The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-04

breath went from the lips that even in
mortal agony uttered no words save of
forgiveness to his murderer. Of love for
his friends and of unfaltering trust in the
will Of the Most High. Such a death
crowning the glory of such a life leaves
us with infinite sorrow, but with such
pride N 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.
When we turn from the man to the ma
ton, the harm done is so great as to eX-
cite cur gravest apprehensions and to de-
mand our wisest and most resolute action.
This criminal was a professed anarchist,
innamed 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
ity for the whirlwind that is reaped. This
applies alike to the deliberate demagogue.
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 governme President Mckinley
was as emphatically the embodiment OF
the popular will OF the nation expressed
through the forms of law 8 a New Eng
land town meeting is IL 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 tho
freemen engaged in town meeting could
be accepted as a protest against that So
cial inequality which puts a malefactor in
tail. 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
of criminal, more dangerous than any
other because he represents the same de-
pravity in a greater degree. The man who
advocates anarchy directly or indirectly
in any shape or fashion or the man who
apologies for anarchists and their deeds
makes himself morally accessory to muir
criminal whose perverted instincts Lead
him to prefer confusion and chaos to the
most benefcent form of social order. His
protest of concern for workingmen is out
rageous IN its impudent falslty, Tor II the
political institutions of this country do
not 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
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deadly foe of liberty. If ever anarchy is
triumphant, its triumph viii 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 injus-
tice. There are mo wrongs to remedy in
his case. The cause of his criminality 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 highwayman
is produced" by the fact that an unarm-
ed man happens to have a purse. 1t 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 anarchistic doc
trines should be allowed at large any
more than If preaching the murder OF
some specified private individual Anarch-
istic speeches. writings and meetings are
essentially seditious and reasonable.
should Keep Anarchists Out.
1 earnestly recommend to the congress
that in the exercise of its wise discretion
Ian IA
ing to this country of anarchists OF per-
sons processing principles hostile to all
government and justifying the murder OF
those placed in authority. Such indlVid-
uals as those who not long ago gathered
in open meeting to glorify the murder OF
King Humbert of Italy perpetrate a 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
for the punishment of these who stay. No
matter calls more urgently for the wisest
thought of the congress.
The federal courts should be given juris-
diction over any man who Kills or at
tempts to kill the president or any man
who by the constitution or by law is in
line of succession for the presidency,
while the punishment for an unsuccessful
attempt should be proportoned to the
enoruity of the offense against our insti-
buttons.
Anarchy is a crime against the whole
human race. and all mankind should band
against the anarchist. His crime should
he made an offense against the law Of ma
tons like piracy and that form of man
stealing known as the slave trade for II is
of far blacker infamy than either. 1t
should be so declared by treaties among
all civilized powers. Such treaties would
give to the federal government the power
OF dealing with the crime
A grim comm entary upon the folly OF
the anarchist position Vsss afforded by the
attitude of the law toward this very Grim
inal who had just taken the life of the
president. The people would have torn
him limb from limb if it had not been that
the law he aehed was at once invoked IN
his behalf So far from mis- deed being
committed on behalf of the people against
the government, the government was
ohIired at ence to exert its full police
power to gave him from instant death at
the hands of the people. Moreover his
deed worked not the slightest dislocauon
in CIR governmental system, and the dan
ger of a recurrence of such deeds, no mat
ter how great it might grow, would work
only in the direction Of strengthening and
giving karshness to the forces OF order.
No man will ever pc restrained from be-
coming president by any fear as TO MS
personal safety. II the risk TO the presl-
dents life became great it would mean
that the Office would more and more come
to be Allied by men Of spirit which would
make them resolute and merciless in deal
ing with every friend Of disorder. This
great country will not fall into anarchy,
and II anarchists should ever become a
SERIOUS menace to its institutions they
would not merely be stamped out but
weuld involve in their own ruin every
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