The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-09

would be better If the President could be
free TO meet the pubic whenever ne likes,
but since we have such lunatics or crlml-
nals as Anarchists among US VINO are like
~ TO kill a President ii they can get close
enough 20 him. wouldn't il be better TO re-
move the temptation from their way?
a point ABOUT these asSas sinations OF
public officials that Is worthy OF note,
continued Mr Miller. is that they Always
or almost always take place ia public. IL
seems that your Anarchist Is. as a rule, a
fellow who dearly loves nOtoriety and also
something OF an actor. Witness the sen
sational manner in which John Wilkes
Booth shot President Lincoln in Ford
Theater before large audience. and note
MS dramatic exclamation, Sic semper
tyrdnniS! Gu1teau aSSaSSi1ated CARRIED
In the waiting room of the railroad sta
ton at Washington, and he. too. gave ut
terance TO a dramatic cry, 1 am stat
Wart and Arthur is President, / believe
II was. The attack on President Garnet,
that upon the Prince of Wales and the
one upon the Empress of Austria were all
made in public places, and / think each
was accompanied by some would-be impress
SlNe utterance by the man who committed
the dastardly crime. President Harrison
walked about Washington with perfect
lmpumty and was not molested. The aV-
erage Anarchist does not care to kill
President when he is alone. There must
be a crowd about so that the affair will
have a tinge of the spectacular. SO l say
that these public receptions ought TO be
abandoned. They afford the idiot who
thinks his mission is TO Stay public Of
ficials too great an opportunity to crafty
ms infamous passion.
Henry y. Span favors deportation of
Anarchists From my reading of his
tory, he said. II am inclined TO the opin-
ion that to put Anarchists in jail or prison
simply causes them TO regard themselves
as martyrs and enables them to spread
the gospel. they term the incubation
OF tneir internal doctrines. Ihere Is no
doubt in my mind that statute could be
enacted making deportation part OF the
punishment of such people. The Consu-
tuition provides that there shall be no cruel
deportation would be held to be cruel or
unusual punishment. L am firmly of opin-
ion that We ought TO have more stringent
immigration laws. We ought to allow no.
body TO come over here or to become citi-
zens and remain here that agitates against
the government. AT the same time
no law passed under the guise
Of which free speech or free meeting
law ought to be very clearly defined. do
not believe in making any laws for the
especial protection of public officers. Such
legislation would not be wise under our
be abused Why, right here in Indianapo-
lis, we have city ordinance making 1t an
ohehse 10 resist an oIilcer, ana wheLeNe !;
man talks back 10 policeman he Is
forthwith arrested and charged with re-
ssting officer. 1t is so easy to resist an
officer. you know. am personally In favor
of making the human race better by Sc
questering such fellows as CZolgocz and
making it impossible for more of them to
and other forms of insanity are the results
of civilization, and that we who are CIV
iliZed must wrestle with these problems as
best we may. SaVageS scarcely know what
insanity is but with civilization conditions
seem to grow up that encourage various
forms OF insanity and degeneration. Czol-
gocZ in my opinion, Is a type of degenerate.
do not believe that he is the central figure
of conspiracy at ALL"
TALK WITH A. L. MASON.
Augustus L. Mason has given consider
able thought to the subject of how best to
suppress anarchy and last night he gave
expression of his views to a Journal man.
81 would think the United States ought"
he said, ito take exclusive jurisdiction of
attempts to injure the person of any fed
eral official. The essence of a crime such
as that committed by Czolgocz, it seems
to me, is treason and whoever advises or
encourages the crime is equally guilty with
the one who actually commits it. An act
of Congress might define this crime as be-
ing an attempt to injure the person of any
federal official out of malice toward the
government the execution of its laws
L think too that the States might do well
to enact laws for the protection of their
ofhclals. As to punishment, l think there
ought to be a maximum and minimum
penalty, the maximum to be either life
Imprisonment or death. Certainly the pun
1Shment ought to be death when an assault
is made upon a President. Then, too, [
would have suitable appropriations made
Tor the secret service, so that the detectives
could hunt out these people of anarchistic
sentiments and who teach that ii is right
and proper to injure the persons of Of
hcials and they could be apprehended and
punished just as counterfeiters are detected
and punished. In that way L think this
evil could be rooted out of the country"