Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-10-18

the President was picked out by hidden
councils for the fate which overlook him,
there Is a mournful satisfaction in the
fact that in his life, as we'll as in his
death. he represented American manhood
at Its best. L have studied with some de-
gree of care such literature as the work
ing creed of anarchy has given to the
modern world. and in all the high places
of the garth it could not have chosen n
victim whose life among men made a
more complete answer to its incohcrent
program of envy and hatred and idlencss
II crime. Without intending to do so.
it has strengthened the whole framework
of the social system, not only by showing
its own face. but by lifting up before the
eyes of all generations this choice and
master spirit of our times, simple and
beautiful in his life, lofty and serene in
death.
The creed of anarchy, in common with
all kindred schools of morbid social sci
ence, teaches that only the children of
the rich find their lives worth living I'M
der our institutions, and therefore, in
order to emancipate the poor, these in
situations must be overtlrown The biog-
raphy of William Mckinley records the
successful battle of at least one young
man in the open arena of the world, and
tells the story of his rise from the little
school house, where he earned the money
to complete his own education, to the
highest civic distinction known among
men. One life like that put into the light
of day, where the young men of America
can see it, will do more for the welfare
of society than all the professions that
ever marched behind beer wagons through
the streets of Chicago, carrying red flags,
can ever do it harm. The creed of am
archy knows no country, feels in it's with
cred heart no pulse of patriotism, sees
under no skies the beauty of any Nhs-
not even ours, that blessed symbol now
drapcd ill mourning which lights up this
time of national atiliction with the splen-
dor of the great republic.
The Creed of Rebellion.
The creed of anarchy rebels against
the state, and with infinite folly proposes
that every man should be a law unto
himself. 1t is more mischievous because
more %pretentious thar the COMMON levels
of crime. for without disdaining the weap-
ons of the ruiiian it does not hesitate to
seek shelter under the responsibility that
belongs to the student and the reformer.
II OuSut LOl W UG AOlSOLltu tlluC THESE
conspirators, working out their nefarious
plans in secret, in the dens and caves of
the earth, enjoy an unconscious co-opera-
ton and side-partnership with every
lawless influence which is abroad in the
world. Legislators who betray the COM
monwealth, judges who poison the foun-
tains of justice, municipal authorities
which come to terms with crime-all
these are regular contributors to the cam
paign fund of anarchy.
That bowling mass, whether in Kansas
or Alabama, that assembly Of wild beasts,
dancing in drunken carousal about the
ashes of some negro %malefactor, is not
contributing to the security Of society; it
is taking away from society the only Sc
curity it has. 1t belongs to the men
rolled reserve corps of anarchy in the
United States. Neither individuals nor
corporations nor mobs can take the law
into their W hands without identifying
themselves with this more open but hard