Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-11-08
10 MCDILL'S MUSINGS.
ANARCHY.


At the time President Mckinley was assassi
naled, offered to bet ten dollars that Czolgosz
vot>d th- Republican ticket 1t appears now
that would have won the money all right
Guiteau was Republican, and turned assas-
sin because he had no share in the spoils.
Czolgosz was Republican, and turned assas-
81, because he perceived that our government,
S now administered, benefits the few to the
dc riment of the many. AS Czolgosz saw it,
u, government at all would be better than
government for the few
Both men are the outgrowth of modern Re-
publicanism. Republican politician seeks
flee for what he can make out of it in dollars
and cents. Honor and the good OF the peo-
pie are cast to the winds. The Indictment
!" political action would disgrace barbarian
|, follows that when such men fail to win
wat they seek, they are filled with bitter
ness and hate. Gulteau's cup of hate boiled
over in the pistol of the assassin. Other mems
hate poils over in secret caba]s and unde1handed
dirty work in the effort to overthrow rivals
As a result of the unworthlness of Republican
politicians, the party is a seething mass of
warning factions. TIE wonder is that there are
not more Guteaus.
Czolgosz may, or may not, have had sim
cere regard for the welfare of the working peo-
pie. Whatever he felt, it is evident that he
Il. I'D government in detestaton. No sane man
hates good government, and, from my stand
ont, no sane man can believe in zolgosz' S
methods. No wrong can be righted by wrong
methods Czolgosz's methods are not only
wrong, hut 1iabolicaly wrong. 1t was the
votes of millions of men that placed Mckinley
in the offce of president Mckinley was the
ms rument, not the power. He was club in
the hanes of giant
If the anarchists were to, in one day. kill all
the officers in the United States, it would not
avail to destroy the government. The consti-
tuition would still live. The mass of the peo-
ple would still favor government, and, within
twenty four hours of the slaughter of officers,
government would be temporarily reorganized,
and law would again reign with the same au-
tnority as if it had not been assailed. Briefly,
the human race will never accept the theory of
anarchists, or, at least, not until humanity has
attained to perfection; and that time seems to
be too remote for contemplation or discussion.
As matter OF fact, we have nothing to fear
from the Czolgosz type OF anarchist. Tne dan
perous anarchist is one who undermines the con-
sttution; who defeats the ends OF law, and who
uses the instruments of the constitution to de-
feat the objects of the constitution.
1t must not be assumed that there no
such anarchists. They are plentiful in number
and powerful in wealth and influence. Money
and iAlsehood are their weapons. They sand
bag their victims in the dark or drug them
with the supplying decoctions of false hopes.
This class of anarchist is the anarchist at the
top. Strange as it may seem, it is nevertheless
true that wherever the anarchist destroyed gov
ernment, it was the anarchist at the top who
brought about the necessary conditions that
produced destruction In every instance, in
all history, it was the ruling classes that over
threw governments and wrecked civilization. 1t
may be claimed that the French revolution was