The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-16
CLEWS' PLAIN TALK
FACED WITH FEW WORDS
ANENT ANARCHY
NO PLACE FOR IT IN AMERICA
Future of Stock Market Is Still Tn
certain - Receipts of Revenue
Still in Excess of Dis
bursements.


bursements.
In his weekly financial letter, written
apparently before the death of President
Mckinley, Henry Clews says:
The wretehed attempt upon the life
Of President Mckinley was shock to the
whole country, as well as to the entire
civilized world. Its effect has been to
arouse the moral senSibilities of the ma
ton towards the imperative necessity of
eradicating, as far as possible, the forces
which are aiming to spread disorder and
anarchy. A more unsuitable target for
the anarchists bullet could not have been
found than President Mckinley No rul-
er has more strenuously sought to follow
the will of the people than he, and no
president ever did less to excite the dis
pleasure of the people than he. Probably
no president ever had fewer enemies, and
NAertaln no president was ever more gen.
orally admired for his uniform geniaity
and high. standards in both public and
private life. The utter Wantonness of the
crime was therefore painfully apparent
ana public opinion should support the au-
thorities to the utmost in using every
effort for roofing out and destroying an
archistic propaganda. Those who come
from abroad to enjoy American freedom
must be made to understand that free
dom IS not license and that this is not the
pace. to wreak their vengeance upon for
eignr potentates; while those here who
preaehethe gospel of envy and hatred and
class prejudice, whether from platform
press or pulpit, must realize that they too
share the responsibility for creating evil
forces, Of which Czolgoszs bullet was
merely natural consequence. There are
inequalities and evils in our. social sys-
mat sorely need rectifying; but the sooner
the people learn that many of the social
lStic and anarchistic remedies are worse
than the disease the better for the coun-
Try Our people as a whole are sound
IN their political and social aspirations:
yet material prosperity. has made us too
easy going in regard to public affairs
and liberation in dealing with dangerous
classes has gone to the extreme; sterner
methods are required in the treatment of
disorder, and public opinion needs a Wig
orous awakening to the folly of toler-
atlng the doctrines of diseased magma
lions. LIE us all rejoice that the presi-
oent may still be spared to enjoy the
honors and esteem he has so fairly won
from his countrymen of all shades of
opinion; and let his misfortune impress
upon US the duty of all good citizens to
support the authorities in preserving law
ana order. The assassin must not be
permitted to cast the faintest shadow
upon the future of this great republic
Lop-Sided people, with half-cracked
ofalns, are usually vain, and such indi-
vIduqls, after struggling in life and
Hhdlng themselves incapable of obtaining
hotoriety, not infrequeutly resort to des-
perate acts to bring them into public no.
lice. II 1t became the custom of the
country for the newspapers never to men
lion the names of assassins, fewer of
such crimes would be committed. The
same love of notoriety became a disease
many years ago with officers In the
tfencn army, who reSorted to- suicide To
gain the desired end. Every such death
was accorded the honors of burial the
same as if it occurred on the battle
Held. These suicides amongst the French
sOIolers became of such frequent occur
renee as to cause a great deal of sis-
eusslon with the lawmaking body of the
country, resulting in an act being framed
TO meet the case, and which afterwards
became law. This law provided thar
whenever soldier of the French army
committed suicide a hole should he d1,s
In one of the cemeteries and the bodv
should be secretely conveyed there and
thrown into it and buried like a dog.
and no mention of it made in the ma
pers. This method was found to he an
ehectual bar against suicides as such
cases nave been exceedingly rare since
the enactment. A law should be passed
by every state in the union making as
sassination punishable by hanging to be
followed by a disposal of the culprit's
2 remains in the French manner, without
permitting the notorIety now accorded to
such CRIMINALS upon which their crazy
vanity feeds
The effect upon the stock market of
the attempt to kill the president was
much less than might have been ex
pected. Fortunately it happened soon
after the close of business affording me
financial leaders full opportunity for
making protective arrangements. Had
the event occurred while the stock ex-
Change was in session we should have
witnessed severer decline than the to
5-po1nt break which followed Saturday
morning. In reality there was no occa-
sion Tor panic, the political and business
outlook being unusually serene. There
was no political crisis at hand: policies
were settled, and Mr. McKinley's death
would have simply left their execution to
others who were in full harmony with
his ideas. The business situation is emit
nently sound; there has been no undue
expansion of credit and overproduction
IS not yet in sight. Heavy clearing
mouse returns, large railroad earnings
and small volume of failures all TESTIFY
TO the general activity and soundrless
o. business and the predominanee of fa-
Nolaple conditions. I4ence no parallel
~ AAio0C Will luG depression which
1olloWed the assassination of President
Garheld. Then confidence was unsettled
pY political uncertainties and the country
was ripe for reaction from previous
commercial and financial excuses. Such
Is not the case now. Whatever weak
spots may develop, and there are some
~ must be admitted, it seems quite GER
1An mat the period of business activity
Is not at an end. In some instances ana
particularly on the stock exchange. prices
nave been pushed too high as result
OF oversanguine expectations. This. how.
ever, is an excess that will corset l.
ser; and it is quite likely that lower
prices for stocks and for some artfr1es.
OF merchandise, notably iron nro,1nct,
would lnfuse fresh activity and conf.
oepce INTO the various markets. 1t is al
tosetner premature to assume that tho
wave OF prosperity which we have been