Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-26
Commentaries Assassination.

of the paper discloses that 1t has made a
speciality Of COMMUNICATING in its columns
in some form the anniversary Of each
notable deed OF violence committed by an
anarchist. For instance. in its issue OF
September last 1t printed an article on
Leone Czolgosz, the assassin Of President
Mckinley, which. in part, was as follows:
ION the 9Th Of September of the year
1901, when Mr.. Mckinley. the first citizen
of the United States Of America. in Sun
day attire. made a display Of himself.
there happened to him a little accident
one Of those little accidents which
only happen to sovereigns; one Of those
little accidents which give US very great
pleasure. A beardless youth. of gentle
regard. of well-bred and at the same
time proud expression, one Of those fig
ures which seem to be the severe and
tender incarnation Of justice. felled him
to the ground with revolver shots.
"'Oh. the assassin" cry the compan-
ions of the victim. with whiteued faces
and (the remainder Of the paragraph is
unprintable on account Of its obscene
character).
"'Oh, the lunatics- cry the WELL to do
people.
Nevertheless Leon Czolgosz was
neither lunatic nor an assassin.
He is not an assassin who fmmolates
his own life on the altar Of self-eacri-
fee. convinced that he has performed q
good deed.
1.-THE hero Of Buffalo. because he was
a herO-whether or not 1t pleases the
bandits of the high finance, whether or
not 1t pleases the politics Of constipated
revolutionism-did nothing but only
balance an account and give the people
a lesson in bookkeeping"
Boasts Of Authorship.
When confronted with the above ar
tic1e from his paper and a translation
= to l~I ~ fnsk P,,N, 4
mitted that he was it's author. When
asked If the article represented the po-
litical science to which his paper was
devoted he replied without hesitation
that it did.
The Post ONCE Department translators
have been employed for several days in
rendering into English the weekly fulmi-
nations Of the anarchist publisher. Vir-
tually every issue was found to contain
matter of the obscene and indecent sort,
to say nothing Of the immortality of the
matter appearing In every issue meeting
and defending violence, riot, arson, MUIR
der and assassination.
In one issue the editor turned his at
te1tion to "Our Enemies:
Ministers, and representatives,
etc, all In league with the limping priests:
pious sisters. all of them anointed with
the good will of the Lord and blessed by
the nation: all these are our enemies.
out Of the same mud pond. What differ
ence does It make to US how they are
styled, whether we have slightly differ
ent tint from another. The difference Is
one of color. not one of science. They
are all of them wolves. all of them rep
tiles, venomous, injurious reptiles, and
hostile to our Glass;
Call for Uprisings.
In referring to the rights and liberties
granted under our laws La QUESTION: So
ciale says:
They guarantee to every citizen the
right Of bearing arms against the govern.
msnt whenever he deems 1t necessary for
his own rights
In series Of articles on The Universal
Strike and the Revolution" the paper
ut is necessary to call out the old
methods of instruction and barricades.
for which the ballot and philosophical dis
cussions have been stupidity substituted.
The eloquent carbine. fallen In disuse, Is
not yet obsolete. 1t is necessary to re-
new in the people the hope of z revolu-
ton near at hand, this hope being almost
abandoned by the anarchists themselves.
1t was this hope, more than anything
else. which gave audacity to the 1nterna-
ttonalists.''
The paper gave vent to its slee when
the Rng OF forfugai was "a Sssd
as a "hog-like mass Of flesh" and added:
He is dead, but our desire is not salts
fed, but on the contrary, ." The
desire was not expressed, but the infer
ence is plain.
Insult to the Nation.
Says the editor in another article on this
country: This strumpet of a republic has
a face of bronze. and every reproof. every
insult. every lash on her dirty cheeks does
not provoke blush.'
Some of the stuff which has appeared
in the paper is too vile for reproduction in
English.
The Post ONCE Department holds that
the publication is habitually obscene. in
decent and immoral. and on that ground
The second-class mailing privilege Of the
paper was revoked on the ground that 1t Is
not newspaper or other periodical. with
in the meaning Of the law, and that 1t Is
not published for the dissemination of in
voted to literature. the arts sciences or
some special industry. as required by law,
the claim of Editor Can't
nita that it is devoted to the science of
assassination as a virtue
The Postmaster General holds that free
dom of the press does not also mean
freedom of the mails. The mails are
closed, by statute. against lottery matter,
and matter OF an obscene or indecent
nature or intended for immoral use 1t
is held by very high legal talent that If
the Post Office Department were to know
ingly admit to and convey in the mails
matter such as that printed in La Cues
tione Sociale it would make itself an
to any murder or assassination
which might be melted thereby
The Post ONCE Department announces
its purpose to proceed against similar
papers now going in the
mails. If they are entitled to be circu-
lated in the mails the courts and not the
Postmaster General must give the sane