The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-10
JUDGE G0ODMiN'S ANALYSIS.

In discussing The causes which sCme
times lead misguided men to crime ard
which probably operated on the vicious
MINIS of the presidents assailart at
Buffalo, Judge Goodwin in the Salt
Lake Tribune says:
In the fairest gardens are noXiouS
weeds. Some are easily eradicated;
some, when torn from the ground, leave
tibres which, with renewed life. spring
up and their determination is alcmst
Impossible. 1t Is SO in the advancement
of man. There are noxious weeds in
the garden Of civilization and to ex-
terminate them seems almost an Inn
possibility. Under our institutions those
weeds have just as much protection as
the plants which bring forth flowers or
fruit. The question Is whether 1t is not
| time to restrain the liberties OF certain
| classes; whether it is not a duty of the
| government when men are Known to
preach or to Endorse the preaching Of
| assassination or of treason, whether as
a just self defense, it is not proper and
| right to put such men in places where
| they can do no harm. Under the theory
| of our government all men have right
! to personal liberty, freedom of thought,
freedom of expression, but that law
| contemplated ludl iO IilotlCi liz" w
praved q man might be, his very de-
| pravfty would neutralize his preaching
and that it was not right, no matter
what a mans opinions might be, to in
erfere with him unless he commits some
| overt act The trouble is that when
such a man does commit an overt act
4 a wrong has been perpetrated that the
lives of ten Thousand such men can
not make restitution for. This mar
| that shot the president w>s healthy
man, capable of going out and earning
| wages which in two or three year!
would have made him independent
which would have given him start WIFI
| which, and his work, ne could nav
carved out a full indepen>ence for hin
and for those who might DE dependen
upon him. Through some perverted
aIberration of his mind and probabl!
through a hatred from the first for hon
est work, he began to take ON the 1d'e
. that the world owed him a living; and
, little later THAT the world had got to Civ
l,sm a living: a little later. that becaus
the world did mot bring to him llvmt
the world was wrong, and SO he drlfte
= down and down and down until IN n
a laziness, his hear'tlessness and throug
an indefinable vanity which always pos
sessed him, he was brought to the poir
of attacking the man most necessary
e all the people of the United States.
n Life compared with which millions nR
his would not weigh grain in the ba
ance. 1t is useless to speculate now Q
the degrees down which he has travele
IS to reach his present state, but the poll
g which interests every one is what ca
q be done to restrain that class
wretches and insure safety to men
u authority and respectable men ever!
y where? We believe that as we quaral
J. tine cities against disease, as we aha
It nuisances everywhere, as we take "a
vantage in advance of means to SUI
press threatened danger, to either III
u morals or the well-being of men, so
, have a night to assume that when mi
ir preach the justification OF murGer
" order to do away with tyrants, they
engaged in an unlawful conspiracy. al
that it is not proper to permit them
A. Judge who are tyrants, burt to restra
ir them in such way that the e.
Dr. t,housilits in their brains cannot ma e
:, preston, as did the evil Thought IN Tn
wretCh's brain in Buffalo.