Evening star., 1901-09-09
STAMP OUT ANARCHY
Opinion of Americans on the Foreign
Murder Cult.
REDS SHOULD BE CRUSHED
Drastic Measures Advocated
Against Frebrands.
APOSTLES OF ASSASSINATIO
APOSTLES OF ASSASSINATION

From the New York Tribune.
There Is one thing more for the nation
besides the praying, hoping and waiting we
have named That is effective detestation
of the crime. We do not mean fierce
outcry for vengeance, such as involuntarily
rises from every heart. The need Is for
searching Of hearts that shall be at once
calm and thorough and shall ascertain how
il is that American Presidents are in more
peril of murder than are European sover-
eigns. and for shaping Of social and gov
ernmental policies and action that shall
resolutely and inexorably extirpate the ac-
cursed thing from the American soil. 1t Is
high time.
From the New York Sun.
The man Czolgosz may or may not be
the emissary of a particular group of an
arChiStS; but he Is unqueStiOnably the rep
resentative and acted as the instrument OF
a spirit of anarchy which is present in
modern society and menaces the civilization
of the world. Its violence is not directed
against any individual ruler or executive
head of a state. good or bad. beloved or
hated by his people, but against government
of itself, against our social system as it
has developed in natural and logical order.
From the New York Herald
No law can be too drastic or punishment
too severe to stamp out anarchy and an
archists The assassination or attempted
assassination of d chosen ruler of the peo-
pie under a beneflcent government is the
most dangerous as it is the most damna ble
crime known to the law. Its perpetrators
are the most heinous of all criminals AS
reptilian foes to society, to law and order.
to mankind, they cannot be safely tolerated
or too summarily dealt with. Death, speedy
and sure, should he the penalty of law and
justice for attempted assassination, and 1t
should be promptly meted out. not only to
,na oScr inns h,rt To al h hiS
plices. The diabolical tragedy at Buffalo
is a warning that 1t is high time to call a
decisive halt on such Internal business.
From the New York Times.
Public attention is again directed to the
pest of our modern civilization, the red
handed black-hearted anarchists, who
have found one more victim in President
ours at such a time that all the agencies
of government should be employed to
stamp out this evil cult and the whole
body of men who profess adhesion to it.
No one would say today, fired we all
are by resentment at this atrocious out
rage. that it could seriously strain the
American view of liberty of thought and
freedom of belief for US to adopt effective
measures to drive from the land every indi-
vidual-man or woman-who acknowledges
anarchism in any Of the phases Of the
creed. We owe 1t to the nation and to the
men whom We elect to serve us in high po-
this destructive and mad philosophy"
From the New York Mail and Express.
Sometimes forbearance seems to go too
far, as in the case Of the Wretched anarch-
ist, the tool or victim of a more wretched
woman, whose words have hurried two
men to attempt distinguished life. For
those who declare war on society, society
can offer no safe asylum but It's jails and
its madhouses. There is no place in free
America for the anarchist
From the Boston Herald.
The only possible conclusion Is that an
archist agitations In the United States
must be stamped out by the most rigorous
enforcement Of the law; and. il existing
statutes do not suffice for this, then new
and sufficiently comprehensive ones must
be enacted.
From the Boston Advertiser.
The fact that anarchists Of that descrip-
tion exist and are at large. free to roam
from land to land. from city to city: and
that they can. almost at win, thrust them
selves, with concealed weapons into the
presence of the highest officials. Is always
menace to human society.
From the Boston Post.
There are limits to the doctrine of per-
sona1 liberty when American freedom is
abused by imported fanatics for the de-
VelOpment of their insane ideas. The
United States harbored the assassin of
King Humbert of Italy. 1t has been inti-
mated that plots against the life of the
CZar of Russia are in process of develop
ment here We may not love the autocra-
cles of Europe, but we do love our free in
stitutions- Shall we not, then, protect our
selves by stamping out the vipers that
have made their nest here?
From the Chicago Record Herald
The anger against the assailant and
against the ideas and the associations
which he represents is at white heat The
nation demands his exemplary punishment
and stricter surveillance over anarchist
clubs and all threatening enemies of the
government. In this hour the lesson is
fearfully enforced that we are much nore
likely to lose liberty through license than
through calculating tyranny.
From the Columbia Journal
The shots that were fired at President
Mckinley had no personal animus. They
reflected only the miserable and Infamous
character of the anarchist, the creature
who would war on all society, and who
strikes at the loftiest and noblest because
they stand forth as the exponents of CIV
ilZation.
From the Louisville C0urer-JournaI
Is It not time that this nation of dearly-
won freedom should stamp out these claim
ants Of the rights Of free thought and free
speech who would only employ those noble
shibboleths to deny a free people their
form of government and institutions? Is
II not time that this brood of foreign riff
raft and their domestic fellow conspira-
tors, who take refuge under our govern
ment. only to plan and direct destruction
OF all government. our own included
should be crushed?
From the Providence Journal
There has sometimes been too much SEN
timental sympathy with the preachers Of
anarchical doctrine. and justification has
been sought for them In oppressive social
or political conditions. But this pretext
will not serve. Anarchy is a foe to gov
ernment of every kind. Leniency In dealing
with it is worse than a mistake.
The American hatred for anarchy was
deepened Friday a thousand fold.
From the Savannah News.
| 1t Is evident that In future In this coun-
| try this class Of criminals will have to be
| reckoned with.
F-om the Jacksonville Times Union and Citizen
| 1t is the boast OF the American that his
/ country is the land OF the free This ia a
| matter for honest pride. but the differ
ence between freedom and license should
| be kept clearly in mind. Americans have
4 the guarantee Of freedom Opipfop t,,,t