The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-04
GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION Of TRUSTS
He Opposes Any General Changes in the Present
Tariff System.

sassin struck! That there might be not h.
ing lacking to complete, the Judas-like
infamy of his act, Ire took advantage OF
an occasion when the President was meet
ing the people generally; and advancing
as il to take the hand outstretched to
him in kindly and brotberly fellowship
he turned the noble and generous CEN
fdence of the victim into :.n oppoI tunity
to strike the fatal blow. There is no
baser deed in all the annals of crime.
A Blow at the Nation
The shock, the grief of the country, are
bitter in the minds of all who saw the
dark da~s, while the President yet how
cred 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 no words
save of forgiveness to his murderer, cf
love for his friends, and of l!nfaltering
trust in the will of the Most High Such
a death, crowning the glory sc such a
life, leaves us with infinite sorrow but
with such pride in what he had accom-
plished and in his own personal character,
that we feel the blow not as struck at
him, but as struck at the Nation. We
mourn a good and great President who
is dead but while we mourn we are lift
ed 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
tion, the harm done is so great as to ex-
cite our gravest apprehensions and to de-
mand our wisest and most resolute action.
nrir ira1 ;1&
nfiamed by the teachings OF professed an
archists, and probably also by the reck-
less 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 sulIen hatred. The wind
is sowed by the men who preach such doc
trines, 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
folish visionary who, for whatever reason,
apologies for crime or excites aimless
discomfort
The blow was aimed not at this Presi-
dent, but at all Presidents; at every SYM
Dol of government. President Mckinley
was as emphatically the embodiment OF
the popular will of the Nation expressed
through the forms Of law as q New Eng
land town meeting is in similar fashion
the embodiment of the law-atiGing pur-
pose 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 all the freemen engaged in a town
meeting could be accepted as q protest
against that social inequality which puts
malefactor in Jail. Anarchy is no more
an expression of 'social d;scon tent than
picking pockets or wife beating.
The anarchist and especially the anar-
chist in the United States, is merely one
type of criminal more dangerous than
any other because he represents the same
depravity in a greater degree. The man
who advocates anarchy directly or ind-
rectly, in any shape or fashion, or the
man who apologies for anarchists and
their deeds, makes himself morally acces-
sory to murder before the fac. The
anarchist is criminal whose perverted
instincts lead him to prefe- commission
and chaos to the most benafccnt form of
social order. His protest of concern for
dent falsity; for if the political institu-
tions Of this country do not afford oppor-
tunity to every honest and intelligent son
of toll, then the door of hope is forever
closed against him. The anarchist is
everywhere not merely the enemy of sys-
tenn and of progress, but the deadly foe
of liberty. If ever anarchy is triumphant
it's triumph will last for but one red mo-
L.
gloomy night of despotism
For the anarchist himself, whether he
breaches or practices his doctrines, we
need not have one particle more concern
than for any ordinary murderer. He
is not the victim of social or political in
justice. There are no wrongs to remedy
in his case. The cause of his criminality
is to be found in his own evil passions
and in the evil conduct ofithose who urge
him on, not in any failure by others or
by the State to do justice to him or his.
He is a malefactor and nothing else. He
is in no sense, in no shape or way, a
product of social conditions save as a
highwayman is produced by the fact
that an unarmed man happens to have
a purse. 1t is a travesty upon the great
and holy names of liberty and freedom to
permit them to be invoked in such a
cause. No man or body of men preaching
anarchistic doctrines should be allowed at
large any more than if preaching the
murder of some specified private individ-
ual. Anarchistic speeches, writings, and
meetings are essentially seditious and
reasonable. -
/ earnestly recommend to tl1 Gress
that in the exercise of it's WI -
ii should take into consiIsz
ing to this country of
sons protesting prime