Arizona republican., 1902-02-28

iron severity every manifestation oi ! that hideous crime which his mild pre-
 dccessor. with his dying breath, for gave The sayings of celestial wisdom ] have no date: the words that reach us over two thousand years. out of the l darkest hour of gloom the world has l ever known are true to the life today:
 They know not what they do" The
 blow struck at our dear friend and
 ruler was as deadly as blind hate could
 make it; but the blow struck at an
 archy was deadlier still.
 l What world of insoIuble problems such an event excites in the mind Not merely in it's personal, but in it's public aspect it presents a paradox not to be ! comprehended. Under q system of government so free and so impartial that we recognize its existence only by ! it's benefactions; under social order so purely democratic that classes can
 net exist in it. aTordiEg opportunities so universal that even conditions are as changing as the winds. where the laborer Of today is the capitalist of to- morrow: under laws which are the re- suit of ages of evolution. so uniform and SD beneficent that the president
 has just the same rights and privileges
 as the artisan; we see the same hellish growth of hatred and murder which dogged equally the footsteps of benevo- lent monarchs and blood-stained des- pots. How many countries can join with us in the community of a kindred sorrow. I will not speak of those dis tant regions where assassSlatIoc enters into the daily life of government. But among the nations bound to us by the ties of familiar intercourse-Who can forget that wise and mild autocrat who l1a1 la1 da Ia fsf hf- rator? That enlightened and magnani-
 nous citizen whom France still mourns? that brave and chivalrous king of Italy who lived cnHy ais people? and. saddest of all. that lovely and sorrowing empress, whose harm less life could hardly have excited the animosity of a demon. Against that devilish spirit nothing vails-neither virtue nor patriotism. nor age, nor youth. nor conscience, nor pity. We cannot even say that education is a sufficient safeguard against this bale full evil-for most of the wretches whose crimes have so shocked human ity in recent years, are men not uliet- tered. who have gone from the common schools through murder to the scaffold.
 PROBLEM OF ANARCHY.
 Our minds cannot discern the origin. nor conceive the extent of wickedness SO perverse and so cruel; but this does not exempt us from the duties of try
 ing to control and counteract it. This problem of anarchy is dark and intri- cate. but it ought to be within the com pass of democratic sovcrnment-al- though no sane mind can fathom the mystery of these untracked and orbit
 less natures-to guarc against their alterations. to take away from them the hope of escape, the long luxury of scandalous days in court, the unwholc- some sympathy of hysterical degener- ates. and so by degrees to make the crime not worth committing. even to these abnormal and distorted souls.
 It would be presumptuous for me in this presence to suggest the details of remedial legislat tion for a malady so malignant. That task may safely be left to the skill and patience of the national congress, which has never been found unequal to any such emer- gency. The country believes that the memory of these three murdered com. rades of yours-all of whose voices still haunt these walls-will be q sufficient inspiration to enable you to solve even this abstruse and painful problem, which has dimmed so many pages of history with blood and with tears.
 The life of William Mckinley was. from his birth to his death, typically American. There is no environment. l should say. anywhere else in the world which could produce just such a char acter. He was born into that way of life which elsewhere is called the mid dIe class. but which in this country is so nearly universal as to make of other classes an almost negligible quantity. He was neither rich nor poor-neither proud nor humble: he knew no hunger be was not sure of satisfying. no lux ury which could enervate mind or body. His parents were sober, God fearing people: intelligent and upright, without pretentions and without hu- mility. Ee grew up in the company of boys like himself: wholesome. honest, self-respecting. They looked down on nobody: they never felt it possible they could be looked down upon. Their houses were the homes of probity, piety patriotism. They learned in the admirable school readers of fifty years ago the lessons of heroic and splendid life which have come down from the past They read ii their weekly news papers the story of the worlds prog ress. in which they were eager to take part and of the sins and wrongs of civilization. with which they burned to do battle. It was a serious and