Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — PULSE of the PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE of the PRESS

The Attack on McKiuley. It is not a party bereavement, or * State bereavement, or a national bereavement. It is a universal affliction. —Topeka Journal. Horror, grief and shame—horror that such a crime should have been committed, grief that so kindly a man should have been stricken down, shame that a member of human spbeies could be base enough to perpetrate so foul a deed —are the emotions of the people of Buffalo. — Buffalo Times. Several misguided and over-zealous ministers have said that the attack on the President is the result of the nation's sinfulness. It is abhorrent to suppose that God Almighty is carrying out His divine will through an anarchist, representative of all the opposites to nature's way of doing business.—lndianapolis Sun.

This'third murderous attack upon the nation's chief executive emphasizes the necessity for the placing of all such cases under the jurisdiction of the United States courts. It is essential that such eases should be acted upon with something of the dispatch and prompt characteristic of martial law. This cannot be attained in the State courts. — Grand Rapids Press. It wag entirely typical of Mr. McKinley that his first thought should be for his wife, his second thought for the safety of the man who had attempted his life, and his third thought one of regret at the possible effect on the exposition. Greater unselfishness hath no man than this that a man forget his own life in his consideration of the Jives of others. —St. Paul Dispatch. In the midst of their grief and horror at tile attempt upon the life of their President one thought affords the American people unbounded comfort. The crime was not the result of political fend, or partisan passion, or of popular unrest, hut the dastard act of a single mental and moral pervert, carrying out the crazy suggestion of his own warped and defective brain. —Grand Rapids Press. Blameless in private life, kindly ip disposition, courteous in his treatment of everyone with whom he has had official or personal intercourse. President McKinley was'believed to be without a personal enemy. In his administrative policy he was regarded ns but carrying into effect the counsels of his official and political advisers, and why anyone objecting to some features of that policy should carry objection to the extreme of attempted murder of the President was beyond comprehension.—Cleveland PlainDealer.

Anarchy Must Cease. Nobody should be permitted to preach the gospel of murder in this country under the guise of anarchism or any other cloak.—Cleveland Leader. The privilege of free speecli has been abused and turned to bad ends, and should be restricted to exclude the ravings of these followers of the red flag.— Montana Record. The United States can offer no asylum to those who war against society, and all the forces of civilization must be exerted to stamp out their pernicious influences.—Philadelphia Times. Every known anarchist of foreign nativity should be driven from our shores. No man, native or foreign, ought to be allowed to remain at large who avows such doctrines.—St. Paul Globe. Their presence in this country is a cancerous growth upon our republican form of government, and the most drastic measures used to remove them will not be too severe.—Baltimore Herald. The problem of dealing with anarchy under Republican rnlc is difficult, it is true, but it is one for which the government must find some method of solution, and that right early.—Kansas City Star. The laws against anarchy ought to be so stringent and so vigorously enforced that an individual who possesses its theories and preaches its doctrines cannot live in this country.—Columbus Dispatch. We do not wait to kill a rattlesnake until his deadly fangs have struck; we should not wait to take anarchism by the throat until it has accomplished its openly avowed ends of assassination. —Louisville Courier-Journal.

We are a free republic, but surely we have the right to say that any man who publicly and expressly advocates a violent attack upon our political institutions or their lawfully chosen representatives, thereby forfeits the privileges und protection of the government which he would destroy.—Boston Globe. One thing Is certain. Anarchy must be suppressed. To do this it may be necessary to surrender something thnt we prize highly, but the sacrifice must be made. The anarchist should be given no chance to take life. He should be looked on as a menace to society nnd his tribe as ferine vermin.—Memphis Commercial-Appeal. If the public utterance of dangerous anarchist sentiments, such as the advocacy or approval of assassination, either by speech or in print, wore made sufll cient cause for deportation it would nt least be impossible for these foreign fanatics to meet and glorify the assassin of an American President with impunity. —New York World.

It was time long ago that the preaching of the anarchistic violence should have been punished on the same basis ns the crimes for which it was directly responsible. Had this been done for some years back the bomicidn! cranks would not have had the temptation which lias resulted in their attempts on the lives of so ninny rulers.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The people of America owe it to themselves to purge this land of liberty of these reptiles that use the muniments of freedom to strike at the foundations of all government.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. All of the infernal cult nnd all affiliated with them should be hunted down mercilessly nnd driven from Aitierican soil, and we would add thnt were it not for the danger of making an occasional mistake in identity it would he justifiable, we believe, in- the sight of both God and man, to Shoot any who refused to obey the order to go ns one would a mad dog.—Richmond Dispatch.