The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-09-20

Such as l"nv1luntar1ly rises from every
heart. The need is for a searching Of
hearts that shall be at once calm ard
thorough and shall ascertain how il Is
h a American presidents are in moie
peril of murder than are European
sovereigns, and for a shaping of socitl
and governmental and inexorably Ell
tirpate the accursed thing from the
American soil. It is high time.-Ney
York Tribune. |
The man CZolgosZ may or nay not
be the emissary of a particular grou.
of anarchists; but he is unQuestionably
h representative and acted as the in
strument of a spirit of anarchy which,
is present ii modern society and me-
naces the civilization of the world. Itsl
violence is not directed against any in
dividual ruler or executive head of al
state. good or bad, beloved or hated byl
his people, but against government oil
itself against our social system as It'll
has developed in natural and logical
order.-New York Sun.
No law can be too drastic or punish
ment too severe to stamp out anarchy
and anarchists. The assassination OF
attempted assassination of a chosenl
ruler of the people under a benefcent
government is the most dangerous, as
it is the most damnable, crime known
to the law. It's perpetrators are the
most heinous of all criminals. AS rep
lillian foes to society, TO law and order,
TO mankind, hey cannot be safely toll
Grated or too summarily dealt with.
Death, speedy and sure, should be the
penalty of law and justice for attempt
ed assassination, and it should be
nrn ,@1+@
sassin himself, but to all his accom-
plices. The diabolical tragedy at Buff
falo is a warning that it is high time
to call a decisive halt on such Internal
business.-New York Herald.
Public attention is again directed to
the pest of our modern civilization, the
redhanded, black-hearted anarchists,
who have found one more victim in
President Mckinley at Buffalo. The
suggestion occurs at such a time that
all the agencies of government should
be employed to stamp out this evil cult
N the whole body of men who pro-
fesS adhesion to it. No one would say
today. fired as we all are by resent
ment at this atrocious outrage, that it
could seriously strain the American
view of liberty of thought and freedom
of belief for is to adopt effective meas
ureS to drive from the land every indi-
V1dual-man or woman-who asknowl-
edges anarchism in any of the phases
of the creed. We owe it to the nation
and to the men whom we elect to serve
us in high positions to put forth every
effort to repress this destructive and
mad "philosophy."-New York Times.
Sometimes forebearance seems to go
too far, as in the case Of the wretched
anarchist, the tool or victim Of "a more
Wretched woman, whose words have
hurried two men to attempt distin-
guished life. For those who declare
war on society, society can offer no safe
asylum but it's jails and it's ~madhouses.
There is no place in free America for
the anarchist.-New York Mail and
Express.
The only possible conclusion is that
anarchist agitationS in the United
States must be stamped out by the most
rigorous enforcement of the law: and
if existing atute do not suffice for
this, then new and sufficiently compre-
hensive ones must be enacted.-Boston
Herald.
The fact that anarchists Of that de-
scription exist, and are at large, free to
roam from land to land, from city to
city; and that they can, almost at will,
thrust themselves, with concealed
weapons, into the presence of the high.
est officials, is always a n to hui
mar society.-Boston Advertiser.
There are limits to the doctrine of
| personal liberty when American free
dom is abused by imported fanatics for
the development of their insane ideas.
The United States harbored the assas-
sin of King Humbert, of Italy. 1t has
[ been intimated that plots against the
life of the car, of Russia, are in pro,
cess of development here. Shall we
not, then, protect ourselves by stamp
ing out the vipers that have made their
nest here ?-Boston Post.
The anger against the assailant and
against the ideas and the associations
which he represents is at white heat
The nation demands his exemplary
punishment and a s~tricter surveillance
over anarchist clubs nj all threaten.
ing enemies of the government. Ir
this hour the lesson is fearfully enforc-
ed that we are much more likely to lose
liberty through license thar through a
calculating tyranny.-Chicago Record.
| Herald.
The shots that were fired at Presi-
dent Mckinley had no personal ami
mus. They reflected only the misera-
bic n Infamous character of the an
archist, the creature who would wa1
on all society, and who strikes at the
loftiest and noblest because they stand
forth as the opponents of civilization
Columbia Journal.
Is it not time that this nation Of dear.
lywon freedom should stamp out these
of the rights of free thought
and free speech who would only en-
ploy those noble shibboleths to deny Q
free people their right to choose and
establish their own form of government
and institutions? Is it not time that
this brood of foreign riffraff and theiy
domestic fellow c~onspirators, who take
refuge under our government, only t.
plan and direct destruction Of all gov
eminent, u own included, should be
crushed?-Louisville Courier-Journal.
There has sometimes been too mich
sentimental sympathy with the preach.
ers OF anarchical doctrine, and justif-