The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-09-26
How to Siarve Anar-
chy.

the poor are getting less and
less poor. The folks in middling
circumstances. Every ones lot
is improving.
These are facts.
Elections have proved that
there is defeat in asserting the
contrary.
Being proved to be facts, they
should be accepted IS facts.
Assertions to the contrary
having lost elections, such as
sertions should have ceased.
But such assertions were per-
sistent'y kept up long af.er
election by Bryan & Co., and the
crack-brained or criminal kept
on accepting them.
Lately one of the crack-brain-
ed acted on them and shot the
President, whom Bryan g. Co.
had persisted in portraying as
a monster, inste,d of one of the
kindest and most just of men,
as monster responsible for evils
that do not exist!
The shooting of the President
has Jared the preachers of the
gospel of Eryarism, with its
errors, lies and lodges. Being
Jared, they are very sorry or
very scared. They regret, they
say, the result of their own
rot, as truly and as profoundly
as If they had never issued it.
They regret the result-of
course. At least they sayS'they
do. They have not said they
regret or retract or recant or
ronource or repudiate the stuff
which was tn, cause in part of
that result.
Till they do folks will keep on
thinking. When they co folks
will make 4 note O it. .
Leaving them to their own
memories and in the embarrass-
ments of their own making, the
duty of all the people is PLAIN.
It is 10 require that the rot
which in part at least wrought
this result shall cease in journa-
lism, in "oratory" and in the
pu1pit-for even the pulpit tc a
degree is responsible for it..
The future must be made better
than the past. Then the past
may be forgotten and forgiven,
but not otherwise. There is no
necessity for dcnunciation.
The people are taking care of
the case. There is Just need
for improvement. Cease to do
evil. Learn to do we'll.
Nor need there be very much
trouble about anarchy. What
anarchy has fed on is mainly
responsible for anarchy. Anar-
chy would have starved to death
long ago but for what it fed on.
1t fed on blackguard journal
ism, blackguard cartoons, black
guard speech and demagogic
platforms and nominations. It
fed on appeals to class hates, to
sectional savagery and to the
poor against the rich, to the idle
against the diligent, to the lncap-
able against the capable. That
and worse is what it fed on.
Take away the fodder of froth,
filth and frenzy and anarchy
would soon starve to death.
A hue and cry against anarchy
will do no harm. A man hunt
against it will do no harm. An
international policy against it
will do no harm. But there is
something else will do more
good. Doom anarchy to moral
and mental starvation. Deprive
it of its food in journalism and
politics. Show it that there is
no journalism and there is no
politics that will fool, feed, foster
or warm it any more. That
done, the loud hue and cry and
the merry man hunt may go on,
too, but the monster will die, if
those who have been feeding
him cut off his supplies or their
supplies to him. They couldnot
haye meant the consequences
they brought about. But the
consequences are plain and the
necessity of shutting them off,
by ceasing from the plying of
causes, is plain.