Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-12-05
TRIBUTE TO M'KINLEY,
President Roosevelt Eu1ogizes the
Lamcnted Victim of Anarchy.

President Mckinley was man Of mod
crate means, d man whose stock sprang
from the sturdy tilers of the soil, who
had himself belonged among the wage
workers, who had entered the army as
private soldier. Wealth was not struck a
when the president was ASA ssinated but
the honest toll which is content with mod
crate gains after lifetime of unremittng
labor largely in the service of the public.
Still less was power struck at In the sense
that power is irresponsible or centered in
the hands of any one Individual. The blow
was not aimed at tyranny or wealth. 1t
was aimed at one of the strongest cham
one of the most faithful representatives Of
the system Of public rights and represent
ative goX . who has eyer risen a, TO
noca oes or WIGS t6s e nGe
people vote and no president, not even
Lincoln himself, was ever more earnestly
anxious to represent the we'll thought out
wishes Of the people, His one anxiety In
every crisis was to keep in closest touch
with the people, to find out what they
thought and to endeayor to give express
ored to guide that thought Alright. He
had just been reelected to the preside ncy
because the majority of our citizens. the
ers: believed that he had faithfully upheld
their interests for four years. They felt
themselves in close and intimate touch
with him. They felt that he represented
and aspirations that they wished him to
continue for another four years to repre-
sent them.
And this was the man at whom the as
sassin struck That there might be moth
ing lacking to complete the Judas-like in
fanny of his act he took advantage of an
occasion when the president was meeting
to take the hand outstretched to him in
kindly and brotherly fellowship, he turned
the He noD no and the
fatal blow. There is no baser deed in all
the annals of crime.
His Death Growing Glory.
The shock. the grief of the country, are
bitter in the minds of all who saw the
between life and DEATH At last the light
was stilled In the kindly eyes. and the
breath went from the lips that even in
mortal agony uttered words save Of
forgiveness to his murderer of love for
his friends and of unfaltering trust in the
will of the Most High. Such a death
us with infinite sorrow, but with such
pride in what he had accomplished and in
his own personal character that we feel
the blow not as struck at him, but as
and great president who is dead, but
while we mourn we are lifted up by the
splendid achievements Of his life and the
grand heroism with which he met his
death.
When we turn from the man to the ma
fion, the harm done is so great as to ex-
cite our SraVeSt apprenenSlOnS ana 10 de-
mand our wisest and most resolute &C
ton This criminal was a professed an
archist, inf1amed by the teachings of pro-
fessed anarchists and probably also by
the reckless utterances of those who on
the stump and in the public press appeal
to the dark and evil spirits of malice and
greed, envy and sullen hatred. The wind
is sowed by the men who preach such
doctrines, and they cannot escape their
share of responsibility for the whirlwind
that is reaped This applies alike to the
deliberate demagogue, to the exploiter
of sensationalism and to the crude and
foolish visionary who for whatever rea-
son apologies for crime or excites aim
less discomfort.
The blow was aimed not at this presi-
dent, but at all presidents, at every sym
boil of government. President Mckinley
was as emphatcally 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-
nose 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
ali tho freemen engaged in a town meet.
ing could be accepted as q protest against
that social inequality which puts male
factor in Jail. Anarchy IS no more an ex'