New-York tribune., 1918-10-01


"Thc bullet that pierced Goebel's chest
Cannot be found in all the West;
Good reason, it is speeding here,
TO stretch Mckinley on his bier
"Institutions like men, will last until
they die; and if bad men can be got
r'd OF only by killing, then the killing
must be done"
"1tcrc hns been much assassination in
the world, from the na.assination of some
old rulers who needed assassination, to
the ASSASSINATION Of men in England, who,
driven to steal by hunger, were caught
and hanged most legally.
''ls there any doubt that the assass-
nation Of Marat by Charlotte Corday
changed history to some extent? What
proof is there that France would have
settled down into imperial Napolconism
and prosperity if Marat, the wonderful
eye doctor, had been allowed to live and
retain his absolute mastery of the Paris
populacc?
'lf Cromwell had not resolved to re-
move the head of Charles from his lace
collar, would England be what she is
to-day, really free nation and a genu.
inc republic?
ing in sympathy and regret all good pco.
pie in the North and South, hnstcn the
era of American good feeling and perhaps
prevent tnc renewal of fighting between
brotherN?
The murder of Caesar certainly changed
the history of Europe, besides preventing
that great man from ultimately display
ing vanity as great as his ability.
"When wise old sayings. such as that of
Dlsraali about assassination, are taken
up, It is worth while, instead of swal-
lowing them whole, to analyze them. We
invite our readers to think over this
question. The time devoted to it will not
be wasted"
Then followed the most terrible indict
ment of a living, shameless man. cum
ming beyond the law and impervious to
moral indignation, that has perhaps ever
been uttered in our time Said MIR. Root:
."What wonder that the weak and
excitable brain of Czolgosz answered
to such impulses as these! He never
knew Mckinley, he had no real or
fancied wrongs of his own to avenge
against Mckinley or McKinley's gov
ernment; he was answering the les
son he had learned, that it was a SER
vice to mankind to rid the earth of
monster; and the foremost Of the
teachers of these lessons to him and
his kind was and is William Randolph
Hearst with his yellow journals.
"The offence is Geepened by the re-
voting hypocrisy which, to avert pub
Tic Indignation when the fatal blow
had been struck and that strong and
gentle spirit had departed, lauded the
dead President to the skies, and said of
him in The Neav York Journal:
"'Nowhere in the history of great
mems lives, or of great mems deaths,
can be found such resignation and deep
religious faith 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
HNA PN"N' AAS pSSoh illC as SluVlC
Christian citizen He worked hard. He
succeeded; he reached the highest place
in the na.ion. He exercised and repre-
sented the greatest of earthly powers.
He was called second time to the high
est position that men can give to any
man II" ended his life as he began it, a
simple CHRISTIAN citizcn.'"
Ghasiy camouhage! Mr.. Root was
moved y exclaim: rs there no one left
who ed Mckinley? Are there no
workingmen left in New York who cam
not see with satisfaction honors heaped
upon the man who is not guiltless of
McKinley's death?"
A remarkable prophecy came at the
end. Mr.. Root concluded his Utica
speech in these words
"The same kind of teaching is be-
ing continued now, month by month
and day by day, in the Hearst jour
nails. It's legitimate consequences, if
continued, must be other weak dupes
playing the role of Czogosz; other Nc
Kinleys stretched upon the bier; dis
cord and bloody strife in place of the
reign of peace and order throughout
our fair land. 1t is not the spirit Of
Washington and Of Lincoln; it is the
spirit of malice for all and of charity
toward none; it is the spirit of an
archy, of communism, of Kishineff and
Of Bielostock''
What was coiled in the flag then is
coiled in it still.