The Coconino sun., 1901-09-14
DENOVNCES ANARCHISTS.
Rev. Henry Talks on the Attempted Assassination of tho President
 Expression of Coincidence.

or the congregation being In lull sympathy of the speaker:
 "Three times in generation have the people of this fair land been shocked by the tidings that the chief executive of the nation was struck down by the dastardly hand of the cowardly assassin. No kindlier or more tender hearted man ever sat in the presidential chair than the great and immortal Abraham Lincoln, who would often walk alone at midnight between the white house and the war office, and when warned and expostulated with would answer: "Why should anyone harm me?" Then the memory of that fearful tragedy had not passed away until the electric wires flashed the startling intelligence that the pure-minded, noble-souled James A. Garfield had gone the way of Abraham Lincoln, struck down by the red hand of the assassin. And now this great nation sits with a heart tense with anxiety to know what will be the re- suit of this last and cruelest attempt upon the life of the chief ruler of the greatest nation that has ever graced the earth.
 Was there any palliation in either case? In Lincoln's case the country was rent with four years of war. Mems blood was heated with imagined wrongs. In the case of Garfield there was intense factiOnal feeling which crazed the brain of his slayer. But in the case of William Mckinley what motive could have prompted the foul deed?
 'sWe have absolute peace as nation within our borders. We are at peace with the nations of the earth. The country was never so prosperous as now. The people of the different nations of the American continent had met by the thousands in glad holiday wing with each other in exhibiting to the great president of our nation the products of soil and brain, and amid music, laughter and good cheer had flung to the breezes their streamers bearing the sentence, "the proudest day in Buffalo's history" but in a few brief hours the chief word in that sen tence was plotted out and the sentence read, ,"the blackest day in Buffalo's his tory" No fouler crime ever plotted the the pages of history. A crime con ceived by heart so black thac it will make the devil envious of the man with no motive to incite it, crawling up to his victim stimulating wound in the hand and with that same hand cOncealing the weapon with which he struck the blow to destroy the life of his victim who had never done him a wrong, and what was his motive? Simply this-"I am an anarchist and have done my duty"
 There may be some compensation in the fact that it will bring this govern. ment to realization that it is harbor- ing within its borders the fOulest, slimiest serpent that ever crawled this fair earth the serpent of anarchy. It seems a shame that this fair land which has been the asylum for the oppressed of all nations must harbor beneath the folds of its flag nest of as vile serpents as the society of anarch- ists which infests the city of Paterson, New Jersey. Men who could dance for joy when they heard that their ap- pointed tool, Bresci, had assassinated the king of Italy, and who hold an an nual jubilee over their crime. The rattlesnake will give warning tn lie