 Is TO put . protecting arm
around the poor or unfortunate and
protect them from the severity Of COM
petitive systemA
No, General Miles and the aged far
mer and thousands OF others are now
being either maliciously misquoted. or
there is purposely scandalous and in
territorial confusion OF terms which
mean the DIRECT OPPOSITE, yet, which
have almost equal terror for the op-
pressor Of mankind
LEO VINCENT