The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-08-16

uu All anarchists Nho iilitctiy VT ihui-
rectiy Seek To Take tdvocat, Rig
orous imprisonment and Public Whip
pings for Those Guilty of lesser Oilcn-
ses-favor> Restricting Immigration.
Cumberland, Md, Aug. 13-Secre.
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 4. 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 feeling of pc.
cuiar horror aroused by the appar'
ent absence OF any provocation or
even ineligible motive for the
crime.
The anarchists were, in short, in.
stinctivcly recognized as dangerous,
odious and disgusting public enemies
and for some months, perhaps Il 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!
Tepressing unseemly language as a
safeguard against violence OF this
character. was advocated in form
yet more open to question. A 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 Drained visionary or dangerous
fanatic to imagine that the presi-
dents murder would advance the ma
tons 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. If this free.
dom of speech exposes them to vic.
ience and if 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 nave In oui
midst the better, and, although | dc
not believe it will ever prove practic
able to slam the door In the face oil
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, 1t is sadly
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 a meas.
ure Of superficial, and therefore
.xnsound, popular education
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