The Mena weekly star., 1906-08-16

On All Anarchists Who Directly or indi-
 rectly Seek to Take Life e-Advocates Rig
 orous Imprisonment and Public Whip
 pings for Those Guilty of Lesser Ofen-
 ses-Fayors Restricting Immigration.
 Cumberland, Md, Aug. 14.-Secrc- tary of the Navy Charles J. Bona, parte delivered an address Sunday evening at the Allegheny Chautau qua, near Cumberland, before a large gathering, his subject being "Anarch- ism and It's Remedy" Secretary Bon aparte was introduced by Congress- man George A. Pearre, of Maryland, and said in part:
 In September 1901. when the Amer ican people heard that the president was an assassins victim, there min gled with the universal amazement grief and indignation feeling of pc culiar horror aroused by the appar ent absence of any proyocatlon or even intelligible motive for the crime
 The anarchists were, in short in stinctively recognized as dangerous, odious and disgusting public enemies and for some months. perhaps a year afterwards. we were favored with many and varied suggestions as to how we might be rid of them.
 In some quarters the same plan of repressing unseemly language as a safeguard against violence of this character, was advocated in a form yet more open to question. few well-known men and some newspa- pers advised that all harsh criticism of any president be, If not forbidden 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 brained visionary or dangerous fanatic to imagine that the presi- dents murder would advance the na- tion's welfare. This proposal hardla merits serious discussion. If oul 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. If this free dom of speech exposes them to vio- lence and if we cannot or will moi protect them, then we do not deserve to live in 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 it was undoubtedly well to arm the federal executive with wider powers to deport or otherwise rid the country of disloyal or turbn- lent aliens, whether those call them selves anarchists or not. The few CT of such people we have in our midst the better. and. although l do not believe it 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 number of our anarchists, it Is sadly certain that we can not thus get rid of anarchism. We now have home made brand of the article, and al A< fx,a al trIa nf 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 unscund, popular education
 On anarchists the death penalty should be unequivocally imposed by law and inflexibly executed whenever the prisoner has sought directly or inulrectiy Co taKe iIre; Tor lesser or lenses rigorous Imprisonment. char acterized by complete seclusion. de prlvation of all comfort and denial o any form of distraction, and whici could be to my mind advantageous, supplemented by severe but not | public whipping; the lash, Of all pun ishments. most clearly shows tn, culprit that he suffers for what hii fellow men hold odious and disgrace ful and not merely for reasons O public policy.