The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-08-16
SEEKING AREMEDY
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Secretary Of the Navy Bonaparte
Discusses Anarchists and Offers
Some Suggestions.
MUST HAVE FREE SPEECH.
He FavOrs Restrictions ON lmmi-
grafton, Capital Punishment ana
whipping as Calculated to
Reduce the Danger.


Cumberland, Md, Aug. 14.-Secrc-
tary of the Navy Charles ]. Bona
parte delivered an address SUNDAY
evening at the Allegheny Chautau'
qua, near Cumberland, before large
gathering, his subject being "Anarch-
ism and Its Remedy" Secretary Bon
aparte was introduced by Congress-
man George A. Pearre, of Maryland,
and said in part:
In September 1901, when the Amer
lean people heard that the president
was an assassin's victim, there min
gled with the universal amazement'
grief and indignation a feeling OF Pc
culiar horror aroused by the appar-
ent absence Of any provocatlon OF
even ineligible motive for the
crime.
The anarchists we're, in short, IN
stinctively recognized as dangerous
odious and disgusting public enemies
and for some months, perhaps a year
afterwards, we were favored win
many and varied suggestions as 10
how we might be rid Of them.
In some quarters the same plan OF
REFRESHING unseemly language as
safeguard against violence OF TINS
character, was advocated in a form
vet more open to question. A lew
well.known men and some newspa'
pers advised that all harsh criticism
of any president be, II not forpldden
by law. at least strongly discouraged
by public opinion on the ground that
such censure, whether justified or
not by the fact, might lead some
crack Drained visionary or dangerous
fanatic to imagine that the presl-
dents murder would advance the ma
tion's welfare. This proposal hardly
merits serious discussion. Ii our
country Is to continue free, we must
and will continue to talk and write
as freely as our fathers have always
talked and written about public acts
of our public servants. II this Tree
dom of speech exposes them to vio-
lence and II we cannot or Will not
protect them, then we do not deserve
to live in a free country. Doubtless
much that is said of them, from the
president down, Is, always has been
and always will be unjust, unchari-
table and foolish but the American
people can Judge soberly as to this.
There was and is much more to be
said in favor of those restrictions on
immigration, which are intended to
shut out foreign anarchists from our
shores and 1t was undoubtedly well
to arm the federal executive with
wider powers to deport or otherwise
rid the country of disloyal or turbu'
lent aliens. whether those call them
selves anarchists or not. The few.
er of such people we have in our
midst the better, and, although do
not believe 1t will ever prove practic-
able to slam the door In the face OF
anything like all of them, all that
we can bar out will be SO much gain.
But while we may thus reduce the
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certain that we can not thus get rid
of anarchism. We now have home
made brand of the article, and al
though the original "plant" Of this
Infant industry" was undoubtedly
imported, the domestic product is
large enough to gravely trouble us.
Anarchism is the product of two
conditions which prevail to a
greater or less extent everywhere
among the less enlightened classes Of
modern civilized society, namely, the
decay of religious faith and meas
ure of superficial, and therefore
unsound, popular education.
On anarchists the death penalty
should be unequivocally imposed by
law and inflexibly executed whenever
the prisoner has sought directly or
indirectly to take life; for lesser Of
lenses rigorous Imprisonment, char
acterized by complete seclusion, de-
privation of all comfort and denial OF
any form Of distraction, and which
could be to my mind ,advantageously
supplemented by severe but not a
public whipping; the lash, OF all pun
ishments, most clearly shows the
culprit that he suffers for what his
fellow men hold odious and disgrace
full and not merely for reasons Of
public policy.
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