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made remarks against the late President McKinley, was ordered by the Mayor to leave town at once. If he is here to-morrow the people say he will be tarred and feathered.

TRY TO STRING UP MCKINLEY'S MALIGNER.

Chicago, September 19.-But for the timely interference of the police of the West Thirteenth street station Frank Hemlick, 903 West Nineteenth street, would have been severely dealt with by the employes of the Heywood & Wakefield Rattan Company, Taylor street and Western avenue.

Hemlick was at work Saturday morning when one of the men working with him remarked that it was a shame to kill so good a man as President McKinley. Remlick, it is said, remarked that it was a good thing he was out of the way, as it would give a good man an opportunity. This remark was overheard by a number of employes, who immediately congregated about Hemlick and threatened to do him violence. One said it would be a good thing to hang such an unpatriotic fellow as Hemlick.

Three of the men brought a rope and were intent on fastening it about Hemlick's neck when they were stopped by John De Roche, a brother of Detective Sergeant De Roche, who told them they were acting foolishly.

"Boys, you had better report this affair to the superintendent," said De Roche, "and let him handle the matter. He will use his own judgment, and it will be good judgment at that." This satisfied the men and word was sent to Superintendent Colvin Hill, who on hearing the story immediately discharged Hemlick.

NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR WARNED.

Trenton, N. J., Sept. 18.-Governor Voorhees to-day received a postal card postmarked Hoboken, N. J., which read as follows: "You want to keep quiet and keep your detectives away from here or you will get what McKinley got. We are looking for your kind." The card bore no signature. It is thought that it came from Anarchists at Hoboken.

ASSAULT IN A MISSOURI TOWN.

Springfield, Mo., Sept. 18.-Several Anarchists live here and the Chicago police a few days ago requested that they be watched. To-day three men went into a trunk factory, dragged the proprietor, Fred Young, into the street, and assaulted him. Young says he is a Socialist and not an Anarchist. His place is under police protection and further violence is feared. H. M. Tichenor, editor of the New Dispensation, a publication with Anarchistic tendencies, has left the city on advice of the police.

Delaware, O., Sept. 8.-Former City Commissioner R. O'Keefe and Farmer Le Fevere engaged in a fierce battle yesterday, one with a pistol, the other with a stone cutter's hammer. O'Keefe was working fifteen miles east of here, when he told Le Fevere of the President's injuries.

Le Fevere said the President should have been shot four years ago, whereupon a fight ensued, the farmer being nearly beaten to death. O'Keefe secured the pistol from the farmer and brought it here last night.

Squire Wheeler refused Le Fevere a warrant for O'Keefe's arrest. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 8.-Quivering with emotion he tried in vain to suppress, protesting passionately that he was innocent, Mounted Patrolman George Huessman was compelled to stand before a crowd in the office of Superintendent of Police Deitsch while Inspector Casey took from him the insignia of a member of the police department. The man failed to convince the superintendent that he did not mean what he said when, on Saturday morning, he is reported to have remarked to Patrolman Bell that he was glad McKinley had been shot, and that McKinley, Hanna, and the rest of the trust crowd ought to have been shot long ago.

WAS ON HIS WAY TO KILL ROOSEVELT.

New York, Sept. 14.-Charles Miller, who was arrested at the Grand Central station last night by Central office detectives, was taken from the insane pavilion at Bellevue Hospital to Yorkville court to-day and formally returned to the institution for mental examination.

Miller left Berlin, N. H., yesterday morning, saying that he was

going to Washington to kill Mr. Roosevelt. The police of this city were notified and when Miller alighted from a train last night he was arrested. The police believe the man is insane. Frequently Miller waved his hands about him, and to all appearances acted as one insane. While the clerk was drawing up the affidavits Magistrate Brann said to the prisoner:

"What objections have you got to this government?"

"It would be better," shouted Miller, "if we had an emperor. I want to know," he continued, "what the police mean by getting after me? It costs me a lot of money to get away from them, for they are always after me."

Asked if he believed in Anarchists, Miller replied:

"You people don't know what you are talking about. I am not an Anarchist. Can't I read what the Most and Emma Goldman say without being an Anarchist. I am a great reader. I don't know what you all want with me."

Detective Sergeant Rheaune undertook to quiet the man by saying that he should not talk so much, and that he had been treated very nice last night.

"I don't want to be treated nice by your people," was Miller's reply. By this time the affidavits had been made out, and Magistrate Brann signed the order of commitment. In Miller's pockets the police found a newspaper clipping telling of the arrest of Most.

Johann Most, who was arrested Thursday on the charge that he had printed a seditious article in his paper, the Freiheit, was released to-day on $1,000 bail. He will be examined in a police court next Monday.

When the fact of the shooting of President McKinley became known, there was no Socialist with the taint of Anarchism in his or her blood who did not hasten to talk as if an editor or a seeker of notoriety by habit, to write or shout that the murderous assault must have been made by a lunatic. One can see in the matter gathered from all quarters and presented in this chapter that there is an Anarchist organization in this country, and that the denials that the assassin of a representative of gov ernment of any kind anywhere are not the high blossoms of the system are falsifications, an ambuscade of words that are woven into a fiction. It is a part of the system to hold fanatical gatherings, to make themselves frantic about public affairs, and that the climax of it is to intro

duce murder as a factor in politics. The Government of the United States is threatened by the assassin. When an Anarchist is sufficiently maddened to make up his mind to do murder for his cause, he goes off on his bloody errand-is provided with means to travel, to eat and drink, and arm himself for the slaughter; and the test above all others of a true Anarchist is to deny that he has any accomplices. He always makes that denial. It is his highest duty as a member of an organization to deny that there is one, and the greatest sacrifice to membership to say he has no friends. The special weakness of the Anarchist when he takes the highest degree of Anarchism, that of self sacrifice to the "duty," assassination, is his vanity. Of course he is fundamentally foolish, but his grand possession is egotism. That was what overcame the infatuation of the assassin of McKinley. When he had shot the President and was safe in jail, he was in a state of exaltation and talked. He denied all stories and theories that he had assistants. He wanted the fame all to himself, but he pointed out the woman who indoctrinated him. Of the theory of the distinguished Dr. Talmage that the thing to do with the assassin of the President was to have beaten his brains out on the spot, all the Anarchists would have rejoiced, and all who have incited public hatred as a political element would have insisted upon the insanity of the wretch. It is the desperate effort of a mob always to disfigure one destroyed by their sudden violence. If the assassin of McKinley had been so mutilated and disfigured as not to be recognizable, the Anarchists would never have recognized the remains. It would have suited them if there had been established a mystery of murder. The people at large of the United States will read this chapter with surprise, because it shows a considerable number of persons and places where the assassination of the President was in various ways approved-when the President was visited in his dying agony, and the assassin sustained for the horror that he was fool and blind enough to describe as a "duty."

CHAPTER V.

ANARCHY AS A DOCTRINE.

Proposed International Remedy-The Inflammatory State of the Public Mind-Incidents of a Warning Nature-Senator Depew on the Exposure of Our Presidents to Extraordinary Risks-The Necessity of Safeguards.

It is Washington news that the necessity of international co-operation for the suppression of anarchists has several times been brought to the attention of the administration.

Germany and Austria recently suggested an international agreement under which the nations would jointly and separately proceed to stamp out the pest. The time is at hand, representatives of European nations assert, when the governments must organize and adopt an effective method of preventing the spread of anarchism.

The assassination of President McKinley may result in the advances of Germany and Austria being encouraged, and an international agreement may be reached at an early date.

Mr. John W. Mackay, who arrived on the St. Paul the day after President McKinley's death, ordered the Commercial Cable offices in London, Paris, New York and other cities, with the Postal Telegraph offices, draped in honor of the dead President. He expressed the deepest sympathy for Mrs. McKinley and said the life of her husband was "worth more to the country than all the anarchists that could be piled up between here and perdition." The feelings of the passengers on the ship, he said, were too deep for adequate expression. Every one favored the immediate passage of a law by Congress that would hang the guilty anarchists and drive their upholders out of the country or put them at work on some island.

"They should be dealt with severely," said Mr. Mackay. "We never had so good a government in San Francisco and Virginia City as during those years when the vigilance committees were in control. Every offender was tried by a jury of twelve good men, and, if found guilty, executed on the spot. Bad characters left the country instantly on receiving warning from the committee. It did not have to be repeated.

"I hope the newspapers and public officials will urge immediate ac

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