The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-04
PRESIDENT RO0SEVELTS MESSAGE. The Tragedy at Buffalo Reviewed and Stringent Laws
 Against Anarchy Proposed. PUBLICITY URGED AS REMEDY FOR TRUST EVILS
National instead of State Supervision Recommended lection Upheld Reciprocity Endorsed as Its Hand maiden-Protecton for Labor-Government
 Aid for Merchant Marine-NeW Canal
 Treaty-The Navy and Army.

the dark days, while the President yet
 lowered between life and death. At last
 the light was stiled in the kindly eyes
 and the breadth 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 1 With such pride in what he had accom- l phshed and in his own personal char l acter, that we feel the blow not as
 struck at him, but as struck at the Ma
 ton. We mourn good and great Presi- dent who is dead; while we mourn we
 are lifted up by the splendid achieve 1 ments of his life and the grand heroism 1 with which he met his death.
 l When We turn from the man to the | Nation, the harm done Is so great as to
 excite our gravest apprehensions and to
 demand our wisest and most resolute
 action. This criminal was professed 1 anarchist, infiamed by the teachings of 1 professed anarchists 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 1 malice and greed, envy and sullen ha- i tired. The wind is sowed by the men
 who preach such doctrines, and they cannot escape their share of responsi-
 biity for the whirlwind that is reaped
 This applies alike to the deliberate demagogue, to the exploiter of sensa- ! tionalism, and to the crude and foolish visionary who for whatever reason, apologies for crime or exctes aimless discontent.
 The blow was aimed not at this Presi-
 dent, but at all Presidents; at every
 symbol of government President Me- kinley was as emphatically the embodi- ment of the popular will of the Nation
 expressed through the forms of law as
 New England town meeting is in sim
 liar fashion the embodiment of the law
 abiding purpose and practie of the peo-
 pie of the town On no conceivable
 theory could the murder of the Presi-
 dent be accepted as due to protest
 against inequalities in the social or
 der save as the murder of all the
 freemen engaged In a town meeting
 could be accepted as protest against
 that social inequality which puts a.
 malefactor in jail Anarchy is no more
 an expression of social discontent'
 than picking pockets or wife beating.
 The anarchist, and especially the anarchist of the United States, is mere
 " one type of criminal, more danger ous than any other because he repre- sents the same depravity in a greater degree. The man who advocates anar- chy directly or indirectly, in any shane or fashion, or the man who apologies for anarchists and their deeds, makes fore the fact. The anarchist is criminal whose perverted instincts lead hlm to prefer confusion and chaos to the most beneficent form of social or der. His protest of concern for work ingmen is outrageous in its impudent falsity; for if the political institutions of this country do not afford opportun- ity 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 enemy of system and of progress, but the deadly foe of liberty. If ever anarchy is tri- umphant, it's triumph will last for but one red moment, to be succeeded for ages by the gloomy night of despoti ism.
 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 in justice. There are no wrongs to remedy in his case. The cause of his criminal | ity is to be found in his own evil pas sions and in the evil conduct of those who him nnt in ou fai htyl 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 I, shape or way, a product of social con- l save IS a highwayman is pro duced' by the fact that an unarmed | man happens to have purse. It is a tnavesty upon the great and holy names of liberty and freedom to permit them to be invoked in such cause. No man or body of men preaching anarchistc doctrines should be allowed a large any more than if preaching the murder of some specified individual. Anarchistic speeches, writings and meetings are es- aenttdily seditious and reasonable.
 l earnestly recommend to the Con- gross that in the exercise of it's wise discretion 1t should take into considera- ton the coming to this country of an archists or persons protesting principles hostile to all government and justifying the murder of those placed in authori- ty, Such individuals as those who not long ago gathered in open meeting to 5lorify the murder of King Humbert of Italy perpetrate crime, and the law should ensure their rigorous punish nent. They and those like them should 1e kept out of this country; and if ,ound here they should be promptly de- ported to the country whence they ,ame, and far-reaching provision should be made for the punishment of