Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-09-21
WOULD DANISH THEM
Veterans Ask That Anarchists
Be Denied Freedom Of
Country.
SHILOH COMMANDS RESOLUTIONS
Eulogy of Departed and Sympa-
thy for the Afflicted
Wife.
SHILOH COMMANDS RESOLUTIONS

The following resolutions were
adopted last evening by Shiloh COM
mand No. 2. Union Veterans u 1ion,
having been prepared by committee
appointed at a previous meeting
and composed of William McConochie.
P F. Morgart and A. D. Cox:
Whereas. The nation and the
civilized world is called upon TO
mourn the untimely death of our be-
loved president, William Mckinley,
who was cut down like a flower in
bloom in the full vigor of his noble
manhood, by a despicable assassin
who was the tool of an organized
band of cut throats and murderers,
the scum of southern and central
Europe, whose ideas and theories are
abhorrenL to civilization, whose
bloody and murderous hands are
always arrayed against law and or
ders, whose principal aims and OBJ
lacts are to destroy the home, tear
, down the fabric of human society,
turn back the clock of civilization q
thousand years, and are opposed to
/ law and order and all forms of gov
eminent; therefore be it
! Nations Loss DepIOred.
Resolved, That we. his comrades
of Shiloh command NJ. 2, u V. l. ,
department of Illinois, in council as
sem bled, deplore the nations loss and
denounce the murderer and his vile
associates. We call upon the congress
of the United States. municipal and
legislative bodies in all g. ates and ter
ritories to pass laws that will protect
cur rulers, and if necessary, such
laws that will exterminate or export
to the fro zen north within the arctic
circle all who are not in harmony with
our social fabric and free institutions.
Aud be it further
Resolved, That in his death the
nation has lost a great, wise and good
ruler, whose eagle eye and steady
hand has guided the old ship of state
through the breakers AMI turbulent
waters of our foreign relations into
the safe, quiet harbor of peace aud
good will with all the nations OF
earth; through his wise statesman
ship he has broadeued the area of our
influence, has carried the stars and
stripes with liberty to the islands OF
the southern seas and around the
world; and as he closed his eyes in
death at the dawn of a new era, a
brighter day, when the sun of uni
versal liberty through his Influence
was dispelling the gloom of bigotry
and superstition and was illuminat-
ing the darkest night of both heather
and Spanish misrule; and be it further
Soldiers stAuDch Friend
"Resolved, That we recognize in
his death the old soldiers have lost a
staunch and true friend and his be =
reaved and flltcted wife her natural
protector, a kind and loving hus band,
whose last thoughts when his gentle
spirit was lowering between heaven
and earth were of her and his Creator,
and as he fell asleep the last time on
earth his feeble tongue was lisping
that heaven inspired immortal bymn.
Nearer, My God to Thee Be it
further
Resolved. That our heartfelt sym
patty is with the stricken widow in
this the saddest hour of her bereave-
ment, that q copy of these resolutions
be sent TO her through Secretary Cor
telyou and spread upon our records
and page be set aside ascribed to
his memory, and copy of these reso-
lations be furnished to the daily
papers.