Show LET INCENDIARIES BEWARE F Slanderous Firebrand Methods Again AsalA t ComIng ComIns Into Vou Baltimore American r f. f i It WOJ would d seem to the person of a fair de degree ree of perspicacity that the Ie 1 taught by the incident of Leon Cr Crosz three years ago was sufficiently fc to have haTe lasted longer than t te JG e present actions of certain and l publications f- f o would lead u us UI to b believe it has last last- ed A hue and cr cry was raised against President McKinley along the line of al alI alleged alleged al- al I militarism The absurdity of that cry was admitted by everybody even before beCore the great state statesman man had been Inaugurate in In- But the seeds eeds of sedition lived and md throve in the poisonous soil of aj- aj 1 archy In the soul of Czolgosz and his I. I murderous advisers the harm was done The crop grew and lore bore ore fruit lIe He had jr read the papers which falsely and aud traitorously trai trai- f y declared that President McKinley McKin MeKIn- ley Icy was a mere puppet in the hands of r those who would turn the republic into inton 3 an n empire He had listened to thoe who fanatically professed proCessed to believe this palpable pal pal- table pable lie Murder was born in his little t mind And they whose deliberate and andr r crafty lying had nerved him to the deed were more guilty than he who did that which would have been almost t justifiable r had bad their words been true These people f who incited the murder were properly 1 and nd thoroughly castigated at the time Btu the lesson has not lasted lastell Now ow that the heat of another campaign is upon us the old slanderous firebrand f method is again coming into vogue Certain Certain tam tain newspapers and certain periodicals are re picturing Theodore Roo elt elt e as an emperor as one who is it itching for an ant t opportunity to exercise tyrannical power and take away the dearly bought and ami It dearly held liberties of this people They who make these claims know far better than many who are influenced by their treason how false these representations are tre They know that Theodore Roosevelt Roose Hoose- velt is the embodiment of ot patriotism and loyalty to their government they l. l know he be has fought throughout his caf career ca ca- ca- ca f reer er to secure for tor the people broader and andr r better privileges and has stood between them and those who would have robbed them of the full enjoyment of those prerogatives pre pre- roga that Americans hold sacred I They ahey know he has done this unselfishly S and bravely and regardless of the effect they might have bave on his political pros pros- They know furthermore that he will wilt continue to do these things to the end enli of ot the chapter and that he seeks to have about him only such men as are true to the cause of the great grent common people as allied against the classes political political por po po- po- po r s tricksters and demagogues It If some weak-minded weak individual should i S accept seriously their preaching and feel teel Pi i himself called upon to prevent the yoke Cl- Cl SS from falling failing upon the neck of ot his fellow fellow- 1 beings should bling should follow In the footsteps footsteps- of r the starred ill Czolgosz and take the life of the President Pre either before or after his election re-election those re those papers and period period- i eals cals wo would ld hypo drape their theirS S columns in ID mourning and fulsomely prate prat prateS S of ot the marvelous virtues of the deceased J statesmen They would tell to the world the truth they not only concealed but brazenly denied during the lifetime of S. S the man in whose murder they hey assisted I They would heap anathema upon the I bead head of their poor dupe who knew no better bf than to believe their traitorous no 1 5 4 S be he be given a speedy quietus Now is a good time to have a care It is iB a good time for tor such publications S to call a halt and think a moment of ot c what might be the results of ot someone's I S acc accepting as truth the exaggerations and andS S barefaced lies they are now eagerly and andS I S ruthlessly promulgating 5 5 Have a care incendiaries have a care l. l |