Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-09-19
ANARCHY IS TREASON,
SENATOR BURROWS PLAN OF
DEALING WITH ANARCHY.
Prompt and Positive Measures Should
Be Taken With All Enemies Of the
Government Imprison Thorn for
Life.
Senator J. r. Burton told us Friday

Wudu uc Woulu no WIN Anarchists.
"After the first feeling Of horror
which one feels at such an act as thu
ATTEMPTED assassination Of the presi
dent. be might not be as rational
as he would be after thai
feeling had passed, but think that
congress should enact law making
the killing or the attempt on the life
OF a president treason, punishable by
death or by life imprisonment a
man in Jail so that you would never
hear Of him again, so that the news
papers or any one else would never
see him. And | would make the act
Of aiding or abetting or conspiring to
assassinate the president an act Of
treason, SO that a person like this
Emma Goldman, who would get up
and in speech advise the killing Of
the president, could be stopped and
put where she belongs. 1t would
only lie question OF fact as to the
support of such speech, fact that
could be easily ascertained by COM
petent judges. Either killing or at
tempting to kill, conspiracy to kill or
aiding aud abetting an assassin Of
the president ought to be made an
act Of treason, and the punishment
for treason is well defined.
~ think the effect OF this thing"
continued the senator, "will be to
teach newspapers and party leaders
and every body else to be careful Of
the charges which they make and the
epithets which they use toward can.
didates or men in office. They are
honest men. They are as honest as
business men; and yet they are called
scoundrels and knaves and thieves
simply for political purposes, but
these people from whom the Anar.
chists spring do not know that. They
think that these charges are literally
true.
when Mckinley was called an
imperalist by stump speakers these
people thought that he actually in
tended TO make an empire out Of this
country; that he actually intended
to grind down and Cypress the peo.
pie. And these low people who have
been beaten and cuffed around good
deal blame the president for it, and
their minds become inhamed and
they think it would be glory to kill
him. They don't know that Presi.
dent Mckinley was an honest and an
upright man whose only incentive to
action in his office was to do that which
Is the best for the people.
"Now you see this Goldman woman
has the idea that Mr.. Mckinley has
been simply a dupe Of Mark Hanna.
She has got that idea from speeches
II stump orators and from newspa-
pers with their cartoons. As q mat
Ter Of fact Mckinley has always con.
rolled Mark Hanna. | have been
With both Of them enough to know
hat"
When he heard the news Of the re-
apse OF Mr.. Mckinley, Senator Bur.
on said:
II was afraid Of that. was afraid
hat bis heart would not stand it.
t is weakened by the incessant use
i tobacco. The president was always
moking. | have rarely ever seen
lin that be did not have cigar in
lis mouth"
This led the senator TO general re.
ections on the danger Of the use Of I
obacco. al stopped smoking last I
fay" said Senator Burton. at was
ad for me. II a man smoked in
federation always there would not
g as much harm in it. II be only
moked one cigar after each meal it !,
'ould be ali right, but the trouble is )
Q won't do that. He gets used to $
moking while he is engaged in bust. v
ess and finally cigar gets to be a 6
usiness companion and becomes +
Indispensable. Then he begins smok-
e an unlimited number. Then the
smage begins" +