The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-04
ROO5Ev[LT'S MESSAGE.
President Tells Congress About Few Things
He Would Like to Have Done
This Session.
ANARCHY MUST Be SUPPRESSED
Government Should Have the Right to Inspect
and Examine the Workings Of
Big Corporations.
RECIPROCITY TREATIES FAVORED
Protection of Forest Reserves Government Aid
RECIPROCITY TREATIES FAVORED
Protection OF Forest Reserves Government Aid
in lrrigating Arid Lands and Chinese
Exclusion Are Recommended.

meeting the people generally, and, adj
vancing as II to take the hand out
stretched to him in kindly and bTotherly
fellowship. he turned the noble and gen
erous confidence of the victim into an
opportunity to strike the fatal blow.
There is no baser deed In all the annals
of crime.
The blow was aimed not at this presi-
bol of government. President Mckinley
was as empha tically the embodiment of
the popular will of the nation expressed
through the forms of law as a New Eng
land town meeting is in similar fashion
the embodiment of the law abiding pur-
pcse 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 Inequalities in the
social order save as the murder of all
the freemen engaged in a town meeting
could be accepted as a protest AGAINST
factor in jail Anarfhy is more
picking pockets or wife heating.
ANARCHY AND ANARCHISTS.
The anarchists. and especially the an
archist in the United States, is merely
one type of criminal more dangerous
than any other because he represents
the same depravity in a greater degree.
The man who advocates anarchy directly
or indirectly in any shape or fashion or
the man who apologies for anarchists
and their deeds makes himself morally
accessory to murder before the fact. The
anarchist is criminal whose perverted
instincts lead him to- prefer confusion
and chaos to the most beneicent form of
social order. His protest of concern for
workingmen is outrageous in its impu-
dent falsitv for if the political institu-
| tions of this country do not afford oppor-
| tunity to every honest and intelligent son
| Of toll then the door of hope is forever
! closed against him. The anarchist is
| everywhere not merely the enemy of
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/ of liberty. If ever anarchy is triumphant,
| its triumph will last but for one red mo-
ment, to be succeeded for ages by the
| gloomy iSht of depotism.
| For the anarchist himself. whether ne
| breaches or practices his doctrines. we
need not have one particle more concern
| than for any ordinary murderer. He is
| not the victim of social or political injus-
| tice There are no wrongs to remedy in
| his case. The cause of his crimmality is
| to be found in his own evil passions and
| in the evil conduct of those who urge him
! on, not in any failure by others or by the
| state to do justice to him or his. He is a
malefactor and nothing else. He Is in no
| sense. in no shape or way, product OF
| social conditions" save as a highwayman
| is produced" by the fact that an unarm-
] ed man happens to have II purse. 1t is a
! travesty upon the great and holy names
| of liberty and freedom to permit them 10
iebe invoked in such q cause. No man or
| body of men preaching anarchistic doc
| trines should be allowed at large any
I more than If preaching the murder Of
some specified private individual. Anarch-
| istic speeches. writings and meetings are
| essentially seditious and reasonable.
+! SHOULD KEEP ANARCHISTS OUT.
1 earnestly recommend to the congress
J that in the exercise of its wise discretion
| it should take into consideration the COM
! ing to this country of anarchists or per-
| sons protesting principles hostile to all
| government and justifying the murder OF
| those placed in authority. Such indiyid-
| nails as those who not long ago gathered
| in open meeting to glorify, the murder Of