The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-09-25
THE AMERICAN WAY.
(FrOm tie Anaconda Standard.

While the wave Of just and passion
ate anger was sweeping over the
country in the wake of the news Oh
President Mckinlcys5 assassination,
many reckless, hystrrical things
were said that sober second thought
will regret. LaWlessnesS Is never
and can never be Il cure iOr aWess-
ness. The myers OF honest men may
ache with The mad desire to rend and
Gear in horrible torture that mlscr-
able carcass Of CZolgOsZ and even wo-
men could view unlinchingly the
Lhirsting, twisting llamcs lick the
Wi,hering flesh from his curse-rduen
bones. But thai would be anarchy
itself. ".-
A Chicago police captain says:
The only way Tor the police to deal
with these anarchists is to go to their
meetings with saWcdoH shot guns
and shoot the speakers the moment
| they pegin 10 rant" To exchange one
form of anarchy for another, the law
| lessness of Bakunn Tor the laW,eSs-
| ness of some thickheaded policeman,
| is q proposal chat will find few auhrl-
ents. Nor Will Mr. Mackay's eloquent
defense of lynching Strike the haJori-
~ OF the people as a sui ahie suhsGl-
tute for constitutional guarantees
| Mob law has little 10 recommend ii.
| 1t differs only in mass from govern
ment assassination.
1t is a historical fact that the inge-
nuity of man has been unable 90 de
| wise tortures terrible enough TO stay
the hand of the determined assassin.
who like Gnitcau is consumed wi IL
the fanatic craving 10 send his name
ringing down the ages" even il
| cloaked in the blacklist nfany. 1t
is problem Europe has wresiad
with for years and its weapon has
been police absolutism.
And yet few monarchs marked for
slaughter by the anarchists have es-
capped when these social vampires
were ready to strike. The European
system has written a record of miser-
able failure. In nearly every instance
ii has proved itself worse than use
| less.
The right of free speech and the
right of free assembly are cons in
tlonal guarantees which it has aiken
centuries of desperate, heart breaking
travail to establish. They will not
be lightly surrendered for the false
| security of European ahsolutism. Il
Is safe to predict that the American
way will prevail. But with absolute
freedom of speech will go a stricter
accountability for every uttcrance.
Lawlessness will be crushed by law
and the advocates of universal de
struction will be denied asylum in he
state they propose to destroy. All
that can be done without persecution;
all that can be done under the consti
tuition to wipe out anarchy will be
done. That is a certainty
But protection can never be ahso
lutte under any system of govern
ment There will be danger so long
as misbcgOtten beasts such as Czol.
sosz are born For the fanatic, who
with Economical ohsession deiihera.e civ
throws his worthless life away thai
he may do murder who knowingly
courts certain death, has the world at
his mercy. That is the pity OF it.
, Missouri editor gets off the fol
lowing: Every editor has received
them. The postmaster sends them to
me editor. The postmaster is not to
blame. For instance. there was a mar,
by the name of--well saw Ton,
Short. who sent us three notices "a
st p his paper-he did not want !,
any longer. We wondered what was
} the mater. Upon investigating TIC
subscription book we found Tom short
$40. He never had paid cent. ano
yet h stopped his paper as a matter
OF economy to us. He didn't want us
to lose any more by him. A few days
| afterWard Short was at cburol a., 4
his melodious tenor rang out cleal
in that old. soulstirring song, 'Ins,s
Paid 1t All He might have been mis-
taken. but his earnestness impressed
us, SO the next day We sent him n rc-
ceipt in full. begging his pardon for
not knowing he had made an assign
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