Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-03
yiforous in Style and Positive
. Il the Man--A Careful
Document.
Recommends National Statutes
ier Trusts..Says U. S. Covets
No Mans Territory.
Reciprocity Urged. Canal Favor.
Cd, Army Reforms SuSfested
and Navy Praised.
Tie Merit System Positively De-
clared to Be the Executive
Policy.


sage of President Roosevelt the mem-
bers of the senate and house assem-
bied early. Despite a cold, penetrat-
ing rain the galleries were well filled
with interested spectators At twelve
speaker Henderson called the house to
order. After the Journal was read and
approved. Cooper, of Texas and Wood,
OF Cal, who were not present yester-
fny. were sworn in. On motion of
Payne. floor leader OF the majority, it
was agreed that when the house ad-
iourn today. 1t be until Friday. The
speaker announced the appointment OF
the committee on rules as lollows:
Henderson, Dalzell, Grosvenor. Rich
ardson and Underwood, of Ala. In the
senate, after the same routine busi-
ness was transacted, Major Pruden,
assistant secretary to the president,
presented the message of the president,
the reading Of which was begun at once
by Chief Clerk Rose. Close attention
was given to the reading by all the
senators.
sage:
THE MESSAGE.
To The Senate and House of Repre-
scntatives: IS
rhe congress ASSEMBLIES this year un-
der the shadow of great calamity. On
the Sth of September, President Nc
Kinley was shot by an anarchist While
attending the Pan American Exposition
at Buffalo, and died In that city on the
14th OF that month.
OF the last seven elected presidents,
he IS the third who has been murdered,
and the bare recital Of this fact is suftt-
Client to justify grave alarm among all
loyal American citizens. Moreover, the
circumstances OF this, the third assassi-
nation Of an American president. have
peculiarly sinister significance. Both
President Lincoln and President Gar
field were killed by assassins Of types
unfortunately not uncommon in his
tory: President Lincoln falling victim
ia the terrible passions aroused by four
years Of civil war. and President Gar
deld to the revengeful vanity of dis
appointed ffice-seeker. President Nc
Kinley was killed by an utterly de-
praved criminal belonging to that body
OF criminals who object to all govern
ments. good and bad alike, who are
against any form Of popular liberty II 1t
il guaranteed by even the most just and
liberal laws. and who are as hostile to
the upright exponent OF free peoples
sober Will as to the tyrannical and ire
eponsible despot.
Then follows a characteristic eulogy
Of the martyred president. Continuing,
the me&eage reads:
When we turn from the man to the
nation. the harm done is so great as to
excite our gravest apprehensions and to
demand our wisest and most resolute
action. This criminal was a protested
anarchist. infamed by the teachings Of
professed anarchists, and probably also
by the reckless utterances of tho9a who,
on the stump and In the public press.
appeal to the dark and evil spirits of
malice and greed, envy and sullen ha-
1fred. The wind II sowed by the men
who preach such doctrines. and they can
not escape their share Of responsibility
for the whirlwind that is reaped. This
applies alike to the deliberate dema-
gogue, to the exploiter OF sensationalism
and to the crude and foolish visionary
who, for whatever reason apologies for
crime or excites aimIess oiscontent.
/ The Anarchist.
Fer the anarchist himself, whether he
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 in
justice. There are no wrongs to remedy
{ in his case The cause OF his criminality
1s to be found In his own evil passions
and In the evil conduct OF those who
urge him on, not in any failure by 9TH
era 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, q product Of social conditions" I"
save as highwayman is produced" by
7 the fact that an unarmed man happens
to have a purse. 1t is a travesty upon
the great and holy names of liberty and
freedom to permit them to be invoked
III such cause No man or body of
men preaching anarchistic doctrines
should be allowed at large any more
than IL preaching the murder of some
specified private Individual. Anarchistic
speeches, writings and meetings are es-
sentially seditious and reasonable.
earnestly recommend to the congress
that In the exercise of its wise discretion
It should take into consideration the
coming TO this country Of anarchists or
persons protesting principles hostile to
all government and Justifying the mur-
der of those placed in authority. Such
a -s.iA..als as those who not long ago