THE IRRTOA110N AGE. 



ture lost to all self control. Not 

 so in this case. Czolgosz, the ter- 

 rible wretch that -he is, was only 

 an instrument in the hands of a 

 political organization of people in 

 this c untry, who have by their ac- 

 tions forfeited all right or claim to 

 citizenship and should be expatri- 

 ate I at the earliest day possible 

 and placed in captivity on some 

 lonely island far removed from all 

 the rest of the world and left there 

 to work or starve and enjoy only 

 the company of themselves. 



The fathers in framing the Con- 

 stitution of the United States made 

 ample provisions for the country 

 in emergencies lite the present. 

 At the <!ea'h of Presidents Lin- 

 coln and Garfield, Vice Presidents 

 Johnson and Arthur took the oath 

 of office as President anc 1 entered 

 up.nj the duties of the high office 

 just afe Vi'-e Presidents Tyler and 

 Fill more had done at the death of 

 Presidents Harrison and Taylor. 

 There WHS no shock to the bu-i- 

 ness or political interests of the 

 country then, and there should be 

 none now. While this occasion 

 calls for prompt, rigid, vigorous 

 legislation to prevent its recur- 

 rence, fortunately for our common 

 country we have a president in the 

 person of Theodore Roosevelt who 

 has the ability, courage and firm- 

 ness to ri>e to the occasion and 

 who will use all the power at his 

 command to see that adequate laws 

 aie enacted by congress to enable 

 him to crush out Anarchism in the 

 United States, and clothed with 

 that power, he will discharge his 

 duty to the letter and spirit of the 



law; and in the performance of 

 .that duty he will be sustained by 

 all true American, citizens regard- 

 less of party ties, creeds, or re- 

 ligions. 



If beauty can come from such a 

 terrible crime <as we have just wit- 

 nessed, it is in the fact of the un- 

 animity of sentiment of love for 

 our President on the part of the 

 people of the civilized world. 

 From the far off countries of the 

 Old World, as well as at home, the 

 South, the North, the East, the 

 West, the Jew and the Gentile, the 

 Catholic and the Protestant, comes 

 the universal cry, as if with one 

 voice saying, God save the Presi- 

 dent! God have mercy upon the 

 American people! 



William McKinley was the obed- 

 ient son, the true friend, the good 

 husband, the brave soldier, the 

 able statesman, " the noblest work 

 of God, an honest man," respected 

 and honored by his own political 

 party when living, loved and 

 mourned by all when dead. 



Sugar 

 Beets. 



The growing belief that the 

 United States will shortly be 

 able to produce from beets the $100.000.- 

 000 worth of sugar which her people now 

 annually import seems to be shared by 

 British Consul Wyr.dham, who has given 

 the subject close attention and reported 

 upon it to his government. The following 

 is an extract from his report which has 

 just reached the Treasury Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics. 



"The production of beet sugar in the 

 United States is rapidly -increasing, and in 

 the Chicago Consular district there are 

 four facuines in the State of Illinois, three 

 in Nebraska, and three in Colorado; those 

 in Nebraska and Colorado belong to the 



