Show ANARCHIST MOST SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN PRISON for editorial advocating the murder 0 ruler which appeared day after wae shot johann most the anarchist was sentenced to one year in the penitent biary tuesday in the court of spec al sess ons stew york city for publish ing in his paper the heit an al lebed seditious article on the day fol lowing the shooting of the late dent mckinley the article in question was entitled murder against murder and la as follows we know our enemies we know them all and everywhere personally there can be absolutely no excuse it they are again spared whatever stands on the other side of the line which divides the camp of atie ruling possessors of power from that of the people has come under the ban let the people carry out the sentence the road of humanity leads over the peaks of barbarity ahat is once for alia law of necessity belated by the deac tion we cannot get around it since we will not give up the future if we wish to attain the end we must wish for the n eans also if we wish the life of peoples ve must wish the death of their enemies if we wish for human ity we are obliged to wish for murder we say murder the murderers save humanity by blood and steel poison and dynamite in his defense herr most da med that the paper containing the art cle was printed and ready for distribution before tl e president was shot also that it was a quotation from an article published fifty years ago and dished by hi n after imps ng the sentence justice H asdale read the opinion of the court in which he said it is no ans ver to the evil and crim inal nature of th s article to claim that it was written for the purpose of de straying ying clowned heads it inculcates and enforces the idea that murder is the proper remedy to be applied against rulers the fact that it was published fifty years ago and again re published about fifteen years ago only emphes zes and gives added point to the benm bality of the republishing of it at any time it shows deliberate intent to inculcate and promulgate the doctrines of the article this we hold to be a criminal act it is not feces sary to trace any connection in this article with the asnass nation of the late president tl e offense here in the eyes of the law is precisely the same as if the bloody event had never occurred the murder of the dent only serves to illustrate and il luminate the enormity of the crime of the defendant in teaching his diabolic cal doctrine |