New-York tribune., 1901-09-23
Tributes IN CHICAGO.
SENATORS DOLLIVER AND MASON AMONG
THE SPEAKERS

'hlcdeo sept -Z-Chicago to-day paid its second
tribute to the memory OF President Mckinley. Me
mortal services held in all parts of the city.
AT the Coliseum where the principal exercises
held many people applied for admission that
overflow meeting was arranged at TattersalTs.
In the afternoon the services for school chill
dren, and all the speakers endcavored to impress
upon the young people the significance of the as
sassnaton of the President and the conditions that
ted the assassin
Senator Dolliver OF Iowa, the principal
speaker at the evening meeting. He said in part:
There win be opportunity enough to make inquiry
into the causes of the enormous offence against
mankind of which the President OF the United
States was the victim. But II cannot be out OF
the way. even at such a time as this, TO recognize
thousand forces manifestly tending toward the
moral degradation. out of which this wicked hand
American people. The government of the United
ass 81 ties esS Ie saes no 3 ana 70 the e
many of our cities of organizations, nconsiderable
struction of all government and all law. The crime
of September s. though evidently committed under
bafies the courts, because, being without the com
mon 0ts 20 Of m i nG f no ba tracks dis
escapes through the very tenderness OF our system
Of turisprudence toward persons accused of sus-
A government like ours is always slow to move and
find effective remedies for conditions like these.
a after m order sy to % @ ho nt
the Of justice which Is universal, the ira
ro@ ouP or Ears eE T6e E En' Of Rgh
the English language, stands for too many CEN
by blood. too many hopes of mankind reaching
toward the ages TO come, to be mutilated in the
least, in order to meet the case of a handful OF
miscreants whose names nobody can pronounce.
1t ought not TO be forgotten that conspirators.
working out their nefarous plans in secret in dens
ana enjoy % an
In the world. Legislators who betray the common
wealth, judges who poison the fountains of justice.
all these regular contributors TO the campaign
fund of anarchy. That bowling mass, whether In
Kansas Alabama; that assembly of wild beasts
dancing in drunken carousal about the ashes of
some negro malefactor, IS not contributing to the
the only security il has. 1t belongs to the unen-
rolled corps of anarchy in the United States
William Mckinley as he sank under mortal wounds
and saw the nfurlated crowd pressing about his
officers Of the peace from one end of the land to
the other. in all the years that are to come-"Let
The fatal word in the creed of anarchy is lathe
ism" Until that word is spoken, until all sense
moral Significance Of human life is lost. IL is i'm
possible to conceive much less to execute. the
who brings nothing with him except blind faith
in natural laws; which nobody made and nobody
ship in world like this 1t is their misfortune that
their % w0kS n1e he @ os, m
1t may be an idle imagination. but as | have
@ ,ne WrS Sve b preaehd ao h
dead body of William Mckinley. IT has come To
his ssassinaton was an incident of the standing
challenge of atheism against the peace and order
more have chosen a sacrifice more ft to illustrate
the nobility of human character nurtured in the
fear of God and trained from infancy In the law
A long acquaintance with the late President. in
timacy of personal friendship which ended only
with his life, has always saved me from that error
hd n e ans 1 @
public services: but standing here before yet the
beauty upon his grave declare my solemn belief
thss no achievement of his great ~s>sr. no ri-