Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-12-03


continue for another four years to repre-
sent them. ~ 49,,
And this was the man at whom the as
sa ssin struck! That there might be moth
ing lacking to complete the Judas-like In
fanny Of his act he took advantage Of an
occasion when the president was meeting
the people generally. and advancing as If
to take the hand outstretched to him In
kindly and brotherly fellowship, he turned
the noble and generous confidence of the
victim into an opportunity to strike the
fatal blow There is no baser deed in all
the annals of crime,
Glorious Death. ~ - T. j
The shock. the grief Of the country. are
hitter in the minds Of all who saw the
dark days while the president yet hovered
between life and death At last the light
breath went frttn the lips that even In
mortal agony uttered no words save Of
to his murderer, of love for
his friends and of unfaltering trust in the
will Of the Nest High. Such a death
crowning the glory of such a life leaves
us with infinite sorrow, but with such
pride in what he had accomplished and in
his own personal character that we feel
the blow not as struck at. him, but as
struck at the nation. We mourn a good
and great president who is dead, but
while we mourn we are lifted UP by the
splendid achievements Of his life and the
grand heroism with which he met his
death. ts@
When we turn from the man to the ma
ton, the harm done is so great as to ex-
cite our gravest apprehensions and to de-
mand our wisest and most resolute action.
This criminal was profeSsed anarchist,
infinmed by the teachings of professed an
archists and probably also by the reckless
utterances Of those who on the stump and
in the public press appeal to the dark and
evil spirits of malice and greed. envy and
sullen hatred. The wind is sowed by the
men who preach such doctrines and they
cannot escape their share Of Responsible
tty for the whirlwind that Is reaped. This
applies alike to the deliberate demagogue,
to the exploiter of nsatfonalism and to
the crude and foolish visionary who for
whatever reason apologies for crime or
excites aimless discomfort.
The blow was aimed not at this presi-
dent, but at all presidents. at every SYM
Dol of government President Mckinley
was as emphatically the embodiment OF
the popular will of the nation expressed
through the forms Of law as a New Eng
land town meeting is ir similar fashion
the embodiment of the law abiding pur-
pose and practice of the people of the
town. On no conceivable theory could the
murder Of the president be accepted as
due to protest against INEQUALITIES in the
social order" save as the murder OF all the
freanlen engaged in q town meeting could
be accepted as a protest against that So
cial inequality which puts a malefactor IN
jail. Anarchy Is no more an expression OF
"social discomfort than picking pockets
or wife beating.
Anarchy and Anarchists.
The anarchist. and especially the anarch-
list in the United States. is merely one type
l- fHly a
other because he represents the same de-
pravity in greater degree. The man who
advocates anarchy directly or indirectly
in any shape or fashion or the man who
apoiogizes for anarchists and their deeds
makes himself morally accessory to mur-
der before the fact. The anarchist Is
criminal whose perverted instincts. lead
him to prefer confusion and chaos to the
| most beneficent form of social order. Ills
protest of concern for worhingmen is out
,rageous in it's impudent falsity. for II the
political institutions Of this country do
|snot afford opportunity to every honest
and intelligent son OF toll then the door of
hope is forever closed against him. The
anarchist is everywhere not merely the
enemy of system and of. progress, but the
deadly foe of liberty. If ever anarchy is
triumphant, its triumph will last for but
one red moment, to be succeeded for ages
by the gloomy night of despotism.
For the anarchist himself. whether he
breaches or practices his doctrines. we
need not have one particle more concern
than for any ordinary murderer. He is
not the victim Of social or political 1njus-
tice There are no wrongs to remedy IN
his case. The cause OF his crinlnality Is
to be found in his own evil passions and
In the evil conduct of those who urge him
on not in any failure by others or by the
state to do justice to him or his. He Is a
malefactor. and nothing else. He Is In no
sense, in no shape or way. 'product OF
social conditions save as a highwayman
is produced by the fact that an unarm-
ed man happens to have purse It Is .
| travesty upon the great and holy names
| of liberty and freedom to permit them TO
| be invoked in such a. cause. NO man or
body OF men preaching anarchlsttc ooc-
| trines should be allowed at large any
moro than Il preaching the murder OF
some specified private individual. Anarch-
| istic speeches. writings and meetings are
essentially seditious and reasonable.
| Should Keep Anarchists Out.
| ~ earnestly recommend to the congress
| that In the exercise Of its wise discretion
lit should take into consideration the COM
1 ing to this country of anarchists or per.
sons protesting principles hostile to al
4 government and justifying the murder OF
those placed in authority Such Rindiyid-
uals as those who not long ago gathereu
iii open meeting to glorify the murder Of
/ king Humbert OF Italy perpetrate crime
| and the law should insure their rigorous
punishment They and those like them
should be kept out of this country. and II
! found here they should be promptly de-
ported to the country whence they came
and farrea ching provision should be made
4 for the punishment OF those who stay. NC
4 matter. calls more urgently for the Wises'
thought of the congress ~. %% .,
The federal courts should be given Juris'
diction over any man who kills OF at.
! tenpts to kill the president or any mar
i who by the constitution or by LAWS II
Iline of succession for the presidency
while the punishment for an unsuccessful
attempt should be proportioned to the
enormity ot the offense against our insti I'M
4 tutions. III S 5.. Z. ss l
4 d Anarchy is a crime against the whole
human race. and all mankind should batic
Iagainst the anarchist & His crime shoulc
/ be made an offense against the law Of ma
i tions, like piracy and that form Of mar
4 stealing known as the slave trade, for II !.
/ of far blacker infamy than either. 4
Il should be 10 declared by treaties among
4 All civilized powers Such treaties Woult
i give to the, federal government the powei
I 81 dealing with The crime. RI
i # Al grin commentary upon the FOLLY 81
4 the anarchist position was afforded by IN
Il aff;fnflA s,f the law toward this very Grim