The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-10-25
Bartow Man On Assassination Of
President Mckinley.
NEzTOLLS MANHOOD OF DEAD LEADER
William la Well Acquainted With
Some Of Roosevelt'o Relatives
and Hints For a Government
Job on that Account.

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CTS have had their say and the wheels
Of government roll on In their estab-
llshed way. Not for a day was there
any interruption to commerce or az.
rculture. Party and partisans soft
enod down and paid regard to the
tlme-honored maxim. "De martimus nil
nisibonum"-sa nothing but good OF
The dead Even the yellow journals
stopped their cartoons and gave their
readers a rest But one extreme al
ways follows another and so idolatry |
began as soon as the resident was |
assassinated He would have been |
saintod II sainting was revived. Now
that he is dead he is everybody's presi-
dent. But time is a good leveler, ard
history Is beginning to be made. Mr.
Mckinley was no demigod nor will he
be written down as a great statesman.
He was a Christian gentleman-a BET
ter man than his party--but was car
rled along with 1t 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 thousands Of widows and
mothers silently mourning for hus-
bands AMI sons killed in battle or died
In hospitals in foreign land. There
is no lamentation over them.
But as Governor Oates said, what
are we going 10 do about It; nothing?
Some preachers say 1t is the will OF
God and the way to spread the gospel.
don't believe It; and have not much
regard for the preacher who does. 1t
takes more faith than l have got to
see the hand of God in any war for
dominion or the acquisition OF terri
tory. For more than hundred years
ireland has been held in vassalage
against her will SO we're the Ameri-
can colonies held until our fathers
rebelled. Napoleon coveted the earth
and our government coveted Cuba ana
found a casus belli in a pretense OF
feeding her starving people, but never
fed them. Then our commercial greed
crossed the ocean to the Philippines
and bought them for song with ten
\ millions Of negroes thrown In. Eng
land coveted South Africa and has
already spent millions Of money anc
rivers of blood in an effort to subduC
a free people and get possessionof thei
gold mines! l don't believe that any o
this is Gods will. Greece and Rome
and Carthage and Napoleon all CAM
to grief. Offense must needs come
but woe unto those by whom the,
come. I don't believe that any war 0
aggression has the favor Of God. bu
sooner or later the aggressor vii
reap what he mas sown. John Brow
was backed by Henry Ward Beeehe
and other preachers who thought the
saw the will of God In an uprising
the slaves against their masters, n
matter If it resulted in murder and a
son and other outrages too horrible
mention. He was as much an anarc
ist as Czolgosz, and his infamor
scheme a thousand times more hor1
HE: but last year they removed h
homes to Connecticut and reinterrt
them with honurs and monumer
No. | am still the same old rebel
unreconstructed, unrepentant al
am incredulous Of any real or La
ing harmony between the north and t
south as long as the pension grab go
ON and gets bigger every year and
have to pay third Of it for being &C
ouered. If peace and love and HI
mony prevail, why bleed us foreye
WHY take our hard earnings to 81
mort the children and grandchildren
union soldiers, one-third Of whom WI
Hessians and hirelings who were ng
ing for $40 a month and rations, W
no thought of patriotism? From Il
imported class, no doubt sprang tn
anarchists that breed discord and
content among our people. Czolg
was no foreigner He was born
Detroit. went to school there, lear
his trade there, and his elder brot
was a soldier in the union army,
he IS lust as much an American
zen as "a per cent of the population
New York City-native-born, but
foreign parents. The seeds OF anar
were sown long ago, and it is too
To drive it out by any legislation.
assassing Of our presidents were
native-born American citizens.
deed. it is not surprising that am
100000 of people there are to
found few men Of such abnor
mind as to glory in killing a presid
As Roosevelt said, a president I