Show Ii THAT MEANS MURDER Sonic Some words a man is under obligation obligation obil- obil gation gatlon to mean when he be utters Ho HoIs Hois Hois is held a accountable for them S Many things in spee speech h can be ex ex- ex- ex S But thero there is Js a limit Beyond S that when a man speaks speak he expects to stand by it You remember that In The leThe Virginian Virgin ian when makes use of ofa a word to which all men object The S Virginian tells him to smile when he be beI J I ys it Tho The sentiment expressed Is B r When a man says Bays t so 5 words ho bo must expect to be held heM ac ac- ac- ac countable T We Ye clip the following from the Salt Lake Tribune of Monday De- De ember 9 t I I I I A A J. J I I I I I IL L Lull L A I A J. J 1 Ii T 1 J T J J TIT r T T T T T T 1 J T f fI I observe that Teddy I IH un- un f St St. to another 4 f trust the to which nil all our 44 4 t 4 fat her H belonged the belonged the In Iu God 44 4 4 A f TruM f ff S f bile failed lolled In f ff f- f reformed spelling C I oJ he lie 1 IM like like- likeS 44 4 S 4 I ly I to lo iu Lu reformed colon coin coin- 44 4 4 n fig e. e 1 4 That C e ar had bt bin hili 44 4 I 4 45 th the be l Finst hi Cromwell f 4 4 und there re ore nrc today odny who 4 S profit II by their 4 i g t t t t t 4 4 t S There is only one construction to be 0 4 S 'S put on that sort of or thing It means a S. S hope In the heart of the writer a writer a hope evidently shared by the owners owners and publishers and editors of the Salt Lake Tribune THAT THE PRESIDENT DENT OP OF THE UNITED STATES BE ASSASSINATED S There is no jolly about language languageS S o of that gravity There is no jesting about It IL In the tho Hummer nummer of 1901 the I Hearst papers were TIlled filled every day with with the most extravagant abuse o ol of S 'S President McKinley Everything that'S that S 'S could possibly inflame anger against him was waB employed Minds of weak men answered to the tho appeal appeal ANt AND S THE PRESIDENT WAS SLAIN r Theodore Roosevelt himself has said I that he ho believed the Hearst earst papers paper I were largely largel responsible for t the tho e as as- 5 of or William McKinley In the face of that experience th the Salt SaIl Lal Lake e Tribune makes use of a av v traitorous murderous menace of pre pre- 5 elsel the thc same character S One time Patrick Henry in a eon con o of Virginians speaking of th tb the king of England and at the ver S 1 threshold of the American Re tion said sal those w words But he be ha had I the manhood to complete the sentence sen ses S tence tence-a tence a thing n no one would reasonably reason ably expect from the Salt Lake Trl Tr S bune Caesar had his Brutus cried th tb the e S impassioned Virginian Charles Firs First t I his Cr Cromwell And George Georgo th the ThirdS Third S Treason cried the speaker S Treason Treason was echoed echoe from different erent parts parts' of or the hall ball And And George the Third I con continued tinned Patrick Henry with flashing eye and unfaltering face may profitS profit profi S I. I b i their example If that be treason make the most of It Jt S S And there was not then and never neve has been since any doubt of th the speakers speaker's meaning He meant that tha the fate of or Caesar and of Charles was wa deserved by George the Third H He meant approval of or an act which S S should even by violence carry th the I king away He believed that king kinE I de-I de do S I I 5 St S I served to die that his offenses against the colonies in America ha had been so 50 great reat his sins so no black hi his excuse so 50 small that nothing but bu death could settle his account Patrick PatrIel Henry Henr felt the imposition of the tho Indians employed In warfare a against the men of or English birth or parentage Ho felt felt felt-as as did Burke that that hiring of oC red s savages wages against white men was tho the sum of al all villainies lie He reflected on tho the years of o oppression o ot the offenses of or tho crown against men of or the Western continent And ho meant what ho said when he be uttered red the words that tha have passed into history as a mean meant and purposed threat against the of ot designated And when a man says that ho bo al aI- al- al ways means It It- It or it-or or r should If Ie he does docs not he need not apologize No craven craven craven en retraction can square a n man for such an nn utterance It fastens to him and stays there through the rest of or his wicked and useless life He lIe has threatened the tho President of or orthe the United States with assassination No o one in iii Salt Lake Ilko is surprised at that expression in th the Salt Lake Lako TrI Trl bune Everyone here knows what Is the position of the owners and makers makers mak mak- ers of or that paper regarding the tho PresIdent dent It Is known they hate him that they have haye accused him of measureless meas tireless Ireless Infamy that they have laid tho the charge of felony at his door that tho they have declared him guilty of or trea trea- son sou to his country that they have tried to stain his high namo with the foul blot of shameless prostitution of his high place for such honors as that Infamy might bu buy Through aUthe all aU the years Jears since they failed to force him to their service since they could not dragoon tho the President of or the United States into giving them Utah for their own exploiting the they have been heaping upon Theodore Roosevelt Roose velt President of the tho United States such infamous abuse as only tho the Utterly utterly ut- ut terly erly depraved tho the murderers at heart ever er care to employ But they have never quite reached he the height we wo find In the extract printed above There is the straight threat of ot assassination the utterance of f a wish that the deed might be bedone bedone done one the urging to action of any arm rm directed by an unbalanced brain stung tung b by what tho the Tribune has in reent re- re cent ent issues told its people against the President It is the tho Salt Lake Lake- Tribunes Tribune's Triunes Triune's Tri Tri- une's unes contribution to the slaughter In the tho closing years of the tho war many rebel ebel papers were filled with threats of f death for President Lincoln These inflammable sheets made made- up the genral general gen- gen eral ral reading of John Wilkes Booth They nerved his hand band to the awful deed eed which closed tho c. c life Uc ot of tl Lin ln S coIn coln 5 c Brick Pomeroy had bad his share sharo in that enterprise For years years ears all through the thc civil war his pen had bad been busy preparing preparing pre pre pre- paring parIn the wa way for tho the frightful deed that hat came in Fords Ford's theater on that April night when Abraham Lincoln fell ell by the hand of an assassin Through the tho months following the inauguration of Garfield In 1881 cerain cei tam ain tain papers of tho tim country exerted themselves to inflame tho the hatred of I men against the President because he would not surrender to certain men I from rom N New w York state who state who had been in inthe inthe the he habit of controlling federal patron patron- a age ge They reiterated their charges with so much violence t they ey were so i with their criticism they were BO so unjust with their judgments judgment t hat that the only wonder was Guiteau was not preceded by a score of fanatics who believed they had a grievance against Garfield The result of those thosa I publications of those charges was that hat a President of tho the United States was assassinated I Here is tho the same game spirit found In Inthe Inthe the Salt Lake Lako Tribune Hero Here is the constant accusation of ot infamous crimes the reiteration of charges which if it true means that Roosevelt deserves to die And then here comes the plain threat threat threat-as as if the writer knew the tho crime was In contemplation Caesar had his Brutus Charles the First his Cromwell And nd there are I some today who might profit b by their example Are the good people of Salt Lake approving that sentiment Are U they e Indorsing the tho Salt Lake Tribune in threatening the President with assassination assas assas- Do they adopt the policy that Roosevelt should be slain These words can mean nothing else When a man uses that language ho be means just what Patrick Henry meant He is la willing to stand for it He expects expects expeeLs ex ex- ex- ex peeLs to be bo understood The Salt Lake Tribune wants some someone ono one to assassinate the President of I the the United States I |