The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-12-05
{SD[NI RO0GVHT'S AE}SAG[
: Recommendations to Congress Concerning
Needed Legislation.

had accomplished and in his own Per.
G'aal character, that We feel the bloT
not as struck at him. but as struck at
Tie Nation. We mourn a good and
great President who is dead; but wni!a
W. mourn we are lifted up by The
splendid achievements of his life and
the grand heroism with which he met
MS deatl.
When we turn from the man 70 the
Nation. the harm done is SO great as 10
excite our gravest app! ehensionS aid
to demand our wisest and most resoiute
action. This criminal was a proios-
sed anarchist, inflamed by the teach
lngs or professed anarchists, and prob.
ably also by the reckless utterances Of
these who. on the stump and in the
public pre&s, appeal to the dark and
evil spirits Of malice and greed, envy
and sullen hatred. The wind is sown.
cd by the men who preach such doe
TrineS, and they cannot escape their
share Of the reSpons bility for the
whirlwind that Is reaped This applies
alike to the deliberate demagogue. IL
the eXplGher of sensationalism. a1i
to the crude and foolish visionary who,
for whatever reason. apologies for
crime or excite aimless discomfort.
The blow was aimed not at this
President. but at all Presidents ,at
every symho! Gt government. Pres
dent Mckinley vas As emphatically tie
embodiment Of the poular will of the
Nation expressed through the forms Of
law as New England town meeting
is In similar fashion the embodiment
Of the law-abidi2g purpose and prac-
tice Of the people OF the town. On no
conceivable theory could the murder Of
the President be accepted as due to pro-
test against inequalities in the social
order" save as the murder of all the
freenea engaged in q town meeting
could be accepted as protest against
that social inequality which puts a
malelaciar in jail. Anarchy is no more
an expression OF social discomfort"
than picking pockets or wife-beating.
The anarchist. and especially the an
archist in the United States, is merely
one type of criminal, more dangerous
than any other because he represents
the same deDraVity in greater degree.
The maa who advocates anarchy direct
" or indirectly. in any shape or fash.
ion. or the man who apologies for
anarchists and their deeds, makes HIM
self morally accessory to murder be ore
the fact. The anarchist is criminal
whose pc gted instincts lead him tt,
prefer cehfusioa and chaos to the most
beneficent form Of social order. His
protest of concern for workingmsa is
outrageous In its impudent falsity; for
u the nolitical INSTITUTIONS Of this com;
J, try do not afford opportunity to ever,
= honest and Intelligent son OF toll. ther
the doo- OF hope is forever closec
against him. The anarchist Is every
where not merely the enemy OF System
and Of progress. but the deadly foe o
i liberty. If ever anarchy Is trfumphan:
Its triumph will last for bat one rec
moment, to be succeeded for ages b,
the 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 murder
er. He is not the victim of social ol
political injustice. There are NJ
wrongs to remedy in his case. The
cause Of his rriminality Is to be fount
in his own evil passions and In thu evi
conduct of those who urged him on
not in any failure by others or by the
:, State TO do iustf,, to him or his. He !!
malefact' nh nothing else. He is
y t. - no shape or way. FRO
a, Vi ~,clal Cndltions." save as {
| highwayman is produced" by the fact
that an unarmed man happens to have
purse. . Il is travesty upon the gTaa'
and holy names of liberty and freedom
to permit them to be invoked IN suct
cause. No man or body OF men
preaching anarchistic doctrines should
be allowed at large any more than il
! preaching the murder Of some specified
private individual Anarchistic speech
J es writings. and meetings are essen
TALLY seditious and reasonable.
! | earnestly recommend to the Con
/ gress that in the exercise of it's wise
discretion it should take into consider.
! alton the coming to this country oc an
archists or persons protesting pr!Ici
pies hostile to all government and JUS
tifying the murder of those placed n
authority. Such individuals as thos'
who are not long ago gathered in open
meeting to glorify the murder of King
Humbert Of Italy perpetrate cr.mn
4 ana the law SnOulQ ensure lHSlT tlSOi'
GUS punishment. They and those like
J them should be kept out OF this com
try; and If found here they should be
promptly deported to the country
whence they came; and far-reaclling
provision should be made for the pun
ishment of those who stay. No matter
calls more urgently for the wlsess
| thought of the Congress.
The Federal courts should be given
Jurisdiction over any man who kills or
attempts to kill the President or any
man who by the Constitution or ~
laws Is in line Of succession for the
Presidency, while the punishment for
an unsuccessful attempt should be pro-
portioned to the enormity Of the If
fence against our institutions.
Anarchy is a crime against Tue
{ whole human race; and all mankind
should band against the anarchist HIS
crime should be made an offence
against the law Of nations. like PIRACY
and that form of manstealng known
as the slave trade; for it Is Of 'ar
blacker infamy than either. 1t should
be so declared by treaties among all
civilized rcwers. Such treaties wnulL
give to the Federal Government the
power Of dealing with the crime.
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