The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-17
1T is GODS Way
Profound Significance of President
Mckinley's Last Words.

To the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Not often, if ever, since the divine Mas
ters last words, 1T is finished, were ut
tered have the last words Of any dying
man had the profound significance of the
last words of President Mckinley: lit is
Gods way" The Savior did not simply
mean that His early life was ended, but
He had in view that wonderful scheme of
redemption of which His tragic death was
the closing fact Mr.. Mckinley did not
simply mean that by the assassin's bullet
was Gods way of ending his personal life,
though in a sense that would have been
true. but his great soul. believing that God
has in hand the uplifting of the race and
the betterment of man through the agency
of man, and pre-eminently through the in
strumentality of this great country, he
recognized that his tragic death was Gods
way of helping along this work of the
ages. Some things in the divine economy
are expensive and painful, and, humanity
speaking, they are resorted to only after
milder measures have failed For a hum
dred years or more thoughtful men trem-
bled for this country on account of slavery
God could not be just and tolerate it for
ever, but all appeals to conscience and
moral forces for a century only frightened
the chain and made Shareholders the more
arrogant. When the cup of its iniquity
was full and its demand for naturalization
made men tremble it was Gods way to
abolish it to make the wrath of man fire
upon Fort Sumter. 1t proved to be a pain
full and expensive way. but it was Gods
way, seeing that the precepts of humanity
could not do il.
No thoughtful man who has caught the
spirit of the times can fail to rejoice in the
ikil i1o ion hac
made within the last six years, in some
respects the consummation of forces long
powers into the heart of China is only
one of the many events showing the prog
ress of the teaching of the Son of Mary.
The world was ripe for progress in a field
TO be wholly our own when Mr.. Mckinley
came into the presidency How heroically
he grappled with the situation. and with
what glorious results, L need not tell.
1t is history now He did not make the
occasion, he simply proved himself equal
OF the part they have been called to take in
this world-uplift. But everybody knows
there are seeds of civic death in our midst
which must be WI oily eradicated or the
end is near, the chief of which is anarch-
ism. It's assassination of the President is
toe very least Of its development. The
more of a public calamity than the death of
any other man, but the death of President
Mckinney at the hands, of an assassin.
VINO Killed only because he was President,
is quite another thing. and hence the Ma
tion is aroused as never before and the
indigna ton of the Nation is turning against
all Anarchists But deaths from Anarch-
lists are an everyday occurrence, and few
seem TO care. The very first definition OF
anarchy is An utter disregard for gov
eminent What is any man who utterly
disregardS law but an Anarchist? If the
man who disregards law, is an Anarchist.
what is the magistrate who habitually and
persistently refuses TO enforce the law?
He is a law violator himself, and he up
holds an utter, disregard of government"
81 w Qr hnr orrfo
trates. 1t was a defiant period I'm slavery
when men dared TO assert that il would
destroy the government if il could not
dictate the President The defiant attitude
of anarchy has never been so assertiye
as it is to-day in Indianapolis. We may
not have many Goldmans or Mosts. but we
have anarchism in "A more defiant form
than these or any OF their clan have yet
assumed. SO far as know: Indianapolis
has the unenvable distinction of being
the first city in America with a candidate
for it's chief magistracy who pledges him
distas teful to MIN. u will enforce all just
laws is his slogan. OF course. he alone is
TO determine what laws are Just" and the
people are not in the dark as TO what laws
he already considers unjust. for he prom
ises TO follow his immediate predecessor in
this regard.
Now. though Indianapolis is the first cjtv
in America that ever had a candidate for
It's chief magistrate on platform that
expresses an utter disregard for govern
ment by promising not to enforce all laws
but only such may be tasteful to him.
II is not the only city in which anarchism
obtains. ''It is Gods way to arouse the
Nation to the prevalence of anarchism TO
permit one OF the least dangerous forms Of
anarchy to assassinate the President II
brings US face TO face with the real situa-
ton. We fast becoming A nation of
Anarchists. The mobs that hang negroes
and the man who shoots a President are
no more Anarchists than are the utter
6iSregarders of government in any other
form or the magistrate who neglects to en-
force ell laws against crime.
Indianapolis. Sept. Il. L. L. SEE