The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-12-06
ANARCHY is VIGOROUSLY
DENOUNCED BY SENATOR
Speeches Are Made and Remedil
MCCOmaS aud HOaI
Latter Believes That Banshment of Enemies ofCosunsn Haa
Be the Most Effective

! washington, Dec. 5.-SenatOr Nc
Comas of Maryland made an extended
and carefully prepared speech in the
senate today, with anarchy as his
theme. and was followed by some brief
remarks by Mr.. Hoar of Massachusetts
on the difficulties in the way Of dealing
with anarchial associations.
The senate passed a bill extending
the life of the industrial commission
until FEB. Is next to complete the
work it now has in hand. The com
mittee which will consider an appro-
pirate tribute to the late President
I Mckinley was also appointed.
Mr. McCOmas, in support of his bill
introduced yesterday providing the
death penalty for assaults upon the
| president, or for melting, advising or
( procuring such assaults, spoke of the
/ dangerous spread of anarchy. Presi-
dent CarnOt, Prime Minister Canovas,
the empress of Austria. King Hum
bert and President Mckinley having
| been foully assassinated by anarchists
within che last seven years. II was
humiliating, he said, to consider the
impOtency of our federal laws to pun
ish this fearful crime.
The senator spoke of the revolution
airy propaganda under the guiding
hand of Herr Most and the nihiist
Hartmann and the formation since 1881
of anarchist groups. Congress must
now legislate against this peril with
courage, firmness, conservatism and
prudence. The constitutional power Of
congress to deal with the subject was
discussed at length and supported by
numerous references to the supreme
court decisions.
Exclusion of Anarchists.
Mr.. MeComas further urged the ex-
clusiOn and deportation of anarchists,
the amendment of the immigration and
naturalization laws and the negotiation
of treaties with foreign powers per-
hitting the extTadition Of those
/ charged with anaTchistic offenses. In
the course of his speech the senator
argued that international comfy call
ed for action on our part 10 suppress
the origin of plots in this country
/ against foreign rulers. Mr. McCOmas
was accorded close attention through
OUT his remarks.
Senator McCOmas said: 1--WE should
enact laws to eXpel and exclude alien
anarchists. We shall, at this session,
with unanimity re-enad the Chinese
exclusion acts. [ win cheerfulIy vote
to exclude the hordes of China and
prevent the competition of Chinese
cheap labor Far more readily viii I
vote TO exclude alien anarchists here
now We have natUTalized and native
anarchists in our midst With these
we must contend in other fashions.
Why should we not, as We may, eXpel
alien anarchists for caUss?"
The senator also urged numerous
amendments to the immigration laws
with view to excluding anarchists.
In conclusion he said:
Defenders Of Government.
AT all times the body Of the plain
people whom Lincoln loved and upon
whom Mckinley leaned are its unfail-
ing defenders. This great people. fac
ing the hideOus point of anarchism,
taught by their sorrow to think
straight and see clear. now rate more
highly than ever the value of their
government. prize more than ever iIs
benefits which are tedious to enjoy and
hard to transmit More than ever be-
fore are now revealed to them its
blessings, its glory and its power.
Al the conclusion of Senator Nc
Comas' remarks, Mr.. Hoar Mass. J.
spoke briefly along the same lines. He
said that while he heartily agreed
with much that had been said, yet the
great difficulty in all these cases of
assassination was that the assassin
was willing and anxious to give up his
life Fear of death did not in any way
deter the assassin
Such was the case with the assassin
of William of Orange, who welcomed
the torture inflicted upon him. Every
assassin of a foreign ruler had ex-
pected early and certain death. The
multiplication Of punishments FOR the
act itself therefore would accomplish
little. Much good might be accom-
piished in limiting the circulation of
fanatical doctrines.
Give Anarchists Object Lesson.
But the senator believed that a much
mere effective remedy could be Sc
/ cured if. by common consent of all
/ civilized nations. some tract of land
somewhere upon the earths surface.
hemmed in from the outer world, could
be set aside for the confinement Of
those who counseled the killing of ruI-
ers or the overthrow of governments.
Let the anarchists have an object
lesson" the senator said. and let the
! world have an object lesson. Let there
be a little circulation of anarchy into
the anarchist himself. and let him
have an anarchistic government among
/ his followers"
Mr. HOar said Punishment would be
a proper punishment under the consti-
| DED0DTEN THAT oNuIC