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archists, and probably also by the reckless utterances 

 of those who, on the stump and in the public press, 

 appeal to the dark and evil spirits of malice and 

 greed, envy and sullen hatred. The wind is sowed 

 by the men who preach such doctrines, and they can 

 not escape their share of responsibility for the whirl- 

 wind that is reaped. This applies alike to the delib- 

 erate demagogue, to the exploiter of sensationalism, 

 and to the crude and foolish visionary who, for what- 

 ever reason, apologizes for crime or excites aimless 

 discontent. 



The blow was aimed not at this President, but at 

 all Presidents; at every symbol of government. 

 President McKinley was as emphatically the embod- 

 iment of the popular will of the nation expressed 

 through the forms of law as a New England town 

 meeting is in similar fashion the embodiment of the 

 law-abiding purpose and practice of the people of 

 the town. On no conceivable theory could the mur- 

 der of the President be accepted as due to protest 

 against "inequalities in the social order/' save as 

 the murder of all the freemen engaged in a town 

 meeting could be accepted as a protest against that 

 social inequality which puts a malefactor in jail. 

 Anarchy is no more an expression of "social discon- 

 tent" than picking pockets or wife-beating. 



The anarchist, and especially the anarchist in the 

 United States, is merely one type of criminal, more 

 dangerous than any other because he represents the 

 same depravity in a greater degree. The man who 

 advocates anarchy directly or indirectly, in any shape 



