The Washington times., 1901-09-09
ANARCHY MUST GO.

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gress should at once remedy when it
| meets by making an attempt on the life
of the President speedily punishable by
death whether It proves fatal or not. No
law can be too drastic or punishment too
| severe to stamp out anarchy and Anar-
| chists. The assassination or attempted
| assassination of a chosen ruler of the peo-
| pie under beneficent Government Is the
most dangerous. it is the most damna-
| bic. crime known to the law. Its perpe-
| traitors are the most heinous of all Grim
lnais. As reptilian foes to society. to Law
| anu order, TO mankind. they cannot be
| safely tolerated or too summarily dealt
| with.-New York Herald
The time will come when Anarchists
and their newspaper supporters will be
coupled together and be treated as vile
| reptiles to be suppressed for the public
/ good--Philadelphia Inquirer.
Like burglars sneak thieves and other
habitual criminals, the persons tainted
| with the virus of anarchy may extract
comfort from association with one an
other, but the groups appear to be of very
| unstable composition and while some
| anarchistic crimes have evidently been
the result of conspiracy, the tendency of
the teachings of anarchy is to make each
| individual Anarchist wild beast and a
| law unto himself. Nothing is more GER
| tain than that the American people are
| terribly earnest in their determination
! not 10 permit anarchism of the European
| variety. which has been made familiar
! by long series of deeds of blood and
| horror. to take root in American SOIL
| Philadelphia Record.
| Those two assassin bullets have dealt
a death blow to anarchy in the United
States. Every American citizen worthy
| Of the name now becomes the sworn foe
OF the madmen who are the foes of all
| humanity.-Boston Journal
We have been. as people, too apt In the
past to give an easy federation to this
| form of 1awlessness. To many of US it
| has seemed in some degree justified when
! its victims have been autocratic and
hereditary rulers: but this last expe-
| rience proves that the life of no one VINO
represents constituted government Is safe
| The only possible conclusion is that An
archist agitations in the United States
| must be stamped out by the most rigor-
| Gus enforcement of the law; and If ex-
| isting statutes do not suffice for this,
| then new and sufficiently comprehensive
ones must be enacted We cannot afford
| to nurse in our midst n nest of vipers to
sting and poison those who have given
them shelter and protection.-Boston Her
aid.
The nation demands his exemplary pun
ishment and a stricter surveillance over
Anarchist clubs and all threatening enc
mics of the Government. In this hour the
lesson is fearfully enforced that we are
much more likely to lose liberty through
license than through a calculating tyran-
ny.-Chicago Record-Herald.
God help the United States when the
gates are opened to the assassin. and
when the rejected of Europe are given
license to crawl about in the very day
iph md nf a
sassination. God help the United States.
and God be thanked that the assassin of
President Mckinley was not born upon
American soil. What devil is 1t that is
walking abroad in this rair land, melting
fiends in the semblance and in the form
Of man to shock humanity and murder
the chosen of the people? To what base
uses IS freedom Fastening that she gives
shelter to the on-scourings of the An
archist dens of Europe? Why allow them
to walk the streets unharned and un-
scathed, and only take note of them when.
by the virtue of that license, the fore
most living American, the President of
the United States, the affectionate and
dutiful son, the loving husand, the up
right and honOred citizen. William Nc
Kinley-whose smallest atom is worth
more to humanity, to civilization and to
freedom than all the brood of sneaking
and red-handed monsters of anarchy-is
sinated?-Cincinnati Commercial
They will find in this murderous assault
and in the circumstances leading up to
it proof that Republics no less than mon
arches. democracies no less than despot-
isms. must inculcate respect for authority
and must put down most rasolutely the
malignant spirit which seeks to array
class against class and which lodges in
the minds of the ignorant and the des-
perate the idea that government is a
monster TO be slain in its personal repre-
sentatives rather than reformed by the
intelligent and unselfish efforts of the peo-
pie themselves--Chicago Chronicle.
The practical questions that civilization
must answer, in view of the frequent re-
currence in all lands and under all froms
of government of Anarchist attempts to
murder the heads of States. are these:
l. Can the person of the Chief Execu
tive be more su ccessfully guarded against
such attacks?
. Can the assassin be so dealt with as
more effectively to discourage others?
The penalty of death is the severest
that can be inflicted, though it might
reasonably be extended to all attempts to
kill the President, whether successful or
not. There is, however, much plausibil-
lty IN the suggestion made by many emf
nent criIainologists that every assassin
should, so far as possible, have his
identity effaced. If even his name were
suppressed in the reports of the crime,
and he was hurried to trial and execution
in the public eye, so that he would cut
no figure at all either at the time or in
history. it is evident that the stimulus of
notoriety and the love of public posing
would be taken away. And that men of
the Bresci and CZolgosZ type love noto-
riety and public posing above all things
IS believed by nearly all the scientists
who have studied them--New York
World.
Too cowardly to array themselves in |
open revolt, they have chosen to be mur-
derers rather than revolutionists and too |
insane to discriminate. the banded vic |
Tins of this ineXplicable malady have ig-
nored both sex and merit. and within a |
few years have stealthiy slain the inno- |
cent and aged Empress of Austria. the |
harmless constitutional monarch of Italy,
and the mere transient representative of |
the republican people of France.-Boston |
Globe. |
The assassin of President Mckinley |
avowed himself an Anarchist and saws |
that his doctrines taught him to shoot the |
ruler of this country. There is no longer |
room for the Anarchist in this country
Philadelphia Item. |
No law can restrain wild beasts. other
than that which calls for determination:
and Anarchists who die willingly If they |
may but kill, are amenable - law. |
Possibly they may be cNteI IL. nated.- |
Manchester Union.
What shall we do with these reptiles. |
the assassins? We shall be perfectly |
justified in treating this type of inhabit-
ant as a race apart, not sufficiently con-
trolled by ordinary laws. but calling for
but dangerous wild beast The pro
hibition against cruel and inhuman pun