The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-09
MUST BE STAMPED OUT.
Chicago Divines Urge the Eradication
of AnarchiSm.

CHICAGO, Sept. SIN every pulpit in
Chicago to-day denunciation of anarchy
and it's followers was the theme of the
morning sermon. The Indignation and hor-
ror Of the people at the attempt on the
Presidents life seemed to have frozen even
Christian charity, for the prayers for the
speedy recovery Of the chief executive
were followed by stirring demands in SER
mons that anarchy be stamped out so ef-
fectually that not a vestige be left
At the First Baptist Church Rev. P. S.
Henson excoriated the men who sought
with the assassin's knife or bullet to
solve social wrongs. In tears but a few
moments before when the clergyman was
pleading fervently that the Presidents life
might be spared, the great congregation
sat immOvable when he raised his cl1nched
hands TO heaven and declared that Anar-
chists should be driven like dogs from hole
TO hole, deprived of free speech and hunted
down like Wild beasts.
At Oak Park the First Congregational
Church was crowded when Rev. w. Il.
Barton began his sermon. He said that
Anarchists, by the nature of their bellets,
should not be regarded as citizens or the
United States, but that they should be
looked upon as foes and treated as such.
In all other churches the clergymen
preached along the same lines. In no place
or worship was heard a single word IN
extenuatiOn of the wOuld-be assassin 5
act. In every sermon denunciation OF
anarchy and its believers was the rule
Denunciation of the assailant of Presi-
dent Mckinley and of the doctrines which
advocated like deeds coupled with eulOgy
OF the wounded President, were expressed
In lecture by the Rev. Thomas Sherman,
;. j., at the Holy Family Church, follow
ing the reports of the attempted assassina-
ton. Father Sherman, who is the son OF
Gen. William L. Sherman, since his child
hood days, has been an intimate friend OF
the Mckinley family. THE American peo-
pie must arouse themselves and crush out
of existence the principles and the men
who have contributed to this, our national
calamity" he said. ut Is not the move
ment so much as the doctrines that should
be remorselessly crushed out, and death
is the fitting penalty for those who teach
them or incite similar acts"
1.-THE ward anarchist should be made
synonymous with the word criminal. The
Rev. Johnston Myers declared; Let us
have legislation at once that Will make II
impossible for these murderers at heart TO
have their liberty"
From this day forward let US suffer no
man to display the red flag OF anarchy
within our borders said the Rev. H At
wood Percival. "Deport every one of them
to some penal colony and keep them there
until the last of the accursed race is dead.
This crime must be charged to those
lectures and books that made the assassin
an Anarchist" said the Rev. Joseph "A.
Vance. Ii is self-destructive to our Ma
tion to allow this schooling of Anarchists
TO go on"
"Anarchistic teachings have nc place in
a free government, SAID the Kew henry
Irving Rasmus. Swift as public opinion
can WELD its sword the head of this for
eign serpent should be severed from Its
vile and hateful body"
"If the law is not adequate to deal with
anarchy, make 1t so, and then let there be
no delays or miscarriages of Justice was
the view of Rev. John T. Christian.