Mexico Missouri message., 1901-11-07
Hab. i, 1917. Amos vi, l-G.
Nov. 10.

idlu lOudN IL bilt SdlOUii anu StIOnS
drink. Our nation is scarcely re-
covered from the shock caused by
the bullet of the assassin at Buff
alo in September. The poor, mis-
guided wretch who murdered our
President has paid the penalty of
the law and gone to give his ac-
count to the God whom he ignored
or deied. The blood of President
Mckinley cries for vengeance IL
gainst the law defyiug anarchists
whose teaching led to this bastard
ly deed. The whole country is
reused as never before, and prompt
and decisive measures will be TAX
Ell for the extinction of these i'm
ported atheists and murderers. 1t
required just such shocking cat
astrOphe as this to arouse our ma
ton to Il sense of its danger, and
the character of the element that
was gradually taking root in our
soil. William Mckinley will not
have died in vain if his death shall
result in the determination of these
vipcrs of anarchism. But what of
the twin evil of anarchiSm that
our government is protecting and
fostering by its own laws! An
evil that, compared with anar-
chism is as Il giant to Il plgmyl
Where anarchy has slain its one
victim here or there, at long inter
walls, albeit that victim may have
been Il president or king, the sa-
loon is Staying its tens of thous-
ands of bright intellectS every day.
Nay, more, it is the breeding
place of the anarchist, and is re-
sponsible for the death of Presi-
dent Mckinley, King Humbert
and every other victim of the red
handed anarchist.
Strike the saloons from our
country and anarchism could not
exist in America Il week. 1t is in
the saloon that this vile brood is
Matched. 1t is in the saloon that
Emma Goldman delivers her anar-
chistic utterances, which, mixed
with bad whisky, fires the brains
of such young men as Czolgosz to
90 about their murderOus work. II
is in the saloon, run on Sunday,
in violation of law, that lawleSS-
ness and freelOvism and all that is
vile and loathsOme is taught and
fostered. If it were only an oc-
casiOnal anarchist murderer that
went forth from these murder
mills, this would be Il small mat
ter in comparison. But gracious
God, just think of the tens OF
thousands of murderers that have
have their birth here, some oI
them at the hands of men who, il
sober, would shrink in horror from
such deeds. | have met such no
bic, but whisky-ruined men i'll on
State prisons and lunatic asylums
and there for life. If it took tn,
cold-blooded murder of such ;
great and good man AS Presiden
Mckinley to awake this nation tC
the danger and suppression of an
archism, what may we expect vii
be necessary to arouse it to
sense of the enormity of this evil
which outweighs all Others com
, biued, and which today threatens
: its very existence more than an
other.
Already, it would seem to me
that the Christian people of on
land would have their eyes opel
to the ruin that the saloon i
bringing upon our beloved conn
3 try. 1t does seem that the erie
of the widows and orphans, and q
: the wives and children of drunke
= husbands and fathers that com
I up to our ears from all over thi
!. fair land, would melt the hear
a and arouse to action every Chris
= tan man and woman, and tina
they would rise in the might G
a their power and wipe the monste
e evil out of existence. But, alas
alas, poor human nature is tn
\ same today as in the days of tn
t old prophets. We are vat ease i
Zion" and our ears to the woe
: that are pronounced against us
"Woe to him that coveteth an ev
covetousness to his house, that b
may set his nest on high, that /
may be delivered from the pow,
!. of evil"
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