The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-18
TO THE POINT.
Horace Speeds Talk On Anarchy and
Prosecution il Sharo

Horace Speeds ! ak On Anarchy and
Prosecution is Sharp.
Guthrie. @. T.. Sent. Horace Speed.
United States district attorney, was one
of the speakers at the mass meeting heId
here Sunday night 10 hold services ap-
propriate 10 the memory Of William Nc
Kinley Mr. Speed is considered one of
the most unrelen0ess prosecutors that
Oklahoma has ever had and his remarks
ar= sharp and rght to the point in re-
gard u anarchy and Iawlessness. They
are as follows:
we meet 10 hold memorial services
Tor the president of tn S nation, who his
whole life loveI his country. and faithful
ly served her best interests as son, sol
5ier. teacher. lawyer, congressman. gov
srnor and president; who lived and loved
his family. las neighbors. his local home
interests; who from purely American eie-
rents. in purely American atmosphere.
un3er American co7ditions. developed
through hardships a character such as the
world sees and declares is perfectly pure:
great from every point of view; an honor
10 the race; a glory to the institutions
which developed him. a proof that our
folm OF government and life cam and do
pro5uce men of the highest types so far
known IN the history of time; and that
these types improve with the advance of
the ages; and the ideals Of our people are
not lower. but higher, as tirre goes on.
we are not here 10 mourn for him.
He has PASSED to q higher life. with the
blessed, in his Fathers house He Is
with the old sturd tender father, who
gave hirn clean blood, taught him, in every
temptation TO keep a pure heart and
clean hands; with his old mother, who
went into the shadow of death to give
him 4ife; watched his young life; his
struggles an6 successes; whom he so low
ingly kissed after he was made president.
It is weE with him.
-Of him we can say Oh. lifei fun Of al
that the great world can give; rioe.
strong and glorious son OF The Universal
Father; brother Of men; full of honors:
loving and beloved: nail and farewell.
'tin we meet again.
we are here 80 mourn TIE loss OF his
patient, invalid wife. whose hold on life
has been through him: the loss % this
nation: OF his strength and experienced
wisdom; the shock hich The fatal vlo-
lence TO him gives this c3untry-au coun-
tries th-H depravity can exultingIv xiii
the innocent. because we have laws:
Jaws which now protect rom violence
the guilty one WHO raised his hand in
hate % them; end appealed to a violence
which would now mean his own anuihua-
tion: killed. as hurtful. one whose last
words show the spirit Of philosopher.
the ASSURED faith and charity of a Chris
tian, the unselfsh man. thoughtful 10 the
last ~ the well being of others
THAT violence. fellow citizens. is not
native 10 our country. CT our blood. II
IS imported from tie deas az unfortunate.
hopeless, frenzied Ishmaelites or Europe.
il has no riSht of reason TO exist in this
land. That our president lies murdered
and oar laws protect the murderer's life
unui "a IS duly tried condemned and De-
gaav executed. show how careful or laws
are; how they shield the riehts of even
the least worthy of men
May this calamity teach as honest an
probation Of our nation. OF its institu-
tions and benefits. of our citizenship. tho
manhood and womanhoe5 being devel oped
by thcm. q The large natured men waom
the nation approves; and 70 close our safe
against moral 'or political poison as we
clase 3hem asei insJ the pestlence which
affects the body
Mag 1t teace us TIE frlchtfuI in.eaitv
g. political, rs il private Ife. 81 rash
s-aalcrors srCech ahout laen wire thr~
can5ia3tos fcr cGce er u1t rhor saeft
rot bear false vit-sss against 5rs -r
her IS the ia wof Gcl the law of tai5
land, reason commands ie. ts zialaLf--
has borne frlis in the rarle- ~ t.-r,