The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08

be to all accepted theories OF civilized
government, is cardinal tenet Of all
political systems which are based on the
doctrine of civil freedom for the unit
of society. Heretofore we-have offered
asylum for men of all races and modes
of thought. The open aYowal of an
archistic- doctrines has not been regarded
as bringing those avowing them within
the Jurisdiction Of the criminal law. In
recent years. however, it has been
adopted as dogma thoroughly in con-
sonance with tho greatest allowable
measure of individual freedom, that this
nation will not offer an asylum to those
whose. political beliefs find expression
anarchists are by us not only allowed
free domicile in the United States, but
are allowed to carry on their propaganda
of murder under the very noses of our
criminal authorities.
which rises above all constitutions and
laws. 1t is the principle of social saliva
ton and shelter to another. who makes
open avowal of an intention to destroy
worthy to live He forfeits at once the
protection and sympathy Of those
around him. Can that which is true Of
the unit of society be less than true
when applied to society as a whole?
Some years ago a brood of such in
sane savages We're brought to their end
through the agencies of the law in the
city of Chicago. They had openly urged
the humiliation of all existing govern
ment and governmental agencies. Theirs
was not mission of moral or political
reform or regeneration, but of the de-
struction of all law and civil authority
Could such men as those have their
way they would reduce society to it's
compact
would be at an end and civilization
would perish from the earth. Must free
government in actual operation on the
American continent be regarded as
demanding not only the liberation of
such human fends, but the conservation
of their te achings and the extension to
them of all the privileges and imTnuni-
ties Of the system which they seek to
destroy? This is one Of the questions
an answer to which the shooting of
President Mckinley renders unavoida-
BILE.
We may surround the president and all
other civil officers of moment with all the
physical protection which our govern
ments admit of. We may-and, indeed,
common intelligence demands that we
must, sooner. or 1aterEput2 an end to the
morbid practice of parading our leading
thereby offering nothing, less than an in
ducement to the morally diseased men,
creature did at Buffalo But when we
have surrounded our, public representa-
tives with all the means of protection
at our disposal, and have hedged them
in by cordons of bayonets, as is done
in the case of European rulers, we have
done little more than render somewhat
more difficult the effectuation of the
creed of political assassination and So
cial ruin.
No; no mere makeshift of this char
acter will meet the requirements of the
case. Free government should to
f1ends of this type be made to possess
all the terrors of the. fercest absolutism
of Europe, Such degenerates are essen
TALLY the products of the ,depraved sys-
TENS of government which have prevail
ed throughout the centuries in the older
lands. They come here to propagate
and practice their murderous tenets Ev-
cry large community is infested with it's
to the government of the republic They
openly avow their purpose to destroy it
and to bring down American society
itself in its ruins.
Such human vermin demand destruction
The body polite can have no enduring
health in it's bones which suffers them
{ to prey upon it. They should be hunt
ed down and destroyed. They should
not be permitted to find an asylum on
American soil. They are known-the
chief propagandists among them. .Ameri-
can society should depoft them wherever
found to the countries from which they
came. No man is fitted to enjoy the
blessings of American civil freedom
who, living and thriving under the aus
pices of our free government, still per-
allegiance to the government whose ge-
MUS he is incapable of compromising
and whose protection he deliberately re-
nounces all claim upon
Every known anarchist of foreign ma
tivity should be driven from our shores.
No man. native or foreign, ought to be
allowed to remain at large who avows
such doctrines. We should not await
overt acts of violence. The open propa-
cation of their doctrines Is in itself
criminal offense Societies of such men