The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-13
B0NAPARTE WOULD HAVE
 NO MERCY ON ANARCHISTS
DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE IMPOSED AND INRLExIBLY
 EXECUTED.

This Even Whenever the Prisoner Has
 Sought, Directly or Indirectly. to
 Take Life--FOr ORenses of Less
 Gravity He Advises Comparatively
 Brief, but Very Rigorous, Imprison-
 ment Characterised by Complete se-
 clusion, Etc--AIso Recommends the
 Lash.
 Cumberland, Md, Aug, 12.-Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte deliv- cred an address this evening at the Allegheny Chautauqua, near Cumber- land, before a large gathering, his sub ject being "Anarchism and Its Rem edy." Secretary Bonaparte was greeted with the Chautauqua salute and much applause He was introduced by Con- gressman George IA. Pearce of Mary- land and said in part:
 Tn September, 1901, when the A.meri- can people heard that their president was an assassin'g victim, there mingled with the universal amazement, grief and Indignation, feeling of peculiar horror aroused by the apparent absence of any provooation or even intelligible motive for the crime. Lincoln was slain when whole people, exasperated by -four bloody years of civil war, were desperate in the certainty of hopelesg and overwhelming defeat inflicted, most of all, by him. That a wicked and reckless man should have conceived and carried out at such a moment, a scheme for his murder, however deplorable, was not, after all surprising. The wretch who murdered Garfield combined such. intellectual frailty with such moral de- pravlty as to seem rather a hideous lusus naturae than a fair type of any class of men. But Czolgocz was at once | recognized to be probably no worse than some thousands of men and wona- en in our midst, and many more scat tered throughout the civilized world men and women who accept the name and share the opinions he avowed: so far as could be seen, his reasons for killing President Mckinley would lead anyone of them to kill President Roose- welt, should opportunity offer, and. with this practical application of their theo- rles. their existence became a source of real peril, not only to presidents. but to all public officers and to all en- | inent men,
 Most of the plans put forward to rid the world in general and the United States in particular of anarchists and anarchism were soon shown by the dis cussion they provoked to be either wholly or in greater part useless, mis- chievous or ifnpracticable; and at one time there seemed to be some danger l lest, perceiving the undoubted difficult ties of the problem and questioning with much reason the possibility of it's complete solution, public opinion might tolerate an indefinite postponement of the whole matter and we might drift along, as we had drifted in the past, until another great crime should call forth another outburst of popular wrath and dismay. While this did not happen, yet the measures finally adopt ed were plainly mere palliatives''
 MT. Bonaparte then took up the sug- gestion of a concert of powers" which would recognize anarchistic crimes as extraditable. This, he said, would not destroy anarchism nor would the one to prevent dissemination of anarchistic literature. As to the proposition to for bid harsh criticism of any president the secretarl said:
 This proposal hardly merits serious discussion. If our country is to con- tinue free, we must and will continue to talk and write as freely as we and our fathers have always talked and written about public acts of our public servants; if this freedom of speech ex- poses them to violence and if we can not or will not protect them, then we do mt deserve to live in free country. Doubtless much that is said of them, from the president down, is and always has been and always will be unjust; uncharitable and foolish, but the American people can judge solely as to these. With us incorporate criticism i is never effective; indeed a little of it bitten spells the effects of much sound and timely censure. Although nine-
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