The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-10-09


He Went to School With Rcos'
ve1t's Uncle Was
Good and True Citizen.
The public grief has assuaged. Th
shock that made the nation trembl
has passed away. Editors and preacl
ers have had their say and the wheel
Of government roll on in their estat
lished way. Not for day was ther
any interruption to commerce or agli
culture. Party and partisans softene
down and paid regard to the time
honored maxim, " De mortuis nil mis-
l,onum - say nothing but good O
the dead. Even the yellow Journal
stopped their cartoons and gave thei
readers q rest. But one extreme al
ways follows another and 80 idolatr,
began as soon as the President was as
sassinated. He would have been saint
ed if sainting was revived. Now
that he is dead he is every
bOdy's President. But time is 6
good leveler, and history is beginning
to be made. Mr.. Mckinley was nc
demigod nor will he be written down
as a great statesman. He was a Chris
tian gentleman-a better man than his
party-but was carried along with ii
into an unjust war that will not bear
the scrutiny of time. He had to fall
INTO line with the greed of commerce,
and the consequence is there are thous-
ands Of widows and mothers silently
mourning for husbands and sons kill, d
in battle or died in hospitals in a
foreign land. There is no lamentation
over them.
But as Governor Oates sald, what
are we going 10 do about it; nothing2
Some preachers say it is the will of
God and the Wy to spread the gospel.
don't believe it; and Ihave not much
regard fos the preacher who does. Ii
takes more faith than have got to sec
the hand of God in any war for dOmin-
ion or the acquisition of territory. For
more than hundred years Ireland has
been held in vassalage against her will.
80 were the American colonies held
until the earth and our fathers re-
belled. Napoleon coveted the earth
and our government coveted Cuba and
found casus belli in pretence of
feeding her starving people, but never
fed them. Then our commercial greed
crossed the ocean 10 the Philippines
and bought them for a song with ten
millions of negroes thrown in. Eng
land coveted South Africa and has al
ready spent millions of money nd
rivers of blood in an effort to subdue
free people and get possession of their
gold minel l don't believe that any
of this is Gods will. Greece and Rome
and Carthage and Napoleon all came
to grief. Offenses. must needs come,
but woe unto those by whom they
come. don't believe that any war of
aggression has the favor of God, but
sooner or later the aggressor will reap
what he has sowD.
John Brown was backed by Henry |
Ward Beecher and other preach
ers who thought they saw the will of
God in an uprising of the slaves against
their masters, no matter If it resulted
;n murder and arson and other out
RACES too horrible to mention. He
was as much an anarchist as Czolgcsz,
and his infamous scheme a thousand
times more horrible; but last year they
removed his bones to Connecticut and
reinterred them with honors and
No, [ am still the same
old rebel-unreconstruc unrepen-
tant, and am incredulous of any real
or lasting harmony between the North
and the South as long as the pension
grab goes on and gets. bigger every
year and we have to pay third of it
for being conquered. If peace and
love and harmony prevail, why bleed
us forever? Why take our hard earn
ings to support the children and grand
children of Union soldiers, one-third
of whom were Hessians and hirelings
who were fighting for $40 month and
1ations, with no thought of patriotism?
From that imported class, no doubt,
sprang these anarchists that breed dis
cord and discomfort among, our people.
Czolgosz was no foreigner. He was
born IN Detroit, went to school there,
learned his trade there, and his elder
brother was soldier in the Union
army and he is just as much an Amerl-
can citizen as 81 per cent of the popu-
lation of New York ci.y-native born,
but Of foreign parents.
The seed of anarchy was sown long |
ago, and it is too late to drive it out by |
any legislation. The assassins of our
Presidents were all native-born Ameri-
can citizens. Indeed, it ia not sur
pricing that among 75,OOO,OO0 Of peo-
pie there are 10 be found few men of
such abnormal mind as to glory in
killing o President. AS Roosevelt said,
o President must take his chances.
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a
crown" Why that wretch should
wish to kill such kind-hearted and
unselfisl man as Mr.. Mckinley pass
eth comprehension. If he was jealous
os power or great wealth, why didn't
he pursue Morgan or Rockefeller or
Carnegie? Oh, the pity of i'll An
unsel6sh, great-hearted Christian
gentleman. No wonder the women
are helping to build the Atlanta monu-
ment, for Mr.. Mckinley was model
husband, true to his marriage vows
and ever thoughtful of his loving wife.
Ever in apprehension of his fate he
carried 800, 900 of life insurance, anil
u was all for her--yes, all for her
whom he loved better than fame or
wealth or power.
And nJw comes President Roose.
velt, the frst President from Georgia
stock. I like the Start he has made,
and believe he will be as much the
President as was Andrew Jackson. II
we had q United States bank he would
close 1t and remove the deposits. Yes
I know the stock from away back