The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-13
Secretary Charles ], BOnapafts
Talks Of Anarchy
ADVOCATES DEATH PENALTY
Even Attempted Assassination Should
Be So Punished, Says the secre-
tary at chatauqua Society at
Cumberland.

Cumberland Md, August 12--Secretary
of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte deliver
er an address this evening at the Ale
gheny Chautauqua. near Cumberland, be-
fore a large gathering, his subject being
"Americanism and Its Remedy"
He said in part:
I'm September, 1901, when the American
people heard that their President was an
assassin's victim there mingled with the
universal amazement grief and indigna-
tion feeling of peculiar horror, aroused
by the apparent absence of any provoca
ton or even intellig1ble motive for the
crime. Lincoln was slain when whole
people exasperated by four bloody years
of civil war. were desperate in the certain
ty of hopeless and overwhelming defeat
inflicted, most of all by him. that wick
ed and reckless man should have conceiv-
scheme for his murder, however deplora-
BILE, was not after all surprising. The
wretch who murdered Garfield, combined
such intellectual frailty with such moral
depravity as to seem rather a hideous
lusus naturae, than a fair type of any
class of man. But Czolgosh was recog-
nized to be probably no worse than some
thousands of men and women in our
midst and many more scattered through
the civilized world, men and women who
accept the name and share the opinions
he avowed.
$50 far as could be seen his reasons
for killing President Mckinley would lead
any one of them to kill President Roose-
welt, should opportunity offer And with
the practical application of their theories
their existence became a source of real
peril. not only to Presidents but all public.
officers and to all eminent men. and to
the alarm they caused there was added
hearty and particularly universal detesta-
ton for their doctrines, their language
and their lives.
1.-THE anarchies were. in short instinct
lively recognized as dangerous, odious and
disgusting public enemies and for some
months perhaps year afterwards, we
were favored with many and varied sug-
gestions as to how we might be rid of
them.
Many CounseIIors
I'm a multitude of counsellors there Is
wisdom largely because their multitude
prevents the acceptance of much of their
counsel 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, mischievious or
impracticable, and at one time there
seemed to De some danger lest perceivng
the undoubted difficulties of the problem
and questioning with much reason the
possibility of its prompt and complete
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definite postponement of the whole mat
ter, and we might drift along as we had
drfted 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
adopted were plainly mere pallatives
that even now it may be well to consider
briefly what merit If any can be found in
some of the more radical remedies than
proposed for this evil and also what are
its real nature and origin and this seems
TO me the more appropriate, because to
my mind no little ignorance of the facts
and consequent confusion of thought
were displayed in the discussion, and from
lime to time since have appeared in it's
echoes
Concert of Powers.
''It was first of all suggested that
anarchism be eradicated through a
cert of powers, which should recognize
the crimes II inspired as always covered
by treaties of extraditon. BY all means
then let us give up any assassins or
would-be assassins of foreign rulers who
reach our shores. But we must not i'm
agine that the extradition of anarchists
will rid us of anarchism
Concert of the powers will not suffice
TO destroy anarchism any more than the
like concert existing now for many
years has sufficed to destroy the fruit
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dissemination of anarchistic literature,
and the publication of anarchlstic doc
trines, whether by speech or writing be
made and punished as a crime This sug-
gestion was of far less obvious merit
I'm some quarters the same plan of re-
pressing unseemly language as a safe
guard against violence of this character
was advocated in a form yet more open
TO question.
'If our country is to continue free we
must and will continue to talk and write
as freely our fathers have always
done.
DOUBTLESS much that is said of them
from the President down is always has
been, and always will be, unjust, unchar-
table and foolish, but the American peo-
pIe can Judge soberly as to this. With
us Incorporate criticism is never effective
indeed a little of Ii often spoils the ef-
feet of much sound and timely censure
Although nine-tenths of our blame may
De Iully neTlteu tne puDilc VIII HOt ONeI-
look that tenth part of prejudice or overt
statement which disfgures it.
In any event to discharge or even for
bid free expression of public opinion
as to public men would certainly not de-
stroy or even check anarchsm.
immigration Restrictions.
There was and is much more to be
said in favor of these restrictions on i'm
migration, which are intended to shut out
foreign anarchists from our shores, and
II was undoubtedly well to arm the fed
eral executive with wider powers to de-
port or otherwise rid the country of dis
loyal or turbulent aliens, whether these
call themselves anarchists" or no. The
fewer of such people we have in our midst
the better, and although I 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 gained.
"But while we may thus reduce the