Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-12-06
TRIBUTE TO M'KINLEY.
President Roosevelt Eu1ogizes the
Lamcnted Victim of Anarchy.

President Roosevelt Eu1ogizes the
Lamcnted Victim of Anarchy.
President Mckinley was man OF mod
crate means. man whose stock sprang
from the sturdy tillers Of the SOIL who
had himself belonged among the wage
workers, who had entered the army
private soldier. Wealth was not struck al
when the president was assassnated but
the honest toll which is content with mod
crate gains after lifetime of unremitting
labor largely in the service of the public.
that power is irresponsible or conferred in
the hands of any one individual. The blow
was not aimed at tyranny or wealth. 1t
was aimed at one Of the strongest cham
one Of the most faithful representatives of
the system of public rights and represent
pub S oce President 1 M Mc fxsh sS1h leS
that political office for which the entire
people vote. and no president not even
was thn more earnestly
wishes of the people: His one anxiety in
every crisis was to keep in closest touch
with the people TO find out what they
sion TO their thought after having endeav-
ored to guide that thought Alright: He
had just been reelected to the presidency
because the majority of our citizens, the
majority of our farmers ana wagework-
ers.. believed that he had faithfully upheld
themselves il close and intimate touch
with him. They felt that he represented
20 well and SO hOnOrably all their ideals
continue for another four years to repre-
sent them.
And this was the man at whom the as
sassin struck! That there might be moth
fanny of his act he took advantage of an
occasion when the presid ent was meeting
the people generally: and. advancing as if
kindly and brotherly fellowship. he turned
the noble and generous confidence of the
fatal blow. There is no bsser deed ak in t al
the annals of crime.
His Death a Growing Glory.
The shock the grief of the country, are
bitter in the minds of all who saw the
dark days while the president yet hoversd
between life and death. At last the light
was stilled in the kindly eyes. and the
breath went from the lips that even in
mortal agony uttered no words save Of
forgiveness to his murderer. of love for
his friends and of unfaltering trust in the
will of the Most High. Such a death
browning the glory of such life leaves
us with infinite sorrow. but with such
pride in what he had accomplished and in
hts own a personal character that that we feel
and great president who is dead but
s Ws Of ted 90 a by the the
grand heroism. with which he met his
death.
When we turn from the man to the ma
cite our gravest apprehensions and to de-
mand our wisest and most resolute ac-
ton. This criminal was professed an
archist, inflamed by the teachings of pro-
fessed anarchists and probably also by
the reckless utterances of those who on
the stump and in the public press appeal
to the dark and evil spirits of malice and
greed. envy and sullen hatred. The wind
IS sowed by the men who preach such
doctrines, and they cannot escape their
share of responsibility for the whirlwind
that is reaped This applies alike to the
deliberate demagogue. to the exploiter
Of sensationalism and to the crude and
foolish visionary who for whatever rea-
son apologies for crime or excites aim
less discomfort
The blow was, aimed not at this presi-
dent, but at all presidents. at every SYM
boil Of government. President Mckinley
was as emphatically the embodiment OF
the popular will of the nation expressed
through the forms of law as New Eng
land town meeting Is in similar fashion
the embodiment Of: the law abiding pur-
pose and practice of the people Of the
town On no conceivable theory could
the murder of the president be accepted
as due to protest against ''ineQaalities in
the social order save as the murder of
ill the freemen engaged in a town meet
Ing could be accepted as protest against
that social inequality which puts q male
factor in Jail. Anarchy IL no more an ex-