The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-20

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movement that could develop peace and
good will among the nations of the world,
especially was he the advocate of nearer
and closer relations between the two great
empires that speak the English tongue. and
his last public utterance, just before the
hand of the assassin fell on him, his last
~utterance i'm Buffalo, was "a message of
good will to his neighbors ON the north.
y wonder that when the shot Of the
assassin was heard the thrill of horror that
went through your hearts pulsed through
our veins as well, Eagerly our people
listened for every message that came from
Buffalo and that told Of the struggle for
life Of the dying President, and when the
last moment came and death released him
from his sUTerings. our people promptly
anticipated the order Of government and
their flags were hung at half-mast, and to-
day all through the wide Dominion the en-
blems of mourning tell that the people of
Canada sorrow with you.
DEATH is A SHOCK.
Death comes as a shock whenever il
comes, even though it comes after long
years of pain and suffering to give the tired
body d rest and the weary soul a release.
but when it comes to a man in the prime
of life, in the midst of a great career Of
usefulness. and suddenly he is stricken
down by murder most foul and most I'M
natural as this has been. the whole civ
ilized world stands aghast in contemplate
ing the distortion of mind and soul that
could have brought about so dire an event.
can understand how, i'm some des-
politically governed country, some man with
his mind wrung by private wrongs or public
grievances may smite down the despot in re-
venge or in hope of his country's freedom
that we can understand. But how the man
who has been chosen by the free voice of
his own people to exercise the power that
they freely place i'm his hands. to execute
the laws that they themselves have passed,
how he could be the subject of an assassin's
shot, a man of pure and noble life. of
genial manner. of honest and upright heart.
with no personal enemy, with no wrongs
that any one could be called upon to re-
dress, we can only think that it must have
been some soul so distorted that he failed
10 realize right from wrong, and, as has
been justly said i'm the report that was read
before you. it almost seems as though it
becomes the people of this country to re-
consider the relations that they have al
lowed some OF the people Of foreign LANDS
to enter into with you.
w know that public liberty, that free
dom Of speech and of action is the heritage
of every man, but we must know that
there are men to-day, men from other
lands who are not ready for their heritage,
and it becomes a question whether you
are 10 allow public liberty to degener-
ate into public license and liberty of speech
TO become license of speech.
1T is true that in my own land, in the
British empire, where, under the forms of
hereditary monarchy, there is the fullest
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prevails. we know that there we have al
lowed these men the fullest liberty of
speech, and the Anarchist stands in the
streets of old London and utters all man
ner of froth, disregarded by the people,
but it seems to me that there he realizes
his position, and ne sees on the face of
the policeman who wanders carelessly
through the crowd. the smile of contempt
uous indifference that a strong government
ever feels when attacked by ignorance and
folly. lie knows that while he may utter
whatever he pleases, the moment he at
tempts to turn his liberty of speech into
action, that moment the iron grip of law
and order falls upon him with fatal effect,
and he restraints himself in time.
FORGOT ABOUT FREEDOM.
but, coming to your country, coming,
perhaps, with his mind distorted with ideas
that he has gained under a despotic gov
eminent. coming here and hearing as he
may well hear of freedom and liberty for
all. he forgets what freedom is, he for
gets what liberty is. blinded almost by the
sunshine Of liberty to which he is not ac-
customed he thinks he has a right to do
as he pleases, and he fails TO realize the
difference between power assumed by some
man for his own personal benefit and power
delegated by the people to a leader, to be
exercised FOR the common good, and mag
ines that he is doing some great deed when
he takes his own life in his hands and
strikes down some man who is prominent
in the country to which he has come.
1T is time that you in this country
guarded more carefully the portals of adj
mission to your country. and guarded more
carefully the franchise which you extend
To people who are not worthy of it. How
ever that may he. one thing there is of
which you may well be proud, one thing
there is Of which your neighbOrs are just
~ proud of you. and that is that in this day
of your bereavement, in the midst of all
your sorrow and grief, burdened and bitter
as your hearts may be, there is yet the evil
dent determination to allow this dastardly
criminal TO receive all the protection Of
the law, To be guarded and cared for by
the very law he has defed. That is right.
Lynch law and anarchy are but phases
of the development of the same evil spirit,
the spirit OF defiance of public law and
order. and the wretch who lies imprisoned
i'm Buffalo will. l doubt not. be guarded
by the law he has deied. wiz be protected
and tried with all the forms that would
he applied to any other man in this country,
and will receive due sentence of execution
and death in time. 1 doubt not.
Again | say 10 you, the people of for
eign lands extend to-day their deepest and
most heartfelt sympathy, most of all their
sympathy goes out 80 the family and
friends who were personally related TO the
deceased President. For YOU, the people,
time will bring some burden of relief.
Great men die and their names 1.-Two
in the memory of the people, but the sor-
row of their taking of is mitisated as time
passes ON. The wOrkmen die, but the
work goes on. Presidents come and Pres
idents pass. Monarchs are crowned and
monarchs die. but a self-gOverning COM
munity. made mp Of free people. obedient
To Law and order, working for the mutual
development and for the advancement of
civilization AMI the progress of humanity,
they live on. The leader falls, the COM
monwealth lives forever"
OF STRIKING INTEREST.
The address made by Past Grand Sire
John c. Underwood. of Covington, Ky,