The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-20

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(continued from Page seven.) of the confederacy many are ,n on their heir | Knees tonight fervently breathing ,n.s Dns;ser Drsysse % %,'js% GSa MsaKinisS stEs Hntc our
 How did such man, come to his mar mar tyrdom? Peace reigned. The lark sang s.sS Ssss N No ths of eV l haunted him. Not the slightest premon- l tion of danger clouded his sky; His ter One One moment he stood erect. strong, con fdent, beholding the work of his hands established in a free and happy people The next he lay eeed,ns' a wSunued tSs srays ne While yet Time had crumbled never stone nor dimmed the lustrous surface. prone to the earth the mighty column 'For no cause, in the very frenzy of l wantonness and wickedness. by the red hand of anarchy. he was thrust from the | full tide of the worlds interests, from its l hopes. it's aspirations and its victories | into the visible presence of death. Who ever shall hereafter paint the portrait of | visage of Moloch. the brow knitted by | revenge. the face black with settled hate. Let him rather draw a decorous. smooth l guileiess exterior, the persistence of a serpent and the cunning of a fiend.
 The Merciful President.
 "As the enemy approached he was re- | ceived with sympathy and not suspicion yet when the murderer had been seized looked down upon the struggling group and with two bullet wounds in his body. one of them meaning death. he saved the life of his assassin by saying to those about him. Don't let them hurt that poor boy "Masterful in his mortal weakness he shrined in the prayers of all the world. With unfailing tenderness he took leave of life. Above the domoniac hiss of the bullet he heard the voice of God. When the moment of his coronation came. he exclaimed trustfully, triumphantly. Good
 bye. All, goodbye. It Is Gods way. Let
 His will, not ours. be done
 Tt Is that beautiful death-bed scene that points the second lesson of this hour. Mckinley. like all true statesmen. was
 ger of human hope For forms of faith
 let graceless zealots fight He can't be
 wrong who trusts in God and Right
 shorn of unessentials. Mckinley's creed Love God and forgive your enemies "Snd, friends is not that your faith
 also. I feel sure that it Is .even as do know that 1t is mine.
 My countrymen, this atrocious crime tells us that we have permitted hide eIs canker to grow upon our body pol Inviting to our hospitable shores the fiffraff of Europe, the scum and oftal of the old worlds night-born brood. Hith-  tons and beliefs. But there must be a | change. It Is time for us to stem the tide of unhealthy, unwatched immigra- | tioiI. Let us stop making citizens of un- H woI thy material. Let us shut the gates and establish a quarantine against the 1 old worlds disease and paupeilsm and
 our poor houses, our jalls or hospitals.
 We should not admit those who come
 to undermine our institutions or subvert
 our laws.
 Meet Hn
 The supreme lesson of this hour, there
 fore, tells us that the anarchists must
 go. They seek our protection only to
 betray it. The braxen Goldman woman
 ported. They must not be allowed tc gloat over the grief of a strong nation.
 Eeternal vigilance is still the price. of ib- erty, and on the free soil of America the foul breed of anarchists should be given no quarter even as they show none. President Mckinley Is dead, but his when the reapers sing amid the gath cred sheaves. His lovely life, like bow of peace, spans and arches all the clouds of war. A great leader is dead, but as- sasslnation has never changed and will
 never change the history of the world. , Even the costly sacrifice of a Caesar did
 not propitiate the memorable destiny of
 his country. Though its well beloved" has fallen. America will live. This is the final lesson of the hour. The Republic will rise, beautiful as the dream of
 
 gods.
 , Tn the words of our martyred chief
 tain's great protagonist, Abraham Lin-
 coin:
 |" It is for us, the living, to be dedi.
 cated now to the unfinished work which | he has thus far 50 nobly advanced. It
 is for us to be dedicated to the great ; task remaining before us, that from the
 honored dead we take increased deVo- | ton to that cause for which he gave
 the last full measure of his devotion. that
 we here highly resolve that he shall not
 have died in vain, that this nation, un-
 der God, shall have a new birth of free
 dom and that government of the people,
 by the people and for the people shall
 not perish from the earth.
 Rabbi Messing delivered his address In
 a strong and firm voice and without ref
 erence to notes. His emphatic declara-
 ton that anarchists must go was repeat
 edly applauded, notwithstanding the sol
 emnity of the occasion and at the close
 of his address the big audience sponta- 2 neously broke into loud applause.