Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-02


lery. "a man with the caste feeling. one
who has sold himself to the devil and
will live up to the bargain"
Once only has this method of incendary
abuse wrought out Its natural consequence
lin the murder of President Mckinley.
For years, by vile epithet and vier car
toons the readers of the Journal were
taught to believe that Mckinley was a
monster in human form. whose taking off
would be 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 foot ball Of approaching war. He
makes an international cur OF his country.
he Is an abjecf, weak, little. incompetent
poltroon."
Mckinley, bar gritty Princeton per-
son, who came to be no more or less than
living, breathing crime in breeches, is
therefore the most despised and hated crea-
ture in the hemisphere; his name is hoot-
ed; his figure Is burned in effgy."
The bullet that pierced Goebers chest
Cannot be found in all the west;
g., Good reason; It is speeding here
And this. in April, 1901:
institutions, like men. will last until they
die; and If bad institutions and bad men
| can be got rid of only by killing, then the
killing must be DONE
And this, in June, 1901:
There has been much assassination in
the world, from the assassination of some
assassination of men in England. who,
driven to steal by hunger were caught and
| hanged most legally.
rs there any doubt that the assassination
of Marat by Charlotte Corday changed his
tory to some extent? What proof is there
i'that France would have settled down into
imperial Napoleonism and prosperity If
Marat. the wonderful eye doctor. had been
| allowed to live to retain his absolute mas
| terry of the Paris populace?
If Cromwell had not resolved to remove
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| would England be what she is today-a
| really free nation and a genuine republic?
Did not the murder of Lincoln, uniting
| in sympathy and regret all good people in
the north and south, hasten the of
American good feeling and perhaps prevent
| the renewal of fighting between brothers?
The murder of Caesar certainly changed
| the history of Europe, besides preventing
| that great man from ultimately display
| ing vanity great as his ability.
When wise old sayings, such as that of
| Dlsraeli about assassination, are taken up
1t Is worth while, instead of swallowing
them whole, to analyZe them. We in
Vite our readers to think over this ques-
| ton. The time devoted to it will not be
wasted.
What wonder that the weak and excitable
brain of Czogosz answered to such inn
| pulses as these! He never knew Mckinley:
| he had no real or fancied wrongs of his
| own to avenge against Mckinley or
| Mckinley's government; he was answering
| to the lesson he had learned, that it was
| service to mankind to rid the earth of
\ a monster and the foremost of the teach
| ers of these lessons to him and his kind
was and is William Randolph Hearst with
| his yellow journals.
The offense is deepened by the revolving
hypocrisy which, to avert public indigna-
| ton when the fatal blow had been struck
| and that strong and gentle spirit had de-
parted, lauded the dead President to the
skies, and said of him in the New York
! Journal:
Nowhere in the history of great mems
| lives or of great mems deaths, can be
| found such resignation and deep religious
| faith as marked the last hours of William
| Mckinley. He faced the other world and
the other life with the quiet. confident
| hope of a man who had done his best.
| Slowly the hearts strength died out 1t
had carried him through two wars, through
| many political battles. through many long
days of toll, through many years of hard
| work and serious purpose. He began life
| as simple Christian citizen. He worked
| hard. He interested himself in his coun-
| try's welfare. He succeeded; he reached
| the highest place in the nation. He eXer-
cised and represented the greatest of
| earthly powers. He was called second
| time to the highest position that men can
give to any man. He ended his life as he
began it-a simple Christian citizen"
Is there no one left who loved Mckinley?
Are there no working men left in New
| York who can not see with satisfaction
! honors heaped upon the man who is not
| guiltless of Mckinley's death?
Same Teaching Continued.
| The same kind of teaching is being con-
tinued now month by month and day by
day in the Hearst journals. Its legitimate
consequence, If continued, must be other
weak dupes playing the role of CzolgosZ;
other McKfnleys stretched upon the bier;
discord and bloody strife in place of the
reign of peace and order throughout our
fair land. 1t is not the spirit of Wash
| ington and of Lincoln: it is the spirit of
malice for all and charity toward none; 1t
is the spirit of anarchy, of communism
of Kishinef and OF Bielostok.
Men of New York, do you love your coun-
try? Are you not proud of your country?
Are not its liberty, its justice, it's equal
| laws, the best that weak and erring men
have ever yet attained in this world? Have
not those of you who have come to US from
other lands found better conditions of life
better employment. better wages, greater
personal independence and dignity. better
opportunities for your children than ever
before? Do you wish to join your voices
to that which declares this freest of repub-
lies, this foremost result of government by
the people, to be all vile and rotten and
disgraceful?
The public knows the character of Mr.
Hearst only by the newspapers he pub
fishes, and God forbid that we should set
up in the high station of governor of New
York, for the admiration and imitation of
our children. the man whose character is
reflected in the columns of the New York
Journal and the New York American.
The immediate and necessary effect of
Mr.. Hearst's election would be to deprive
the President of the moral support of the
state of New York; it would be to strength
Ell the Presidents enemies and opponents
and to weaken and embarrass him in the
pursuit of his policy.
The election of this violent extremist
would inevitably lead to a reaction against
all true reform and genuine redress of
grievances. There is enemy of true
reform fatal sham reform; there
is no enemy of the sincere and faithful
public servant who is seeking by patient
and we'll directed effort to frame and to
enforce just laws, like the selfish agitator
who is seeking his own advancement;
there IS no ally of INSCRIPTIONS wealth
SO potent as the violent extremist who
drives good, honest and conservative men
away from the cause of true reform by
the violence of his words and the intem-
perance Of his excessive proposals
beg the workingmen OF New York
who may hear or read my words to think
upon these questions. Do you believe in
President Roosevelt? Do you agree with
his policy in pursuing and preventing cor
porate wrongdoing? Do you wish that he
may be able to continue that policy with
power and success?
II you do, then help him by your votes.
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