The Butte inter mountain., 1901-09-21
As BAD As ANARCHISTS.

Inc llCIe Americans VINO LOT several
years past abused President Mckinney. !
applying to him opprobrious epithets. |
coming them ii they could not be found |
in their capacious vocabulary of abuse |!
probably never dreamed what effect |
their words would have upon infla.nma-
BILE minds. They meant no personal
harm to the president, but they know
now, if they did not know then, that
words move to deeds, and that their
utterances kindled resentment against
President Mckinley which otherwise
would have remained unfired. The
viragoish spirit possessed by men of the
press, men of the platform and men of
the pulpit, who believe it shows an in
dependent mind to tongue-lash public
men who do not take their counsels, will
not be as conspicuously on display in
the future as it has been in the past.
The occupation Of the brutal cartoonist
is sone-for the present ,at least. The
minister who allowed politics to creep
into the pulpit ana dominate his utter
ances is not overwhelmed with calls
The orator whose phillipics against the
powers that be have been his stock in
trade has disappeared. The writer with
his grey goose quill and inkhorn of
venom offers his services in vain. The
distinguished blacAguards, though silent
now, are not forgotten, nor should they
soon be. In order that some Of them
may receive the full measure Of scorn
that is theirs, quotations from their viii
iainous abusive utterances are given:
William Lloyd Garrison in a poem |
published in the Springfield Republican,
March 10, 1900, limits Times judgment
to one Of two verdcts on Mr.. Mckinley |
Tool or tyrant, which history's pen |
upon the scroll of everlasting shame |
shall pillory in letters black thy name" |
Mr.. Garrison also said in an address at |
Longwood Pa, June Is, 1900, that The
highest Office in the land is for the
highest bidder"
E. l.. Godkin, over his own sigma ture
In the New York Evening Post, October
II, 1900, said that president Mckinley
has secured a congress in connivance
with him and he and his cabinet are
dangerous set of scoundre,s."
The Nation, considered a high-class
journaa. on June T. 1900, referred to
President Mckinley as the most i'm
moral of all the occupants of that high
oflice-the accidental great man who
lost the empty honor of the speakership
to win the consolation prize Of the
leader of the house, and so attached his
name to measure not his own. AS
was said of Queen Elizabeth wherever
his hand is visible there is always vacil-
lation, infrmity of purpose and general
dishonesty. Complete party subservi-
ency, a rare Gift for wire-pulling, a
genius for cant and humbug mark his
public career both in and out of the
white house. He has never coined
phrase that viii be remembered except
to his shame; he has not contributed one
leading idea to the political thought of
the Gay. He must sink at last into the
oblivion of Buchanan and Pierce,
but to lower level"
Gamalel Bradford of Boston, in an ad-
dress befere the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans, aABoston, September 4, 1S99 said:
IF there is treason to the flag anywhere,
I say that the name of the traitor is
William Mckinley, president of the
United States"
Julian Hawthorne, whose writings are
always in demand by the yellow press,
wrote OF President Mckinley in the New
York Journal, November I, 1898: He is
piece Of affable putty, as SLY and
shrewd as he is affable. owned body and
sou! of tradesman who paid him on.
Of bankruptcy, and by knavish lumber
dealer with il-smelling civil war
record"
Edward Atkinson of Boston referred
to President Mckinley in a letter as a
"speciously pious fraud"
Frank Sar5orn of Concord, in letter
to the Springfield Republican. refers to
the president as "our Methodist turned
brigand."
These are a few of the expressions of
the censOrs of President Mckinley. They
are given to show how unjust and un-
terity will judge between President Me-
Kinley and his aspersers, who in no
small measure helped along anarchism
b. their unjust accusations. and nerved
blow.
The ultra respectable man with brains