, 1901-09-30
SHARE IN THE BLAME
OTHERS THAN ANARCHISTS GRE.
ATED SENTIMENT AGAINST
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY.
perance Union Accused of Utter
ances of a Very Anarchistic Ma
ture-Spite of That Society To-
ward the Martyred President.

Caroline Prince, writing from De
laven, ILL.,, to the editor of the Chicago
Inter Ocean, has given Clara Hoffman
a merited dig under the ribs. She
says:
| have been a reader of the Intel
Ocean for more than a quarter of {
century. | have been convinced thai
the fearless. outspoken policy of you
valuable paper has welded ali infiu
ence for good that a never be esti
mated. Through its columns righteous
ness has been exalted, reforms encour
aged, crime exposed, and hypocrisy
promptly unmasked. With a daunt
less courage that characterized youI
editorial of the 18th, fifty denominated
There Are Others" you have always
dared to publish the dictates of consci
ence, regardless of popularity or pelf.
Herr Most, Emma Goldman, and 9th,
er leading anarchists have declared
that CZolgosZ was melted to his dead,
ly work by the degrading caricatures
that famed from the yellow journals,
and the vile epithets that were hurled
against our lamented president by the
politician and press. You have quot,
ed in the editorial of the 18th Mrs.
Clara Hoffman as saying: Il hope
God will brand William Mckinley; if
this be tr%aitorious, make the most of
it." Iii all candor and fairness. / put
this question to the public, has Emma
Goldman, that fiend in woman form.
who boldly ~disregards the marriage
vow, and flaunts infamy and treason
in the face of patriotism and virtue,
ever uttered a sentiment that appeal
ed more directly to brutal instincts.
cruel hate, and partisan prejudice than
the publicly expressed hope that has
given Mrs. Hoffman and the W. C. T.
U. such unenviable notoriety? Beau,
tiful example, indeed, for the young;
originating with an organization whose
emblem is SO suggestive of peace and
purity, whose motto the grandest and
most significant that ever fell from
human tongue or pen, with malice
toward none, and with charity toward
ALL" and whose evangels proclaim
from pulpit and platform with such
sanity mien the gospel of Holy Writ
as embodied in the life and teachings
of our meek and lowly Savior.
This expression of Mrs. Hoffman is
but one Of the many that have shown
the spite of that society toward our
martyred president. A caricature ap-
peared during the last campaign in the
God, Home. n Native Land" col,
umns of a prohibition organ, in which
President Mckinley was represented
as on his way to the White House seat
ed in a brewers wagon, upon beer
kegs, a crown upon his head, and his
hands lifted in the attitude of prayer,
etc. Early in the campaign an artist
was dispatched to Manila to procure
material for prohibition work, and it
would seem to crafty a morbid curl
osity for the unclean, as the artist
sketched Genes from a den of opium
and infamy too vile for description.
These scenes were reproduced Ill a
prohibition paper, depicting men and
women, stupid with the deadly drug;
their semi-nude bodies, immodest posi-
tions, and lewd expressions were re-
voting to sight. Above this disgrace
full exhibition President Mckinley was
charged with responsibility for the eX.
~istence of such crime. Helen Cougar,
desiring more effective literature for
this campaign, converted this into a
political document, and added such
violent terms of opprobrium and such
malicious language against the presi-
dent that the social purity department
Of that prohibition paper was Of great
value in the last campaign.
The prayer chain followed. Later
Carrie Nation, president of a county
w. c. T. U. in Kansas, with Ratchet in
hand, wearing the white ribbon, aban-
dons home and husband, and after an
eventful career of violence she appears
at Coney Island, where she is Kissed
from the platform for rejoicing at
President McKinley's sad fate. w. C.
T. U. conventions, state and national,
are near at hand. The %noon-tide hour
Of groans, sobs and prayer will be sue
ceeded by adopting resolutions of sym
patty for Mrs. Mckinley, whom they
have charged with running a saloon.
In order to inveigle patriotic women
into their ranks, they will sadly de-
plore the death of the great man whom
they have slandered, maligned and per
secuted.
Consistency. thou art a jewel"
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