Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-28
AIDS OF ANARCHISTS
Senator Dolliver Denounces Those
Who Compromise with Crime.
Every Lawiess Influence Abroad In the
Earth, He Says, Contributes to tho
Campaign Fund of Those Who
Would Destroy Society.

Chicago, Sept. 23.-Chicago Sunday
paid it's second tribute to the men,
ory of President Mckinley. Memorial
services were held in all parts of the
city during the day and night. At
the Coliseum, where the principal eX-
ercises were held, so many people
applied for admission that an over
flow meeting was arranged Mt latter.
sails. In the afternoon the services
were for school children and all the
speakers endeavored to impress upon
the young people the significance of
the assassination of the president and
the conditions that actuatcd the u.s.
sassin.
Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, was the
principal speaker at the evening meet
ing. He said in part: "There will be
opportunity enough to make inquiry
into the causes of the enormous Of
Tense against mankind, of which the
president of the United States was
the victim. But it cannot he out of
the way, even at such time as this,
to recognize that in the midst of
modern society there are thousand
forces manifestly tending toward the
moral degradation out of which this
wicked hand was raised to kill the
chief magistrate of the American
people. The government of the
United States has given no attention
and the government of the several
states, but little, to the activity, in
many of our states, of organizations,
inconsiderable in numbers, which
boldly profess to seek the destruc-
ton of all government and all law.
az government like ours is always
slow to move and often awkward in
its motions. but it can be trusted to
find effective remedies for conditions
like these, at least, after they be-
come intolerable. But these rene
dies, in order to be effective, must
not evade the sense of justice which
Is universal nor the traditions of civil
liberty which we have inherited from
our fathers. The bill of rights. writ
ten in the English language. stands
for too many centuries OF sacrifice,
too many battlefields sanctified by
blood, too many hopes of mankind
reaching toward the ages to come,
to be mutilated in the least in or.
der to meet the case of n handful OF
miscreants whose names nobody can
pronounce.
"It ought not to be forgotten that
conspirators, working out their ne
farious plans in secret, in the dens
and caves of the earth, enjoy an I'M
conscious cooperation and side-part-
nership with every lawless influence
abroad in the world. Legislators who
betray the commonwealth, judges
who poison the fountains of justice,
city governments which come to
terms with crime-all these are regu-
lar contributors to The campaign
fund of anarchy. That bowling mass.
whether in Kansas or Alabama-that
assembly of wild beasts dancing in
drunken carousal about the ashes OF
some negro malefactor, is not con-
tributing to the security of society;
It is taking away from society the
only secuity il has. 1t belongs to
the unenrolled reserve corps of an
archy in the United States. The
words which came spontaneously to
the lips of William Mckinley us he
sank under mortal wounds and saw
the Infatuated crowd pressing his as
sailant, ought to be repeated in the
ears of the officers of peace from one
end of the land to the other in al
the years that are to come-'Let no
one hurt him, let the law take its
course"
'The fatal word in the creed of
anarchy is atheism Until that word
Is spoken, until all sense of the moral
government of the universe and the
moral significance of human life is
lost, it is impossible to conceive, much
less to execute, this malignant propo-
Canda against the rights Of mankind.
No man who brings nothing with him
except a blind faith in natural laws,
which nobody made and nobody adj
ministers, will ever find permanent
iiiscipleship in world like this. 1t
Is their misfortune that their works
have had the most influence among
those who have been least able to
understand them.
"It may be an idle imagination.
but as 1 have heard the prayers
which have been offered and the SER
mons which have been preached about
the dead body of William Mckinley.
It has come to look more and more
rational to me that If indeed his as
sassination was an incident of the
standing challenge of atheism against
the peace and order of society, II
could not, now that Gladstone is no
more, have chosen q sacrifice more
ct to illustrate the nobility of human
character nurtured in the fear of