Arizona republican., 1901-12-04

was meeting the people generally: and
 advancing as if to take the hand out | stretched to him in kindly and broth ! erly fellowship. he turned the noble | and generous confidence of the victim
 into an opportunity to strike the fatal ] blow. There is no baser deed in all ! the annals of crime.
 THE COUNTRY'S GRIEF.
 The shock, the grief of the country | are bitter in the minds of all who saw
 the dark days, while the president yet lowered between life and death. At | last the light was stilled in the kindly
 eyes and the breath went from the lips that even in mortal agony uttered no
 words save Of forgiveness to his mur derer. 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 with such pride in what he | had accomplished and in his own person. ! al character. that we feel the blow not as struck at him, but as struck at the i nation. We mourn a good and great
 president who is dead; but while we
 mourn we are lifted up by the splen- ] did achievements of his life and the ! grand heroism with which he met his ! death.
 1 When we turn from the man to the nation, the harm done is so great as to ! excite our gravest apprehensions and to i demand our wisest and most resolute action. This criminal was professed anarchist. infamed by the teachings of 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 spir its of malice and greed. envy and sullen i hatred. The wind is sowed by the men who preach such doctrines, and they { cannot escape their share of responsi- bility 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, apologizers for crime or escites 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 emphaticaily the embod- iment of the popular will of the nation expressed through the forms of law as a New England town meeting is id
 similar fashion the embodiment of the law-abiding purpose and practice of the people 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 i der" save as the murder of all the
 freemen engag ged in q town meeting could be accepted as a. protest against that social inequality which puts malefactor in ail. Anarchy is mo more an expression of social discontent , than picking pockets or wife-beating-
 The anarchist. and especially the an , archist in the United States, is merely one tpye of criminal. more dangerous than any other because he represents the same depravity in greater de gree. The man who advocates arar- chy directly or indirectly. in any shape or fashion, or the man who apologizes
 for anarchists and their deeds, makes himself morally accessory to murder before the fact. The anarchist IS
 criminal whose perverted instincts lead him to prefer confusion and chaos % the most beneficent form of social or der His protest of concern for work fngmen is outrageous in it's impudent falsity: for if the political institutions of this country do not afford opportun- ity to every honest and intelligent son of toiI 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 rti- umDhant, it's triumph will last for but one red moment. to be succeeded for ages by the gloomy night of despotism. For the anarchist himself. whether he breaches or practices his doctrines, we need not have one particle mora concern than for any ordinary mur- derer. He Is not the victim of social or political injustice. There are no wrongs to remedy in his case. The cause of his criminality is to be found in his own evil passions. and in the evil
 conduct of those who urge him on. not
 in any failure by others or by the sta.e to do justice to him or his. He is T malefactor and nothing else. He is in
 no sense. in no shape or way. pro
 duct of social conditions" save as T highwaymal is produced" by the fact
 that an unarmcd man happens to have
 purse. It is d travesty 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 preach