Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-04
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gold, and 1 a diamond contest The
Fourth district led in numbers and
grades of contests.
The event of Wednesday was the an
nual address of the state president,
Mrs NJ H. Durham. She said
Our enemy, the legalizcd liquor traf-
fic, is still dominant in our state. The
law gives it the right to exist and de-
stroy, political parties support it, and
courts of so-called justice defend it
when on trial. Our state is no worse
than others, but Infinitely better than
many, yet our progressive degeneracy
on this question is equaled by none.
1T is but O few days since the whole
world was shocked by the assassina-
ton of our chief executive A man of
the highest personal character, whom
ALL even those who differed With him
politically, admired for his virtues and
ability, in time of peace, when there
was not even political excitement to
furnish pretext for the deed. No Won
der that the world cried out in horror
at the unprovoked murder, so cold
blooded. and that the demand for swift
and exact justice is so Imperative. Let
Justice be done, and let it be speedy.
for so will 1t be effective and deterrent.
but this fierce outcry in the nation
again.s anarchy does not disproye my
statement of the general tendency OF
the age toward lawlessness, for this Is
against only one class who aim to de-
stroy those high in official positions,
while the teachings of other anarchis-
tic classes are left unnoticed, and 1t is
deeply deplorable that many of these
denunciations against anarchy are
themselves woefully anarchistic advo-
eating the setting aside of all law and
order and the freedom of speech and
press. One leading divine counseled
the lynching of the assassin, and one
prominent paper sanctioned the call for
ten thousand men to meet at a certain
time and place to murder the nine an
archist prisoners In Chicago who had
not been found guilty.
If this is not anarchy, what is 1T?
The nation has sowed the wind and is
reaping the whirlwind. It has sup
ported and still supports an institution
which is the very embodiment cf an
archy, which has always disobeyed law
and defied authority. which mocks con-
troll and in whose behalf justice IS set
aside, altho stained with the blood of its
countless victims. That assassin, the
graduate of the brewery and the saloon,
imbibing the spirit of lawlessness and
disregard of human life from the liquor
traffic, commits his awful crime.
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THE murderers of George c. Haddock
and others were as much anarchists as
the murderer OF President Mckinley.
but they were never brought to Justice.
The anarchists this nation needs most
to fear are not the little class who talk
against while generally obeying, and
who, while they may take life cannot
kill principle. but the class which per-
disregards and disobeys the
law and thus breeds and fosters con-
tempt for the principles on which our
national life is founded. That class is |
he liquor dealers.
I'VE stand for peace and not for war.
,or loyalty to the law. and not for an
lrchy, for all that can beautify and
purify life, in opposition to all that can
degrade it,