Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1901 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY
Thursday, September 12, 1001.
of the stress of the prevailing excite-
ment by applying the party leash here
and hope of reward there; by the use
of the party machine, public patronage
and the press; and by branding and
terrifying opponents and weaklings
with the hated and dangerous stigma
of anarchist and dynamiter, they could
easily hope to carry out their purposes.
Some of their pet measures which they
might reasonably hope to carry
through and enact into law under
whip and spur, would be the free ad-
mission that all Asiatic immigrants.
This would be a "conservative move
and in the interest of law and order;"
for it would put an end to strikers by
supplying yellow labor for white, and
strikes are a species of anarchy which
should be stamped out. Labor unions,
too, should be destroyed, for are they
not the "'hot-beds of sedition" and
propagandas of discontent? The army
must be doubled for the protection of
property from labor rioters. Wealth be-
ing the basis of all conservative govern-
ment, and the trusts representing
wealth in the highest degree of efficien-
cy, trusts should be promoted and en-
couraged and their powers and privi-
leges be enlarged and extended. Then,
to crown the whole, the old Hamilto-
nian sedition laws must be re-enacted,
making it a high crime to criticise ras-
cally legislation or to "spealc evil" of
those having authority. There is not
a trust magnate, an injuueting judge,
a perjured tax dodger, a bribed legis-
lator. or a hireling editor, who will
not advocate sucli legislation. It is a
blessed thing that Congress will not
assemble until the present high tem-
perature has cooled down and the
"sober second thought" comes into
play.
* * *
Let the police make the most rigid,
searching and exhaustive examination
that time and money can procure to
ascertain if the wretch Czolgosz had
accomplices. If he did, let. them suffer
the extreme penalty, whether they be
avowedly anarchists who kill from an
insane fanaticism or whether they be
abandoned Wall street operators, who
would hire assassination for the more
Infamous purpose of bearing the mark-
et to rob their fellows. When the re-
port was out out that an attempt had
been made to assassinate McKiuley
while on his Southern tour, the Mer-
cury said that men who would origin-
ate such a report would not hesitate
to make the report a reality if they
could do so with safety to themselves.
* * *
The Mercury is of the opinion that
Czolgosz was unadvised and un-
supported by any person.
We believe that when an anarchist
makes up his mind to assassinate, he
counts on certain capture and death.
With all the police and detective force
in Europe, with all their spies, inform-
ers and organization, no accomplice
has been found in the murders of the
Empress of Austria or the late King of
Italy.
* * *
Nor are the strikers or laboring
class in any wise repsonsible even in
the remotest degree. Personally, Mc-
Kinley is an amiable man. He has
never destroyed a thriving town, closed
up a plant, locked out, cut wages,
blacklisted, injuncted, broken up a la-
bor union, employed Pinkertons, made
vagrants, shot men down on the high-
ways, nor starved women and children
and turned them out on the street.
Surely we must look elsewhere to find
the real accomplices.
• • •
Cardinal Gibbons says Czologosz is
an insane man; and so say Cleveland
and Whitney. But his insanity is not
the kind that could or should save him
from merited punishment. A mad dog
is insane, and so is the rapist, but both
deserve death. Many a man has been
hanged for killing when in a state of
intoxication, and not knowing what he
was doing. But he was responsible
for voluntarily putting himself in an
insensate condition. So Czologosz was
responsible for feeding on the incen-
diary utterances of Emma Goldman,
and brooding over them until they
ripened into bloody fruit. It is a relief,
however, that this is a species of insan-
ity with which not more than one out
of a million is affected.
* • •
We do not apologize for anarchists
any more than we apologize for the
stalwart Republicans of the Conkling
kind, one of whose fanatics assassin-
ated President Garfield. Above all, the
just indignation against anarchists
should not get beyond Its proper and
legitimate bounds. There are to-day
a quarter of a million white men in
Texas who hold to the Populist faith,
notwithstanding the fact that they did
not vote the ticket at the last election.
Now the Populists have been slander-
ed and maliciously denounced as an-
archists. both by the press and on the
platform by men who knew they were
lying and libeling better men than
themselves. No, no; it is not the gen-
uine anarchists whom the plutocratic
imperialists fear, for these are their
useful allies, and give them the pre-
texts on which they hope to found the
empire. It is the mighty mass of the
people whom they are making ready
to devour that they fear; and they
are exploiting the bogy of universal
anarchy to terrify them, and to take
advantage of this terror to make them
the authors and voters of their own de-
struction.
* * *
Of the hundreds of assassinations of
kings, emperors, princes, rulers and
others in high places in Europe during
the modern epoch, only four have
been even charged with being anarch-
ists. The man who attempted to as-
sassinate President Andrew Jackson
in the rotunda of the Capitol at Wash-
ington was not an anarchist, but most
probably an emissary of the great na-
tional bank which Jackson de-
stroyed. Booth was not an anarchist;
Guiteau was not an anarchist; neither
was Sand, who assassinated Kotzebue.
nor young Blind, who attempted to as-
sassinate Bismarck thirty-five years
ago. We do not mean to extenuate
nor palliate any crime which anarch-
ists may commit,.but to emphasize the
fact, too easily forgotten, that "uneasy
lies the head that wears a crown."
• * •
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the body politic. It must be destroyed
by a constitutional treatment. Tearing
it out by piecemeal only invigorates its
growth. There are twenty-five suicides
a day officially reported in the United
States, and quite as many more that
are not reported. The majority of
these are caused by poverty and finan-
cial ruin. Sometimes a father and
mother kill their children and then
themselves. They did not hate their
offspring, but thought they were sav-
ing them from a worse fate, just as Vir-
ginius is famed in rhyme and story,
for taking his daughter's life. Many
profound thinkers tell us it is brute in-
stinct that prompts the toiling drudges
to continue In life, and that with them,
'twere better not to be. The dread of
an unknown hereafter, where person-
al consciousness and identity shall
continue to exist, and the belief that
death is accompanied with unimagina-
ble pain and terror, has kept millions
on this side of the river to beat it out
to the natural end. But modern ag-
nosticism has greatly loosened the
faith in personal immortality, and sci-
ence shows that we pass out of life as
we entered it—unconscious, and that
death may be produced without pain.
This has largely increased the num-
ber of sucide8 in the past half century,
and the number will continue to In-
crease as the conditions of life grow
harder and harder. Suppose even a
small number of those who commit
suicide should determine to remove
those whom they thought to be the
cause of their ruin before they took the
step themselves. How could they be
prevented? The extreme penalties of
the law have no terrors for the man
who has already discounted death, and
carries the means to produce it in an
anesthetic in his vest pocket.
• * •
The public owe a deep debt of grati-
tude to the Associated Press reporters
for the microscopic detail they have
given of this tragedy. We are told, for
example, that "Organist W. J. Gomp
started on the sonata in F, by Bach,
low at first and swelling gradually to
more majestic proportions until the
whole auditorium was filled with the
melodious tones of the massive pipe
organ."
The public Is not particularly anx-
ious to know in what key Prof. Gomp
"started on the sonata." But it is due
to the minuteness of the narrative
that we are made acquainted with a
startling piece of information which
would never otherwise never have been
made known. It is undoubtedly a mat-
ter of painful regret In imperial cir-
cles that the damaging fact has been
made public. The reporter says that
the hall in which the President recelv-
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