Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-10-17
Anarchy's Habitat.

The cold blooded assassination
of President McKinly has open
ed the eyes of the American PEG.
pie to the presence upon oul
shores of most dangerous enc
my of civilization. Lincoln and
Garfield were the victims of par
ty hatred and personal animosi'
ty; but in this case, the assassin
boldly declares himself an anar<
chist, and openly avows that he
committed his vicious deed up
on principle, and was melted
thereto by the teachings of par
ty leaders. There is little enough
comfort to our national pride in
the fact that this treacherous vi,
per is of foreign descent, for, as
to that matter, all of us would
fall into the same category. Te
enact laws, which forbid tbs
landing here of anarchists, is ut.
terly insuffcien to keep them
out of our country, for they have
no com pun ctions Of conscience
about swearing to anything. TIC
expel them from our country.
would mean to dump them as SC
much garbage into neighbor's
front yard, is, to say the least, Jun
fraternal. A very good way to
get rid of anarchists is to stop
faising them, and a very good
way to stop raising them is to
destroy their breeding places.
The saloon is the habitat of
anarchy. The Presidents assas>
sin lived in and about saloons,
and was one OF its natural prog
eny. It was in a saloon that
two hundred men met to drink
to the health of this criminal
and to celebrate this monstrous
outrage upon law and order.
That blatant anarchist, Heir
Most. recently arrested in New
York. had his room over a sa>
loon, and was accustomed to har-
ranguing crowds in saloons.
Let us not cast aspersions upon
foreign countries, charging them
with rearing criminals and send~
ing them to Our shores, tor We
are inviting anarchy and breeds
Ing anarchists by fostering that
which produces them and fur
nishes an atmosphere congenial
to their growth. The American
saloon is the nesting place of
anarchy and all other forms of
lawlessness. 1t is the deadly
enemy Of ali law and order, an
eating ulcer, rotting out the very
heart of patriotism. 1t is the
school in which every form of
evil is taught. Its accessories
are the gambling hell and the
brothel Voluptuous pictures of
lewd women occupy its walls.
Low jests are the pastime of its
inmates, aud profanity is their
common language. Lewd Wo>
men are introduced to debase
conscience and stimulate lust,
and the virtue of all women is
sneered at as an easy delusion.
It's success depends upon the de-
struction of piety. A mans con-
science must be hushed, his hui
mainly destroyed. his heart
drugged beyond all sympathy,
or he will hear the cry of the
broken hearted and suffering
wife and mother, and will for
sake the saloon to return to his
loved ones. The saloon lives
by human misery. 1t
fourishes on the destruction of
the home and by taking bread
from the hungry. 1t trains for
all manner of lawlessness, and
teaches that all law is despotic |
interference with what it is
pleased to call a mans larger
liberty. Since the laws of the
land presume to restrain its ag~
gressive efforts toward the
wholesale ruin of men and wo-
men, the saloon teaches con
tempt for all such government.
Since parents fear its deadly
power to corrupt youth, it teach
es the young to despise home>
government. Since the Sabbath
is a day of worship and the
churches condemn its horrid