The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-02
Murder of Mckinley.

ment has he not taught his readers to
believe a corrupt agency of oppres-
SiOn?''
Murder of Mckinley.
Continuing on this subject, Mr. Root
said:
"Only once has this method of in
eendiary abuse wrought out its natural
consequence-in the murder OF President
Mckinley. For years, by vile epithets and
viler cartoons the readers of the Journal
were taught to believe that Mckinley
was a monster in human form, whose
taking off would be a service to mankind.
Let me quote some of these teachings:
= Mckinley condones the treacherous
murder of our sailors at Havana and
talks of his confidence in the honor of
Spain. He plays the coward and shivers
white-faced at the football of a processing
war. He makes an international cur of
his country. He is an abject, weak, fu-
tile incompetent pol1roon.
% Mckinley. bar one gritty Princeton
person who came to be no more or less
than a living. breathing crime in
breeches is therefore the most despised
and hated creature in the hemisphere; his
name is hooted; his figure is burned in
effigy.'
The bullet that pierced Goebers chest,
Cannot be found in all the west;
Good reason; it is speeding here
To stretch Mckinley on his bier.
"And this in April. 1901:
they die, and if bad institutions and bad
men can be got rid of only by killing,
then the killing must be done
Reasoning Of CzoIgosz.
What wonder that the weak and ex
citable brain of CZolgosz answered TO such
impulses as these" said the speaker.
| He never knew Mckinley; he had no
real or fancied wrongs of his own TO
avenge against Mckinley or McKinleys
| government: he was answering the les
| son he had learned, that it was a service
| to mankind to rid the earth of mon
ster and the foremost of the teachers of
| these lessons to him and his kind was
and is William Randolph Hearst and his
! yellow journals. Is there no one left who
| loved Mckinley? Are there no working
/ men in New York who cannot see with
| satisfaction honors heaped upon the man
| who is not guiltless OF Mcklnley'S death?
| The same kind of teaching is being con-
/ tinued now month by month and day by
| day by the Hearst journals. Its legiti
| mate consequences, If continued, must be
| other weak dupes playing the role of
/ CZolgOSZ; other McKinley's stretched upon
! the bier, discord and bloody strife in place
| of the reign of peace and order through
cut our fair land. 1t is not the spirit of
Washington and OF Lincoln; ii is the spirit
| of malice for ali and charity toward none;
| IL IS the spirit of anarchy, of the COM
nlunist, the Kishineff and Of Bialystok."
Evils to BE Remedied.
! Mr. Root urged his auditors to return
| majority of Republicans in the house of
| representatives to work with President
/ Roosevelt in the next congress. THE evils
which have come with the enormous in
crease in corporate wealth in recent years
are real and serious" said he. There
| have been many outrageous practices
| which ought TO be stopped and many
| wronSdoers who ought to be punished
| That should be done not by lynch law,
| but by the intelligent and wise action
which BELTS a self-governing people
| Defamation and denunciatton and big
/ headlines in the newspapers will not do
/ the business. The thing needed is to cut
| out the WrOngdoing and save the buSi-
! ness The same kind of patient, expert
/ enced and discriminating skill is needed
| for the process that the surgeon needs
! in cutting out a tumor from the human
J body and saving the life of patient.
| Now this process of intelligent and eff
| fectiVe redress of wrongs is going on;
great and substantial progress has been
! made in it; laws are being reformed so as
/ to meet the present evils; laws are being
| enforced with vigor and success; male
| factors are being punished according to
/ wisdom and efficiency and honest purpose
never surpassed in the history Of this or
/ any other country have put their hands
| to the task and are pressing it worward
/ with untiring energy.
New Methods Necessary.
!, 1.-THE most conspicuous and fit repre-
| sentative of this great and beneficent
1
! The most conspicuous and fit repreSen-
! tative of this same great and beneficent
| work in the national government is Theo-
4 dOre Roosevelt, president of the United
| States. The honest poor man who has
| felt the crushing power of unfair wealth
| may take heart, for the most powerful
| personality of our generation, from the
| vantage ground of the greatest office in
/ our land is leading the battle in his be-
/ half; the honest rich man who fears that
I property may be endangered and pros
/ perity checked may calm his fears; not
| single principle is invoked in this war
/ fare against corporate wrongdolng that
! has not for centuries been familiar to the
! common law of England and America; but
| to exercise the same measure of control
i under the new conditions of our day new
| agencies and new methods have had to
l be provided by the law and sanctioned
| BIZ the courts The structure Of our pros
perity will not be weakened, 1t will be
/ made strong and enduring, by removing
i with the care of the experienced builder
4 the rotten timbers of disobedience to law
4 ger is lest the people should refuse to
I return a majority Of Republicans In the
I house of representatives; the second
4 danger is lest in this greatest of states
! the presidents own state, the voters shall
j reject Mr.. Hughes. who was the presi-
\ dents own choice for the nomination, and
4 should elect to that great office an UNI
worthy demagOgue in the person of Mr..
| Hearst.
! "rhe immediate and necessary effect of
!, Mr. Hearst's election would be to deprive
II the president of the moral support of the
state of New York; it would be to
strengthen the presidents enemies and
| cLDonents and to weaken and embarras SIS
! him in the pursuit of his policy. lit would
inevitably lead to a reaction against all
true reform and genuine redress of griev-
ances,"