River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-11-14
ANARCHIsM.

some views in its last issue that it
must have appropriated in ga mo-
ment of opium" 1t seems to have
"enjoyed" a period of political delir-
ium tremens. It's statements are not
at all in harmony with the facts as
generally accepted. In the first
place, it makes the unwarranted
statement that ''the River Falls
JOURNAL and other papers Of its
kind, in discussing the cause of an
archy, attack all whose political
opinions differ from theirs" There
was no occasion for this statement
except in the mind of the writer.
Neither this Journal or any other
paper, so far as we have seen, has
discussed the subject from a partisan
point of view. Patriotism is not an
issue between the two great parties,
and never can be, except in the
measure of zeal that each may be
able to give to the country. Demo
Gratis and Republicans vie with each
other in devotion to the fatherland.
The papers to which the Ledger
refers, in their discussion of the
causes and cure of anarchy, have con-
tended that ''calamity howlers" en-
gender and encourage a spirit of an
archy; that demagogical agitators
with passionate plea against the
established industrial economy of
the country have tendency to occa-
sion violent antagonisms; that the
endeavor to place labor at war with
capital-advising the thriftless that
their ills are referrible to the sue
cess of the toilers who have accumu-
lated competence-work to the
detriment of good order. Altgeld,
Bryan and Tillman have been CON
spicuously active as agents in this
line of action. The man who can
deny this statement would have the
temerity to argue against an axiom.
1t is a good sign that such men
are becoming more and more to be
rated at their true value and repudi-
ated as false prophets or disturbers
of the peace, for all of them have
lost much of their former influence.
Altgeld is a "dead duck" Bryan
has been advised by his friends to
''retire to some extraneous locality
and desist from the exhibition of
opening his mouth to accommodate
his foot" Tillman's role is now
considered about equivalent to that
represented by the clown in a circus.
Besides, Ben halls from South Caro-
lima, from whence arose notification
and secession, a Nazareth out Of
which no good thing can be coaxed.
The Ledger says further that "Pres-
ident Mckinley was killed by one
man who asserted that he alone was
to blame for the crime" That is
equivalent to saying that the assas-
sin had no accomplices, but what is
more to the purpose is to seek for
the motive. This is not far to seek
for the murderer had confessed to
this. He said that he had shot the
President because he went around
preaching prosperity and was en-
joying prosperity in which he, the
murderer, had no part. Where did
he get that notion that engendcrcd
an envy and hate resulting in the
assassination of one of the most
kindly and inolfensive of men. 1t
was the doctrine that Altgeld, Bry-
an and Tillman had been preaching
from the housetops for six years.
The Ledger gets eloquent in discus
sing the assassination of Goebel and
seems to exult in the following an
nouncement as if rejoicing in an OPP
portunity of retalliation-for which
the occasion was all in its "eye::"
"The murder of Goebel was done
by some of your political brethren
and was far more disgraceful than
the assassination of Mckinley" a
statement, with others in the con
nection, that will receive notice as
room IS available for its publication.