| Show 41 PRESIDENT ROOSEVEl T c HIS vis S n fiRST MESS MESSAGE GE TO CONGRESS J 1 PAYS FINE TRIBUTE OF 1 RESPECT TO If M KINLEY ONLEY r Says Congress Should Pass Laws Looking g to Sup Suppression Suppress Suppression press on of Anarchism I Iv v Recommends me That Government Be Given Gi en Supervision n of All A II Great Corporations I D O C do Dec Df Th I IT 1 T president sent nt t today r hi menace mee as aa follows To the Senate and House of ne The congress assembles a thill thia year under the shadow hadow of f a great gret calamity on n th t the sixth of September Sep r PresidEnt it McKinley wa wd shot Iff by an anarchist Ii while hile attending the tho th Pan PanI I American exposition at Buffalo and di died d in bI that city on the fourteenth fourteen tit of that month Of the last mat seven sevea ft elected president he h is Iii g the third who has be ben n murdered and th thE bare hare recital of this fact ct u is 1 sufficient to justify grave Brave a ve alarm among all nfl loyal American citizens Moreover t I ht he h circumstances of this the third as assassination a of or an az American president have bave a peculiarly sinister significance President nt Lincoln ann and President Garfield were we wp killed b by assassins of types unfortunately not uncommon in I history President Lincoln falling a to the terrible passions aroused I Iby by bv four years y rs of civil war and Pres President i ident Garfield to the revengeful rev vanity r 1 a disappointed ker Pre PIPS lent ilent McKinley M Kinley was killed by an ut t depraved criminal belonging to tn that body of criminals who object to toil nl all il good and bad alike aUke who vho ho are against any form of 1 if it is guaranteed guarantee by even the most niost Just and ana and liberal laws Jaws and who ire aie as hostile to the upright exponent of a free peoples sober will as to tf the tyrannical and despot Tribute to McKinley It is not too much to say that at atthe atthe 1 the tine tiMe of President death he was the most widely loved man in all the States while we have ave never llever had any public man of or his position position position tion who has been n so wholly free from the bitter animosities incident to pub public public lic lc life lire His political opponents op were wereth wereth wereth th first to bear the heartiest and most I generous tribute to the broad kindliness k ness n of na ure jre the sweetness 9 and gen aen ss of character which so endeared huu hini to his i eloe lo e t To a standard t lofty integrity in public life he united the tender leader af at affections and home virtues which are areal al important in the makeup of na an national national character r A gallant soldier in inthe inthe Inthe the great war for the Union he lie also alao hone shone as an to all our people because h au e of his hiI t in the most moat sa an sati saId anI I ti Ie Id H and intimate of home relations There r He could be no personal hatred of him foi for he never acted act d w with ith aught bu consideration for the welfare of others I Vo Xu N one OC could fail fait to respect him 1 who ki klew kiew eu him in ira public or private life Ufe The defenders of oi 01 those murderous mur erous criminals n he h i seek k to excuse their criminality lity bj by asserting that it is exercised for PC iteal ends inveigh against wealth and responsible power But for this thia assassination even this base apology car carnot not be urged urge President McKinley was WitS a man of oft t nu means a man whose who e stock tock sprang SIf ang from the sturdy tillers of the soil wh had himself him elf belonged among ong tho th who had entered the army a as a private privat soldier Wealth We was not wt struck at v net the president was assassinated but tl ti honest toll toil which is I intent with moderate gains after a I lif time of f unremitting labor largely ir it the th service of the public Still leas ie was wasP P J er struck at in the sense sen e that power is irresponsible or centered in the hands of any anyone one Individual Blow Aimed at Free Tee Government t the The he blow was not aimed at tyranny or r wealth ft It was aimed at one ODe of th the strongest champions the wage worker has 8 ever had bad at one of tle the most faithful representatives of the thes s System tem of public rights and represent representative atle government who has ever eyer risen to to public office filled that jv Ml ic If at al office oft e for which the entire people peal S N VOte ott otto a and id no president not even eyen Lin IAn oln tom himself was ever eer more earnestly I anxious to represent the well welt thought out wishes of the people ople his hi one anxiety ty in every v ry crisis was as to keep k p in la touch t ucb with the people to f fid d dut ut mt w what hat the they thought and to en to give express n to their tl light after having baing endeavored to guide that thought aright He had just been be m reelected ted to the j lV i j because the majority of ot our d I Ben the majority majori ty of ot our farmers fa kI w rs believed ved that he lit had fi fJ thi Hv upheld their Interests interest for fori i fi four IT jears ears They ey felt themselves in hi inose ose and nd e touch with him They 1 felt lt that he represented so ao well welland welland welland and so honorably all their ideals ideal and aspirations that tl t they ty y wished him Jim to continue for another four fou years jears to rep re resent them then I And this was wag UK t man ma at wh m tle the assassin a m struck That there might ought be nothing lacking to the Judas Hk Uk liku infamy of hit his act aN he t tock Hk lk ad advantage vantage t of an occasion when the pres was waR meeting the people gener genral al and advancing as aa if to take the hand outstretched to t him in kindly and brotherly fello f fellowship he the t noble and generous generou confidence of ot 1 the victim into a 81 tc t strike the fatal blow Thre is 19 no fI deed in ill all the annals annaU of ot rime lime Grief of the Country The shock the grief glit f of the COuntry are bluer bitter in the nui 1 h of all i aw the dark days while the pre l U nt yet et hover d between life and death At 11 last lat tSe te t e light was as suited In tb tha kindly kinly eyes nd ond the t f b t v th ih went w nt from the lips that tJ at even een in Ional agony uttered no IH w save o 0 f to tl t his hist of love lo f i hi r friends and andin of unfaltering tru in iu th Ih i U of the thel ost High Sue Suel i ithe a l Id uh h r the glory of such su h JIl i tie It etes tes us wRit sorrow t tin t with ith uh uch i h in what he bE had hd ac i and au in inv his own v n per onel l character that we t feel the bio not as struck at him Mm but buta t struck at th the nation We W mourn mourna a gc p nl Hi 1 nd nfl t president vrE id nt who is dead hut but Jt while we e mourn we are ar lift ift lifted ed 54 u y the achievement achievements of ot hi ht Hu lilt i t 1111 tl 11 I I ni h heroism ith tr which he met his death CI we turn from the he man to O te e the harm done dose i 1 Ja so o great a ato as to excite our oar gravest vest apprehensions apprehension and to demand our wisest and aDd most lite action This criminal was waa a professed anarchist inflamed by the Ute t teachings of qt professed anarchists and probably a aiso ao t by y the reckless utter utterances utterances utterances ances of those tho e who on the stump and andin andin andin in the public press pre appeal to the dark grit and evil spirits of malice and greed envy and sullen hatred The wind is sowed by b the thc men who preach such auch doctrines O tri 8 and they cannot escape their share of or responsibility for th the whirlwind that is s reaped This ap applies applies applies plies alike to the deliberate dema demagogue demagogue gogue to the exploiter of sensational sensationalism ism and to the crude and foolish vH vie w who ho for w whatever er reason apol apoi for or crime or excites aimless di i content The Crime of Anarchism The bloj bloy v as u aimed not at this I president but at all aU presidents at ev cv every every ery cry symbol of government President McKinley was as emphatically the embodiment of the popular will of the nation expressed through the form forms of law Ian as a N w England nglaM town meet meeting ink ing in is in similar fashion the embodiment ment mt of the law abiding purpose and practice of the people of or the town On no conceivable theory could the I murder of tn th the president be accepted as due to protest test against Inequalities in the social order save as the mur nur murder der r of all the freemen engaged in a town meeting could be accepted as an a protest against that social inequality w which pi is a malefactor in jail jaU An Anarchy Anarchy archy is ia no more an expression of so m social 81 cial discontent than picking pockets or The anarchist and especially the anarchist in m the Ute United States is merely one type of criminal mol more dangerous dan erous than any other because e he represents the same depravity in a aj aI j I greater degree The man who advocates advocates cates estee anarchy directly direct or indirectly in any shape or fashion or the man who apologizes for anarchists and their deeds makes himself morally ac ae accessory re to murder before the fact The anarchist is a criminal whose pervert perverted ed instincts lad to prefer eon con confusion fusion and aDd chaos chaon to the most t beReft benefi beneficent cent form torm of social socia order His H I pro protest protest test of concern for workingmen is I outrageous us in its Impudent falsity for forI if the political institutions of this I country do not afford opportunity to every ery honest hont and intelligent son BOn of toil then tIen the door of hope is iH forever closed dosed against Winst b him a The anarchist IS ih everywhere not merely rely the enemy of system and aud of progress but the deadly foe of liberty If IT ever anarchy is tri trl triumphant I its triumph will last for but bat batone butone butone one red moment to be succeeded for forages forages ages ty by the gloomy night of despotism Remedy for the Evil For tl tie e anarchist himself whether he be or his doctrines we need not have one particle more snore concern than for tor ant Dr ordinary mar mur murderer derer He is not the of social or political injustice Thore are no wrongs Hones to remedy in his case cue The cause of his criminality is to be found in his hi own evil passions and in the tM evil conduct of or those who Yo ho urge him himon himon on not in any failure by others other or en by bythe b bythe the state to do justice to him or his hili He is a malefactor and nothing else He is in no sense sens in no shape or way waya a t of social conditions save ave ve veas as a highwayman hII wayman is produced by bJ the fact that U an unarmed man happens happe to have a purse puree It is a travesty upon upen the he great and holy names na es of ot liberty and freedom to permit them to be in invoked t yoked in III such a case calle No man or body of men meri preaching anarchistic doctrines should be allowed at large any more mote than if preaching the murder of some specified private individual speeches writings and meet meetings meetIngs ings logs are essentially seditious and trea treasonable eons sona ble bleI I J earnestly anle recommend rec to the con conese ese that tha t in the exercise of or its wise niso ise discretion it should take into consid consideration I I the coming Oming to this country vf of f anarchists or persons professing prin principles principles hostile to all government and I justifying the murder of those placed in authority Such individuals aa I those who not long Jong ago gathered in open meeting to glorify the murder of ot J King Kine Humbert of Italy perpetrate a arime crime rime and ind the law should ensure their thir rigorous neurons punishment They and those li U them should be kept out of this cc Ct and If found here they thet should be deported to the tb country countr whence they Iney came and I provision should be made for the pun of or those who stay No m mat matter it itter ter calls callb more urgently for the ise ile ilet thought t ht of the congress Government to Deal With Crime I Tho federal courts should be I I f given jurisdiction juri diction over any man 4 j I wh wb who l kills or att to kill the i president or any m man finn n who by the f i I f convolution constItution or 1 lyta s is in line f oi 01 succession for foi the presidency f f while W ile the punishment for an un f j 4 su Sn o attempt should hould he pro pr 4 4 po ed to tn the enormity of the iho th 4 j 4 offense against our institutions 4 4 Anarchy is i a crime against a the 4 I 4 whole human race and all man mankind mankind 4 kind should ho ld band against the an anat 4 4 at T t chist His crime should be made madean 4 4 an against a t the th law of na 08 4 4 tiena MK lik Piracy piray and that form of 4 4 known a as the slave lave 4 4 trade lor jor or It ft is of far blacker in 4 4 amy than either It should be so soI 4 I 4 declared by treaties among all alt altI 4 4 civilized civilised d powers Such treaties 4 I 4 would wold give to the federal govern 4 4 4 runt th power of dealing with 4 4 the rime crime 4 A commentary 4 upon the folly of the anarchist position was afforded by the attitude of ot the law toward this very Criminal who had just taken the life of th tb president Th The r would have torn him limb from limb if it h har harI I not been n that the law J defied was wa at 1 t tonce tonce once invoked in his hi behalf So f fa far sr r from j his deed being bt committed on behalf of or orthe the people against again t the government the government was wall obliged at once to ex exert exErt exert I ert its fUJI police polie power to save sa him himI I from instant death ileath at the hands of rf the I people M er his hI deed worked i not ot othe th the he elight d i In li our sov gorn i i mental ment l and the danger of 01 a aj j recurrence of such neb deeds no matter I how bow great it might grow W would work only in the direction di of strengthening i and giving harshness to tile e forces of 1 i order No o man will ever be restrained from becoming president by any fear as to his personal safety If H the risk to the presidents life became becam great t it would mean that the office would more and more come to te be fluted filled l by y men of a spirit which would make them resolute re and merciless in dealing with every Wery friend of disorder This great country I will not ot fall fan into it anarchy and if an anarchists anarchists should ever eyer become me a m menace to its institutions they the would wouW w ld not merely be 00 stamped out uL hot hat Would involve in their own ruin rubt every active or passive sympathizer with t their due doc doctrines cl c trines The American people are arfi ar slow to wrath but w when hen their wrath is once kindled it burns like a 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