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Show Tha Safety of the We Jt. Great preparations were made by tlie officials of the World's fair at St. Louis for the entertainment, of President Eooserelt on the occasion of his visit there Saturday. And the programme was carried out without a hitch. , Xot the least of the preparations were those made for the personal safety of the Nation's Chief Executive. Execu-tive. While there was no blare and bluster about these, the precautions taken were great and it would have been almost an impossibility for any one with evil intent to have reached the President to do him bodily harm. . The untimely death'of the late"President McKin-ley, McKin-ley, at the hands of the anarchist Czolgosz, three years ago, while visiting the exposition at Buffalo, was a warning that did not go unheeded bj those who had charge of President Uoosevelt during his St. Louis visit. From the time the special train, bearing the President Pres-ident left Washington, until its arrival in St. Louis, every mile pf track was carefully patrolled by watchers. watch-ers. The train itself was guarded -by secret service men. 1 At St. Louis two companies of soldiers were stationed sta-tioned about the car and no one allowed within 100 feet of it. During the drive to the exposition the carriages were preceded by two battalions of cavalry &nd followed by a platoon of mounted police. ' In addition to the officials with ihe President while he was making his hurried tour of the exposition exposi-tion were a number of quietly dressed men who seemed members of- thk party, but who were really secret service men, there to see" that no harm befell the Nation's head. But, in spite of all these precautions, it is prob able that had the anarchists wished to make an attempt at-tempt on President Roosevelt, a of the armed men in St." Louis would not have deterred them. " ' Since the. Haymarket, riots in Chicago many years ago, and the" summary justice dealt the ringleaders, ring-leaders, there have been no anarchistic disturbances of any magnitude west of Ohio. The anarchists have confined their work and their meetings to the East. Paterson, N. J., is a hotbed of anarchism. Buffalo is" another. St. Louis has a large foreign element, but the anarchists have no foothold there. - Anarchy in the West, is, an almost unheard of thing. The press reports of overt acts and noisy meetings of the red flag followers sent from the East lead like the fiction of the dark ages, or the reports of Jewish riots in Russia. . The effete East believes that in the West every man carries a .44 for his protection, but the Easterner East-erner who behaves himself in the West is as safe as he is in his own home. |