The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-12-06

| evil conduct of those who urge him
on, not in any failures in others OF
by the state to do justice by him and
his. He is a malefactor and nothing
else. He is IN no sense, in no shape,
or no way, a product of social con-
ditions," ave as a highwayman is
produced ny the fact that an unarm-
ed man happens to have a purse. It
is a travestyupon the great and holy
names of liberty and freedom to per-
nit them to be invoked in such a
cause. No man Of body of men preach
ing anarchistic doctrines should be
allowed at large any more b a II
preaching the murder or some speci-
fed private individual. Anarchistic
speeches, writings and meetings are
essentially seditionS and reasonable.
l earnestly recommend to the con-
gress that in the exercise of it's wise
discretion, it should take into consid-
Grafton the coming to this country
of anarchists or persons protesting
principles hostile to all government
and justifying the murder of those
placed in authority. Such individuals
as those who not long ago gathered
in open meetings to glorify the murder
of King Humbert of Italy, ~perpetrate
a crime, and the law should insure
their rigorous punishment. They and
those like them should be kept out
of the country; and if found here they
should be promptly deported to the
reaching provisions should be made
for the punishment Of those who stay.
No matter calls more urgently for
the wisest thoughe Of the congress-.
The federal courts should be given
Jurisdiction over n a who kills
or attempts to kill the president or
any man who by the constitution or
by law is in line of succession for
the presidency, while the punishment
for an unsuccessful attempt should be
proportional to the enormity of the
offense against our institutions. An
archy is a crime against the whole
human race, and all mankind should
band against the anarchist. His crime
should be made an offense against the
laws of nations, like piracy and that
form of man stealing known as the
slave trade; for it is OF far blacker
infamy than either. 1t should be so
declared by treaties among all the
civilized powers. Such treaties would
give to the federal government the
power of dealing with the crime.
A grim commentary upon the folly
of the anarchist position was afforded
by the attitude of the law toward this
very criminal who had just taken the
life of the president. The people would
have torn him limb from limb if it
had not been that the law he defied
was at once invoked in his behalf.
So far from his deed being committed
on behalf of the people against the
government, the government wasoblig-
ed at once to exert it's full police
power to save him from instant death
at the hands of the people. More
over, his deed worked not the slight
est dislocation in II governmental
system, sand the danger of a recur-
of sucn deeds, no matter how
great it might grow, would work only
in the direction of strengthening and
giving harshness to the forces Of or
der. No man will ever be restrained
from becoming president by any fear
as to his personal safety. If the risk
to the presidents life became great
it would meal that the Office would
more and more come to be filled by
men of a spirit which would make
them resolute and merciless in deal
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great country will not fall into anar-
chy, and if anarchists should ever
become a serious menace to it's in
%stitutions, they would not merely be
stamped out, but would involve in
their own ruin every active or passive
sympathizer with their doctrines. Inc
American people are slow to wrath,
but when their wrath is once kindled
it burns like a consuming fame.
The Trusts
During the last five years business
confidence has been restored and the
nation is to be congratulated because
of it's present Astounding prosperity.
| Such prosperity can never be created
by law alone, although 1t is easy
enough to destroy it by mischievous
laws. If the hand of the Lord is heavy
upon any country, if flood or drought
comes, human wisdom is powerless
to avert the calamity. Moreover, no
law can guard us against the conse-
quences of III own folly. The men
who are idle or %credulous, the men
who seek gains not by genuine work
by head and hands, but by gambling
menace, not only to themselves, but
to others. If the business world loses
it's head. it loses what legislation can
not supply. Fundamentally the well
fare of each citizen and therefore the
welfare of the aggregate of citizens,
which makes the nation, must rest
upon individual thrift, and energy,
resolution and intelligence. Nothing
can take the place of this individual
capacity; but wise legislation and
honest and intelligent administration
can give it the fullest scope, the larg-
est opportunity to work to good effect
The tremendous and highly complex
industrial development which went