The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-18
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY GIVES
HIS VIEWS.
IN FAVOR OF DEATH PENALTY
Declares That Anarchism and Social
ism "Are Two Divergent Stems
From Same Root"

delivered an address at the Allegheny
ChautauQua, near Cumberland, before
a large gathering. his subject being
"Anarchism and it's Remedy" Score
tary B%onaparte was introduced by
Congressman George A. Pearre, OF
Maryland. and said in part:
In September, 1901, when the
American people heard that their pres
1dent was an assassin's victim, there
mingled with the universal amaze
ment, grief and indignation a feeling
OF peculiar horror aroused by the ap-
parent absence of any provocation or
even Ineligible motive for the crime.
CxoIgosz Nc Worse Than Others.
CzolgOsz was at once recognized to
be probably no worse than some thou
sands of men n m in our
midst. and scattered throughout the
civilized world, men and women who
accept he name n share the opin-
ions he avowed. So far as could be
seen, his reason for killing President
Mckinley would lead any one of them
to kill President Roosevelt, should op-
portunity offer, and with this practical
application of their theories, their ex-
istence became a source of real peril,
not only to presidents, but to all pub
lice officers and to all eminent men.
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immigration and Anarchism.
There is much to be said in favor
of those restrictions on immigration
which are intended to shut out for
eign anarchists from our shores; n
it was undoubtedly we'll to arm the
federal executive with wider powers to
depOrt or otherwise rid the country
of disloyal or turbulent aliens, wheth-
err these call themselves anarchists
or not. The fewer of such people we
have in our midst, the better; and,
although l do not believe it will ever
prove practicable to slam the door in
the face of anything like all OF them,
all that we can bar out will be so
much gain.
A Homemade Brand.
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 have now a home
made brand of the article and although
the original plant of this infant in
dustry 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 measure of SUI
perficial, and, therefore, unsound pop
ular education.
Anarchism and Socialism.
1T is sometimes said that anarch-
Ism and socialism, as systems, are mu-
tually antfpodal and destructive. I +
should be very sorry to diminish what
ever hostility the adherents of either
system may feel for the other, for
the old adage as to the consequences
of such strife to honest men embodies
no small measure of truth; but, to my
mind this view of their relations is
altogether superficial. They are two
divergent stems growing from the
same root-that root Is the doctrine
that all men of right ought to be and
should therefore be made and kept,
precisely equal. b,
The Death Penalty. ,
ION anarchists the death penalty :
should be u~nequivocally imposed by :
law and infiexibly executed whenever h;
the prisoner has sought directly Or :
indirectly to take life; for offenses .
of less gravity l advise a compare 9
lively brief, but very rigorous, impris-
Onment, characterized by complete Sc !,
c~lusion, deprivation of all comfort and /
denial of any form of distraction, and
which could be, to my mind, advan.
%tageously supplemented by a severe,
but not a public whipping.
Public Opinion An Antidote. .
The finaI and most truly vital con =
dition of success in Kidding the coun- .
try of anarchism in practice is that !,
American public opinion should recog- =
nize the utter emptiness, the inherent :,
folly of its theory and of all the kin >,
dred ready-made, furnished while-you -
wait schemes for the social genera "
ton of mankind. Civilized society, as \,
it exists to-day, if it be nothing more, \,
is the outcome of all the strivings for :,
justice and happiness of the human f.
race during thousands of years. -
= The Present Fabric. "
What monstrous presumption, what
preposterous conceit for any man.,
were he the wisest, the most learned. .,
the most Justly famed of his own age -,
Or of all ages, to imagine that with q,
but the dim. Pickering lights of his ~
dull. feeble mind. with hut tha :,
imperfect lessons of his own short, nr
ll-spent life to guide his hand, he e
could cast down and build up again If
incredibly vast, this infinitely n
fabric and improve on its f.